Introduction to the history of modern philosophy; emphasis on Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, and Hume. Prerequisite: One course in Philosophy. (Gen.Ed. HS)

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 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.

Foundations of interest rate theory and fundamentals of finance. A problem-solving approach to selected financial applications as they affect microeconomic units such as the individuals, households, and small businesses. Financial planning, spending, credit and saving, investing, taxes, insurance, retirement, and estate planning are examples of the topics that will be examined.

U.S. health care system with emphasis on issues relating to unequal access to health services. An analysis of how the system should work. Special attention to controversial issues, including managed care and health insurance. How other countries design health systems. (Gen.Ed. SB, DU)

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Students will be introduced to foundational philosophies and strategies for qualitative data analysis, coding their own data sets in weekly workshop and discussion settings. Strategies will be presented for setting up and organizing a database, coding and sorting data into categories, modifying and refining the scheme, aggregating data into larger themes or patterns, establishing audit trails, triangulating among data sources, participants and methodologies, and establishing trustworthiness of the data set.

This course will introduce students to the study of applied time series analysis and encourage them to apply time series techniques to investigating interesting and policy-relevant issues in heterodox macroeconomics, radical political economics, and development economics. The course will cover two broad areas of time series analysis: (a) analysis of stationary time series processes (both univariate and multivariate); and (b) analysis of non-stationary time series processes (both univariate and multivariate).