All Courses

Students critically examine local and global contemporary issues in nursing, nursing education, and delivery of health care. Students also critique theories that guide nursing practice, knowledge development approaches in nursing, and health information and communication technologies. Particular emphasis is on transitioning from student to beginning practitioner role and on professional career development that includes values clarification, professional image, professional socialization, nursing licensure and regulation, and inter-professional practice. 

Students critically examine population and public health issues, focusing on select local and global communicable diseases, chronic diseases, injuries, population emergencies and disasters, and millennium development goals.

Understanding how nurses work inter-disciplinarily and inter-sectorally to prevent and address complex and current local and global population health issues is a focus.

Emphasis is also on various roles of the interdisciplinary team to influence determinants of health and systems of change.

In this integrated practice experience, students select a focused area of nursing from a variety of practice, policy, or research settings in order to integrate, refine, and apply competencies in professional and ethical practice., theoretical and critical thinking, leadership and interprofessional collaboration, application of evidence-informed practice, and psychomotor skills.

Efforts are made to place students in practice settings related to their concentrated area of study in nursing.

During this final practice experience, students consolidate nursing knowledge and entry-to-practice competencies. The focus is the transition from the student to baccalaureate graduate registered nurse role through a mentored experience. Students assume responsibility for learning and increasingly complex assignments as they near the end of their baccalaureate education. Application of relevant evidence and best practice guidelines is required.

Includes 440 hours of clinical practice experience.

The off-campus Bachelor of Education cohorts are designed specifically for the elementary stream. Anyone interested in becoming a secondary teacher is welcome to apply to the on-campus program. The off-campus cohorts are hosted in various parts of Nova Scotia, offered over the course of three years, and is considered full-time with classes running weekends (in-person) and some evenings (virtually). Each of the four practicum is a five-week long, full-time commitment. As such, you would need to plan to take breaks from any daytime employment for the duration of each filed experience placement. Placements have an increase in teaching responsibilities, starting from 25% in the first placement and moving to 100%.

(Winter CRN 61518) An analysis of the historical origins of nationalism and of its central concepts and justifications. Both Western and non-Western nationalism (focusing on four or more cases) will be examined in a comparative context. Evidence for the recent decline of the nation state will be explored. Credit will be granted for only one of PSCI 331 or PSCI 330. Three credits.

(Winter CRN 61479/61480) This course examines the state’s supremacy and its capacity to manage such global issues as transnational flows of goods, services, money, and ideas; the phenomenon of failed states in the post-Cold War period; global environmental issues; weapons proliferation; terrorism and other forms of transnational crime; and the rise of transnational social activist groups. Cross-listed as DEVS 355. Three credits.

(Spring CRN /) An introduction to the study of women and politics, this course has three parts: feminist political thought and the women’s movement; political participation and representation; and public policy. Topics include feminist political thought in the Western political tradition; the evolution and politics of the women’s movement; political parties and legislatures; women and work; women and the welfare state. Cross-listed as WMGS 345. Three credits.