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Graduate Program in Nursing

MScN > Degree Requirements

 

 
A. Course-Based Master's *
* This will be the normal route to the MScN degree
1. Core courses
  • NURS 5100 6.0: Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations of Nursing Science
  • NURS 5200 3.0: Qualitative Research Methods in Nursing
  • NURS 5300 3.0: Quantitative Research Methods in Nursing Science
  • NURS 5400 3.0: Advanced Nursing Practicum
  • NURS 5500 3.0: Nursing Research Development and Knowledge Mobilization
2. Electives

Three half-courses at the graduate level, of which at least two are inside nursing

 
B. Thesis Option **
** Available to academically strong students in a full time program only, with an identified faculty member who is appropriate and available to supervise the student.
>1. Core courses
  • NURS 5100 6.0: Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations of Nursing Science
  • NURS 5200 3.0: Qualitative Research Methods in Nursing
  • NURS 5300 3.0: Quantitative Research Methods in Nursing Science
  • NURS 5400 3.0: Advanced Nursing Practicum
2. Electives

One half-course, inside nursing, at the graduate level

3. Thesis

NURS 6100: Thesis

4. Colloquium

The non-credit colloquium course, NURS 6300: Expressions of Nursing Scholarship, is compulsory for all MScN candidates and is taken concurrently with NURS 6100: Thesis.