This course was designed to provide the opportunity to develop independence and competence in applying principles of care management and leadership to nursing practice while using all aspects of the Clinical Judgment Model. Students will identify and analyze cues to generate hypotheses and solutions to attain desired patient outcomes. Actions will be based on the highest care priorities and will be evaluated and altered for outcome achievement.

This course was created for the RN-BSN track. Integrative Concepts for Professional Nursing will cover a variety of topics important to nurses as they progress from an entry-level to a professional level of nursing practice. Baccalaureate (BSN) prepared nurses are expected to be leaders at the bedside, in the healthcare organization, and within the profession; therefore it is vital that BSN prepared nurses examine issues, expectations, and situations commonly encountered in modern, professional nursing practice.

This course introduces the practice of mindfulness, the ability to fully attend to the present with curiosity, openness, and interest. Research shows that practicing mindfulness reduces unproductive worry about the future and rumination about the past. It helps students build skills for managing stress, clarifying their own values and goals, and acting in accordance with them, which often improves academic productivity, the quality of relationships with others, and general happiness and well- being.

This course explores the applications of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) within the context of public health. Students will engage in weekly case studies to learn a variety of GIS skills and develop a final project that will demonstrate their ability to analyze, visualize, and communicate important health findings via mapping and geospatial data. Topics range in scale from global to local, and incorporate the public health sub-disciplines of environmental health, epidemiology, and health administration and policy.

A derivative security is a financial instrument whose value depends upon the value of another (i.e., underlying) asset. Examples of derivatives include forwards, futures, options, and swaps. The market for derivatives is enormous. As of December 2018, there was $544 trillion in notional principal of over-the-counter derivatives. This course introduces students to the theory of and practical application of derivative securities.

Students will be introduced to gender, women's and sexuality related topics through reading assigned books and related materials. The books, which may be fiction or non-fiction, will illustrate gender/women's/sexuality themes and intersections with other social and cultural locations.

Readings, research, and discussions in seminar format to illuminate problems of historical and contemporary significance, in areas of special faculty competence. Covers topics related to non-western history before 1789. May be repeated for up to 15 credit hours as long as each repeat is a different subtitle.

In this seminar we begin with a central insight of environmental history, the premise that "nature" - meaning the beyond-human world of plants, animals, soils, waters, microbes, insects, climate, and so on has actively shaped human history. We thus frame "environment" as historical actor rather than passive backdrop to human activity. This approach forces us to think transnationally, though our geographic focus is North America and specifically the United States.

History 663, "The Atlantic World," is a colloquium intended to introduce students to the burgeoning field of the Atlantic World, in the era approximately 1600-1850. The course aims to familiarize specialists in US history with broader trends in the world during the period of colonial and early national American history and to decenter the United States and Britain in familiar stories such as slavery and revolution.

This seminar will focus on various ways of interpreting and approaching the study of American political history from the nineteenth century to the present. It will explore topics such as the development of the American national state and governing capacities, the emergence of the historically-oriented field of American Political Development (APD) in the discipline of Political Science, the emergence of what is sometimes called the "new new political history," the expanding field of "policy history," and other developments.