MS-PhD Global Public Health Program Plan
The MS-PhD program provides a pathway for students who have their MSN to seamlessly earn a PhD. The global public health concentration exposes students to the theoretical, scientific, and practical issues affecting the health of people on the global stage during their doctoral research.
Year One
Total: 19 credits
Fall
- NUR 700: Philosophy of Nursing Science - 3 credits
- NUR 720: Human Response to Health and Illness: Research, Theory, and Practice - 3 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar - 1 credit
Spring
- NUR 705: Theory Construction, Synthesis and Application to Practice - 3 credits
- NUR 710: Multivariate Analysis in Health Care Research - 3 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar -1 credit
- NUR 786: Dissertation Development I and qualifying exam - 2 credits
Summer
- NUR 712: Qualitative Methods in Nursing Research - 3 credits
Year two
Total: 19 credits
Fall
- NUR 714: Quantitative Methods in Nursing - 3 credits
- NUR 540: Principles in Biostatistics and Epidemiology - 3 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar - 1 credit
Spring
- NUR 730: Nursing Interventions in the Care of the Chronically Ill Persons: Research, Theory, and Practice - 3 credits
- NUR 673: Global Health Perspectives - 3 credits
- NUR 787: Dissertation Development II - 2 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar - 1 credit
- Elective - 3 credits
Year three
Total: 11 credits
Fall
- NUR 750: Leadership & Scholarly Development in Nursing Education - 3 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar - 1 credit
- Select Dissertation Committee Chair in September
Spring
- NUR 740: Promoting Health and Shaping the Healthcare System: Research, Theory, and Practice - 3 credits
- NUR 780: Doctoral Seminar - 1 credit
- Form Dissertation Committee by May
Summer
- Apply for PhD candidacy
Year four
Total: 6 credits
Fall
- NUR 788: Dissertation Proposal - 3 credits
- Qualifying hearing in December
Spring
- NUR 789: Dissertation Defense - 3 credits