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2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

NUR 642 - Curriculum Development in Nursing

Credits 3
Requirements: pre req NUR 500, NUR 511Seminar
Explore philosophical perspectives, curriculum theory, and paradigmatic and contextual factors in nursing education. Contextual factors include consideration of diverse populations served, their needs and their influence on health care. The use of a curriculum framework as means of conceptualizing and organizing the sequencing of knowledge, skills, values and beliefs to achieve program outcomes/competencies is examined. Faculty development synchronous with curriculum development is emphasized as an essential component of curricular change.
Graded