This course focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed by professional nurses to provide evidence-based primary and secondary prevention to healthy individuals, families, and communities. Nursing process and clinical reasoning concepts will be introduced to optimize physical and behavioral health outcomes across the life span. Nursing skills are practiced in the simulated learning environment and in various health care and community settings.Prerequisites: 01:119:127-128 or 21:120:241-242; 01:119:131-132 or 21:120:235; 01:160:128 or 21:160:108, 110; 705: 229, 255; required course in descriptive/inferential statistics. Corequisites: 705:395, 325, 306, 330.
Open to 2nd Degree L1 Students Only.
This course introduces students to the rich heritage of nursing and the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed by professional nurses to be effective members of the healthcare team. Emphasis is placed on the development of therapeutic and written communication skills necessary to advocate in the nurse/client relationship and with members of the health care team. This course also introduces students to the concept of evidence-based practice and its relevance to their practice as professional nurses. It is designed to facilitate an understanding of the meaning and significance of evidence-based nursing practice and an appreciation of how theory and research shape that practice and enhance the quality of care provided.Prerequisites: 01:119:127-128 or 21:120:241-242; 01:119:131-132 or 21:120:235; 01:160:128 or 21:160:108, 110; 705: 229, 255; required course in descriptive/inferential statistics. Corequisites: 705:395, 335, 306, 330.
Open to 2nd Degree L1 Students Only.
The capstone provides students with an opportunity to integrate learning from various courses with applied analysis of real-world issues. Students work individually under the guidance of a faculty member to develop a research design, carry out data collection and analysis, evaluate their findings, and provide conclusions and recommendations. The capstone seminar serves as a culminating experience in the M.P.A. program. The course allows students to draw on material presented throughout the curriculum to develop and conduct an applied research project on a topic salient to public or nonprofit administration. This seminar will prepare students to use the skills they have developed throughout the program to analyze and solve key public management and policy problems. Students will complete practical analytic papers suitable for publication or public consumption as their key graded assignment. These papers demonstrate each student's abilities and their collective body of skills and knowledge acquired throughout the M.P.A. curriculum. The capstone project challenges students to clearly articulate a research question, identify best practices in the field through a literature review, and develop and execute a research protocol, in which the student:
At the conclusion of the course, students will have demonstrated effective research skills, excellent oral and written communication skills, and will have displayed the level of knowledge necessary for effectively managing a public or nonprofit organization as a competent leader.
[Prerequisites: 26:834:561 Applied Statistics and 26:834:562 Applied Research Design in order]
Only for executive MPA students.
Builds upon the skills and knowledge successful college graduates learn through their many years as students, including: collaboration, leadership, active citizenship, multicultural understanding, reflective thinking, critical analysis, and the ability to be a change agent in their community. This course provides students with an understanding of public service leadership skills and traits that will be necessary to master in order to be effective public and nonprofit service administrators.Prerequisite: 40:834:200.
Not open to Spanish majors or minors.
A chronological survey of Latin American literature from the period of the Conquest to the 20th century, with emphasis on literary traditions and cultures. Fulfills the Core Curriculum Other Liberal Arts (OLA) requirement.
