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| 2025-2026 | NURS 322 | Nursing Care of Childbearing FamiliesConcepts of nursing care are related to the health care of women, newborns, children, and families during the childbearing years. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 323 | Clinical Practice: Family Health IThis course focuses on experiential learning in the provision of nursing care for childbearing families. Emphasis is on the delivery of safe, clientcentred and evidence-informed healthcare to women, newborns, and their families during the childbearing years. Clinical reasoning is emphasized in assessment, planning and implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 100, 200 level nursing courses; and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern
NURS 322
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 323 | Clinical Practice: Family Health IThis course focuses on experiential learning in the provision of nursing care for childbearing families. Emphasis is on the delivery of safe, client-centred and evidence-informed healthcare to women, newborns, and their families during the childbearing years. Clinical reasoning is emphasized in assessment, planning and implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 342 | Nursing Care of Children & FamiliesConcepts of nursing care are related to families managing acute and chronic conditions in home and hospital settings. Nursing process, family theory, child health, family health, and family-centred care principles are related to care to emphasize health promotion and health maintenance activities. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 342 | Nursing Care of Children and FamiliesConcepts of nursing care are related to families managing acute and chronic conditions in home and hospital settings. Nursing process, family theory, child health, family health, and familycentred care principles are related to care to emphasize health promotion and health maintenance activities. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 100, 200 level nursing courses; and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern
NURS 343
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 343 | Clinical Practice: Family Health IIThis course focuses on experiential learning in the provision of nursing care of children and their families. Emphasis is on the delivery of safe, client-centred and evidence-informed healthcare to children and their families in diverse settings. Clinical reasoning is emphasized in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NURS 100 and 200 level courses, and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern
NURS 342
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 343 | Clinical Practice: Family Health IIThis course focuses on experiential learning in the provision of nursing care of children and their families. Emphasis is on the delivery of safe, client-centred and evidence-informed healthcare to children and their families in diverse settings. Clinical reasoning is emphasized in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 350 | Spirituality & the Helping ProfessionsIn response to Canada's diverse society, this course provides the student opportunities to explore how religious, spiritual, and theological perspectives shape experiences of health, illness, and human suffering, with applications to spiritual caregiving and self-care practices of the helping professional Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 350 | Spirituality and the Helping ProfessionsIn response to Canada's diverse society, this course provides the student opportunities to explore how religious, spiritual, and theological perspectives shape experiences of health, illness, and human suffering, with applications to spiritual caregiving and self-care practices of the helping professional Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 6 sem. hrs. of Religious Studies courses; Second year standing in Nursing.
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 360 | Person-Centred Palliative ApproachFocus is on how to provide a person-centered palliative approach to care for a growing population of individuals who have progressive life-limiting conditions, and their family caregivers. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NURS 100, 200 level courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 360 | Person-Centred Palliative ApproachFocus is on how to provide a person-centered palliative approach to care for a growing population of individuals who have progressive life-limiting conditions, and their family caregivers. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 400 | Directed Studies in NursingAdmission to a directed studies course is at the sole discretion of the Dean. These courses may be used for remediation or to develop a specific area of student interest.. Course Credits: 1, 2, 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 400 | Directed Studies in NursingAdmission to a directed studies course is at the sole discretion of the Dean. These courses may be used for remediation or to develop a specific area of student interest. Course Credits: 1, 2, 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 401 | Directed Studies in NursingAdmission to a directed studies course is at the sole discretion of the Dean. These courses may be used for remediation or to develop a specific area of student interest.. Course Credits: 1, 2, 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 401 | Directed Studies in NursingAdmission to a directed studies course is at the sole discretion of the Dean. These courses may be used for remediation or to develop a specific area of student interest. Course Credits: 1, 2, 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 412 | Nursing Care of Adults with Complex IllnessThis course focuses on nursing care of adults experiencing complex conditions with a focus on surgical care in hospital and community-based settings. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process considering factors that influence wellness in the midst of illness, pathophysiology of selected conditions, and sociocultural influences in health care. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NURS 100, 200, 300 level courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern.
NURS 413
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 412 | Nursing Care of Adults with Complex IllnessThis course focuses on nursing care of adults experiencing complex conditions with a focus on surgical care in hospital and community-based settings. Emphasis is placed on the nursing process considering factors that influence wellness in the midst of illness, pathophysiology of selected conditions, and sociocultural influences in health care. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 413 | Clinical Practice: Adult IIIThis course focuses on experiential learning in the provision of nursing care for adults with complex acute and chronic illnesses who are recovering from surgical procedures. Emphasis is on the delivery of safe, client-centered and evidence-informed health care to adult clients. Clinical reasoning is emphasized in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Course Credits: 4
Prerequisite(s): NURS 100, 200, 300 level courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern.
NURS 412
NB: Pass/Fail course
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 413 | Clinical Practice: Adult IIIThis course focuses on experiential learning in the provision of nursing care for adults with complex acute and chronic illnesses who are recovering from surgical procedures. Emphasis is on the delivery of safe, client-centered and evidence-informed health care to adult clients. Clinical reasoning is emphasized in assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care. Course Credits: 4
NB: Pass/Fail course
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 424 | Professional EthicsKey elements of professional nursing practice are explored through reading and discussion and applied in the development of a personal professional practice model. These key elements include theoretical and theological foundations of nursing, application of relevant theory to practice, critical analysis of pertinent nursing issues, ethical thinking and decision making, therapeutic relational aspects of client care, and responsible communication with clients, colleagues, and the public. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): NURS 100, 200, 300 level courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 424 | Professional EthicsKey elements of professional nursing practice are explored through reading and discussion and applied in the development of a personal professional practice model. These key elements include theoretical and theological foundations of nursing, application of relevant theory to practice, critical analysis of pertinent nursing issues, ethical thinking and decision making, therapeutic relational aspects of client care, and responsible communication with clients, colleagues, and the public. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 434 | Leadership in NursingKey concepts and processes of leadership are explored as they apply to nursing and health care. Students have the opportunity to examine and develop leadership skills required in contemporary nursing practice. Exercises promote the development and application of values and philosophies of nursing leaders within a Christian worldview Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): 100, 200, 300 level nursing courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern.
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 434 | Leadership in NursingKey concepts and processes of leadership are explored as they apply to nursing and health care. Students have the opportunity to examine and develop leadership skills required in contemporary nursing practice. Exercises promote the development and application of values and philosophies of nursing leaders within a Christian worldview Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 443 | Clinical Practice: ConsolidationConcepts of nursing care are applied to the provision of acute, rehabilitative, or palliative nursing care and health promotion in acute or community placements. Course Credits: 6
Prerequisite(s): NURS 100, 200, 300 level courses and other non-nursing prerequisites designated on curricular pattern.
NB: Pass/Fail course.
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 443 | Clinical Practice: ConsolidationConcepts of nursing care are applied to the provision of acute, rehabilitative, or palliative nursing care and health promotion in acute or community placements. Course Credits: 6
NB: Pass/Fail course
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 510 | Foundations of Nursing KnowledgeAn exploration of the historical and current trends in nursing theory and philosophy. Students explore the role of models, meta-paradigms, concept analyses and middle range theories in relation to traditional and emerging views of science. Issues and controversies within nursing philosophy are introduced with emphasis on understanding the relevance of these debates for both the health care system and the discipline of nursing. Course Credits: 3
NB: This course is offered in summer.
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 520 | Knowledge SynthesisThis course addresses the principles of knowledge synthesis as the basis for informing nursing theory and practice. Students broaden their understanding of different kinds of evidence while learning the skills of locating, coding, synthesizing, and applying evidence from research studies. Students learn to draw on Christian values and principles to critically reflect on the implications of evidence-based knowledge for theory and practice. Course Credits: 3
NB: This course is offered in summer.
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 530 | Nursing Inquiry IAn entry-level course in understanding the philosophical foundations of nursing inquiry and evidence with a focus on qualitative methods. Students explore the inquiry process in the context of the following methods: phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, critical inquiry, narrative analysis, historical and philosophic inquiry. The processes of data collection, analysis, and interpretation are examined. Attention is given to Christian values and principles in relation to research ethics and the applicability of research findings to the various contexts of nursing practice. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 540 | Nursing Inquiry IIThis course addresses principles of nursing inquiry and evidence with a focus on quantitative design and statistical literacy. Students will broaden their understanding of quantitative research methods and enhance their ability to analyze quantitative data and interpret statistical results for answering research questions of relevance to nursing theory and practice. Course Credits: 4
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 550 | Health Care PolicyA broad overview of the policy process and its application to health care. Reflecting on Canadian priorities, concerns, and obligations, health care issues are analyzed with a specific focus on policy, politics and influence. The roles of nursing and nurse leaders in health policy development, implementation, and advocacy for the health and social needs of the public are critically evaluated. A required on-site residency at the Laurentian Leadership Centre in Ottawa exposes students to the key people and process of health care policy at federal and international levels. International policy, through WHO and other agencies, is examined for its relationship to federal policy and for global perspectives on health and nursing. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 607 | Nursing TopicsThis graduate course critically examines issues related to nursing knowledge and advanced professional practice. Topics may vary, depending on student interest and professor availability. Sample topics include: Spirituality & the Helping Professions, and Planetary & Global Health. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 611 | Perspectives on Nursing EducationAn overview to the history, theory, research, ethics, and issues shaping nursing leadership in Canada and international health communities. Utilizing thoughtful Christian perspectives, students critically explore the history of leadership in health care, and the sociopolitical context in which it operates, and the attributes of morally good leaders, analyze current and future issues affecting health care leadership, and apply the role of nursing leadership to that context. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 612 | Learning/Teaching in Nurse EducationA practical focus on the competencies required to facilitate learning in nursing education. Students explore pedagogical concepts and techniques in classroom and clinical contexts including constructing syllabi, lesson plans, clinical learning experiences and evaluative measures, with attention to Christian perspectives. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 621 | Perspectives on Nursing LeadershipAn overview to the theory, research, and issues shaping nursing leadership in Canada and international health communities. Students will explore the history of leadership in health care, and the sociopolitical context in which it operates; analyze current and future issues affecting health care leadership, and apply the role of nursing leadership to that context. Nurses who bring disciplinary nursing knowledge about health promotion, patient responses to illness, interpersonal and inter-professional communication, population health, and the social contexts of health and illness together with emerging knowledge regarding health care organizations and leadership theory are in a unique position to provide highly effective leadership to today's changing, complex healthcare environments. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 622 | The Skills of Nursing LeadershipA practical focus on the competencies required for nursing leadership. Students have the opportunity to develop leadership skills necessary for today’s complex healthcare environments, which take into account Christian values and principles. Building on their existing practice expertise, students explore ways to innovatively incorporate emerging research, theory and practice concepts into a particular field of healthcare leadership practice, including (but not limited to) health care administration and operational management. Emphasis is placed on concepts such as values clarification, engagement and relationship building, patient advocacy, inter-professional communication and team building, quality improvement, and the ethics of leadership. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 631 | Perspective on Advanced PracticeIn this course, students develop capabilities to work in advanced practice roles, particularly as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) in an array of practice settings. Students explore advanced practice including both direct client care and indirect activities to meet the complex health needs of Canadians and contribute to a sustainable, efficient, and effective health system. Throughout the course, advanced decision-making, system-level thinking, and care coordination of highly complex, vulnerable and/or unpredictable clients/populations are examined in consideration of the intra/inter-professional team, socio-political contexts of care, Indigenous perspective, and larger health system. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 632 | ANP II: Themes in Care (Gerontology)An advanced practice course with a specialty focus on older adult nursing care across the spectrum of health and illness. Students develop expertise about role of nurses in the contexts of primary care, home care, parish nursing, long-term care, and palliative-hospice care. Utilizing faith-based perspectives, fundamental concepts pertaining to primary health care, chronic disease management, and the supportive needs of older adults and their families are emphasized. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 633 | Health Care Ethics & Decision MakingThis course provides students with a solid framework for addressing ethical issues and ethical decision making. Through a contextualized approach that draws on a variety of ethical theories, learners in this course critically analyze a range of issues facing leaders in healthcare settings, including micro or individual level decisions (e.g., treatment withdrawal) to meso or organizational level questions (e.g., resource allocation pertaining to organ donation or restructuring decisions), to macro or social level issues (e.g., public health policy that focuses on prevention rather than treatment, or the challenge of conflicting worldviews in a pluralistic society). Exploration of moral leadership and the processes of ethical decision-making includes Christian principles, personal values, and professional obligations. Resources such as the profession's code of ethics and moral policy-making statements are utilized in addition to ethical theories. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 690 | MSN Thesis lThe thesis provides an opportunity for the student to conduct independent nursing research in an area of interest. The process of research—from identification of problem for investigation, research design, data collection and analysis, to written report of findings—is the focus. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 691 | Thesis IIThe thesis provides an opportunity for the student to conduct independent nursing research in an area of interest. The process of research—from identification of problem for investigation, research design, data collection and analysis, to written report of findings—is the focus. Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 692 | Knowledge Translation Project IA synthesis of research, theory, and practice within the student's stream, substantive area of focus, and particular practice setting. Students work alongside a mentor in practice (e.g., education, administration, or advanced practice with the older adult) to design, implement, and evaluate a knowledge translation project that will be of service to the healthcare community (either practice or education). Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 693 | Knowledge Translation Project IIA synthesis of research, theory, and practice within the student's' stream, substantive area of focus, and particular practice setting. Students work alongside a mentor in practice (e.g. education, administration, or advanced practice with the older adult) to design, implement and evaluate a knowledge translation project that will be of service to the healthcare community (either practice or education). Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 700 | Doctoral SeminarsThis seminar guides students in exploring topics related to nursing education leadership, development of advanced professional competencies, and their dissertation research. The online seminar will include presentations of ongoing and proposed research by students and faculty, the creation of a professional dossier, and preparation for the comprehensive exam. As students develop their dissertation proposal, they may use the doctoral seminar to test their emerging ideas and obtain feedback from peers and faculty. Students participate in this online seminar until they successfully complete their comprehensive exams (Years 1 and 2). Course Credits: 3
NB: Over 6 semesters.
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 700 | Doctoral SeminarsThis seminar guides students in exploring topics related to nursing education leadership, development of advanced professional competencies, and their dissertation research. The online seminar will include presentations of ongoing and proposed research by students and faculty, the creation of a professional dossier, and preparation for the comprehensive exam. As students develop their dissertation proposal, they may use the doctoral seminar to test their emerging ideas and obtain feedback from peers and faculty. Students participate in this online seminar until they successfully complete their comprehensive exams (Years 1 and 2). Course Credits: 3
NB: Over 6 semesters
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 710 | Advanced Nursing PhilosophyIn this hybrid course, doctoral students will learn how various philosophic traditions inform nursing knowledge development, practice, and education. Nursing science, the disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledges that form the foundation of nursing, is examined. Emphasis is on the process of philosophic inquiry and the ability to analyze systematically and logically the contemporary issues facing health services, the nursing profession, and nursing education. Philosophic foundations are laid from which students develop as scholars in their contribution to the nursing profession Course Credits: 3
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 710 | Advanced Nursing PhilosophyIn this hybrid course, doctoral students will learn how various philosophic traditions inform nursing knowledge development, practice, and education. Nursing science, the disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledges that form the foundation of nursing, is examined. Emphasis is on the process of philosophic inquiry and the ability to analyze systematically and logically the contemporary issues facing health services, the nursing profession, and nursing education. Philosophic foundations are laid from which students develop as scholars in their contribution to the nursing profession Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 720 | Advanced Research MethodologyDoctoral students will learn how to conceptualize nursing research methodology, with an emphasis on the foundations of nursing inquiry, the assumptions and claims underpinning the research enterprise, the philosophy of evidence, and justifications of how research questions and approaches articulate with socially and clinically relevant problems requiring investigation. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Graduate level courses in qualitative methods and quantitative methods.
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 720 | Advanced Research MethodologyDoctoral students will learn how to conceptualize nursing research methodology, with an emphasis on the foundations of nursing inquiry, the assumptions and claims underpinning the research enterprise, the philosophy of evidence, and justifications of how research questions and approaches articulate with socially and clinically relevant problems requiring investigation. Course Credits: 3
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| 2024-2025 | NURS 730 | Advanced Research DesignBased on research methodologies, this course provides the critical foundations of advanced research approaches to formulate procedures for inquiry (research designs) and detailed research methods of data collection, analysis, and interpretation (research methods). The implications of research decisions will be differentiated. Students obtain the in-depth knowledge and skills required to independently conduct research with an emphasis on the new and emerging approaches of nursing research. Critical examination of theories employed in the nursing discipline, research questions, designs, the positionality of the researcher, rigour, and ethics will be discussed. Course Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Graduate level courses in qualitative methods and quantitative methods.
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| 2025-2026 | NURS 730 | Advanced Research DesignBased on research methodologies, this course provides the critical foundations of advanced research approaches to formulate procedures for inquiry (research designs) and detailed research methods of data collection, analysis, and interpretation (research methods). The implications of research decisions will be differentiated. Students obtain the in-depth knowledge and skills required to independently conduct research with an emphasis on the new and emerging approaches of nursing research. Critical examination of theories employed in the nursing discipline, research questions, designs, the positionality of the researcher, rigour, and ethics will be discussed. Course Credits: 3
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