Nursing - Honours Bachelor of Science

Courses

• First Year - Semester One
• ANAT1008 Anatomy & Physiology 1
• This course introduces the student to the study of human anatomy and physiology and is the first of two courses exploring the structure and function of the human body. An integrated and systemic approach will be taken to provide the student with the background concepts to understand pathophysiology. An engaging classroom experience will address the following topics: basic anatomical concepts and terminology; fundamentals of histology; Fluid-Electrolyte and Acid-Base balance; Electrophysiology; and the Anatomy and Physiology of the Skeletal, Muscular, Nervous, and Endocrine Systems.
• COMM1082 Critical Reasoning & Academic Writing
• Students develop their academic reading, writing, and critical thinking skills by discussing, researching, and writing related to a variety of nursing and health topics. They develop library literacy and searching proficiency to locate information in the professional databases which are foundational academic skills. In analyzing and comparing texts and writing in a variety of academic styles, students develop scholarly academic writing and critical reading skills that support their future academic work and prepare them to communicate effectively in professional settings.
• NURS1010 Nursing & Wellness
• This course will explore social, physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects of health, wellness and illness within the framework of Primary Health Care.
  Co-requisite: NURS 1008, NURS 1009, NURS 1011
• NURS1011 Nursing & Wellness Lab
• Students explore the concepts of wellness, health and illness within the framework of primary health care and within various clinical settings.
  Co-requisite: NURS 1010
• NURS1008 Nursing as a Profession
• This course is an introduction to the foundations of nursing as a profession, it includes the history of nursing, nursing education and the Canadian health care system. Standards of nursing practice, the nursing process, principles of Primary Health Care (PHC), determinants of health and the role of nursing are discussed.
  Co-requisite: NURS 1009, NURS 1010
• NURS1009 Professional Relationships
• Introduction to the theoretical foundation of professional relationships in nursing with a focus on self-awareness, communication, caring and beginning counseling skills.
  Co-requisite: NURS 1008, NURS 1010

• First Year - Semester Two
• ANAT1009 Anatomy & Physiology 2
• This course introduces the student to the study of human anatomy and physiology and is the second of two courses exploring the structure and function of the human body. An integrated and systemic approach will be taken to provide the student with the background concepts to understand pathophysiology. A combination of lecture, laboratory, and tutorial learning will cover the anatomy and physiology of the Circulatory, Respiratory, Digestive, Urinary, and Reproductive Systems.
  Prerequisite: ANAT 1008
• NURS1013 Clinical Practicum: Nursing & Wellness
• Within various clinical settings, this course explores the concepts of wellness, health, and illness within the framework of Primary Health Care.
  Prerequisite: NURS 1010
• NURS1012 Health Assessment 1

• Prerequisite: ANAT 1008

• NURS1014 Helping Relationships
• This course explores the helping relationship within the context of nursing practice. Students will develop more advanced counseling skills. The use of labs and/or tutorials may vary with the teaching sites.
• PSYC1017 Lifespan Development
• This course is designed to introduce students to theory, methodology and research findings in the field of life-span developmental psychology. Organized topically, it will examine developmental changes from conception to death by focusing on biological, cognitive and socioemotional processes. Students will learn about the development of intelligence, language, self, identity, personality, gender, and morality across the human lifespan. Moreover, they will examine the social contexts of development including family relations, peer groups, and friendship. The course will end with an examination of death and grieving.

• First Year - Semester Two (Elective Group 1 )
• NCBE1001 Extinction: Biodiversity & Human Action
• If current trends persist, one half of all species on earth will be extinct in less than 100 years. The results of such a loss would be devastating for humans. Biodiversity is essential to support the ecosystem services that we depend on for our wellbeing, such as food, fresh water, clean air, raw materials for construction, fuel, medicine, and the pollination of crops. Understanding the links between human wellbeing and biodiversity is essential knowledge for the 21st century. In this class students will learn the benefits of and threats to biodiversity and evaluate some of the possible solutions to the current extinction crisis. Students will critically examine the role of hunting and fire suppression and identify best practices in the design of protected areas and strategies for the conservation of endangered species.

• NCBE1002 Gender and Sexuality in World History
• Historically, women and men have been expected to behave in gender appropriate ways. Yet, what is considered appropriately feminine or masculine is not fixed; instead, these ideals are socially constructed and depend on time and place and are influenced by other categories of identity like status or class, and race and ethnicity. In this course, we will examine the construction of gender ideals and consider the impact of these ideals on aspects of life ranging from the most private (sex, sexual identity, sexual regulation, family formation) to the most public (work, citizenship and political power, war, conquest). Covering the classical period to the modern period and including societies in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe, this course will take a comparative approach and will analyze the impact of cultural contact on gender ideals. Whether accepted, adapted or rejected, gender expectations have affected every aspect of men’s and women’s lives in world history.
• NCBE1003 Introduction to Political Science
• The world of politics can be difficult to understand without some theoretical training. Yet it is vital for citizens of a democracy to understand how politics works. For all its complexity and frequent inelegance, politics is what allows humans to manage their differences, share their resources, protect their rights, and change their governments. In this course, political science methodologies, approaches and theories will be introduced, allowing students to learn how the state, the structures of government and the political process impact their daily lives. Students will deepen their understanding of politics and political ideologies and learn how they are relevant to securing or advancing their material interests.

• NCBE1004 Selected Themes in Canadian History
• This course introduces students to selected issues in Canadian history. Using the methodology of social history, learners will analyze a variety of contemporary issues from a historical perspective. Topics include Canadian government and the constitution, Aboriginal peoples, industrialization and urbanization, religious life, culture, and women in Canada.
• NCBE1005 Social Media & Professional Identity
• Every day, millions of people share their opinions with a global audience via Tweets, #s, blogs, wikis, videos, likes, tags, text messages and online comments. Digital spaces and mobile technologies allow us to be connected to our personal and professional networks and communities 24/7. In what ways does this hyper-connectivity impact the ways in which people regard their place in the world and define themselves? In this course we will analyze the social, ethical, political and cultural ramifications of societies that are increasingly mobile and digital. The impact of new genres and forms of expression on our identities will be explored as we actively participate in online networks and create materials for social media.
• NCBE1006 Visual Culture Over Time
• How do we see? How does the history of the image make us see in a particular way? Images have played a central role in every culture of which we have record and, further, images have deeply informed the human quest for knowledge, from the arts and medicine to philosophy and technology. By looking at such different images as photographs, medical drawings, tattoos, totem poles, paintings and graffiti, the course will examine how our ways of seeing have been largely created by a given society and a historical period. Seeing, then, is not individual. We are collectively taught to see in specific ways. By recognizing this it will become possible not only to better analyze all forms of images, but also to change our ways of seeing. Rather than merely looking at visual representations for their informational or aesthetic significance, the course will explore how many human beings and entire cultures shape their understanding of themselves through images.
• Notes
• Select 1 courses from above

• Second Year - Semester Three
• NURS3007 Chronic Health Challenges
• This course focuses on the impact/influences of long-term health challenges on clients. It will examine rehabilitative and supportive nursing practices within the framework of Ontario’s Chronic Care Model.
  Prerequisite: NURS 1014
  Co-requisite: NURS 3009
• NURS3009 Clinical Practicum: Mental, Chronic, Rehab Health Challenges
• This integrative practice experience will develop abilities to assess, intervene, evaluate, and support clients and their families experiencing chronic and mental health challenges.
  Co-requisite: NURS 3007, NURS 3008
• NURS2009 Clinical Practicum: Young Families Health
• In institution and community settings, students will develop and implement strategies to explore, develop, and support positive health behaviours of young families, individuals living with mental health challenges, or chronic health issues.
  Prerequisite: NURS 1013
  Co-requisite: NURS 2008, PHAR 2005
• NURS2006 Health Assessment 2

• Prerequisite: ANAT 1009, NURS 1012
  Co-requisite: PHAR 2005

• NURS3008 Mental Health Challenges
• This course explores the experiences of persons living with mental illness and examines related nursing therapeutics.
  Prerequisite: NURS 1014
  Co-requisite: NURS 3009
• NURS2007 Pathophysiology 1
• This course introduces the student to the study of pathophysiology. An integrated and systemic approach will be taken to provide the student with the background concepts to understand pathophysiology. Basic pathophysiological concepts and terminology, as well as pathophysiology of the skeletal, muscular, nervous and endocrine systems will be covered. It is expected that the student will bring to this course a competent background in human anatomy and physiology.
  Prerequisite: ANAT 1009
• PHAR2005 Pharmacotherapeutics
• This course covers the theory and principles of pharmacology as they apply to nursing and provides students with the requisite knowledge to administer medications, provide patient education, and assess potential for adverse events related to drug and lifestyle issues. Theory will include basic legal and safety issues related to drug administration by nurses.
  Prerequisite: ANAT 1009
  Co-requisite: NURS 2006
• NURS2008 Young Families Health
• Using Primary Health Care principles, and a health promotion/health protection perspective, students will examine the determinants of health which influence childbearing families. Using a theoretical lens, learners will explore assessments, interventions, and support of families during childbearing and childrearing years.
  Co-requisite: NURS 2009

• Second Year - Semester Four
• NURS3007 Chronic Health Challenges
• This course focuses on the impact/influences of long-term health challenges on clients. It will examine rehabilitative and supportive nursing practices within the framework of Ontario’s Chronic Care Model.
  Prerequisite: NURS 1014
  Co-requisite: NURS 3009
• NURS3009 Clinical Practicum: Mental, Chronic, Rehab Health Challenges
• This integrative practice experience will develop abilities to assess, intervene, evaluate, and support clients and their families experiencing chronic and mental health challenges.
  Co-requisite: NURS 3007, NURS 3008
• NURS2009 Clinical Practicum: Young Families Health
• In institution and community settings, students will develop and implement strategies to explore, develop, and support positive health behaviours of young families, individuals living with mental health challenges, or chronic health issues.
  Prerequisite: NURS 1013
  Co-requisite: NURS 2008
• NURS2012 Concentrated Clinical Practice 1
• This integrative practice experience will further enhance development of abilities to assess, intervene and evaluate nursing practice while supporting clients and their families experiencing childbearing, or those living with chronic health or mental health challenges.
• NURS3008 Mental Health Challenges
• This course explores the experiences of persons living with mental illness and examines related nursing therapeutics.
  Prerequisite: NURS 1014
  Co-requisite: NURS 3009
• NURS2010 Pathophysiology 2
• This course is an extension of Pathophysiology 1. An integrated and systemic approach will be taken to provide the student with the background concepts to understand pathophysiology. In this course the focus will be on the pathophysiology of the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems. It is expected that the student will bring to this course a competent background in human anatomy and physiology.
  Prerequisite: NURS 2007
• NURS2011 Research in Evidence Informed Nursing Practice
• This course allows students to explore the interaction between theory, research, and evidence-informed practice. Students develop an understanding of common research methods and the information literacy skills necessary to search, read, critically examine, and use scholarly nursing, health, and social science research. As novice research consumers, students learn to pose a researchable practice question, critically appraise research studies, and judiciously incorporate relevant findings into their evidence-informed practice with patients, families, communities, and populations.
• NURS2008 Young Families Health
• Using Primary Health Care principles, and a health promotion/health protection perspective, students will examine the determinants of health which influence childbearing families. Using a theoretical lens, learners will explore assessments, interventions, and support of families during childbearing and childrearing years.
  Co-requisite: NURS 2009

• Third Year - Semester Five
• NURS2013 Acute Health Challenges
• This course examines the client’s experience of acute health challenges across the lifespan, while focusing on nursing care, therapeutics and nursing processes within a Primary Health Care framework.
  Prerequisite: NURS 1024, NUTR 1005, NURS 1021
  Co-requisite: NURS 2014
• NURS3002 Canadian Health Care System
• The Canadian health care system is an important underpinning as to who we are as Canadians. This course is designed to build on students’ current understanding of the Canadian health care system. Students explore the different levels of government and understand how each one impacts our health care delivery system. They discuss social determinant of health as it relates to access to care. Students demonstrate knowledge of the health care system and its impact on client care and professional practice. And they also assess the significant challenges to the health care system as it relates to the current funding model.
  Prerequisite: NURS 2012
• NURS2014 Clinical Practicum: Acute Health Challenges
• This course prepares students to practice safe, comprehensive care in collaboration with children or adults in acute care environments under direct clinical supervision.
  Prerequisite: NURS 1023, NURS 3005
  Co-requisite: NURS 2013
• NURS3005 Clinical Practicum: Community & Population Health Nursing
• This course will provide students the opportunity to work in community settings with diverse populations. Students focus on the role of the nurse in the community and public health nursing utilizing a population health framework. Students apply the principles of community assessment, development, and program planning with an emphasis on the social, political, and economic determinants of health to develop a population-focused health project.
  Prerequisite: NURS 2012
  Co-requisite: NURS 3003
• NURS3003 Community & Population Health Nursing
• This course focuses on the role of the nurse in the community and public health nursing, using the population health framework. It addresses principles of community assessment and development, program planning, and other strategies that are supported through a population health perspective, with particular emphasis on populations, and social, political and economic determinants of health.
  Prerequisite: NURS 2012
  Co-requisite: NURS 3005
• NUTR3000 Nutritional Sciences
• This nutrition course will provide nursing students with fundamental knowledge related to food and nutrition. Factors influencing eating behaviours and the identification of nutritional problems are explored. The focus includes individual and public health interventions that can be implemented to prevent and manage non-communicable diseases, basic principles of clinical nutrition interventions for at-risk individuals related to malnutrition and nutrition support, and nutritional needs at critical stages of the life cycle.
  Prerequisite: PSYC 1017, NURS 2010, PHAR 2005
• NURS3004 Theoretical Foundations of Nursing
• This course explores the theoretical foundations of nursing practice and research. An overview of grand, middle-range, and practice-specific theories will be presented and situated within worldviews, paradigms, and the development of specialized nursing knowledge. The study of the nursing metaparadigm will be examined through the definition of concepts of person, health and environment, selection of nursing and non-nursing theories will be examined as a foundation for practice and research. Cultural perspectives of nursing theory will be included.
  Prerequisite: NURS 2012

• Third Year - Semester Six
• NURS2013 Acute Health Challenges
• This course examines the client’s experience of acute health challenges across the lifespan, while focusing on nursing care, therapeutics and nursing processes within a Primary Health Care framework.
  Prerequisite: NURS 1024, NUTR 1005, NURS 1021
  Co-requisite: NURS 2014
• NURS2014 Clinical Practicum: Acute Health Challenges
• This course prepares students to practice safe, comprehensive care in collaboration with children or adults in acute care environments under direct clinical supervision.
  Co-requisite: NURS 2013
• NURS3005 Clinical Practicum: Community & Population Health Nursing
• This course will provide students the opportunity to work in community settings with diverse populations. Students focus on the role of the nurse in the community and public health nursing utilizing a population health framework. Students apply the principles of community assessment, development, and program planning with an emphasis on the social, political, and economic determinants of health to develop a population-focused health project.
  Prerequisite: NURS 2012
  Co-requisite: NURS 3003
• NURS3003 Community & Population Health Nursing
• This course focuses on the role of the nurse in the community and public health nursing, using the population health framework. It addresses principles of community assessment and development, program planning, and other strategies that are supported through a population health perspective, with particular emphasis on populations, and social, political and economic determinants of health.
  Prerequisite: NURS 2012
  Co-requisite: NURS 3005
• NURS3006 Qualitative & Quantitative Data Analysis
• This course examines the client’s experience of acute health challenges across the lifespan, while focusing on nursing care, therapeutics and nursing processes within a primary health care framework.
  Prerequisite: NURS 2011

• Third Year - Semester Six (Elective Group 1 )
• NCBE3001 Criminology
• The interdisciplinary study of social science examining the individual and social aspects of crime is known as criminology. Students work through an introduction to the social science perspective on crime. Presentations, discussions, and assignments allow students to investigate the various theoretical positions related to crime and criminal behaviour. Working forward from the types and definitions of crime, students trace some of the links between government policy and the impacts of these policies on both society and the individual.
• NCBE1001 Extinction: Biodiversity & HA
• If current trends persist, one half of all species on earth will be extinct in less than 100 years. The results of such a loss would be devastating for humans. Biodiversity is essential to support the ecosystem services that we depend on for our wellbeing, such as food, fresh water, clean air, raw materials for construction, fuel, medicine, and the pollination of crops. Understanding the links between human wellbeing and biodiversity is essential knowledge for the 21st century. In this class students will learn the benefits of and threats to biodiversity and evaluate some of the possible solutions to the current extinction crisis. Students will critically examine the role of hunting and fire suppression and identify best practices in the design of protected areas and strategies for the conservation of endangered species.
• NCBE3002 Gaming & Gender
• This degree elective breadth course combines the study of digital games and psychological, sociological, cultural, aesthetic and literary influences characteristic in online gaming. Students explore parallels between modern societal values related to gender and those occurring in the gaming world. Through experiential learning opportunities involving gameplay, students examine a variety of elements and how they converge or diverge from socio-cultural norms.
• NCBE1002 Gender & Sexuality in World
• Historically, women and men have been expected to behave in gender appropriate ways. Yet, what is considered appropriately feminine or masculine is not fixed; instead, these ideals are socially constructed and depend on time and place and are influenced by other categories of identity like status or class, and race and ethnicity. In this course, we will examine the construction of gender ideals and consider the impact of these ideals on aspects of life ranging from the most private (sex, sexual identity, sexual regulation, family formation) to the most public (work, citizenship and political power, war, conquest). Covering the classical period to the modern period and including societies in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe, this course will take a comparative approach and will analyze the impact of cultural contact on gender ideals. Whether accepted, adapted or rejected, gender expectations have affected every aspect of men’s and women’s lives in world history.
• NCBE3003 Global Citizenship
• Informed citizens in today's world appreciate the meaning of civic life at the local, national and global level. Students reflect on and develop a personal awareness of the meaning of freedoms, rights and obligations in a diverse global community and consider the political, social and economic drivers that influence patterns of human behaviour and the health of the planet. Based on general principles of global citizenship, students look beyond national borders to assess personal responsibilities related to the health and well-being of the planet and inhabitants. Students critically evaluate information related to environmental and social health, equipped with attitudes and behaviours that foster global environmental and social responsibility.
• NCBE3004 Global Perspectives
• Sociology, through its exploration of the organization of society and the connections between people and their surroundings, provides new ways of looking at the world. Using fundamental knowledge in the field of sociology, students analyze globalization and its impact on Canadian society. Students take opposing views to debate the opportunities and challenges that come with globalization.
• NCBE1003 Intro to Political Science
• The world of politics can be difficult to understand without some theoretical training. Yet it is vital for citizens of a democracy to understand how politics works. For all its complexity and frequent inelegance, politics is what allows humans to manage their differences, share their resources, protect their rights, and change their governments. In this course, political science methodologies, approaches and theories will be introduced, allowing students to learn how the state, the structures of government and the political process impact their daily lives. Students will deepen their understanding of politics and political ideologies and learn how they are relevant to securing or advancing their material interests.
• NCBE3005 Introduction to World Drama
• The course provides an introduction for students to a variety of dramatic works from around the world. This course will present art and history of theatre as it has evolved from pre-historic times to our post-modernist world. We will examine the literature of theatre structure, form, genre and style and how a play text is transformed into theatre.
• NCBE3006 New Worlds & Alt Realities
• Speculative fiction gathers together all those works of fiction in which new worlds or alternative realities are envisioned. Within this category of prose, students have the opportunity to explore the various sub-genres that present readers with new ways of thinking about some of the issues that face society. Students also develop skills in critical analysis using a variety of approaches and methodologies from literary studies.
• NCBE1004 Selected Themes in Canadian
• This course introduces students to selected issues in Canadian history. Using the methodology of social history, learners will analyze a variety of contemporary issues from a historical perspective. Topics include Canadian government and the constitution, Aboriginal peoples, industrialization and urbanization, religious life, culture, and women in Canada.
• NCBE1005 Social Media & Prof Identity
• Every day, millions of people share their opinions with a global audience via Tweets, #s, blogs, wikis, videos, likes, tags, text messages and online comments. Digital spaces and mobile technologies allow us to be connected to our personal and professional networks and communities 24/7. In what ways does this hyper-connectivity impact the ways in which people regard their place in the world and define themselves? In this course we will analyze the social, ethical, political and cultural ramifications of societies that are increasingly mobile and digital. The impact of new genres and forms of expression on our identities will be explored as we actively participate in online networks and create materials for social media.
• NCBE3007 Survival: Information Age
• On an almost daily basis, the media, through its various outlets – television, radio, websites, RSS and podcasts – reports on issues that address our well-being. Through discussions, readings and assignments, students enhance their ability to interpret and question information presented by the media by better understanding the inherent risks. Issues like alternative medicine (e.g. vaccinations) and socio-legal issues (e.g. bullying, hacking, surveillance, privacy) provide grounds for students to use principles from the social science as a means to think critically about real and perceived risks in daily life.
• NCBE1006 Visual Culture Over Time
• How do we see? How does the history of the image make us see in a particular way? Images have played a central role in every culture of which we have record and, further, images have deeply informed the human quest for knowledge, from the arts and medicine to philosophy and technology. By looking at such different images as photographs, medical drawings, tattoos, totem poles, paintings and graffiti, the course will examine how our ways of seeing have been largely created by a given society and a historical period. Seeing, then, is not individual. We are collectively taught to see in specific ways. By recognizing this it will become possible not only to better analyze all forms of images, but also to change our ways of seeing. Rather than merely looking at visual representations for their informational or aesthetic significance, the course will explore how many human beings and entire cultures shape their understanding of themselves through images.
• Notes
• Select 1 courses from above

• Fourth Year - Semester Seven
• NURS4002 Clinical Practicum: Nursing Families in Complex Situations
• This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to care for families who have at least one member experiencing an acute or chronic illness. Students will be expected to care for families in multiple settings, including their home and hospital. Students will integrate and apply the theory examined in Families within Populations and Nursing in Complex Situations in this practice setting.
  Prerequisite: NURS 2014
  Co-requisite: NURS 4000, NURS 4001
• NURS4000 Families within Populations
• This course explores the experiences of families living with complex health challenges from a population health perspective. Students focus on nursing therapeutics with further development of independent clinical judgement and decision making appropriate to Primary Health Care.
  Prerequisite: NURS 2013, NURS 2014
  Co-requisite: NURS 4001, NURS 4002
• NURS4001 Nursing in Complex Situations
• This course explores the client's experience of complex health challenges. It examines related nursing therapeutics with an emphasis placed on clinical judgment and decision-making.
  Prerequisite: NURS 2013, NURS 2014
  Co-requisite: NURS 4000, NURS 4002

• Fourth Year - Semester Seven (Elective Group 1 )
• NCBE3001 Criminology
• The interdisciplinary study of social science examining the individual and social aspects of crime is known as criminology. Students work through an introduction to the social science perspective on crime. Presentations, discussions, and assignments allow students to investigate the various theoretical positions related to crime and criminal behaviour. Working forward from the types and definitions of crime, students trace some of the links between government policy and the impacts of these policies on both society and the individual.
• NCBE3002 Gaming & Gender
• This degree elective breadth course combines the study of digital games and psychological, sociological, cultural, aesthetic and literary influences characteristic in online gaming. Students explore parallels between modern societal values related to gender and those occurring in the gaming world. Through experiential learning opportunities involving gameplay, students examine a variety of elements and how they converge or diverge from socio-cultural norms.

  Informed citizens in today's world appreciate the meaning of civic life at the local, national and global level. Students reflect on and develop a personal awareness of the meaning of freedoms, rights and obligations in a diverse global community and consider the political, social and economic drivers that influence patterns of human behaviour and the health of the planet. Based on general principles of global citizenship, students look beyond national borders to assess personal responsibilities related to the health and well-being of the planet and inhabitants.

  Students critically evaluate information related to environmental and social health, equipped with attitudes and behaviours that foster global environmental and social responsibility.

• NCBE3003 Global Citizenship
• Informed citizens in today's world appreciate the meaning of civic life at the local, national and global level. Students reflect on and develop a personal awareness of the meaning of freedoms, rights and obligations in a diverse global community and consider the political, social and economic drivers that influence patterns of human behaviour and the health of the planet. Based on general principles of global citizenship, students look beyond national borders to assess personal responsibilities related to the health and well-being of the planet and inhabitants. Students critically evaluate information related to environmental and social health, equipped with attitudes and behaviours that foster global environmental and social responsibility.
• NCBE3004 Global Perspectives
• Sociology, through its exploration of the organization of society and the connections between people and their surroundings, provides new ways of looking at the world. Using fundamental knowledge in the field of sociology, students analyze globalization and its impact on Canadian society. Students take opposing views to debate the opportunities and challenges that come with globalization.
• NCBE3005 Introduction to World Drama
• The course provides an introduction for students to a variety of dramatic works from around the world. This course will present art and history of theatre as it has evolved from pre-historic times to our post-modernist world. We will examine the literature of theatre-structure, form, genre and style and how a play text is transformed into theatre.
• NCBE3006 New Worlds & Alt Realities
• Speculative fiction gathers together all those works of fiction in which new worlds or alternative realities are envisioned. Within this category of prose, students have the opportunity to explore the various sub-genres that present readers with new ways of thinking about some of the issues that face society. Students also develop skills in critical analysis using a variety of approaches and methodologies from literary studies.
• NCBE3007 Survival: Information Age
• On an almost daily basis, the media, through its various outlets – television, radio, websites, RSS and podcasts – reports on issues that address our well-being. Through discussions, readings and assignments, students enhance their ability to interpret and question information presented by the media by better understanding the inherent risks. Issues like alternative medicine (e.g. vaccinations) and socio-legal issues (e.g. bullying, hacking, surveillance, privacy) provide grounds for students to use principles from the social science as a means to think critically about real and perceived risks in daily life.
• Notes
• Select 1 courses from above

• Fourth Year - Semester Eight
• NURS4004 Integrated Practicum
• This course provides the student with the opportunity to work and learn in a health care setting based on student interests, individual learning needs, lifelong goals and program progression policy. This integrated practicum experience uses the preceptor model and may occur in a variety of settings. Using a preceptor model the student has the opportunity to develop leadership and independence in their nursing practice and to achieve the competency level expected of nurses entering the profession.
  Prerequisite: NURS 1018, NURS 4002
  Co-requisite: NURS 4003
• NURS4003 Leadership Capstone Project
• In this capstone course, students explore leadership roles of nurses in facilitating quality improvements in a variety of health care settings. Students examine trends, leadership strategies, and structures to promote and maintain high quality health care delivery and services. Students demonstrate their ability to create a focused, evidence-based analysis that applies empirical evidence to solving a particular opportunity, problem, gap, identified need, or challenge that is relevant to the practice environment of their Integrated Practicum. Students will choose a clinical challenge related to information and communication technology, quality improvement, cultural safety, and/or social justice in their practicum setting. The student will disseminate their synthesized knowledge of key issues using both written and visual outputs. This course will be delivered on-line.
  Prerequisite: NURS 4001, NURS 4000, NURS 4002
  Co-requisite: NURS 3010

*Courses subject to change.