Curriculum Structure

Core Courses

Course code	Course title	Sem. hrs
NURS 510	Foundations of Nursing Knowledge	3
NURS 520	Knowledge Synthesis	3
NURS 530	Nursing Inquiry I (Qualitative)	3
NURS 540	Nursing Inquiry II (Quantitative)	4
NURS 550	Health Care Policy (includes a 1-week online or in-person residency in Ottawa, Canada)	3
NURS 633	Health Care Ethics & Decision Making	3
Total core semester hours:		19

Stream	Course Code	Course Title	Course Code	Course Title	Sem. Hrs
Education	NURS 611	Perspectives on Nursing Education	NURS 612	Learning/Teaching in Nursing Education	6
Leadership	NURS 621	Perspectives on Nursing Leadership	NURS 622	The Skills of Nursing Leadership	6
Advanced Nursing Practice	NURS 631	Advanced Nursing Practice is taken as one elective in addition to one of the Leadership Electives			6
Indigenous Nursing	NURS 607	Indigenous Graduate Education in Nursing (IGEN) courses (Transferred from IGEN collaborative)			6
Other	NURS 607	Directed Studies: Spirituality and Health, Planetary and Global Health OR Transfer course through the Western Deans Agreement			3
Total elective semester hours:					6

*Flexibility in choosing an elective stream.

Thesis	Non-Thesis Knowledge Translation (KT) Project Course Based	Sem. HRS
NURS 690 Thesis I	NURS 692 Knowledge Translation I	3
NURS 691 Thesis II	NURS 693 Knowledge Translation II	3
Total capstone semester hours:		6

*Includes a 10-week Thesis Seminar series.

A total of 31 semester hours are required for graduation.
All courses must be completed with a minimum GPA of 3.00.
Students who do not maintain a B average in core courses may be requested to withdraw from the program.
Students must meet all graduation requirements within five years of beginning course work.
Core and Elective courses (except Directed Studies) are offered once per academic year.
Thesis students are required to maintain continuous registration in NURS 695 through completion.