Graduate Nursing Core Courses

This interprofessional ethics course involves teaching of rudimentary knowledge and skills in ethical theory and reasoning, professional ethics, interprofessional approach to health care decision-making, goals of health care, illness experience, and other topics of concern.

This course examines the theoretical and conceptual bases of nursing to encourage the student to critique, evaluate and utilize appropriate nursing theory within their own practice. Focus will be on a variety of theories from nursing.

This course presents an introduction to health policy, i.e., the various ways in which the government plays a role in health and in the provision of health care. Health policies can have a profound effect on quality of life. Accessibility, cost, quality of health care; safety of food, water, and environment; the right to make decisions about our health; these issues are vitally tied to health policies.

This course considers issues of human diversity broadly defined to include race, ethnicity, culture, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and ability. Students will explore the contours of difference and the dynamics of diversity, privilege, and oppression in domestic and global contexts.

Describes disordered physiology and clinical consequences of common disease processes. Analyses of the biophysical rationale are used during seminar, problem-solving exercises and case studies to recognize the pathophysiologic bases of clinical findings.

This course focuses on the philosophical and theoretical bases underlying concepts and operations inherent to nursing. Synthesis of theories from behavioral, natural, social, and applied sciences is emphasized as it relates to nursing and practice.

This course will explore and reflect on the culture of western medicine into which students are being socialized. Students will explore the values they bring into the profession and how these values influence their personal and professional lives, including responses to diverse patient cultures.

Thesis guidance for M.A. students.

Activities related to active research under supervision by a faculty member. Two 1-credit courses are required for the doctoral qualifying examination.