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MUS 351 - History of Western Music, 1750-present
Unit(s): 3
History of music in the Western tradition, dating from 1750 to the present. The course includes the study of representative composers such as C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Joplin, Stravinsky, Crawford, Gubaidulina, Reich, and Cage, as well as analytical studies of their works. This course requires a working knowledge of musical notation and theory. The course is restricted to music majors and minors; non-majors may enroll with the consent of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 251 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 353 - Indian Singing Ensemble
Unit(s): 1-2
Experience the joy of Indian singing as we explore the philosophical and spiritual concept of Nada Brahma (the universe is sound, music being eternal bliss). No requirements; bring your throat.
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 359 - Audio and Recording Production II
Unit(s): 1
Continuation of MUS 159. Fundamentals of audio and recording production in a studio and of live performances. Discussion and demonstrations of major types of software and/or hardware used in the production of music including creative and innovative methods. Students will develop skills in all phases of studio and live performance operation and will complete a number of individual projects.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 377 - Brass Ensemble
Unit(s): 1
This ensemble is a vibrant group of interested trumpet, horn, baritone, trombone, and tuba players who perform a wide array of pieces from Gabrieli antiphonal music to Jazz works as well as music in the Philip Nones brass repertory. The group meets weekly and plays concerts on and off campus.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 378 - Percussion Ensemble
Unit(s): 1
An outgrowth of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, the Percussion Ensemble performs a mixture of historically relevant repertoire as well as pieces of the modern repertory. The ensemble affords its members the chance to cultivate sensitive chamber music skills and to explore performance techniques on all the various percussion instruments.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 379 - Latin Jazz Band
Unit(s): 1-2
Rehearsal and performance of literature from the Latin diaspora, focusing on the music of the Caribbean and South America.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 389 - Jazz Improvisation III
Unit(s): 3
A continuation of MUS 289. Advanced chord-scale and chord substitution techniques for improvising on functional chord progressions.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 289
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 390 - Jazz Orchestra
Unit(s): 1-2
An 18-20 piece Big Band that performs the best literature from the traditional Swing Era to the present day.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 391 - Concert Jazz Ensemble
Unit(s): 1-2
Rehearsal and performance of literature in traditional and contemporary jazz idioms. Repertory includes original arrangements especially designed for the ensemble by music faculty and students.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 392 - Jazz Piano II
Unit(s): 1
Continuation of MUS 292.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 292 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Spring Only
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 399 - Student-Instructed Course
Unit(s): 1-3
Topic differs each semester.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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MUS 400 - Music for the Classroom
Unit(s): 2
Philosophy, concepts, and materials for music teaching in the classroom. The structure, nature, and function of music in children’s lives.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 105 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Mandatory 15 hours of observation outside of class.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 401 - Conducting Technique
Unit(s): 2
An introduction to the basics of conducting with an emphasis on conducting patterns, baton technique, and the development of effective rehearsal procedures common to instrumental and vocal ensembles.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 110, MUS 120 and at least two of the following: MUS 115/MUS 415, MUS 122/MUS 422, MUS 123/MUS 423, MUS 124/MUS 424 , and MUS 129/MUS 429
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 402 - Choral Conducting
Unit(s): 3
Advanced choral conducting techniques. Students will further develop expressive conducting skills necessary for leading and rehearsing choral ensembles.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 401 and consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 403 - Instrumental Conducting and Methods
Unit(s): 3
Advanced instrumental conducting techniques. Students will further develop expressive conducting skills necessary for leading and rehearsing instrumental ensembles.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 401 and consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 404 - Choral Methods and Repertoire
Unit(s): 2
An exploration of teaching methods, materials and repertoire necessary for teaching choral music in the public schools. This course has a mandatory requirement of 15 hours of observation outside of class of choral ensembles in the public schools.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 401, MUS 402 and consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 405 - Instrumental Methods and Repertoire
Unit(s): 2
An exploration of teaching methods, materials and repertoire necessary for teaching band and orchestra in the public schools. This course has a mandatory requirement of 15 hours of observation outside of class of choral ensembles in the public schools.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 401, MUS 403 and consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 410 - Theory IV: 20th-Century Techniques
Unit(s): 3
A study of melodic, rhythmic, harmonic, and formal organization of 20th-century music.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 210, MUS 220, MUS 150, and MUS 250 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 412 - Jazz Composition
Unit(s): 3
Study of form and techniques for jazz composition. Students will compose 5 tunes.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 312 or MUS 389
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 415 - Vocal Methods
Unit(s): 1
Group and individual explorations of the fundamental techniques of singing. Develop strategies to address tone production, breath control, diction, repertory, and interpretation. Music Education students learn basic vocal pedagogy.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 418 - Guitar Methods
Unit(s): 1
An exploration of basic performance techniques, and pedagogy and teaching strategies for guitar.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 420 - Musicianship IV
Continuation of Musicianship lll. Begins with Mozart, and proceeds through Beethoven, Wagner, and Debussy into music of the 20th century. Emphasizes accurately singing and hearing music of increasing chromatic complexity using an intervallic approach to augment tonal hearing. Listening and analysis activities focus upon selections of great works from Mozart to Stravinsky.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 320 or equivalent.
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 422 - Strings Methods II (Cello/Bass
Unit(s): 1
An exploration of basic performance techniques, instrumental pedagogy and teaching strategies associated with teaching cello and bass in the public schools.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 106 or the equivalent and/or consent of the Instructor and Director of Music Education.
Typically Offered Spring Odd Years
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 423 - Woodwinds Methods II (Flute/Double Reeds
Unit(s): 1
An exploration of basic performance techniques, instrumental pedagogy and teaching strategies associated with teaching flute, oboe and bassoon in the public schools.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 106 or the equivalent and/or consent of the Instructor and Director of Music Education.
Typically Offered Spring Even Years
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 424 - Brass Methods II (Horn/Tuba
Unit(s): 1
An exploration of basic performance techniques, instrumental pedagogy and teaching strategies associated with teaching horn and tuba in the public schools.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 106 or the equivalent and/or consent of the Instructor and Director of Music Education.
Typically Offered Fall Odd Years
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: OPT
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MUS 425 - Composers Forum
Unit(s): 1
Individual projects in creative work. Individual projects in jazz performance.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 426 - Jazz Forum
Unit(s): 1
Required for Jazz Performance majors every semester. Students interact with guest artists and clinicians from around the world.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 429 - Percussion Methods
Unit(s): 1
An exploration of basic performance techniques, and pedagogy and teaching strategies associated with standard percussion instruments.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Spring Odd Years
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 433 - Private Instruction-Strings
Unit(s): 1
Private instruction for advanced students.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 133 and audition.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 434 - Private Instruction-Woodwinds
Unit(s): 1
Private instruction for advanced students.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 134 and audition.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 437 - Private Instruction-Brass
Unit(s): 1
Private instruction for advanced students.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 137 and audition.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 438 - Private Instruction-Percussion
Unit(s): 1
Private instruction for advanced students.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 138 and audition.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 439 - Private Instruction-Keyboard
Unit(s): 1
Private instruction for advanced students.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 139 and audition.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 440 - Vocal/Instrumental Proficiency Jury
Unit(s): 1
A performance illustrating proficiency as well as knowledge of the technique and tone production in voice, on guitar, and on string, woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments. For students in the Music Education concentration or the California Music Subject Matter Competency Program.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 415, MUS 418, MUS 422, MUS 423, MUS 424, and MUS 429
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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MUS 441 - Private Instruction-Voice
Unit(s): 1
Advanced individual study of voice.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 141 and audition.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 443 - Private Instruction-Guitar
Unit(s): 1
Private instruction for advanced students.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 143 and audition.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 445 - Private Instruction-Composition
Unit(s): 1-2
Private instruction in composition for advanced students.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 425 or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 446 - Private Instruction-Conducting
Unit(s): 1-2
Private instruction in conducting for advanced students.
Prerequisite(s): audition.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 447 - Applied Music Studies
Unit(s): 1
Advanced individual study of instrument or voice. Instructor permission required.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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MUS 448 - Choral and Vocal Accompanying
Unit(s): 1-2
An exploration of piano techniques necessary for accompanying a variety of vocal ensembles. Emphasis will be placed on the development of communication skills between performers and on sight-reading proficiency.
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 451 - Repertory Class
Unit(s): 1
This class provides an opportunity for students to perform their repertory in a group setting. Private instruction faculty coach students in technique, interpretation, and presentation. Classes are normally offered for voice and classical instrumental.
Prerequisite(s): concurrent enrollment in the appropriate private instruction course.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 460 - Teaching Assistant in Music
Unit(s): 1-4
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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MUS 480 - Special Topics
Unit(s): 1-4
Topic will vary from semester to semester. Consult Schedule of Classes for current offering.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 481 - Special Topics Workshop
Unit(s): 1-3
Activity will vary from semester to semester. Consult Schedule of Classes for current offering.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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MUS 489 - Jazz Improvisation IV
Unit(s): 3
Continuation of MUS 389. Advanced rhythmic concepts and techniques for improvising on contemporary modal and free-form compositions.
Prerequisite(s): MUS 389
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 490 - Senior Project
Unit(s): 1-3
A course in which the work of the Music major reaches culmination. Group or individual projects in research, analysis, theory, or performance that bring together all the skills and proficiencies developed by the student. For the Music Education Concentration the project is a summative portfolio.
Prerequisite(s): completion of all music major requirements or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 491 - Senior Recital
Unit(s): 1-3
The preparation and presentation of a senior recital is the culminating activity for Music majors in the Performance Concentration.
Prerequisite(s): completion of all performance concentration requirements or consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 495 - Special Studies
Unit(s): 1-4
Individualized studies in topics beyond the scope of the regular curriculum. Contract with an instructor, specifying work to be completed. A regular schedule of contract hours is necessary.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit up to 8 units.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 499 - Internship
Unit(s): 1-4
Work experience in organizations and projects related to music.
Prerequisite(s): appropriate preparation for successful completion of internships and consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 500 - Introduction to Graduate Study
Unit(s): 3
A course in the methods and materials for research in music. Proficiency in an imaginative use of the resources for accessing musical data will be developed through projects in bibliography. Required of first-semester graduate students.
Typically Offered Not Recently Offered
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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MUS 595 - Special Studies
Unit(s): 1-4
Individualized studies in topics beyond the scope of the regular curriculum. Contract with an instructor, specifying work to be completed. A regular schedule of contact hours is necessary.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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NAMS 125 - Native American Communications
Unit(s): 3
This course is designed to help students develop the verbal and non-verbal skills needed to deliver effective and compelling oral presentations, as well as active listening skills that will enhance their ability to listen appropriately to another’s oral communication. Through an exploration of Native American oral histories, testimonies, autoethnographies, other forms of narrative, and the relationships between rhetoric and meaning, the course will focus on the ways in which Native American traditional memorization and storytelling techniques can be adapted to academic and civic speaking situations. Students will improve their skills in speaking, writing, and listening and will gain insight into the ways in which the sharing of personal and community narratives has helped Native communities cope with the legacies of colonial genocide and other intergenerational traumas.
GE Category: A1 - Oral Communication
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NAMS 165 - Native Cultures of Northern California
Unit(s): 4
An introduction to the local and regional diversity of American Indian communities. Through the local and regional lenses, students will gain an understanding of the broader perspectives on Native American history, experience, and contemporary issues. This is a large lecture format with discussion sub-sections.
GE Category: Satisfies GE Area C2 and the Ethnic Studies requirement.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NAMS 200 - Introduction to Native Americans
Unit(s): 3
A survey of the various geographical environments of tribes living in North America. The emphasis is upon precontact cultures, but includes cultural and historical changes to tribes during the settling of this country by Europeans.
GE Category: Satisfies GE Area D1 (Individual and Society) and the Ethnic Studies requirement.
Typically Offered Fall Alternate Years
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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NAMS 205 - Introduction to Native American Arts
Unit(s): 4
NAMS 205 is a general introduction to traditional and contemporary American Indian arts in the U.S. The course is a survey of Native American art in major indigenous cultural regions from pre-Colonial times to the present. Includes information on the culture that produced the art forms and will explore the interplay between tradition and innovation.
GE Category: Satisfies GE Area C1 and the Ethnic Studies requirement.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NAMS 240 - Trauma and healing in the Anthropocene: Race, Species and Environment
Unit(s): 3
This course examines the resilience, vulnerability, and activism of communities of color amidst anthropogenic environmental change. How do various communities and cultures respond to trauma; how do they heal? Taking an intersectional approach to examining trauma and healing in communities of color—this interdisciplinary course traverses the fields of trauma studies, critical race studies, ethnic studies, environmental studies, and animal studies. We will learn about trauma in the wake of (un)natural disasters, as well as issues of intergenerational trauma—and explore efforts to heal through both traditional research, and experiential learning.
Crosslisted: AMCS 240
GE Category: E - Life Long learning & Self Development
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face & Hybrid Grading: Graded
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NAMS 273 - American Diversity
Unit(s): 4
This course explores and analyzes European and American historical events from a Native American perspective. Three Native culture areas will be used as examples: the Great Plains, the Southwest, and Northern California. Special emphasis will be placed on the events that shaped the lives of American Indians in these areas. Native philosophical perspectives and values will be illuminated in contrast to Euro- American philosophy and values.
Prerequisite(s): completion of GE Category A2 (ENGL 101 or ENGL 100B) required.
GE Category: C2 - Humanities
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NAMS 338 - Native Americans and The Cinema
Unit(s): 4
This course examines and critiques the depiction of American Indians in American cinema, including Hollywood movies, independent films, and documentaries. These works are analyzed through an exploration of the social construction of stereotypes, film theory, and historical and cultural contexts. Films by American Indians and non-Indians will be examined and analyzed.
GE Category: Satisfies GE Area C1 and the Ethnic Studies requirement.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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NAMS 346 - Philosophic Systems and Sacred Movements in Native North America
Unit(s): 4
NAMS 346 is designed to give students an overview of a broad range of topics arising in the study of diverse Native American philosophical systems and sacred movements, pre-contact to the present. Regional and historical approaches are utilized in the analysis of American Indian religious movements and philosophic systems; archeoastronomy, art forms, ceremonies, and a variety of literary genres are investigated as expressions of religious belief and activity.
GE Category: Satisfies GE Area C2 and the Ethnic Studies Requirement.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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NAMS 354 - Native American Literatures
Unit(s): 4
A general introduction to American Indian literatures that includes early translations, oral literatures, autobiographies, and contemporary poetry and fiction. The course also focuses on the American Indian writers’ connection to a “home landscape.” The study of the scope and nature of various representations of American Indians in literary texts are explored.
GE Category: Satisfies GE Area C2 and the Ethnic Studies requirement.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NAMS 495 - Special Studies
Unit(s): 1-4
Prerequisite(s): an upper-division core course; approval of supervising faculty member, and approval of program coordinator.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit up to 8 units.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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NURS 290 - Introduction to Nutrition
Unit(s): 3
This course is designed to bridge the gap between nutrition science and consumer education so that students can apply the information to fit their lifestyles and health goals. Course objectives include understanding food requirements for different individuals, nutritive values of food, and the impact of food on health.
Crosslisted: KIN 290
GE Category: Area E: Lifelong Learning
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Online Grading: Graded
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NURS 301 - Nursing Care of the Adult Client I
Unit(s): 9
Seminar: 5 hours Practicum: 4 hours
This course is an introduction to nursing therapeutics underlying the basic skills and concepts in the practice of professional nursing. The focus is on concepts related to physical, emotional, spiritual, social and cultural needs and mechanisms for maximizing health. Basic pharmacology is included. Emphasis is placed on the application of the nursing process in maintaining health for adults.
Prerequisite(s): Nursing majors only.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 302 - Nursing Care of Adult Client II
Unit(s): 6
Seminar: 4 hours Practicum: 2 hours
This course continues the application of nursing therapeutics underlying the basic skills and concepts in the practice of professional nursing. The focus is on concepts related to physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and cultural needs and mechanisms for maximizing health. Basic pharmacology is included. Emphasis is placed on the application of the nursing process in maintaining health and older adult populations.
Prerequisite(s): Nursing majors only. NURS 301 and 305.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 304 - Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
Unit(s): 6
Seminar: 4 hours Practicum: 2 hours
Students are introduced to the principles of mental health and illness. Nursing care therapeutics with populations experiencing mental health, stresses, and psychiatric illnesses are examined and applied.
Prerequisite(s): Nursing majors only.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 305 - Maternity & Women’s Health Care
Unit(s): 6
Principles and concepts of health and illness in childbearing and childrearing families are covered with an emphasis on preventive and therapeutic aspects for the pregnant and postpartum client. Use of community resources is introduced. Clinical experiences apply the caring process to childbearing and childrearing families with a focus on the principles and concepts of health promotion and maintenance to families in various phases of the health and illness continuum.
Prerequisite(s): Nursing majors only. NURS 301 and NURS 304.
Typically Offered Fall Only
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 310 - Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice
Unit(s): 3
Seminar: 3 hours
Examines the nature of inquiry, basic research concepts, research terminology and vocabulary and processes. Approaches to research and ways of knowing in nursing and related sciences are explored. Qualitative and quantitative research methods are compared. Students critically appraise and interpret studies in order to enhance their understanding of the research process.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to Post-Licensure Program and completion of NURS 312 and NURS 313 or Admission to Pre-Licensure Program and completion of NURS 301, NURS 305. Both require completion of GE Golden Four (A1, A2, A3, B4) with a C- or better and completion of B1, B2 and at least 45 units Co-requisite(s): Post-Licensure Program: NURS412 and NURS412P
Pre-Licensure Program: NURS302 and NURS304
GE Category: Upper Division B
Breadth Area: Holistic Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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NURS 312 - Baccalaureate Nursing Perspectives I
Unit(s): 4
This course provides the foundation for critically examining the current healthcare system, evidenced-based nursing practice, safety and quality standards in healthcare delivery and interdisciplinary communication and collaboration.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the nursing major.
Typically Offered Summer Only
Teaching Mode: Hybrid Grading: Graded
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NURS 313 - Baccalaureate Nursing Perspectives II
Unit(s): 4
This course expands knowledge about the role of the professional nurse in society by exploring leadership and advocacy as integral components of professional nursing. It examines goals of current health care system reform including nursing’s expanded professional role in promoting health and mitigating health care disparities and inequities.
Prerequisite(s): Course restricted to Nursing majors only.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Hybrid Grading: Graded
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NURS 370 - Health Promotion for Racially Diverse Populations
Unit(s): 3
An understanding of how health promotion activities can foster health equity in racial minorities in the US with an introduction to health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction strategies and measuring effective interventions. Learners will explore unique and effective health promotion approaches for individuals and populations from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds.
Co-requisite(s): Course restricted to NURS, NURS with RN and Pre-NURS majors.
GE Category: Course meets GE Area D1 (Individual & Society).
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Online Grading: Graded
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NURS 407 - Nursing Care of the Adult Client III
Unit(s): 6
This course continues the application of nursing therapeutics underlying the basic skills and concepts in the practice of professional nursing. The focus is on concepts related to physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and cultural needs and mechanisms for maximizing health. Advanced pharmacology is included. Emphasis is placed on the application of the nursing process in maintaining health for complex adults and older adult population.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 301, NURS 302, NURS 304, NURS 305 & NURS 310 and Nursing majors only.
Typically Offered Fall only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 409 - Nursing Care of the Child in the Family
Unit(s): 6
This course continues the application of nursing therapeutics, skills, and concepts in the practice of professional nursing specific to the care of the child. The focus is on concepts related to physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and cultural needs and mechanisms for maximizing health. Basic pharmacology is included. Emphasis is placed on the application of the nursing process in maintaining health for children and families.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 301, NURS 302, NURS 304, NURS 305 and Nursing majors only.
Typically Offered Fall only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 410 - Nursing Power, Policy, and Politics
Unit(s): 5
This course examines the role of nursing in influencing health care from an economic, legal/ethical, political, interdisciplinary, and multicultural framework. Topics for discussion are based on current issues and trends in nursing practice, leadership, and the socio-political landscape.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of NURS 310 and Nursing majors only.
Typically Offered Spring only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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NURS 412 - Community/Public Health Nursing Theory
Unit(s): 3
This course explores populations focused nursing the context of health promotion and protection for individuals, families, and communities. Determinants of health such as epidemiology, environmental health, and public health science will be addressed along with a focus on social cultural factors which impact health of communities.
Prerequisite(s): Nursing majors only. Completion of GE Golden Four (A1, A2, A3, B4) with a C- or better and completion of lower division C coursework and at least 45 units. Co-requisite(s): Senior year, depending on BSN track
GE Category: Upper Division D
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Online Grading: Graded
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NURS 412P - Community/Public Health Nursing Practicum
Unit(s): 2
This clinical course explores populations focused nursing the context of health promotion and protection for individuals, families, and communities. The practicum will involve enhancing the health promotion efforts of individuals, communities, and families. Nursing majors only.
Prerequisite(s): Course restricted to Nursing Majors only.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 414 - Clinical Nursing Preceptorship
Unit(s): 5
Clinical application of theories and concepts from nursing and related sciences is applied in the nursing care of selected populations. Evidence-based knowledge and pertinent theoretical frameworks are utilized to respond to complex and specific health care needs of these populations. Integration and synthesis of concepts, personal development, and leadership/management abilities are expanded through professional nursing practice.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of NURS 310 and Nursing majors only.
Typically Offered Spring only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 416 - Application of Baccalaureate Perspectives
Unit(s): 3
Application of theories and concepts from nursing and related sciences is applied in the nursing care of selected populations for the post-licensure B.S.N. student. Evidence-based knowledge and pertinent theoretical frameworks are utilized to respond to complex and specific health care needs of self-selected populations. Integration and synthesis of concepts, personal development, and leadership/ management abilities are expanded through professional nursing practice.
Prerequisite(s): completion of all 300 level nursing courses, R.N. licensure, and Nursing majors only.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 480 - Health, Sexuality and Society
Unit(s): 3
Seminar: 3 hours
This course is designed so that students can examine sexuality and sexual behavior in relation to their culture, sexual identity, and belief systems. The range of human sexual practices and expressions will be explored, including sexual practices and lifestyles from a social science perspective. The diversity of sexual practices in other cultures will be examined in comparison to the American culture.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of GE Golden Four (A1, A2, A3, B4) with a C- or better and completion of lower division D coursework and at least 45 units.
GE Category: Upper Division D
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated No
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face, Hybrid & Online Grading: Graded
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NURS 490 - The Sexual Imperative: History, Media, Culture, and Imagination
Unit(s): 3
Seminar: 3 hours
This on-line course examines historical, cultural, philosophical and artistic influences on relationships, gender expressions and sexuality among various lifestyles within the United States and the world. Specific perspectives within these foci include historical events and philosophies as they have influenced cultural mores, artistic expression and literature shaping human sexual health, values, beliefs and behaviors. If you feel sexual material could be offensive to you then you should not take this course.
GE Category: Upper Division C
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated Yes Maximum units for credit
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Teaching Mode: Online Grading: Student Option
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NURS 495 - Special Studies
Unit(s): 1-4
Individual or group study, under guidance of an advisor, of special issues in nursing.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the nursing major and/or consent of instructor and department chair. Specific guidelines available from the Nursing department.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit up to 8 units.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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NURS 497 - Nursing Externship
Unit(s): 2-6
Clinical laboratory, 6 to 18 hours. Work study course offered in cooperation with selected clinical agencies. Students apply previously learned nursing theory and clinical skills in assigned patient care setting under the supervision of selected Registered Nurse preceptors. The course is offered for 2-6 units.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 385 and permission of instructor.
Typically Offered Variable Intermittently
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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NURS 498 - Teaching Assistant Practicum
Unit(s): 1-4
Supervised unpaid instructional work experience in Nursing. May include tutoring, assisting with classroom activities, and leading clinical skills laboratory activities. Intended for professional growth for undergraduates.
Prerequisite(s): consent of instructor whose course the student will be working, and an approved petition to enroll.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for up to 4 units.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 501 - Health Promotion: Righting Disparities
Unit(s): 4
Online course. Advanced concepts to assess and promote the behaviors that enhance the health of clients across the lifespan, taking into account the multiple dimensions of and the attendant risks unique to the dimension of Person. Principles and theories of the behavioral sciences, epidemiology, family health, psychology, sociology, genomics, and ethical decision-making are investigated.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the F.N.P. Program. Co-requisite(s): NURS 509.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Online Grading: Graded
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NURS 509 - Advanced Health Assessment
Unit(s): 4
This hybrid course reviews and expands upon concepts and skills of human assessment basic to advanced practice clinical decision-making and the caring process. Lab Fee.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the F.N.P. Program. Co-requisite(s): NURS 501
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Hybrid Grading: Graded
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NURS 540A - Pathophysiological Concepts in Primary Care I
Unit(s): 3
Hybrid course. Develops a foundation for the diagnosis and management of common acute and chronic illnesses in advanced primary care nursing practice. Research and theory from various disciplines are used to evaluate unique interaction patterns of person and environment as a basis for selecting strategies to promote health and minimize the effects of illness. Emphasizes interdisciplinary aspects of primary health care through partnerships with patients as a basis for collaboration, consultation, and referral.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 501, NURS 509, NURS 549 Co-requisite(s): NURS 552, NURS 550A
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 540B - Pathophysiologic Concepts in Primary Care II
Unit(s): 3
Hybrid course. Continue to develop a pathophysiological conceptual foundation for the diagnosis and management of common acute and chronic illnesses in advanced primary care nursing practice. Research and theory from various disciplines are used to evaluate unique interaction patterns of the person and environment as a basis for selecting strategies to promote health and minimize the effects of illness. Emphasized interdisciplinary aspects of primary health care through partnerships with patients as a basis for collaboration, consultation and referral.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 501, NURS 509, NURS 549, NURS 552, NURS 540A, NURS 550A Co-requisite(s): NURS 550B
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 549 - Health Promotion Practice in Primary Care
Unit(s): 3
This clinical course correlates with and supports the student in applying the theoretical concepts in NURS 501. The course provides the student with a comprehensive understanding of health promotion and disease prevention in clients across the life span. The course provides the students with the skills to evaluate the health status of a client, taking into account the unique dimensions of a person including culture, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, educational status, and religious and spiritual status when developing a health promotion plan.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the F.N.P. Program. Co-requisite(s): NURS 501, NURS 509.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 550A - Clinical Practice in Primary Care I
Unit(s): 4
Beginning clinical practice in primary care settings is implemented. Specialized knowledge and skills are utilized to assess physical, emotional, social, cultural and spiritual needs of patients. Concepts from various disciplines are integrated to provide a framework for developing and applying strategies for health promotion and illness management. Begin to develop advanced nursing role identity as FNP.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 549, NURS 501, NURS 509 Co-requisite(s): NURS 540A, NURS 552 Laboratory fee payable at time of registration.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 550B - Clinical Practice in Primary Care II
Unit(s): 4
Continued implementation of clinical practice in primary care settings. Further develops and expands FNP clinical judgment and practice skills in family primary care. Research findings and theory-based knowledge are applied to formulating diagnosis and management plans. Personal and professional parameters of the nurse practitioner role are examined.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 501, NURS 509, NURS 549, NURS 550A, NURS 540A, NURS 552. NURS 540B, NURS 560 can be a prerequisite or corequisite. Co-requisite(s): NURS 540B, NURS 560
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 550C - Clinical Practice in Primary Care III
Unit(s): 4
Expanded clinical practice in primary and extended care settings. Facilitates the integration of nursing and other theories and research in providing health care to individuals, families, and groups. Conceptual perspectives are applied as a foundation for complex decision-making in advanced nursing practice. Professional identity is expanded to integrate the multiple aspects of the nurse practitioner role.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 501, NURS 509, NURS 540A, NURS 540B, NURS 549, NURS 550A, NURS 550B, NURS 552, NURS 560 Co-requisite(s): NURS 562, NURS 564, NURS 566
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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NURS 552 - Pharmacology in Primary Care
Unit(s): 3
This online course develops a foundation for safe and effective management of client’s pharmacological needs in the care of common acute and chronic illnesses. Research findings and theory-based knowledge are applied in assessing the needs of the individual client for medications and patient education. Parameters of legal practice, including the prescribing of schedule II drugs, and community standards of care are addressed. Meets state educational requirement for NP furnishing license.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 509, NURS 549, NURS 501 or permission of instructor. Co-requisite(s): NURS 540A, NURS 550A or permission of instructor required.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Online Grading: Graded
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NURS 555 - FNP Expanded Clinical Practice
Unit(s): 2-4
To enhance and expand clinical decision-making skills via extended clinical practice in preceptorship for Family Nurse Practitioner students. To synthesize and concisely report clinical findings via written or dictated chart notes and verbal presentation to preceptor.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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NURS 560 - Research and Theory Applied to Primary Care
Unit(s): 4
Online course. Linkages between theory, research, and advanced practice are developed to provide the student with the necessary skills to critically analyze and apply research in primary care.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Online Grading: Graded
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NURS 562 - Advanced Practice in Primary Care Systems
Unit(s): 4
Online course. Nurse Practitioner practice issues are examined with a focus on quality assurance, safe delivery, and ethical patient care within the legal parameters of Nurse Practitioner practice from a local, state, and national perspective. Organization and management theory are analyzed in relation to primary care and Nurse Practitioner role and practice.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 501, NURS 509, NURS 540A, NURS 540B, NURS 549, NURS 550A, NURS 550B, NURS 552, NURS 560
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
Teaching Mode: Online Grading: Graded
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NURS 564 - Health Policy and Advocacy in Primary Care
Unit(s): 4
Online course. Course reviews the principal way health care and specifically primary care is organized and financed, and identifies current issues in health care organizations and financing.
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Online Grading: Graded
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NURS 566 - Culminating Experience
Unit(s): 2
The Culminating Experience will be the capstone course for the FNP student. The Culminating Experience is in the form of a Clinical Simulated Exam (CSE) and will be based on a standardized client. There are three parts to the Experience that will simulate a clinical encounter with a client: the student must demonstrate the ability to 1) gather subjective and objective data from a client, 2) develop and present a logical assessment and plan for a client, and 3) in a scholarly manner apply theoretical principles to client care.
Prerequisite(s): NURS 501, NURS 509, NURS 540A, NURS 540B, NURS 549, NURS 550A, NURS 550B, NURS 552, NURS 560 Co-requisite(s): NURS 550C, NURS 562, NURS 564
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Credit/No-Credit
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NURS 595 - Special Studies
Unit(s): 1-4
Individually arranged course for one or more students who wish to pursue academic interests beyond the scope of the regular curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): acceptance into the master’s program in Nursing, and consent of instructor and department chair.
Typically Offered Fall & Spring
May Be Repeated May be repeated for credit.
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Student Option
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OD 513 - Facilitation and Training
Unit(s): 3-4
Theories of adult development, learning styles, and experience-based training. In-class practice in assessing needs, defining objectives, designing and planning training experiences, presentation methods and skills, and evaluating outcomes. Students apply emerging methods for managing meetings and facilitating groups for effective planning, problem-solving, and communication. Limited to students in the Organization Development Program.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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OD 514 - Organization and Team Development
Unit(s): 3-4
Contributions of systems theory and organization development practice for guiding constructive change and self-renewal in groups, organizations, and communities. Students integrate theory and practice of process-oriented leadership and consultation, in the context of a supervised field experience with an actual organization.
Prerequisite(s): OD 513
Typically Offered Spring Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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OD 518A - Advanced Intervention Methods in Organization Development
Unit(s): 2
Intensive workshops and short seminars on advanced topics and methods for guiding change such as: open systems planning, future search conference, dialogue, open space, participative redesign, conflict resolution, and strategic planning. Two semesters. Limited to students in the Organization Development program.
Typically Offered Fall Only
Teaching Mode: Face-to-Face Grading: Graded
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