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2015-2016 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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MBA Marketing |
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MBAMKT 672 Services Marketing
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Prerequisite(s): MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 673 Marketing Communications
This course helps students develop an integrated communications strategy, blending individual external elements such as advertising, personal selling, sales promotion (including direct marketing and trade shows), and publicity with internal communications. The course is managerial in nature and provides the student with the necessary ability to analyze, plan, implement, and control marketing communications programs.
Prerequisite(s): MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 674 International Marketing
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Prerequisite(s): MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 675 Business to Business Marketing
This course examines the strategic and tactical issues of marketing business products and services. Special focus is laid on high technology and other areas in which markets are fragmenting, life cycles are accelerating, and pressures for cost containment are increasing while margins are decreasing.
Prerequisite(s): MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 677 Database & Internet Marketing
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Prerequisite(s): MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 680 Entrepreneurship in China/US
Through both lectures and company visits in China and the US, this course offers students an in-depth look at how business is conducted in both countries. The unique global comparative approach provides students with both theoretical foundations and first-hand experience to learn the differences and similarities of different managerial systems and entrepreneurial practices indifferent cultural settings. The course emphasizes the relationships between management functions such as marketing, human resources, accounting, finance, and information technology and the social, economical, political, and technological environments in different cultures.
Prerequisite(s): MBAMGT 650 Co-requisite = MBAMKT 670
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 684 Brand Management
More and more firms and organizations of all types have come to the realization that one of the most valuable assets they have is the brand names associated with their products or services. To successfully compete in today’s global economy, they must learn the concepts, techniques, and guidelines to build and manage strong brands. To address this issue, this course will help students understand brand management process. More specifically, students will learn how to 1) establish strong and competitive positions, 2) create brand resonance with customers, 3) integrate brand marketing programs, 4) align internal and external marketing activities, 5) understand the ROI of marketing investments, 6) leverage brand equity across categories and markets, 7) achieve market balance in managing rand equity over time, 8) design and implement brand strategies, and 9) envision the future of branding, etc. As a key learning outcome, a Brand Audit project will be conducted by students in groups.
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 685 Brain of the Consumer
Advances in medical technology during the last 15 years have made it possible to study with a far greater accuracy the neural bases of feeling, thinking, decision-making and behaving. The progress in neuroscience has implications for the analysis of buyers¿ decisions and conduct. The objective of the course is to introduce students to the most recent observations explaining how consumers act in response to personal and situational factors as manifested through neurobiological reactions. Understanding whether and why people act in not-co-rational ways as theoretically assumed is very important for developing a realistic perspective on various marketing phenomena. After reviewing existing psycho-sociological concepts as they have been typically presented in marketing textbooks, and adopting the approach of grounded theory, we will discuss findings from neuroscience that help explain individual and family consumption decisions.
Prerequisite(s): MBAMKT 670 and Graduate degree student in Management
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 690 Master’s Thesis Option Research Colloquium
This is the first part of the Master’s Thesis Option (MTO). It covers research and research methods, and is intended to position students to successfully complete a year-long research project of publishable quality. Lectures and discussion will focus on the skills required to develop a research question, how to formulate an appropriate research strategy, and ways to identify necessary analytical tools and locate data sources.
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 691 Social Media Marketing
Social media provide marketers with several important capabilities not present in most other media including interactivity and measurability. Social media platforms like Facebook, Foursquare, or Twitter have a fundamental impact on the way business and consumers behave, communicate and interact with each other. It is critical for business to understand these new media in order to benefit from them significantly. In this course, we will deal with the possibilities that Social media can offer companies and how they can be used to retain and interact with consumers. In this context, we rely partly on established theoretical models and best practice business cases. Special attention will be given to mobile services as well as the special characteristics of social media.
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 692 New Product Development
All firms rely on the development of new products and services, however, the process remains poorly understood in all levels of management. The risks and rewards inherent in the development of any particular product must be scrutinized within the overall framework of a firm’s strategic direction. This course examines the paradigms, processes and methods that characterize both successful and unsuccessful strategies. The course employs several in-depth case studies as well as team-based, hands-on product development projects.
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 693 Entering International Markets
This on-line course combines MBA students from the University of Massachusetts Boston and European universities. It combines a marketing curriculum with multi cultural group work. Teams with members from other universities will work on a group project creating a marketing plan for a business wishing to enter either the US or European market.
Prerequisite(s): MBAMKT 670 and MBAMGT 650
3 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 696 Independent Study
Independent study credit is granted only for academic work not normally offered in advanced courses. A student must find a faculty sponsor for his or her independent study project and then file a proposal for the project in the MBA Office. The proposal should be signed by both the student and the faculty sponsor.
1 - 6 Credit(s)
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MBAMKT 697 Special Topics
This course addresses a specific topic in a particular discipline. Courses under this title are offered as one-time supplements to a given department’s curriculum.
1 - 6 Credit(s)
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Nursing |
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NURSNG 601 Introduction to Advanced Practice Nursing: Knowledge for Practice in the Global Community
This required core course presents a foundational context for the global, inclusive environment in which advanced practice nurses participate in the care of diverse populations. The course focuses on the integration of knowledge from nursing and the biopsychosocial fields for the continual improvement of advanced practice nursing care across diverse populations and settings. Populations are defined in the context of diversity of age, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, language, sexual orientation, abilities, religion and socioeconomic status as well as those that may be underserved, vulnerable populations or experience health disparities. The course builds on learners’ understanding of nursing knowledge gained in their undergraduate studies and provides the opportunity to analyze a broad spectrum of conceptual and theoretical frameworks from multiple disciplines. Learners select a nursing conceptual-theoretical framework to explore in-depth and to apply to advanced nursing practice with a selected population and health condition of interest.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 607 Evidenced Based Teaching Practices
This course is designed to assist current and aspiring nurse educators acquired foundational knowledge for effective teaching and learning practices. This course explores current conceptual frameworks, theories, and evidence-based pedagogical practices within the nursing education discipline. Practical application of key concepts for culturally inclusive teaching in varied learning environments is particularly emphasized.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 613 Human Diversity in Healthcare
This course examines the challenges associated with providing competent health care to diverse populations and examines its effects on the health of individuals, groups, and populations. Health behavior and health care outcomes are analyzed within the context of social, economic, political, and cultural forces. Implications of an increasingly diverse population for nursing education, research, and practice are determined, and strategies for improving the management of human diversity in nursing and health care are critically analyzed.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 614 Advanced Pathophysiology
This course presents the pathophysiological knowledge required of the advanced practice nurse to practice in the management of pathophysiological disorders in primary and tertiary care settings. It includes genetic and cellular mechanisms of diseases, the immune responses and selected disorders throughout life span. It explores current research findings and theory relevant to the pathophysiology of common illnesses. Students analyze laboratory data in light of actual and potential pathophysiological processes. Special emphasis is given to the case study presentations to aid student application of pathophysiologic process to advanced nursing practice in diverse populations.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 615 Advanced Health Assessment Practicum
This course focuses on the development of advanced practice nursing knowledge and skills in health assessment with an emphasis on diverse populations. Concepts, theories and research germane to the scientific underpinnings for practice in the context of the bio-psycho-social and environmental domains of human development are emphasized. Critical thinking, diagnostic reasoning and communication skills are developed through practice with case guided vignettes and simulated or clinical practice experiences specific to the student’s area of advanced practice nursing. This course builds on the students’ ability to utilize scientific foundations learned in previous courses and lays the foundation for subsequent clinical courses.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 615
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 616 Evidence Based Practice I: Appraising the Strength and Significance of Evidence
This course focuses on the critical appraisal of health-related research to prepare learners to identify best practices and translate evidence to clinical practice, population health or health policy and analysis. Emphasis will be placed on evaluation multiple sources of existing evidence as the first step in identifying knowledge, practice or policy gaps and in translating evidence to improve outcomes, quality, safety, cost and access to care for individuals and populations. Ethical issues in the conduct of research and translation of evidence will be explored.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 618 Introduction to Health Policy, Finance and Ethics
This course focuses on how issues and trends in health policy, economics and ethics are linked to the U.S. health care delivery system and other international health care systems. The role of the advanced practice nurse in developing a professional ethical framework, understanding the economic implications of health care and in shaping and formulating health policy will be stressed with a focus on application of course concepts for the advanced practice nurse. Relevant evidenced based research in health policy, economics and ethics will be analyzed.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 620 Primary Care Dermatology I
Course content will be based on the Dermatology Nurse Practitioner Core Curriculum established by the Dermatology Nurses Association, 2011. Students will develop skills in critical thinking and clinical reasoning in the application of theory and research to the practice of dermatology. Assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic, and health teaching strategies are applied to a continuum of health promotion/illness problems with a focus on speciality care of the medical dermatology patient across the lifespan. Seminars are grounded in learning the application of the theory and research to the domains of practice of the adult/gerontological or family nurse practitioner who interfaces with a large cohort of dermatology patients, or is interested in dermatology specialization. This includes the management of patient health and illness and the teaching-coaching function of the nurse practitioner and ensuring the quality of health care practices. Interdisciplinary collaborative practice skills are encouraged.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 631 The Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse
The historical development, scope, and functional roles of the advanced practice nurse are analyzed. Students examine the dynamic relationships among professional organizations, health care trends, and health care policy as they influence the need for advanced practice nursing. Emphasis is placed on acquiring the knowledge and skills to assume leadership roles in the health care system. Related health professions theories, research, and opportunities for implementing changes are emphasized. Critical thinking, group dynamics, leadership skills, and role of the APN as educator are studied and modeled in classroom experiences and course assignments.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 634 Advanced Pharmacology for the Advanced Practice Nurse
This course emphasizes the pharmacological knowledge required by the advanced practice nurse to safely care for and counsel patients with physical and mental illnesses across the lifespan. Students synthesize knowledge of clinical pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in the management of common disease processes occurring in pre-and post-natal women, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and elders. Students will analyze and discuss current research findings related to pharmacotherapeutic therapies for patients in the community and tertiary care settings. Guided by faculty prepared in pharmacology and experienced in applying the science of clinical pharmacology in the practice setting, students will apply their knowledge of pharmacotherapeutics to the care of patients throughout patient transitions of care.
Prerequisite(s): Nursng 634
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 637 Mental and Psychosocial Health of the Urban Family
Multicultural individuals and families at risk for mental and psychosocial problems are considered within the context of urban living. Nursing theory and research is applied to developing processes of care for individuals across the lifespan with mental health and psychosocial problems. Students learn evidence-based care including cognitive-behavioral, psychopharmacological, and non-traditional approaches to psychosocial and related physical problems. Research related to environmental, psychosocial, genetic, economic, family systems, developmental risk factors, drug efficacy and nonpharmacological approaches for individuals with mental and psychosocial illness is investigated. The impact of contemporary health care policy and legislative proposals on quality, cost, and access to care is investigated.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 638 Advanced Health Promotion Practicum I
Students analyze the clinical application of theories and research from nursing, diversity, health promotion, and disease prevention. Family, human development, patient education, and community theories that explain the phenomena of family focused care are examined. Data grounded in epidemiological sources, health histories, family assessments, physical examinations, and diagnostic tests are examined as the basis for case finding and identification of risk factors. Students begin to institute primary and secondary interventions, demonstrate interdisciplinary communication skills, examine collaborative community partnerships, and analyze the dimensions of nurse practitioner professional leadership roles in the urban community.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 639 Primary Care of Adults
This course provides the knowledge related to the assessment and management of patients with acute and chronic health care problems encountered by nurse practitioners in family practice and adult/gerontological primary care settings. Students analyze the direct and indirect components of the nurse practitioner role related to primary health care. Application of evidence based guidelines and research are used to support diagnostic, therapeutic, and pharmacological regimens. Continued emphasis is placed on the application of culturally sensitive nursing care to a diverse population, where diversity includes age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, sexual orientation, abilities, and socioeconomic status.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 639
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 644 Global Perspectives on Health; Exploring the Intersection of Equity, Economics and Culture
This course brings together undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students to compare and contrast local population health priorities and challenges from a global health perspective. The course emphasizes the population health sphere of influence and utilizes the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and US Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2020 as a framework to explore global health. The focus is on synthesizing knowledge from a variety of interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical literature to better understand the social, political, economic, cultural and environmental issues that affect the health of all of us. Students deepen their knowledge and appreciation of global health, health disparities, human rights and cultural humility.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 664 Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Clinical Practicum: Focus on the Patient
In this course, students apply the knowledge and advanced practice skills in patient care learned in Nursing 690. Under the guidance of a clinical nurse specialist preceptor, students implement the advanced competencies of direct care, patient/family teaching and coaching, and ethical decision-making as they assess and treat problems experienced by adult and gerontological patients. Clinical practice in this course provides an opportunity for students to integrate advanced nursing knowledge with knowledge of disease pathophysiology, technical competence, and medical management.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 665 Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) Clinical Practicum: Focus on the CNS Role
This course emphasizes the CNS influence on nursing personnel and the organization. Under the guidance of a CNS preceptor, students practice in an adult/gerontological health, acute or critical care setting in their chosen specialty. This course continues to address patient care, but the focus shifts to nursing personnel and organization/network spheres of influence, giving students the opportunity to implement the CNS role fully. Students acquire skill and confidence in consultation, collaboration, and leadership skills. The course includes the Master¿s degree capstone project.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 665
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 667 Clinical Practicum: Nurse Educators in the Clinical Practice Setting
Students acquire advanced teaching skills required to meet the health-related learning needs of patients, families and groups in clinical and community settings. Students also learn to educate practicing nurses and other clinicians to meet patient needs more effectively. Seminars focus on the pedagogy supporting the work of nurse educators. Under the guidance of an expert preceptor, students develop educational interventions and programs and use a variety of teaching strategies.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 668 Clinical Practicum: Nurse Educators in the Academic Practice Settings
Students gain advanced teaching competencies for nurse educators to assist nursing students to acquire the knowledge, skills and values required for contemporary professional nursing practice. Seminars focus on the role of the academic nurse educator, clinical and classroom teaching skills, curriculum development and methods for evaluating student learning. Under the guidance of an expert preceptor, students develop and evaluate learning experiences for nursing students in varied environments.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 670 Primary Care of the Adult Practicum
Students refine their advanced practice skills with further attention to the application of theory and evidenced based knowledge to the role of the family or adult/gerontological nurse practitioner. The assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic, evaluative, consultative, and teaching functions of the nurse practitioner role are examined within a professional, ethical, and legal framework. Students continue to gain experience in the assessment and management of health promotion, episodic and chronic illness problems in adults with the supervision of nurse practitioner or physician preceptors, and faculty support. Seminar discussions include an exploration of special topics in disease management to improve quality, access and cost of primary health care for diverse populations. Diversity, health care disparities, and ethical issues will be discussed as they relate to the clinical topics.
6 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 671 Primary Care of Older Adults
This course focuses on the health care issues and needs of elders across the care continuum of acute, chronic, community, and long-term-care settings. Aspects of physical, emotional, and social aging across the lifespan are explored utilizing various theoretical perspectives and models. The assessment, teaching-coaching, and management roles of the advanced practice gerontological nurse in relation to acute and chronic health conditions of the older adult are emphasized. The complex interplay of the political, economic, legal, and ethical factors that influence health care delivery to older adults is examined.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 639 Graduate student in Nursing
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 671 Primary Care of the Older Adult
This course focuses on the health care issues and needs of elders across the care continuum of acute, chronic, community, and long-term care settings. Aspects of physical, emotional, cultural, and social aging across the lifespan are explored utilizing various theoretical perspectives and models. The assessment, teaching-coaching and management roles of the advanced practice gerontological nurse in relations to acute and chronic health conditions of the older adult are emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 672 Primary Care of the Older Adult Practicum
Students further refine skills in critical thinking and clinical reasoning in the application of theory and research to practice. Assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic, and health teaching strategies are applied to a continuum of health promotion/illness problems with a focus on the primary care of adults and older adults across the continuum of care. Students build skills in seeing increasingly complex patients with a combination of higher risk, acute illness, and chronic health problems where atypical disease presentation and challenges to disease treatment exist. Seminars are grounded in learning the application of theory and research to the domains of practice of the adult/gerontological nurse practitioner including the management of patient health and illness, the teaching-coaching function of the nurse practitioner, and ensuring the quality of health care services. Interdisciplinary collaborative practice skills are developed. Students develop role competencies under the supervision of nurse practitioner or physician preceptors and faculty in a variety of health care settings. Seminar discussions include an exploration of special topics in disease management to improve quality, access and cost of primary health care for diverse populations (or communities) with an emphasis on underserved populations, where diversity includes age, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, language, sexual orientation, abilities, and socioeconomic status.
Prerequisite(s): NU 672
6 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 681 Primary Care of the Childbearing Family
This course builds on human growth and development to focus on acquiring knowledge related to the assessment and management of patients with acute and chronic health care problems encountered by nurse practitioner in family practice and pediatric primary care settings. Problems of pregnant women, infants, children and adolescents are analyzed within a family nurse practitioner framework for practice. Evidenced based laboratory, diagnostic, therapeutic and pharmacological plans of care are applied to problem management. Continued emphasis in placed on application of culturally sensitive nursing care to a diverse population where diversity includes age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, sexual orientation, abilities,and socioeconomic status.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 682 Practicum in Primary Care of the Family
Students further refine skills in critical thinking and clinical reasoning. Assessment, diagnostic, therapeutic, and health teaching strategies are applied to a continuum of health promotion/illness problems of women, infants, and children. Seminars are grounded in learning the application of theory and research to the domains of practice of the family nurse practitioner with emphasis on the management of patient health and illness and the teaching coaching function of the nurse practitioner in the specialty of pediatrics and obstetrics. Students develop role competencies under the supervision of nurse practitioner preceptors and faculty in urban health care settings. Seminar discussions include an exploration of special topics in disease management to improve quality, access and cost of primary health care for diverse populations (or communities) with an emphasis on underserved populations, where diversity includes age, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, language, sexual orientation, abilities, and socioeconomic status.
Prerequisite(s): NU 682
6 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 690 Adult/Gerontology Health Acute Care Nursing I
This course introduces the role of the Adult Gerontology Acute Care (AG/AC) Clinical Nurse Specialist, focusing on the patient sphere of influence. The course refines students’ clinical judgments and their diagnosis of common patient problems in the autonomous domain, extends assessment skills, and expands knowledge of nursing interventions and expected outcomes. Students acquire and expand the knowledge and skills needed for the advanced practice direct care competency and ethical decision-making. Diversity, health care disparities, and ethical issues will be discussed as they relate to the clinical topics. Students will apply theory and research through comprehensive assessments and the design of appropriate management strategies.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 690
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 691 Adult Gerontological Health Acute Care Nursing II
This course builds on A/G Health Acute Care Nursing I and continues addressing the patient sphere of influence while adding the patient/family focus to include the nursing practice and systems sphere of influence. A focus on high-incidence clinical problems, symptoms or issues in adult and gerontological health and acute and critical care continues. Diversity, health care disparities, and ethical issues will be discussed as they relate to the clinical topics. Students deepen their knowledge of adult and gerontological health and acute and critical care from interdisciplinary empirical and theoretical literature and other sources of evidence. Emphasis is placed on synthesizing knowledge from a variety of sources to make clinical judgments and to build the practice base needed for implementing other advanced practice competencies. Knowledge of assessment, diagnosis, and management in the autonomous nursing domain, and measurement of relevant, nursing-sensitive patient outcomes and quality improvement approaches to improving care for populations will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 691
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 696 Independent Study
Students wishing to enroll in this course should present to the faculty a well-defined problem for investigation. Plans for advanced study should be established at the beginning of the semester during which the student wishes to take the course. The study will be conducted in consultation and collaboration with the student’s faculty advisor, and documented in a report at the end of the semester.
1 - 6 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 697 Special Topics in Nursing
This advanced course offers intensive study of selected topics in the field of nursing. Course content and credit vary according to the topic and are announced prior to registration.
1 - 6 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 700 Philosophy of Nursing Science: Ways of Knowing
In this course, students learn basic concepts of the philosophy of science and the development of knowledge. The historical development and themes for knowledge building in the science and discipline of nursing are explored. Students will analyze different ways of knowing (both philosophical and historical writings) and philosophical worldviews as they relate to the development of programs of research.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 701L Science as a Way of Knowing
This course investigates “science” in its multiple forms as a set of clues to the nature of knowledge. Specifically, this course advances the relationship of philosophy of science and theory to nursing science. The course explores forces and issues in the philosophy of science and theoretical thinking which guide science and knowledge development in nursing methodologies and practice. Theory-research-practice linkages in nursing knowledge development are highlighted. Specific philosophy of science content includes the complex symbolic structures of “scientific” concepts; conceptual frameworks and explanations; the variety of methods used in scientific inquiry; the nature of scientific discovery and creativity; the role of metaphysical and aesthetic factors in the construction and validation of theories; the social matrices and determinants of scientific research; and science’s dependence on both value judgments and technology.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 702 Doctoral Seminar
The goal of the doctoral seminar is to socialize students into the roles and activities of research scholars and members in a global community of scholars. The emphasis is on professional standards for doctoral education, strategies to support professional development and nursing scholar career opportunities. The focus of this semester is on how to leverage learning and mentoring experiences that support PhD education and to facilitate career development as a scholar, nurse scientist, and steward of the discipline.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 703 Health Economics
The primary purpose of this course is to have students learn and apply the basic economic concepts and models used by both economists and health policy analysts to understand and analyze health care markets. The goal of health economics is to provide a better understanding of health care problems and issues so that appropriate health policies can be designed and implemented. The course focuses on the structure and functioning of health care markets and specifically on how prices are determined in different markets for health and health-related services, as well as on how prices, in turn, critically affect the behavior of both consumers and suppliers. It is assumed that the student has no prior background in economics.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 705 Health Disparities
Health disparities in the United States are examined historically and within the context of global health, globalization, and neo-liberal economic and social ideology. Despite considerable progress in the overall health of the American population, disparities continue to exist, notable among ethno-racial groups and those at the lower end of the socio-economic scale. This course identifies and analyzes the complex causes of health disparities and surveys multi-level interventions, strategies and policy approaches to elimination disparities and improving health care outcomes for all. Students will critically analyze literature and materials relative to the broad range of topical areas covered across the course. Learning outcomes will position students to be informed and deliberative when planning programs, conduction research, participating in the policy process or otherwise working to mitigate or eliminate disparities in health care.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 710 Oncology in Primary Care
This elective course is offered online to graduate level students and advanced care providers to develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviors about oncology-specific components of health care that participants will need to care for adults in primary care settings. The course will cover: 1) advanced concepts in the biology and epidemiology of cancer; 2) evolving evidence on cancer genetics and genomics that influences cancer prevention, screening and treatment; 3) health promotion and cancer risk reduction in the general population; 4) appropriate tests for screening and diagnosis; 5) personalized cancer treatment including chemotherapy, surgery, radiation therapy, targeted therapies and hormone ablation; 6) evidence-based symptom management and palliative care; 7) implantation of survivorship care plans; and 8) compassionate hospice and end-of-life care. Participants will use evolving case studies, online resources, supplemental readings, oral presentations, periodic quizzes and a final synthesis paper to evaluate and promote learning.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 711 Scientific basis for chronic illness preventative and risk reduction
This course is offered to graduate level students to develop knowledge and skills related to the scientific basis for health chronic illness prevention and risk reduction. The course will provide students with a comprehensive overview of current knowledge and research related to the: 1) the epidemiology of chronic illness, 2) Research priorities related to chronic illness prevention and risk reduction; 3) The role of culture and developmental stage in health and illness, 4) Biological basis for disease which included genomics, inflammation and immunity; 5) Risk assessment; 6) Primary, secondary and tertiary approaches to chronic illness prevention with a focus on cancer, cardiovascular disease and aging; 7) Planning health promotion/community participatory research intervention and 8) Incorporating survey and biomarkers into longitudinal epidemiological research.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 715 Health Informatics
Students learn advanced practice nursing competencies related to computer skills, informatics skill, and informatics knowledge. Application of information theory and computer technology skills is directed towards improving the organization and delivery of healthcare to multicultural populations receiving primary, secondary, and tertiary health care. Health Informatics deals with using technology tools for optimizing the collection, verification and utilization of data that relates to generating knowledge to inform best practices and leadership in both public and private health systems. Students are directed to investigate ways in which information systems can address disparities in health services.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 716 Evidence Based Practice II
In this course students will refine and extend the competencies introduced in Evidence Based Practice I with emphasis on generating evidence for practice in implementing practice innovations. Emphasis will be placed on the evaluation of practice, practice improvement initiatives and the development and utilization of evidence-based practice. The end product of this course will serve as the foundation for the Capstone project in the last year of study.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 720 Secondary Data Analysis
This course will explore the use and limits of large national databases for the conduct of nursing and health policy research. Students will master accessing, downloading, and analyzing data from large data sets. Students will identify a testable research question and develop an analytic file to be used for analysis. Data used for this class are drawn from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization project (HCUP), 2000 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). For more information about HCUP data, see http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 721 Program Evaluation
This course focuses on models and methods for program evaluation within health services organizations and health care delivery systems at the local, state, national, and global levels. Content areas include history of evaluation research, types of program evaluation, research designs, planning and conducting evaluations with quantitative and qualitative methods, reporting, dissemination and utilization of findings, and the “program evaluator” role, including ethical and political considerations. In addition to content areas, applied program evaluation methods at various health care delivery system levels will be presented in “spotlight” segments during the semester.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 722 Improving Outcomes: Identification, Interventions, and Evaluation of Quality Improvement Activities
This course includes review of theoretical frameworks and research methods used to implement quality improvement in health care. Approaches to solving actual problems in clinical settings are considered, with emphasis on patients with chronic illnesses and other vulnerable patient populations. Students gain familiarity with quality improvement techniques from management, policy, and clinical perspectives.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 723L Cost Effectiveness: Theory, Methods & Applications
This course introduces students to the theoretical underpinnings of cost-effectiveness analysis and the alternative methods for measuring costs and outcomes of health interventions. Through many practical applications, students gain a familiarity with how to apply cost effectiveness, cost benefit, and cost utility methods to actual research situations. GERON GR 723L and NURSNG 723L and PPOL-G 723L are the same course.
Prerequisite(s): NU 703 Health Economics or equivalent
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 724 Mixed Method Research
This course presents an overview of core research concepts and methods to build an evidence base for nursing practice. Using a lecture-discussion approach, the student will be encouraged to evaluate research evidence and determine appropriate research designs for research hypotheses. Students will be encourages to contribute to group discussions using their professional experiences and information derived from course lectures and readings. Key features of the texts include research examples, specific practical tips on doing research, and aids to enhance and reinforce learning for the student. Emphasis is placed on using a practical approach to producing and evaluation research evidence.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 725 Quantitative Research Colloquium
Students will have an opportunity to discuss and present their on-going research with other students and participate in more advanced seminars on quantitative methods. The instructor and students will read drafts of students’ papers and provide constructive comments. Occasional presentations of research methods will be made by the instructor and students based on students requests.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 733 Scientific Basis for Cancer Nursing Research
This is the first course in a two-semester Oncology sequence. The course will provide students with a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge and research in cancer care. Course content will focus on basic cancer science (biology, pathophysiology, immunology, and epidemiology), prevention and detection, diagnosis and clinical manifestations, and treatment and disease management of the most common cancers. Knowledge related to each student¿s clinical phenomena of interest will be explored.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 614 and NURSING 615 or 634 Co-req = NURSNG 730
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 734 Context of Cancer Nursing Care
This is the second course in a two-semester Oncology sequence. This course is designed to allow students to expand their knowledge of the most common cancers in adults, focusing on the delivery of evidence-based cancer nursing care and developmental, social, cultural, economic, and political issues that impact cancer patients and families. Content related to symptom management, survivorship, and end of life care will be integrated throughout the course. Each student will be guided in the independent exploration of their phenomena of interest via self directed learning activities, including, but not limited to a systematic review of the literature, consultation with experts, writing a small grant or exploration of a clinical topic of interest culminating In a student presentation and publishable manuscript.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 735 DNP Clinical inquiry Seminar and Clinical Specialty Immersion
This course focuses on the development and refinement of advanced practice nursing knowledge and skills in a specialty area. This faculty-guided seminar is tailored to the learner’s area of interest and provides an opportunity for in-depth immersion in a clinical/conceptual area related to advanced practice nursing. Under the guidance of the faculty and clinical mentor, learners refine and apply state-of-the-art, evidence-based knowledge and skills in a specialty area and compare and contrast clinical approaches to the specialty area with attention to best practices as well as the social, political, economic, cultural and environmental factors that influence health and disadvantage vulnerable populations. Students meet on-line for the seminar and are expected to identify a mentor and site for the specialty immersion. Clinical hours/experiences (150 hours) are included in this course.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 741 Health Policy I
This is the first course in a two-semester health policy sequence. It provides a foundation for health policy analysis, focusing on the history and development of political, economic, and social systems involved in health care and on theories useful in the analysis of past, current, and future health policies. The course examines federal, state, and local governmental structures and the ways in which they and other forces affect health policy.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 742 Health Policy II
This course builds on NURSNG 741, applying models of policy analysis and theoretical perspectives to the critical examination of specific health policies. The course studies the historical, political, economic, and social context in which the policies emerged, as well as the specific actors involved. Emphasis is given to health policies affecting the aged and urban family population. Case studies are presented, and participants are introduced to a variety of methods for analyzing, formulating, and evaluating health policy. The policies examined in the course may include those confronting students in their own workplace or practice.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 743 Internship in Health Care Policy
A six-credit experience: students may intern with health care agencies, educational institutions, legislatures, professional associations, or health promotion and prevention organizations. Students are expected to write testimonies and research or evaluation papers analyzing the health policy issues raised during the internship. An internship seminar is part of the experience.
6 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 745 Population Health I
This is the first course in a two-semester Population Health sequence. It will provide a foundation for population health study. The course focuses on the conceptual understanding of population health and its importance in the health care system and in the community. Understanding population health issues such as health promotion, and disease and injury prevention that are influenced by local, national, and global health is an approach that seeks to improve the health of the whole population. The lens of population health student also allows us to understand disparities in health outcomes, and to identify effective strategies for reducing gaps in health disparities both within and between population groups. By the end of this course, students will be able to analyze and evaluate priority population health outcomes and strategies within–population health and its determinants– to promote health locally, nationally, and globally.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 746 Population Health II
This is an advanced course focused on randomized controlled trials and other intervention studies, which have become one of the basic research tools in evaluation the benefits and risk of new therapeutic or prevention strategies. The course will provide an in-depth examination of research design and implementation of theory-based intervention studies. The first module will help students understand how to approach population health research questions and how to design studies to answer these questions. The second module will help students understand how to establish causal statements about the efficacy and generalizability of interventions for population health. The third module is designed to review concepts and principles of outcome measurement with emphasis on reliability and validity and procedures for developing and evaluating measures. The fourth module will focus on methodological, ethical, and practical issues in the implementation of a research design for an intervention study to advance the science of nursing and healthcare.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 750 Contemporary Disciplinary Knowledge
This course is a multidisciplinary exploration of the structure and growth of knowledge. It examines the linkages of empirical, aesthetic, ethical, personal, and sociopolitical patterns of knowing with the conceptual models or paradigms of diverse disciplines. The course constructs a conceptual-theoretical-empirical structure for research into the generating and testing of theory.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 753L Epidemiological Thinking and Population Health
Introduction to the concepts, methods, and problems involved in analyzing the biological and social influences on behaviors and diseases and in translation such analyses into population health policy and practice. Special attention given to social inequalities, changes over the life course, and heterogeneous pathways. Case studies and course projects are shaped to accommodate students with interests in diverse fields related to health and public policy. Students are assumed to have a statistical background, but the course emphasizes epidemiological literacy with a view to collaborating thoughtfully with specialists, not technical expertise. CRCRTH 653L and NURSNG 753L and PPOL-G 753L are the same course.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 757 Social Behavioral Determinants of Health
This course focuses on theory, research, and current issues relevant to social and behavioral determinants of health. Viewed within a social-ecological framework, core concepts central to understanding determinants of population health and health disparities are addressed. Emphasis is placed on analysis, critique, and synthesis of interdisciplinary literature and application to nursing and public health practice, future research and scholarly inquiry, and multi-level policies, necessary to reduce disparities in the social and behavioral determinants of the public’s health.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 760 Introduction to Biostatistics: Biostatistics I
This is the first course in a two-semester Biostatistics sequence. The course introduces students to the basic concepts and methods of biostatistics. The course is focused on some fundamental theories of biostatistics and basic methods of statistical inference at a conceptual level. It also covers some important topics in study design, such as different types of study design, sampling methods, sample size, and power calculation. Students will understand the concepts and methods of statistics, and apply them in critiquing literature in the field of clinical and population based research.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 761 Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Internship
Theory and evidenced based research are applied with the goal of improving health care outcomes. In supervised clinical experiences, students integrate the role of the DNP into the clinical practice context that includes leadership, consultation, advocacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Clinical learning is directed at discovering the history, contextual evidence, and current strategies related to problems affecting patient safety and the quality of health care services for populations at risk. Emphasis is placed on translating research into practice as a means to improve the delivery of health care.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 616, 760 and PBHLTH Informatics Co-requisite = NURSNG 716
1 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 762 Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Internship II
Emphasis is placed on translation of research into practice as a means to improve the delivery of health care. In supervised internship experiences, students continue to develop the DNP Essential competencies through experiences in leadership, consultation, advocacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration, and translation of research and theory into practice. Students investigate clinical problems in context of the health care systems and participate in supervised experiences that focus on solving clinical problems. Students successful in defending their proposal during DNP Internship II may move forward to the action phase of the capstone project.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 616, 760 and 761, PBHLTH Informatics Co-requisite = NURSNG 716
1 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 763 Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Capstone Seminar and Internship
Students progress in achieving the DNP Essential Competencies with clinical experiences and seminar leadership related to health care disparities and quality improvement. Students examine the clinical microsystem from the perspective of how data can inform the need for systems change. In conjunction with their capstone advisor and internship facilitator, learning is directed toward implementing the evaluation phase of the approved capstone project proposal and receiving direction on the development of the scholarly final capstone publishable paper.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 616, 760, 761, 762 and PBHLTH Informatics Co-requisite = NURSNG 716
2 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 764 Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Capstone Seminar and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Internship IV
Students continue to integrate the role of the DNP into clinical practice context that includes experiences in application of evidence to practice, leadership, consultation, advocacy, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Following DNP committee and IRB approvals of the capstone project done in the preceding courses, students complete the internship experience, the capstone project, and summarize their DNP internship experiences reflecting their achievement of the DNP Essentials Competencies. In seminars, students meet to examine the process and outcomes of their colleagues’ capstone projects and analyze theory and evidence related to health policy and practice.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 722, 761, 762, 763 and MBA 650
2 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 765 Health Systems Leadership
The course will provide an introduction and overview of leadership, management, and organizational behavior in health care for the Advanced Practice Nurse (APN). Students will integrate theory with practice in the development of skills necessary to provide organizational and systems leadership in health care settings. Students will apply content from lectures and readings to cases studies as well as to actual experiences from their own workplaces. Topics include leadership and management theories/models, fiscal management, human resource management, and managing change in a complex environment.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 766 Health Finance and Economics
Students apply health care economic and finance theory to the analysis of factors influencing health systems¿ structure, function and process. Both the U.S. and global trends in health care delivery are examined from an historical and contemporary perspective of increasing social change and health care access. Students develop skills in financial management including budget preparation and tailoring budgets in response to changes in health policy at the local, state, and national level. Proficiency in finance tools, measures, analysis and reporting will be applied to real time scenarios. Students are prepared to develop collaborative health care access points in order to advocate for diverse populations with an emphasis on the underserved populations, where diversity includes age, gender, race/ethnicity, culture, religion, language, sexual orientation, abilities and socioeconomic status, while controlling costs and improving quality.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 770 Biostatistics II: Advanced Statistical Methods in Healthcare Research
This is the second course in a two-semester Biostatistics sequence. This course covers several advanced methods of statistical analysis that are most often used in Healthcare research, including multiple linear regression, logistic regression, log-linear (Poisson) regression, Cox proportional hazards regression, and longitudinal data analysis. This course also discusses the methods and techniques in assessing the presenting confounding and interaction effects, and handling missing values. The primary purpose of this course is to help students gain understanding of the advanced statistical methods and use these concepts to critique literature in the field of clinical and population based research.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 772L Seminar in Health Care Financing
This course analyzes historical, current, and proposed policy options in health care financing, including Medicare, health insurance, and issues of provider reimbursement. GERON GR 772L and NURSNG 772L are the same course.
Prerequisite(s): NURSNG 703 or permission of instructor
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 780 Epidemiologic Methods
This course builds on prior knowledge of the basic principles of epidemiology while introducing methods of epidemiologic analysis, and their application to the field of advanced practice nursing (APRN) at the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) level. The course is intended to provide students with the skills and knowledge to critically evaluate health research based on epidemiologic standards. In addition, students will learn to perform preliminary analyses of epidemiologic, biostatistical, environmental, and other scientific data to address basic questions related to individual, aggregate, and population health. Students will analyze public use datasets and interpret published government reports describing population health status and the occurrence of diseases in populations at the local, state, and national levels.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 790 Integrating concepts & methods for research development
This course prepares students in their development of the required elements for the comprehensive exams, which precede the conduct of dissertation research. Students will formulate coherent philosophical, theoretical, conceptual, and methodological understandings in their appraisal of knowledge gained from previous coursework. Considerations for new inquiry that advance nursing science and health sciences will be explored. Conducting an effective and comprehensive review of the literature or policy analysis from conceptual and methodological perspectives will also be emphasized. This course is designed to give doctoral students opportunities to engage classmates and professors in dialogue and discussion about integrating concepts and methods into the process of research development. Students should take advantage of this opportunity to build their research community by engaging fully in class discussion with fellow students and faculty.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 791 Integrating Theory and Policy in Dissertation Research
This course is designed to synthesize nursing, policy, and other appropriate theoretical constructs into a proposal for innovative inquiry and research. Content from nursing, basic and applied research in health and service delivery, social policy, research methods, and cognate courses is used to build a coherent conceptual framework and methods for data collection and analysis for dissertation research.
3 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 796 Independent Study
Students wishing to enroll in this course should present to the faculty a well-defined problem for investigation. Plans for advanced study should be established at the beginning of the semester during which the student wishes to take the course. The study will be conducted in consultation and collaboration with the student’s faculty advisor, and documented in a report at the end of the semester.
1 - 6 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 797 Special Topics
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
1 - 6 Credit(s)
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NURSNG 899 Dissertation Research
Research in the student’s area of interest conducted under faculty supervision, resulting in the presentation of a doctoral dissertation.
3 - 9 Credit(s)
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PHIL 501L Foundations of Philosophical Thought
By discussing four or five traditional substantive problems in philosophy-morality, the nature of knowledge, freedom of the will, the nature of mind, and social organization-we attempt to derive a common approach that philosophers bring to these problems when developing their own solutions or criticizing the solutions of other philosophers. We also consider some of the ways that substantive issues and debates in philosophy relate to contemporary non-philosophical issues in our society and can be introduced into a broad range of educational environments outside standard philosophy courses.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student
3 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 571 Integrated Mathematics and Physical Science for Teachers
This course is designed for secondary school mathematics and science teachers. It develops interdisciplinary material from mathematics and the physical sciences to illustrate basic mathematical concepts as they apply to physical problems and phenomena. Participants learn modern techniques of instrumentation and analysis-including calculator- and computer-based systems, e.g., CBL and MBL data acquisition and analysis systems-and utilize them in hands-on data taking and analysis. The course uses inquiry-based methods to develop scientific and quantitative reasoning skills. Special emphasis is given to the development of effective pedagogies for teachers of middle and high school.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student in Physics
3 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 572 Integrating the Sciences through Energy
This course is a graduate-level science content course designed for pre-service and in-service middle school science teachers and contextualized to the standards/inquiry-based middle school curricula. It provides graduate-level content while modeling sound pedagogy. Using current and future curriculum materials, as well as State and National standards for the teaching of science at the middle school level, this course offers an in-depth exploration of fundamental principles of energy as they relate to biological, physical, chemical, and earth sciences. Special emphasis will be placed on the interdisciplinary relationships among these topics so that energy can be used to integrate across the disciplinary sciences. Students will exposed to the current state of knowledge in the scientific community through laboratory activities, outside readings, classroom presentations, and in-depth discussions with classmates. Student swill participate in hands-on, inquiry based exercises drawn from National science standards-based middle school instructional materials which will allow them to review these teaching materials and methods, as well as develop research-based strategies for communicating with students, especially English language learners and students with other special needs.
3 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 597 Special Topics
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
1 - 8 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 600 Electronic Instrumentation I: Analog
A lecture and laboratory course in analog electronics. Emphasis is placed on pragmatic and intuitive approaches to analog electronic circuit designs. A supervised independent project illustrating an aspect of basic analog electronics is required of each student.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student in Physics
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 601 Electronic Instrumentation II: Digital
A lecture and laboratory course to provide understanding of digital electronics and microprocessors. Emphasis is placed on digital logic components, digital circuit design, and techniques for incorporating microprocessors and microcomputers into laboratory experiments.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student in Physics
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 602 Laser Optics Laboratory
A lecture and laboratory course to provide a working understanding of modern optics, lasers, and applications. Topics include optical resonators; solid state, gas and semiconductor lasers; tunable dye lasers; non-linear optics; and spectroscopy applications. Selected topics, which may vary from year to year according to the interests of the faculty and recent developments in technology, will stress practical instrumentation as well as relevant theory.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student in Physics
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 610 Topics in Medical Imaging
This course focuses on an in-depth study of specific topics in the various medical imaging modalities.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student in Physics
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 611 Theory of Classical Mechanics and Fluid Mechanics
This course focusses on principles of classical mechanics: generalized coordinates, lagrangian and Hamiltonain formulations, variational principles, multiple periodic systems, non linear dynamics, fluid dynamics.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student in Physics
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 612 Electromagnetic Theory
A lecture course to develop electromagnetic theory and to treat various applications. Topics include Maxwell’s equations in vacuum and in material media, electromagnetic theory of continuous media, reflection, refraction, diffraction and radiation of electromagnetic waves. Applications are selected from such topics as wave guides and resonant cavities, and magneto hydrodynamics and plasma physics.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student in Physics
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 613 Quantum Mechanics, Atomic, and Molecular Physics
A lecture course on the fundamental principles and applications of the quantum theory of matter. Topics include bound systems (potential well harmonic oscillator, hydrogen atom), angular momentum, spin, identical particles, the periodic table, exchange forces, chemical bonding, linear vector spaces, perturbation theory. Such other topics as magnetic resonance, symmetry groups, and elementary particles are selected for study according to student and faculty interests.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student in Physics
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 614 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
A lecture course on the principles of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Topics include: fundamentals of thermodynamics, first and second laws, thermodynamic potentials, phase transitions, classical kinetic theory, classical statistical mechanics, and quantum statistical mechanics. Applications of the principles will be made to physical, chemical, and biological systems of special or current interest.
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 616 Mathematical Methods for Physicists
A course in intermediate mathematics with applications to analytical and quantum mechanics and electromagnetic theory. Selected topics from vector analysis, tensor algebra, linear algebra and group theory, functions of a complex variable, second-order differential equations, Fourier series and transforms, calculus of variations.
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 623 Quantum Mechanics: Scattering and Many-Body Physics
The goal of this theoretical course is to introduce techniques in two of the most widely used application areas of Quantum Mechanics, namely Scattering Theory and Many-Body Physics. A working knowledge of these methods is particularly relevant to a wide range of modern applications int he broad area of mesoscopic physics, and especially to studies involving ultra-cold atoms.
Prerequisite(s): PHYSIC 613 & 616
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 630 Solid State Physics
The application of quantum mechanics to the theory of the solid state. Topics include periodic structures, lattice waves, band theory of solids, dynamics of electrons in solids and magnetic resonance. Some applications of the theory to semi-conductor devices are made.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student in Physics
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 631 Physics of Semiconductor Materials
A lecture course on the physics of semiconductor materials. An understanding of the properties of semiconductor devices is related to the underlying physical principles of quantum mechanics and solid state physics. Topics include electrical, optical, and thermal properties of semiconductor materials; theory of transport, scattering, and recombination of free carriers; theory of p-n junctions.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student in Physics
4 Credit(s)
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PHYSIC 632 Advanced Laser Optics (with Lab)
This is a one-semester lecture and lab course offered as a follow-up to Physic 602. Topics include wave propagation in isotropic and anisotropic media, birefringence, the physical origin of nonlinear polarization, wave propagation in nonlinear media, optical second harmonic generation, parametric oscillation and amplification, electro-optic effects in crystals, third order non-linearities, third harmonic generation, the interaction of light and phase conjugate optics, four-wave mixing, intensity dependent transmission, and selected topics as time permits.
Prerequisite(s): Graduate degree student in Physics
4 Credit(s)
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