Program Requirements

Course Requirements

Total Credit Hours Required: 15 credit hours

Core Courses (6 credit hours)

NURS 6050.03 Contemporary Views of Nursing Science: Philosophy, Research, and Practice
NURS 6300.03 Doctoral Seminar
NURS 9413.00 Comprehensive Examination
NURS 9530.00 Doctoral Thesis

Health Outcomes Course (3 credit hours selected from the following)

NURS 6200.03 Nursing Sensitive Health Outcomes
NURS 6210.03 Women’s Health Outcomes

Advanced Research Methods/Design Course (3 credit hours)

Students must complete a 3 credit hour advanced research methods/design course, approved by their supervisory committee.

General Elective (3 credit hours)

An additional 3 credit hours of graduate electives in the student's substantive area of study, normally selected in consultation with the supervisory committee.

Program-level Policies

The following program-level policies apply. For more information, please contact the program directly.

Additional course-work may be assigned.  Students who have not completed both qualitative and quantitative research courses at the graduate level will normally be required to complete NURS 5100.03 and/or NURS 5120.03 (or their equivalent) as part of their doctoral program.

The PhD comprehensive examination in the student’s area of study must be taken in the second year of the program (NURS 9413.00). Comprehensive examinations may be taken only after the completion of all required course work and they cannot be taken less than one year prior to the submission of the thesis for final defence. Members of the thesis supervisory committee will set the student’s comprehensive examination.