CURRICULUM BREAKDOWN
Program Structure & Credit Requirements
- Total nursing courses for the major: 23 credit hours.
- Non-nursing courses required for the major: 9 credit hours.
- Minimum total credits to earn the BSN: typically 124 (institutional degree minimum for RN-to-BSN). Your exact total depends on transfer credit. Transfer credits from an accredited ADN or diploma program are evaluated individually.
Nursing Courses (23 credit hours)
- NURS 330 — Transitions in Professional Practice (3)
- NURS 335 — Health Assessment (3)
- NURS 340 — Nursing Research (3)
- NURS 430 — Perspectives in Global Nursing and Health (3)
- NURS 460 — Community Health Nursing (4)
- NURS 470 — Contemporary Issues in Nursing and Healthcare (3)
- NURS 480 — Nursing Leadership/Management (4)
Non-Nursing Courses Required for the Major (9 credit hours)
- PHIL 305 — Biomedical Ethics (3)
- HLSC 304 — Statistics for the Health Sciences (3) or PSYC 232 — Behavioral Statistics (3)
- Upper-level elective (3): HLSC Upper-Level Health Science or HLTH Upper-Level Health course (3)
Additional credits may be required to complete university degree minimums, depending on transfer evaluation.
