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Course Descriptions

 

Music Theory
  

  • MUY 451 - Form and Analysis

    Analysis of the structure of musical compositions of various historical periods, including the study of common forms found in the standard concert repertoire.

    Prerequisites: MUY 212.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 3
  

  • MUY 452 - Orchestration

    Study and practical application of scoring techniques for various instrumental groups, including orchestral and band transcriptions and reductions.

    Prerequisites: MUY 212.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • MUY 461 - Composition I (Small Forms)

    Composition in the Variation Forms, including ostinato, ground motive, passacaglia, chaconne and theme with variations.

    Prerequisites: MUY 212 or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 2

Native American Studies
  

  • NAS 101 - Introduction to Native American Studies

    Introduces the interdisciplinary perspective of Native American Studies. Examines the experience of Native Americans, past and present, focusing on diverse and distinct cultural areas and historical events. Explores Native Americans’ integral part in the development of the Americas and the European impact on traditional Native societies, historically and currently. Lec 3.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 102 - Introduction to Wabanaki Culture, History and Contemporary Issues

    Examines the world view, way of life, history, art, literature and contemporary issues of the Native nations that make up the Wabanaki Confederacy. The culture, philosophy and creation stories of the individual tribes, including the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Micmac tribes are explored. In addition, concepts such as sovereignty, treaty rights and tribal government are discussed. NAS 101 is recommended.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 201 - Topics in Native American Studies

    Provides an interdisciplinary, intermediate level of study of selected topics regarding American Indians in more detail and complexity.

    Prerequisites: NAS 101 or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1-3
  

  • NAS 230 - Maine Indian History in the Twentieth Century

    Too often Native people are relegated to the distant past, leading society to have misunderstandings about indigenous communities today. This course introduces students Wabanaki history of Maine and eastern Canada in the twentieth century. The term “Wabanaki” is an all-inclusive term that refers primarily to Mi’kmaqs, Maliseets, Passamaquoddies, and Penobscots, along with other Abenaki groups. The tribal homeland encompasses present-day northern New England, the Maritime Provinces, and southern Quebec. We will explore the variety of ways Wabanaki experiences deviated from the national narrative on American Indians and examine when Native challenges were in lockstep with western tribes in the twentieth century. This course considers the interplay between cultural traditions and modernity. The regional scope highlights local developments. We will investigate prominent themes of resistance, accommodation, activism, sovereignty, and cultural survival. Wabanaki people were positive actors in their own affairs, not passive pawns subdued by forces beyond their control. This course will provide context to contemporary challenges Wabanaki people confront. As one tribal historian astutely noted, “I can never give up hope, as my ancestors never gave up hope.”

    HTY 222 and NAS 230 are identical courses.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Population and Environment and Cultural Diversity or International Perspectives requirements.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall.

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 270 - Native American Women

    This course is an exploration of the American Indian woman’s lifestyles and social roles from a variety of tribal cultures.  It will focus on the traditional and contemporary values and roles of American Indian women.  This course will explore the history of the lives of American Indian women from a variety of tribes. (WGS 270 and NAS 270 are identical courses.)

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and the Social Context and Institutions requirements.

    Prerequisites: NAS 101 or WGS 101 or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 295 - American Indians and Climate Change

    Introduces students to the Indian cultures of the United States and U.S. territories in the South Pacific, paying particular attention to the issue of climate change and how it is impacting indigenous peoples in these regions; also examines climate effects on natural resource conditions as it relates to Indian cultures and the roles indigenous groups play in policy responses to climate change.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 298 - Directed Study in Native American Studies

    Individual study, research, field experience and writing projects in Native American Studies. May be repeated for credit. Arranged upon request.

    Prerequisites: NAS 101 and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1-6
  

  • NAS 401 - Advanced Topics in Native American Studies

    Provides an advanced level of study of selected topics regarding American Indians in great detail and specificity.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.

    Prerequisites: NAS 101, junior standing and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 451 - Native American Cultures and Identities

    Covers both traditional culture patterns and modern developments and problems.  Includes consideration of traditional culture areas, emphasizing adaptations and cultural dynamics, past and present.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement

    Prerequisites: ANT 102 or NAS 101 permission

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 498 - Directed Study in Native American Studies

    Advanced individual study, research, field experiences and writing projects in Native American Studies. May be repeated for credit. Arranged upon request.

    Prerequisites: NAS 101, one additional course within the Native American Studies minor, junior or senior standing, and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 1-6

Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture
  

  • NFA 117 - Issues and Opportunities

    Consists of weekly small group sessions (usually of 15 or fewer students) conducted by the students’ first-year advisor. Not offered in all programs. Course will include field trips during class hours and may include weekends.

    (Pass/Fail Grade Only.)

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 1
  

  • NFA 118 - NSFA/UMaine Orientation

    Orientation to the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture and the University of Maine.  The course will also cover topics to help students succeed academically and engage with the campus community.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 0

Naval Science
  

  • NAV 100 - Naval Leadership Laboratory

    No description. (Pass/Fail Grade Only.)

    Prerequisites: permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 0
  

  • NAV 101 - Introduction to Naval Science

    Emphasizes organizational structure, warfare components, and assigned roles/missions of the U.S. Navy/USMC. Covers all aspects of Naval Service from its relative position within DoD, to the specific warfare communities/career paths. Also includes basic elements of leadership/Navy Core Values. Designed to give student initial exposure to many elements of Naval culture. Also provides conceptual framework/working vocabulary for student to use on summer cruise. Laboratories are also provided to include alcohol and drug abuse prevention, detection and control, tobacco use cessation/prevention, suicide and HIV/AIDs prevention.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 2
  

  • NAV 102 - Naval Ships Systems I (Engineering)

    Detailed study of ship characteristics and types including ship design, hydrodynamic forces, stability, compartmentation, propulsion, electrical and auxiliary systems, interior communications, ship control and damage control. Included are basic concepts of theory/design of steam, gas turbine, diesel and nuclear propulsion. Case studies on leadership/ethical issues in the engineering area are also covered.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 201 - Naval Ships Systems II (Weapons)

    Outlines theory and employment of weapons systems. Student explores the processes of detection, evaluation, threat analysis, weapon selection, delivery, guidance and explosives. Fire control systems and major weapons types are discussed including capabilities and limitations. The physical aspects of radar and underwater sound are described. Facets of command, control, communications, computers and intelligence are explored as means of weapons system integration. The tactical and strategic significance of command and control warfare and information warfare is discussed. Supplemented with review/analysis of case studies involving the moral and ethical responsibilities of leaders in the employment of weapons. Other major themes in leadership include honor, courage, integrity, loyalty, responsibility, authority, accountability, character development, crisis decision making, and conflict resolution.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 202 - Sea Power and Maritime Affairs

    The history of navies in the modern period (c. 1500 to the present) including use of naval forces in the achievement of national goals, development of naval technology and tactics, effects of naval construction and manning upon society, sociology of navies, comparison of naval policies in various states, the current balance sheet of navies. (Additional work will be required for Navy ROTC students.)

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Social Contexts and Institutions Requirements.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 301 - Navigation and Naval Operations I

    In-depth study of the theory, principles, procedures and application of plotting, piloting and celestial navigation. Students learn piloting techniques, the use of charts, the use of visual and electronic aids, and theory of operation of both magnetic and gyro compasses. Celestial navigation topics include celestial coordinate system, the navigation triangle and an overview of the sight reduction process. Students develop practical skills in plotting and celestial navigation. Other topics include tides, currents, effects of wind/weather, voyage planning and application and understanding of international/inland rules of navigation. Supplemented with review/analysis of case studies involving actual navigation.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 302 - Navigation and Naval Operations II

    Study of relative motion, vector-analysis theory, formation tactics and ship employment. Also included are introductions to naval operations and operations analysis, ship behavior and characteristics in maneuvering, applied aspects of shiphandling, afloat communications, and command and control. Supplemented with a review/analysis of case studies involving moral/ethical/leadership issues pertaining to the concepts listed above.

    Prerequisites: NAV 301 and permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Odd Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 303 - Leadership and Management

    Comprehensive study of organizational behavior and management. Topics include survey of management functions of planning, organizing and controlling; an introduction to individual/group behavior in organizations; and extensive study of motivation/leadership. Major behavior theories explored in detail. Practical applications explored through using experiential exercises, case studies and laboratory discussions. Other topics include decision making, communication, responsibility, authority, accountability and total quality leadership.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 304 - Leadership and Ethics

    Sharpens the understanding of some important issues about morality and develops moral reasoning ability. Integrates an intellectual exploration of Western moral traditions and ethical philosophy with topics and issues confronting newly commissioned officers as military leaders. Provides a foundation in major moral traditions including Utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, Constitutional Law, Natural Law theory, and virtue ethics. Students will discuss the ethics of war through discussions of the Just War Theory (Jus Ad Bellum ) and the Conduct of War (Jus in Bello ). Readings will be from various fields, including leadership, ethics, philosophy, theology, and law and will be enhanced through case studies, video segments, and current issues in the news.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.

    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. It is recommended that students have junior or senior standing, however they need not be in the NROTC program.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 310 - Evolution of Warfare

    Traces development of warfare from dawn of recorded history to the present, focusing on the impact of major military theorists, strategists, tacticians and technological developments. Students acquire a basic sense of strategy, develop an understanding of military alternatives, and see the impact of historical precedence on military thought and actions.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspective Requirements.

    Prerequisites: permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 411 - Fundamentals of Maneuver Warfare

    Fundamentals of Maneuver Warfare:  [Replaces NAV 410: Amphibious Warfare] Broad aspects of warfare and their interactions with maneuver warfare doctrine.  Focus on the United States Marine Corps as the premier maneuver warfare fighting institution.  Historical influences on current tactical, operational, and strategic implications of maneuver warfare practices.  Case studies.  Enrollment preference to NROTC students.

    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3

New Media
  

  • ISE 104 - Design Basics for New Media

    Introduction to principles and theories of visual design, in traditional and electronic media; processes, methods and technologies relative to the creative production of two-dimensional visual imagery; use of the computer as a creative tool for the development of expressive and professional images. Focus on the creative process in visual design. Studio 3.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring.

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 100 - Introduction to New Media

    NMD 100 explores the concepts that define new media, what new media are, how they are produced, who produces them, and why they challenge how we think, act, create, and relate to other people. We will explore the impact and disruptive effect emerging technologies have on society and institutions by studying both past and present technological developments. The course examines the benefits emerging technologies afford to individuals, organizations, and society; we will consider the challenges and consequences of society’s rapid embrace of these emerging technologies, including the need to raise user awareness of increasing privacy and security concerns. Lecture and Discussion format with hands-on laboratory.

    General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 102 - Introduction to New Media Technologies, Interaction Design and Prototyping

    Students are provided an introduction to and overview of new media and emerging technologies, interaction design, and software development. Topics covered include social networking, mobile computing, and physical computing.  Students develop skills in research, group collaboration, brainstorming practices, concept development, and rapid project prototyping. Course is taught via a lecture/lab format.

    Prerequisites: New Media Majors

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 104 - Design Basics for New Media

    Introduction to principles and theories of visual design, in traditional and electronic media; processes, methods and technologies relative to the creative production of two-dimensional visual imagery; use of the computer as a creative tool for the development of expressive and professional images.  Focus on the creative process in visual design.  Studio 3.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 150 - Script Your World

    This course introduces students to methods and concepts of structured problem solving and program development using JavaScript.  While the course is taught using scripting within a web browser, the principles described are applicable not just to using JavaScript in many different environments but to creative problem solving in general.  No prior programming experience is required, but students should be familiar with HTML. 

    Students with a stronger technical background and interest are advised to take NMD 160, which will emphasize server-side scripting in different programming languages.  Students with a stronger interest in audiovisual design will be advised to take NMD 150, which will emphasize client-side scripting.

    Prerequisites: NMD 102 is strongly recommended. 

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 160 - Creative Programming

    In this course, students will learn to use a creative process in programming a computer by developing code to generate images and sound, produce animations, manipulate text, and make media that respond interactively to user input.  The class will use computing programs such as Processing, an artist-designed programming language designed for visual and interactive applications, as a basis for creating and developing software “sketches” that allow visual expression.  Another environment introduced with be Pd (“pure data”, an open source version of Max/MSP), which is a visual programming language.  Pd enables musicians, visual artists, performers, researchers, and developers to create software graphically, without writing lines of code.  In the process, students will learn basic programming skills, including understanding and controlling how data is represented in computers (data types and structures), telling the computer how to make decisions on the fly (conditionals), how and when to repeat instructions (loops), structuring and organizing computer code (functions and objects), and techniques for debugging code.

    This course is designed particularly for students in New Media, Arts, Music, Humanities, and Social Sciences interested in understanding better how computers work and in learning to create their own digital media, through students of all backgrounds are welcome.  The course assumes basic high school math and no technical background. 

    Prerequisites: NMD 102 is strongly recommended.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 200 - New Media Strategies

    This course covers new media culture and theory of the present, bringing students up to speed on a range of contemporary artistic, political, and ethical issues in the field.  Students in this course also extend the technical skills acquired in previous courses by applying them to a creative application of their own individual or collaborative design, such as an advanced portfolio. Course is taught via lecture with labs.

    Prerequisites:  NMD 100, NMD 102, and NMD 104

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 202 - Information Design

    Information design is the art and science of organizing and designing information to help people effectively fulfill their needs. It can be applied to websites, handheld devices and other platforms. Students will learn new design techniques and complete an entire project design cycle to practice their skills in a variety of areas related to web design, database construction, and data driven applications. The class requires basic web design experience.

    Prerequisites: Approved New Media portfolio review, or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 203 - Creative Hypertext

    Creative workshop exploring technical, cultural and creative dimensions of hypertext. An introduction to hypertext as a creative tool that will focus on a review of html, analysis of hypertext story and e-poetry, and production of hypertext fiction and/or poetry.

    Prerequisites: Approved New Media portfolio review, or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 204 - Introduction to Time-Based Art and Design

    An introduction in the concepts, process, methods, principles and theories posed by Time-Based Arts. Time-Based Arts are those creative expressions that involve converged and distributable media such as, digital film, animation, digital audio, interactive cable, satellite, broadband and emerging technologies. Students investigate unique problems in design and production presented by Time-Based and converged media as well as apply the aesthetic principles of art and design in the creation of artistic, expressive and/or conceptual structures in a time-based media.

    Prerequisites: Approved New Media portfolio review, or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 206 - Project Design Workshop I

    Explores creativity and problem solving using tools, techniques and tactics of new media.  Identifies critical social, economic, cultural and ecological problems in neighborhoods and communities.  Draws on creative skills and playful impulses to design and build solutions using new media strategies.  An ecologically mindful, whole systems approach is adopted, seeking out interdisciplinary partners across campus and community to achieve solutions.  Individual, peer, and team generated projects are emphasized.

    Prerequisites: NMD 200

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 245 - Film Criticism and Theory

    Students will develop skills in the analysis of form and content so that they will achieve proficiency in the use of film studies vocabulary. Participants will learn to think critically about the media industry and to evaluate film as an art form, individual psychological experience, technology, social text, and commodity. (CMJ 245 and NMD 245 are identical courses.)

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 250 - Electronic Music Composition I: Item and Arrangement

    Designed to provide students with an opportunity to explore the ideas and techniques of audio composition with recorded media.  Item and Arrangement refers to the style of composition that creatively places recorded sounds in a fixed timeline.  Starting with Musique Concrete in the late 1940’s, this technique continues today as a foundation for many contemporary and popular forms, including acoustic ecology and hip-hop.  Students can expect to learn how to work with sound in the digital environment including fundamentals in field recording technique, waveform editing, filtering and digital processing.  Students will be expected to regularly produce and discuss work in relation to the theoretical history of Electronic Music.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 251 - Electronic Music Composition II: Composing a Process

    A companion of NMD 250.  Offers an introduction to creating Electronic Music, and electronic art in general, in the form of a process rather than as a fixed object.  From John Cage through Conceptual ism, viewing art-making as “composing a process” is central to much contemporary art, particularly in New Media.  Students will be introduced to compositional methods such as indeterminacy, algorithmic composition, systems analysis and interactivity as well as fundamentals of digital audio synthesis and composing in the Max/MSP environment.  Students will be expected to regularly produce and discuss work in relation to the theoretical history of Electronic Music.

     

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 270 - Digital Art I

    An introduction to two-dimensional digital art. Includes professional 2D and related software, input/output options and image creation and editing. Emphasizes using the tools for the production of fine art. (This course is identical to ART 270.)

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.

    Prerequisites: Approved New Media portfolio review, or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 295 - Topics in New Media

    Topics not regularly covered in other new media courses. Content varies to suit current needs. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites: New Media Majors or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 1-3
  

  • NMD 306 - Project Design Workshop II

    New Media project design, with emphasis on team-based research and development.  Requires students to think across a variety of platforms, from analog tools to stand alone devices to online applications. Students will be challenged to think creatively and rigorously about the objective, structure, and form of their projects; the work of each team will culminate in a new media proposal and/or prototype, preparing them for the New Media capstone sequence.

    Prerequisites: NMD 206 and either NME 301 or NMD 302 or NMD 303 or NMD 304 or NMD 305

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 324 - Year in Film I

    The first part in a two-semester course in the process, theory, practice and problems of digital filmmaking. Through the examination of films, narrative fiction and the completion of out-of-class assignments, students will gain insight into the realm of digital filmmaking. Structured as both an academic and “hands-on” approach to the language, method and theory of digital filmmaking through applied concepts and process. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites: Sophomore standing and permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 341 - Photographic Reporting and Storytelling

    An overview of photojournalism history, theory and ethics. Exercises teach skills and strategies used by newspaper, magazine and on-line photographers and editors and challenge students to deal responsibly with issues of invasion of privacy, subject representation, copyright and fair use and image manipulation. (This course is identical to CMJ 261.)

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 342 - Interaction Design and Physical Computing

    Interaction Design and Physical Computing will explore opportunities for physical interaction with our environment.  The course focuses on materials and methods used within interaction design to combine hardware, software and physical materials into working prototypes.  Students will learn fundamentals of physical computing to design and build interactive objects and environments using sensors, actuators and microcontrollers.

    Prerequisites: NMD 150 or NMD 160 or COS 125 or COS 220

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 343 - Digital Narrative Workshop I

    Explores emerging forms of digital and networked storytelling and how these new forms transform authorship, audience, interaction and publishing. Students produce their own digital narratives using web based, animation, or networked formats.  Strong narrative skills and/or digital skills required.  Teams projects and skill sharing encouraged. Satisfies Year Three Sequence credit for New Media majors.

    Prerequisites: NMD 206 or ENG 205 or both THE 112 & THE 117.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 344 - Time-Based Art and Design I

    An introduction in the concepts, process, methods, principles and theories posed by digital video, animation, and audio. Students investigate unique problems in design and production presented by time-based media as well as apply the aesthetic and design principles in the creation of artistic, expressive and/or conceptual structures in time-based media. Satisfies Year Three Sequence credit for New Media majors

    Prerequisites: NMD 206

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 345 - Networks and Creativity I

    Explores the translation of works across media and between individuals, and the impact of copyright and open-source licensing on sharing the scores, scripts, and sources necessary for such translations.  In class projects, students apply techniques such as migration, emulation, and reinterpretation to preserve obsolescent media such as vintage games as well as to remix contemporary media such as digital images and audio.  Satisfies Year Three Sequence credit for New Media Majors.

    Prerequisites: NMD 206.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 370 - 3D Modeling and Animation

    An introduction to the concepts and tools of 3D modeling and animation on the computer. Includes techniques to create narratives and provides hands-on experience with appropriate hardware and software.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression Requirement.

    Prerequisites: NMD 270 or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 398 - Topics in New Media

    Topics not regularly covered in other new media courses. Content varies to suit current needs. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites: Department consent.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 1-3
  

  • NMD 424 - Year in Film II

    The second part in a two-semester course in the process, theory, practice and problems of digital filmmaking.  Concentrates on practical experience.  Students will learn the cinematic process through direct development and production of short subject digital films.  Structured as both an academic and “hands-on” approach to the language, method and theory of digital filmmaking.  May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites: Sophomore standing and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 430 - Topics in New Media

    An exploration of intermediate and advanced topics in multimedia production and design, including, among others, digital video production, software and hardware design or, electronic publishing. Designed to provide students with a deeper and more sophisticated experience with a multimedia issue, tool, or skill–or combination of all three.

    Prerequisites: Department consent.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 1-3
  

  • NMD 441 - Documentary Photography and Audio

    Provides the essential skills, concepts and processes used by documentary still photographers and audio producers to create professional quality digital mixed media products for the Internet and other interactive media. (This course is identical to CMJ 361.)

    Prerequisites: C- or better in CMJ 261 or C- or better in NMD 341.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 442 - User Experience Design

    This is a course that explores major concepts in designing the User Experience (UX).  UX Design plays a critical role in the successes and effectiveness of any product, application and service.  It’s just not enough to have technologically advanced and aesthetically appealing products, applications and services - it is critical that they deliver a good user experience to their end users.
    In order to understand the foundations of UX Design, this course will provide a comprehensive overview of the user experience design process and is intended to familiarize students with the methods, concepts, and techniques necessary to make user experience design an integral part of developing effective interactions.  The course provides students with an opportunity to acquire the resources, skills, and hands-on experience they need to design, develop, and evaluate information interfaces from a user-centered design perspective. 

    Prerequisites: NMD 206 is a recommended prerequisite.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 443 - Digital Narrative Workshop II

    Students explore and produce participatory narratives which require user input such as role-playing games, video games, alt reality games, mobile apps and place-based storytelling.  Students examine the use of interactive and social play to address real world issues in a participatory narrative format.  Focus on alternative gaming paradigms as well as games and narratives with culturally and ideologically complex worlds and goals.  Satisfies Year Four Sequence credit for New Media majors.

    Prerequisites: NMD 343 or ENG 307 or ENG 308 or ENG 309 or THE 216

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 444 - Time-Based Art and Design II

    Advanced level exploration of the principles of design and the creative process relative to time-based media.  Focus is on the design of imaginative, and/or metaphorical structures combining text, image and sound into self-contained digital works.  Students experiment with the transmission of creative and expressive information through sequential and time-based formats, including fixed-image sequence, digital video, and animations. Satisfies Year Four Sequence credit for New Media majors.

    Prerequisites: NMD 344

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 445 - Networks and Creativity II

    This course teaches how to conceive and build new media applications that explore the sharing of information.  Students learn how to design cutting-edge new applications using web pages, mobile applications, widgets, image manipulation and more.  Legal and cultural contexts for sharing are also explored, e.g., file sharing lawsuits and music remixes.  Students design and prototype a creative application of their own choosing.  Satisfies Year Four Sequence credit for New Media majors.

    Prerequisites: NMD 345. Non-majors should have some experience with programming and/or Web design.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 490 - Independent Study in New Media

    Topics not regularly covered in other courses. Content varies to suit current needs. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites: permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 498 - Practicum in New Media I

    Part one of a two-part capstone experience on campus or in a commercial or other institutional environment with faculty supervision.  Students meet in a weekly seminar to discuss progress.  Each defines and researches his or her own individual project and prepares to bring it to fruition as a new media publication, such as a Web site; animated, feature or documentary video; or other digital production.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive requirement. Together with NMD 499, this course also satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirements.

    Prerequisites: Senior Standing and a grade of C or better in NMD 306.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 499 - Practicum in New Media II

    Part two of a two-part capstone experience on campus or in a commercial or other institutional environment with faculty supervision. Students meet in a weekly seminar to discuss progress. Each defines and researches his or her own individual project, presents it within the format of the seminar and brings it to fruition as a new media publication, such as a Web site; animated, feature or documentary video; or other digital projection.

    General Education Requirements: Together with NMD 498, this course satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience requirement.

    Prerequisites: NMD 498.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3

Nursing
  

  • NUR 101 - Issues and Opportunities in Nursing

    Introduces first-year Nursing students to issues in nursing education and University resources. Assists with the development of writing and critical thinking skills. Seeks to enhance cultural growth and understanding and to influence the establishment of self-care and wellness as a priority for nursing students. Discussion of legal and ethical aspects and professional organizations in nursing. Students meet clinical faculty in order to explore their education and experiences in nursing.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 102 - Foundations of Nursing Practice I

    This course is designed to introduce students to clinical nursing practice through classroom and laboratory learning experiences.  Students will begin to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to meet selected core competencies as identified by the Quality and safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative.  These core competencies will include patient centered care, safety, comfort, and communication. Lab, 2.

     

    NOTE: This course is intended for Nursing Majors with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5, and at least a grade of C in BIO 100 and in both BMB 207 and BMB 209. To be eligible to take this course, students must have completed at least one semester of the nursing program of study.

    Prerequisites: Nursing major, minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5, and a minimum grade of “C” in either BIO 100, or both BMB 207 and BMB 209. To be eligible to take this course, students must have completed at least one semester of the nursing program of study.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 103 - Foundations of Nursing Practice II

    This course is designed to introduce students to the concept of professional nursing practice.  Students will begin to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to meet selected core competencies as identified by the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative.  These core competencies include patient-centered care, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, interprofessional teams, and informatics.  Standards of professional nursing practice are incorporated into the course including those from the American Nurses Association (ANA); the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) and the Maine State Board of Nursing (MSBN).  Theoretical discussions and case studies will be used to assist students in acquiring the knowledge to develop clinical decision-making skills.

    NOTE: This course is intended for Nursing Majors with a minimum Cumulative GPA of 2.5, and at least a grade of C in BIO 100 and in both BMB 207 and BMB 209.

    Prerequisites: Department Consent

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 165 - Introduction to Care of the Older Adult

    This course provides a foundation of essential knowledge skills and attitudes in the provision of care to older adults. The content focuses on aging as a normal development process and includes analysis of issues confronting this population. Key recommendations and evidence-based practice from the Hartford Institute of Geriatric Nursing and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Recommended Baccalaureate Competencies and Curricular Guidelines for Nursing Care of Older Adults are embedded in the course.

    Prerequisites: Department Consent Required. Nursing Major, Minimum Cumulative gpa of 2.5 and a grade of C or better in both BIO 100 and NUR 102.

    Corequisites: NUR 103.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 200 - Care of Adults I

    This course is designed to immerse students into professional nursing practice with a focus on the health and illness care of adults.  Patient-centered care, safety, teamwork and collaboration, and evidence-based practice are highlighted through case study, lecture and discussion.  The student will use writing as a method for learning about the profession and discipline of nursing and for developing critical thinking skills.  This course also provides students with the mathematics skills necessary to provide safe patient care.  Nursing majors can satisfy three credits of the General Education Quantitative Literacy requirement by successfully completing NUR 200, NUR 201 and NUR 302.

     

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement. Nursing majors can satisfy three credits of the General Education Quantitative Literacy requirement by successfully completing NUR 200, NUR 201 and NUR 302.

    Prerequisites: A grade of C or better in NUR 102 and in NUR 103

    Corequisites: NUR 201, NUR 202, NUR 265 and NUR 303.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 201 - Care of Adults I Clinical

    This course introduces the student to the professional nursing role in direct care learning experiences. Students will build on knowledge, skills and attitudes gained from the science and humanities, previous and concurrent nursing courses in the provision of professional nursing care to adults. This clinical experience will provide students with the opportunities to apply theoretical knowledge, critical thinking, and basic nursing skills when implementing safe patient care. NOTE: This course is intended for students in the School of Nursing program with Sophomore standing and successful completion of NUR 102; NUR 103 (may be taken concurrently).

    General Education Requirements: Together with NUR 200 & NUR 301, this course satisfies 3 credits of the General Education Quantitative Literacy requirement for Nursing majors only.

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Corequisites: NUR 200, NUR 202, NUR 300 and NUR 303.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Summer

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 202 - Application of Theory to Nursing Practice I

    This course prepares students to provide holistic evidence-based nursing care through laboratory learning experiences.  Students will develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to meet selected core competencies for safe patient care.  Lab: 2

    Note:  This course is intended for Nursing Majors with Sophomore standing and who have successful completed NUR 102; NUR 103 (may be taken concurrently).

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Corequisites: NUR 200, NUR 201, NUR 300 and NUR 303.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Summer

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 265 - Human Genetics and Genomics for Nursing Practice

    This course introduces nursing students to the application of genetic and genomic information and technologies to the care of patients and their families. Students will begin to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to meet selected core competencies as identified by the Essentials of Genetic and Genomic Nursing: Competencies, Curricula Guidelines and Outcome Indicators. These competencies include understanding the genetic and genomic basis of health and/or illness for which an individual is seeking care and the variations that impact his or her response.

    Prerequisites: Sophomore standing in the School of Nursing, Minimum Cumulative gpa of 3.0 and a grade of C or better in BIO 100 and Department Consent.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 300 - Health Assessment Through the Lifespan

    Develops the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct an individual assessment. Emphasis on data collection through the development of communication, interviewing, history-taking and physical examination skills. Lec 3, Lab 3.

    Prerequisites: BIO 208, CHF 201 or permission.  NUR 200 or concurrently.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 4
  

  • NUR 301 - Care of Adults II

    Presents scientific knowledge as the basis for professional practice of nursing. Functional health patterns are the basis of course organization. Students demonstrate psychomotor skills in the learning resource laboratory and begin clinical application of the nursing process in varied inpatient settings. A clinical case study approach is used to foster acquisition of critical thinking and professional role skills. Lec 3, Lab 3, Clin 6.

    Prerequisites: NUR 201, NUR 300. Junior standing in the School of Nursing.

    Corequisites: NUR 404 and PSY 212

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 302 - Application of Theory to Nursing Practice II

    This laboratory based, skill building course prepares students to provide complex patient-centered care of adults with acute and chronic health problems. Students will develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to meet selected core competencies of safe, high quality, evidence-based patient care. This laboratory course also provides students with the mathematics skills necessary to provide safe patient care. NOTE: This course is intended for students with Jr. standing in the School of Nursing and successful completion with at least a “C” in NUR 201 and NUR 300. Co-requisites for this course are: NUR 301, NUR 306 and NUR 316.

    General Education Requirements: Students can satisfy three credits of the General Education Quantitative Literacy requirement by successfully completing NUR 200, NUR 201 and NUR 302

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Corequisites: NUR 301, NUR 306 and NUR 316.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 303 - Pathophysiology

    A study of the physiological, genetic and biochemical basis of disease.

    Prerequisites: BIO 208 and Department Consent Required.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 304 - Concepts in Nursing for the Practitioner

    Focuses on the historical foundations of the nursing profession and important issues affecting nursing practice today. Students utilize critical thinking and nursing and other theories to reflect upon clinical practice. Emphasis is placed on oral and written communication skills. Lec 3.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.

    Prerequisites: Registered Nurse and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 306 - Care of Adults II Clinical

    This course expands the student’s understanding of the professional nursing role through the direct care of adults with acute and chronic health problems in a variety of clinical settings.  Students continue to use knowledge, skills and attitudes gained from the sciences, humanities, and previous and concurrent nursing courses to provide high quality care that is based on standards of practice and current evidence.  Students apply theoretical knowledge, clinical reasoning and complex nursing skills when implementing safe patient care (six clinical hours per week). 

    Note:  This course is intended for students in the School of Nursing who are in Jr. standing and have successfully completed with a grade of at least a “C” in NUR 201, NUR 300 and NUR 303. 

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Corequisites: NUR 301, NUR 302 and NUR 316.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • NUR 310 - Health Related Research

    Presents qualitative and quantitative research methods. Students evaluate research studies and consider the implications of research for nursing practice.

    Prerequisites: STS 232.  Junior standing in the School of Nursing or permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 316 - Pharmacology for Nursing Practice

    This course prepares students to apply principles of pharmacotherapeutics in provision of evidence-based nursing interventions. Emphasis is on patient-centered care across the lifespan with special focus on patient safety, the use of health informatics, and on education of patients and their families for optimal health outcomes.

    Note: This course is intended for Nursing majors with junior standing and have successfully completed with a grade of at least a C in NUR 201, NUR 303, BIO 208, BMB 207 and BMB 209

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 320 - Nursing Care Management of Women, Infants and Families

    Focuses on the comprehensive care of women from adolescence through older adulthood.  The reproductive process is examined as a part of the life cycle continuum and family health.  Health promotion, and disease prevention and management concepts are emphasized as they apply to pregnancy, prenatal care, birth, and post-delivery period, newborn care, and parenting.

    Prerequisites: CHF 201 and FSN 101 and NUR 301 and NUR 303 and NUR 404 and PSY 212.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 321 - Maternal, Newborn, and Women’s Health Nursing Clinical

    Encompasses Obstetrical lab in the LRC for four hours and seven days (8 hrs per shift) on the maternity/newborn unit at Eastern Maine Medical Center.  Students will be assigned to a community hospital of their choice for two days (8 hrs per day) and a primary care setting that serves women and their families (8 hrs per day).  Total clinical hours 84. Students will register for one day of clinical per week and will complete all clinical assignments on that day.

    Prerequisites: NUR 320. 

    Corequisites: NUR 320

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • NUR 330 - Nursing Care Management of Children and Families

    Students develop a comprehensive approach to the care of infants, children, adolescents and families.  Utilize developmental approach in health promotion and care of pediatric patients with acute or chronic illness.

    Prerequisites: Junior standing in the School of Nursing. CHF 201 and NUR 301 and NUR 404 and PSY 212 or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 331 - Nursing Care Management of Children and Families Clinical

    Students utilize the nursing process to provide comprehensive nursing care for pediatric patients and families in acute and primary care settings.

    Prerequisites: CHF 201 and FSN 101 and NUR 301 and NUR 404 and PSY 212 and (NUR 330 or concurrently.)

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • NUR 334 - Care of Adults III

    This course continues to extend the student’s understanding of the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to provide holistic, evidenced-based care of adults with chronic and complex health concerns. Concepts of patient-centered care, quality improvement, safety, teamwork and collaboration, and informatics are highlighted with this patient population. Exemplars provide the basis for discussion of current research, evidence from clinical practice and best practice models for this patient population.

    NOTE: This course is intended for students with Junior standing in the School of Nursing and successful completion with at least a grade of C in NUR 301 and NUR 404. Co-requisite: NUR 335.

    Corequisites: NUR 335.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 335 - Care of Adults III Clinical

    This course continues to extend the student’s understanding of the professional nursing role through the direct care of adults with chronic and complex health concerns in a variety of clinical settings. Students apply knowledge, skills and attitudes gained from the sciences, humanities, and previous and concurrent nursing courses to provide high quality care to adults based on standards of practice and current evidence. Students provide complex, high quality, safe patient care to acutely ill adults through the application of theoretical knowledge and clinical reasoning in a variety of settings.

    NOTE: This course is intended for students in the School of Nursing with Junior standing and successful completion, with a grade of at least a C in NUR 301 and 316. NUR 334 should be taken as a Co-requisite.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • NUR 340 - Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

    Builds on previously learned knowledge to promote a greater understanding of the nurse’s role in the care of clients who have mental health needs. Content includes an overview of mental illnesses and major treatment modalities, with an emphasis on the use of the nursing process in patient care. A major focus is the therapeutic use of relationship and communication skills in all health care settings.

    NOTE: This course is intended for students in the School of Nursing with Junior standing and successful completion of NUR 301.

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Corequisites: NUR 341.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 341 - Clinical Practice in Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

    Clinical experiences offer students the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills in the direct care of patients. Helps students gain a greater understanding of mental illnesses and disorders, expand their knowledge of psychotropic medications, develop skills in therapeutic communication, and apply a broad range of therapeutic interventions that can be used in a variety of treatment settings. Students are expected to develop insight into their own preconceptions about mental illness, as well as greater self-awareness of personal responses to patient care situations.

     

    Prerequisites: NUR 301 and Permission.

    Corequisites: NUR 340 (may be taken prior to NUR 341).

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • NUR 357 - Experience in Community Health

    Exposes RN’s to the role of the community health nurse and the community as client. Focuses on the health of aggregates providing students with opportunities to develop expertise in health promotion, disease prevention health maintenance and restoration.

    (Pass/Fail Grade Only.)

    Prerequisites: NUR 320, NUR 321, NUR 330, NUR 331 and NUR 452. 

    Corequisites: NUR 452

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • NUR 365 - Healthcare Informatics

    This course provides foundational knowledge regarding informatics for health care professionals. Emphasis is placed on the knowledge and skill used in information management and patient care technology to deliver safe and effective patient-centered care.

    Note: This course is intended for students in the School of Nursing with Jr. standing and who have successfully completed NUR 201 with a grade of at least a “C”.

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 404 - Fundamentals of Pharmacology

    The basic concepts of pharmacology for health professionals, introducing pharmacodynamics and kinetics. Emphasis on clinical pharmacology of major drug categories and major drug interactions.

    Prerequisites: For Nursing Majors; NUR 303, BMB 207/209, BMB 208/210, BIO 208.

    Corequisites: NUR 301 or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 409 - Professional Issues: Leadership and Organization

    Addresses health care policy within the framework of leadership and organizational theory, role and change theories. Students will have the opportunity to explore professional and ethical issues which affect the delivery of health care.

    Prerequisites: NUR 304. Licensure as a registered nurse.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 411 - RN Senior Seminar

    A senior synthesis seminar and clinical course for RN students, building on concepts from NUR 304 and NUR 410, as well as clinical experience and general education of the participants. Independent clinical experience and seminars provide an opportunity to synthesize clinical judgment skills, discuss critical reasoning, apply ethical decision making and integrate concepts of health promotion throughout the lifespan.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive and Capstone Experience Requirements.

    Prerequisites: NUR 304, NUR 310; permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 4
  

  • NUR 413 - Nursing Care Management of Women, Infants and Families

    Focuses on the comprehensive care of women from adolescence through older adulthood. The reproductive process is examined as a part of the life cycle continuum and family health. Health promotion, and disease prevention and management concepts are emphasized as they apply to pregnancy, prenatal care, birth, and post-delivery period, newborn care, and parenting.

    NOTE: This course is intended for students with Senior standing in the School of Nursing and successful completion of NUR 340.

    Corequisites: NUR 414.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 414 - Maternal, Newborn, and Women’s Health Nursing Clinical

    Students provide comprehensive family-centered care for childbearing families in acute and primary care settings. Students also have clinical simulation experiences in the School of Nursing Learning Resource Center.

    NOTE: This course is intended for students in the School of Nursing with Senior standing and successful completion of NUR 304.

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Corequisites:   NUR 413 which may be taken prior to NUR 414.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 415 - Socio-Cultural Issues in Health and Health Care

    Explores social and cultural influences on health and illness.  Existing health disparities are examined, as well as, issues and trends in our health care delivery system.  Transcultural nursing principles will be introduced.  Offered via the Internet using Blackboard.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.

    Prerequisites: Junior standing in School of Nursing or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 416 - Nursing Care Management of Children and Families

    Students develop a comprehensive approach to the care of infants, children, adolescents and families. Utilize developmental approach in health promotion and care of pediatric patients with acute or chronic illness.

    NOTE: This course is intended for students with Senior standing in the School of Nursing and successful completion in NUR 340.

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Corequisites: NUR 417.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 417 - Nursing Care Management of Children and Families

    Students utilize the nursing process to provide comprehensive nursing care for pediatric patients and families in acute and primary care settings.

    NOTE: This course is intended for students in the School of Nursing with Senior Standing and successful completion of NUR 340.

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Corequisites:   NUR 416 (may be taken prior to NUR 417).

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 435 - Nursing Care of Patients and Families at End of Life

    This course further develops students’ knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to provide quality, patient-centered care at the end of life. Key recommendations from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing’s Peaceful death: recommended competencies and curricular guidelines for end of life nursing care will be incorporated into the course.

    Note: This course is intended for Seniors within the School of Nursing and who have successfully competed NUR 340 with a grade of at least a “C”.

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 440 - Nursing Care Management of Adults II

    One of two senior level courses focusing on acute and chronic complex health problems with emphasis on major life threatening illnesses. Functional health patterns provide the basis for course organization. The role of the nurse in health promotion, illness management, independent and collaborative decision making, and professional issues encountered in practice are discussed in class. Lec 2.

    Prerequisites: NUR 320, NUR 321, NUR 330, NUR 331 and NUR 404.  Senior standing in School of Nursing and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 441 - Nursing Care Management of Adults III

    A continuation of NUR 440. Content is organized on the basis of functional health patterns. The role of the nurse in regard to levels of illness prevention is presented. Nursing strategies relating to health promotion, maintenance and restoration are discussed. Lec 2.

    Prerequisites: NUR 320, NUR 321, NUR 330, NUR 331 and NUR 404. Senior standing in School of Nursing and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • NUR 444 - Management and Leadership in Health Care System

    Provides the student with content focusing on knowledge and skills essential to the professional role of nursing. Organizational and leadership theories are presented as they relate to the practitioner as a member of a group. Theoretical concepts of group structure and interactions in groups are discussed. Change and role theories are introduced as tools for understanding group and organizational dynamics.

    NOTE: This course is intended for students in the School of Nursing with Senior standing and who have successfully completed NUR 452.

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Corequisites: NUR 455.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 447 - Clinical Reflection Seminar

    Utilizes discourse to foster interpersonal and group communication skills, group role-taking, critical thinking, reflection upon clinical practice and integration of theory with practice. Sem 3.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.

    Prerequisites: Senior standing in School of Nursing.

    Corequisites: NUR 455.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1
 

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