The semiar will provides structure and peer review for the dissertationprocess. Students will focus on their dissertation, working in small groups to achieve their individual goals.

This seminar provides an environment for learners in the pre-dissertation phase to practice critical skills for success in research-focused doctoral study in nursing. It constitutes a forum for the exchange of peer and faculty support and mutual mentorship.

This course provides an overview of inductive reasoning and complex research approaches, including qualitative and mixed methods techniques commonly used in nursing, the humanities, and the health sciences. Learners will develop critical intersectional perspectives for designing, implementing, and critically evaluating qualitative and mixed methods research.

This course focuses on leadership frameworks, skills and strategies for nursing scholars working towards health justice and sustainable futures. Learners will cultivate a radical imagination for nursing?s ethics and possible futures. Drawing upon anti-racist, decolonial, and liberatory frameworks, in addition to personal and community assessments, learners will articulate their own philosophies of leadership.

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This course will provide a grand tour of research, scholarship and innovation happening within nursing at the EMCON, throughout the University of Massachusetts, and within the broader interdisciplinary ecosystem. This course will also expand learners? views of nursing scholarship by examining past and current discourse on nursing research informed by knowledge gaps, interdisciplinary collaboration, community needs and priorities, and engagement.

In this course, learners will build a foundation in philosophy of science, philosophy of nursing, and history of these ideas as they begin their doctoral education. This course will emphasize philosophical paradigms relevant and useful to nursing thought, including critical race theory, indigenous knowledge ways, feminist thought, materialism, empiricism/positivism/postpositivism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, and posthumanism as well as those philosophies identified by students as interesting/compelling/innovative/words.

Engagement with learning and practice communities is essential for knowledge co-creation and the development of nursing scholarship. In this course, learners will engage in a critical analysis of how communities are conceptualized, other(ed), and exploited. Learners will also apply principles of cultural humility, respect, accountability and justice as they engage with communities of learning and practice.

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