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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 100-, 200-, and 300-level required nursing courses, NUR 420, 424 Corequisite: NUR 444 Focuses on the concepts of caring, power, and empowerment as they relate to the lived health experience of populations and communities. Students discuss the role of the nurse in populationfocused practice with the community as the client of care. Topics include epidemiology, the concepts of community, community health nursing, populations and aggregates, family health, and diversity and ethical decision making in community health nursing. In addition, students analyze and evaluate models for community assessment and program planning, screening methodologies, management strategies, and research findings related to community health nursing. Other topics discussed include health of the home care population, environmental health and safety, school health, hospice care, discharge planning, community health advocacy, and health care of specific sub-populations within the community. Current social issues and health problems affecting the community are identified and discussed.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 100-, 200-, and 300-level required nursing courses, NUR 420, 424, 434 (for NURB students) Corequisite: NUR 440 Clinical nursing practice related to the lived experience of the health of communities. Emphasis on population-focused experiences. Students perform protective, enhancing, and preservative interventions with communities in a variety of settings. Settings may include home care agencies, public health agencies, outpatient clinics, daycare programs, prisons, early intervention programs, homeless shelters, schools, industry, and mental health clinics.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: 100-, 200-, and 300-level required nursing courses, NUR 420 and 424 This culminating experience provides an opportunity to analyze, synthesize, evaluate and integrate knowledge, skills, and perspectives gained during the undergraduate experience/education into the nursing leadership/management role as students transition from college to the workplace. Through classroom discussion/seminars and practice experiences, students synthesize and apply this knowledge base and leadership/management concepts to professional nursing practice. Discussion addresses health policy and strategies to promote quality health care systems based on a caring model of nursing. Students also evaluate their own personal and professional growth and the outcome of their learning activities in enhancing the effectiveness of the nurse leader role as a manager, coordinator of care, change agent and role model in preparation to negotiate a nursing position in the rapidly changing health care environment.
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4.00 Credits
A course that examines the fundamentals of philosophical argument, analysis and reasoning, as applied to a series of issues in logic, epistemology, metaphysics and ethics. Topics covered may include: logical validity, theories of knowledge and belief, the nature of mind, the nature of reality, arguments for the existence of God, and theories of the nature of right and wrong.
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4.00 Credits
A course on the basic principles and techniques of correct reasoning in ordinary life and the sciences. Study of the formal systems of sentence logic and predicate logic. Translation of natural language statements and arguments and analysis and evaluation of deductive arguments through the construction of proofs. Focus particularly on the power and precision of the natural language with the aim of helping students increase their ability to think and write with creativity, precision and rigor.
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4.00 Credits
A course that aims to familiarize students with basic concepts and theories in ethics, and with how they may be applied to a range of contemporary moral issues. Topics addressed may include racism, sexism, abortion, euthanasia, cloning, capital punishment, our obligations to the disadvantaged, the treatment of non-human animals, just war, and the like. Students will be encouraged to learn from great thinkers of the past and of the present, to examine their own moral values and beliefs, and to take reasoned and informed stands on the issues treated.
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4.00 Credits
This is a Topics Course with no prerequisites, open to and appropriate for first-year students.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or permission of instructor A course tracing the development of philosophy in the West from its beginnings in 6th century B.C. Greece through the thought of Plato and Aristotle, especially focusing on questions concerning reality, knowledge, human nature, and the good life. Attention is also given to the influence of the Greek philosophers on the Western tradition to the present day.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in philosophy or permission of instructor A course tracing the development of major philosophical ideas in the West from the beginning of the 17th century to the close of the 18th century. Philosophers whose works are examined typically include some or all of: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Kant. Special emphasis is placed on the development of epistemology and metaphysics during the Enlightenment.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: One course in religion or philosophy or permission of instructor A course critically examining major issues and positions in Indian philosophy of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain traditions. The course will revolve around four main questions: What is Indian philosophy? Who or what am I? What is reality and how can it be known? How should I live? Students will be encouraged to learn from great thinkers of the past and of the present, to examine their own values and beliefs, and to take reasoned and informed stands on the issues treated. (Course is the same REL 210/Indian Philosophy.)
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