INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND 2003 - 2005 BULLETIN

IUSB Course Descriptions

P = Prerequisite, R = Recommended, C = Concomitant
I = Fall Semester, II = Spring Semester, S = Summer Session(s)

NURS: Nursing

NURS B105 medicaL terminology (1 cr.) This course, taught via a unique audiovisual instruction and interactive approach, teaches the student to easily remember, pronounce, and apply 350 prefixes, roots, and suffixes that combine to form over 11,000 medical terms. This approach is used to teach complex medical terms to ensure maximum retention.

NURS B216 pharmacology (2-3 cr.) The physiologic action of drugs and their therapeutic use, the nurse's role in administering drugs, and the need for continuous study of drug therapy.

NURS B232 INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE OF NURSING: THEORY, PRACTICE, RESEARCH (3 cr.) P: Admission to B.S.N. degree program. This course focuses on core theoretical concepts of nursing practice: health, wellness, illness, holism, caring, environment, self-care, uniqueness of persons, interpersonal relationships, and decision making. This course helps the student understand nursing's unique contribution to meeting societal needs through integrating theory, research, and practice.

NURS B233 HEALTH AND WELLNESS (4 cr.) P: Admission to B.S.N. degree program. This course focuses on the use of concepts from nursing, nutrition, pharmacology, and biopsychosocial sciences to critically examine the determinates of health, wellness, and illness across the life span. Environmental, sociocultural, and economic factors that influence health care practices are emphasized. Theories of health, wellness, and illness are related to health-promotion, disease-prevention, illness-prevention nursing interventions.

NURS B244 COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH ASSESSMENT (2 cr.) P: PHSL P261, PHSL P262, PSY P103, SOC S161 or ANTH E105. C: NURS B245. This course focuses on helping students acquire skills to conduct a comprehensive health assessment, including the physical, psychological, social, functional, and environmental aspects of health. The process of data collection, interpretation, documentation, and dissemination of assessment data will be addressed.

NURS B245 COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH ASSESSMENT: PRACTICUM (2 cr.) C: NURS B244. Students will have the opportunity to use interview, observation, percussion, palpation, inspection, and auscultation in assessing clients across the life span in simulated and actual environments.

NURS B248 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF NURSING (2 cr.) P: PHSL P261, PHSL P262, MICR M250, MICR M255. C: NURS B249. P or C NURS B245. This course focuses on the fundamentals of nursing from a theoretical research base. It provides an opportunity for basic care nursing skills development. Students will be challenged to use critical thinking and problem solving in developing the ability to apply an integrated nursing therapeutics approach for clients experiencing health alterations across the life span.

NURS B249 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF NURSING: PRACTICUM (2 cr.) C: NURS B248. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate fundamental nursing skills in the application of nursing care for clients across the life span.

NURS B251 life span development practicum (1 cr.) C: PSY P216, NURS B244, NURS B245. This course deals with theoretical perspectives of growth and development across the life span, family theories, and family adaptation to common health problems, promoting health across the lifespan, and usual patterns of aging. Students will make assessments and observations of individuals and families in various stages of growth and development.

NURS B304 professional nursing seminar i (3 cr.) This course focuses on core theoretical concepts of professional nursing practice, including health, wellness, illness, self-care and caring, disease prevention, and health promotion. Students will be expected to explore theoretical premises and research related to the unique wellness perspectives and health beliefs of people across the life span in developing care outcomes consistent with maximizing individual potentials for wellness. Students will complete a needs assessment as part of this course.

NURS B404 professional nursing seminar ii (3 cr.) P: NURS B304. This course focuses on the application of nursing theory and research findings in restoring and maintaining individual and family functioning for those dealing with multi-system alterations. Students will explore the ethical, legal, and moral implications of treatment options and identify tactics to maximize nursing's effectiveness in facilitating individuals and families through the health care system. Students will complete a scholarly analysis as part of their practicum experience.

NURS H351 ALTERATIONS IN NEURO-PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH (3 cr.) P: SPCH S121 and all sophomore-level courses. C: NURS H352. This course focuses on individuals and small groups experiencing acute and chronic neuropsychological disorders. Content includes the effect of the brain-body disturbances on health functioning. Other content areas are growth and development, stress, mental status, nurse-client relationships, psychopharmacology, and nursing approaches for clients experiencing DSM-IV neuropsychological disorders.

NURS H352 ALTERATIONS IN NEURO-PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH: THE PRACTICUM (2 cr.) C: NURS H351. Students will provide nursing care to individuals and small groups who are experiencing acute and chronic neuropsychological disturbances related to psychiatric disorders. Student experiences will be with individuals and small groups in supervised settings such as acute care, community-based, transitional, and/or the home.

NURS H353 ALTERATIONS IN HEALTH I (3 cr.) P: SPCH S121 and all sophomore-level courses. C: NURS H354. This course focuses on the pathophysiology and holistic nursing care management of clients experiencing acute and chronic problems. Students will use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to plan interventions appropriate to health care needs.

NURS H354 ALTERATIONS IN HEALTH I: THE PRACTICUM (2 cr.) C: NURS H353. Students will apply the science and technology of nursing to perform all independent, dependent, and interdependent care functions. Students will engage clients in a variety of settings to address alterations in health functioning, identify health care needs, and determine the effectiveness of interventions given expected care outcomes.

NURS H355 data analysis in clinical practice and health care research (3 cr.) P: MATH M107 or R.N. license. This course introduces nursing and other health sciences students to the basic concepts and techniques of data analysis needed in professional health care practice. Principles of measurement, data summarization and univariate and bivariate statistics are examined. Differences in types of qualitative data and methods by which these types of data can be interpreted are also explored. Emphasis is placed on the application of fundamental concepts to real world situations in health care.

NURS H361 ALTERATIONS IN HEALTH II (3 cr.) P: NURS H353, NURS H354, all sophomore-level courses. C: NURS H362. This course builds on NURS H353 Alterations in Health I and continues to focus on pathophysiology and holistic nursing care management of the associated needs of clients experiencing acute and chronic health problems.

NURS H362 ALTERATIONS IN HEALTH II: THE PRACTICUM (2 cr.) C: NURS H361. Students will continue to apply the science and technology of nursing to perform all independent, dependent, and interdependent care functions. Students will engage clients in a variety of settings to address alterations in health functioning.

NURS H363 THE DEVELOPING FAMILY AND CHILD (4 cr.) P: NURS H351, NURS H352, NURS H353, NURS H354, all sophomore-level courses. C: NURS H364, NURS H361. This course focuses on the needs of individuals and their families who are facing the phenomena of growth and development during the childbearing and child raising phases of family development. Factors dealing with preserving, promoting, and restoring healthy status of family members will be emphasized.

NURS H364 THE DEVELOPING FAMILY AND CHILD: THE PRACTICUM (2-3 cr.) C: NURS H363, NURS H362. Students will have the opportunity to work with child bearing and child raising families, including those experiencing alterations in health.

NURS H365 NURSING RESEARCH (3 cr.) P: NURS H353, NURS H354, and statistics (MATH K300, NURS H355, PSY P354, or SOC S351, or equivalent). This course focuses on development of students' skills in using the research process to define clinical research problems and to determine the usefulness of research in clinical decisions related to practice. The critique of nursing and nursing related research studies will be emphasized in identifying applicability to nursing practice.

NURS J360 OPERATING ROOM NURSING (Nursing Elective) (1-6 cr.) P: Sophomore-year courses, or consent of the instructor. The course is designed to provide further opportunities for students to meet objectives of the Indiana University School of Nursing. Learning opportunities will be available so students can increase knowledge about and add to their ability to provide nursing care for patients undergoing the stress of surgery.

NURS K192 topics in nursing (0.5-3 cr.) Topics and seminars covering current nursing subjects including pharmacology, informatics, leadership, clinical updates and skills. Topics and credits vary. May be repeated for credit if topic differs.

NURS K300 transcultural health care (3 cr.) This course allows students to explore how culture affects health care decision making and how the heath care system integrates culture in its delivery of care.

NURS K301 the art and science of complementary health (3 cr.) This survey course is designed to introduce the student to non-mainstream health care therapies. Students critically examine and explore the origins and practice of each therapy. The course serves as an introduction to a variety of therapies, including healing touch, guided imagery, hypnosis, acupuncture, aroma therapy, reflexology, and massage, to name a few.

NURS K302 geriatric pharmacology (2 cr.) This course examines numerous factors (e.g., poly-pharmacy, drug-to-drug interactions, developmental issues) that impact absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of pharmaco-therapeutic agents in elderly persons. Students will be challenged to develop primary and secondary strategies to detect and resolve problems associated with use of these agents.

NURS K401 integrative health care: blending the traditional and non-traditional integrative health (3 cr.) This course focuses on the integration of complementary health care with the traditional western medicine approach to disease and illness. Complementary therapies will be critically examined in light of their ability to alleviate pain and suffering and improve quality of life in a variety of disease and illness states.

NURS K421 american health care: international experience (2-3 cr.) P: Junior-level courses completed. This course provides students from the United States a chance to live and study in Northern Ireland and provides students from the United Kingdom with a similar experience. This exchange assists the students to be more aware of the cultural, economic, and political factors in determining the health/illness perspective of a nation. It aims to enable students to develop a wider, more global perspective on the key concepts of personal and societal health issues.

NURS K486 transforming negative environments (Nursing Elective) (3 cr.) This upper division elective will assist each student to establish a connection between changes in social, political, and economic conditions to their lived experience. Health care policies/practices founded on patriarchal values and models will be critiqued. Students will be challenged to transform traditional health care organizations into systems characterized by power-sharing, consensus-building, self-governance, and empowerment.

NURS K490 Clinical Nursing Elective (1-6 cr.) P: consent of instructor. S/F grading only. Planned and supervised clinical experiences in an area of concentration.

NURS K492 Nursing Elective (0.5-6 cr.) P: consent of instructor. Opportunity for the student to pursue study in an area of interest.

NURS S470 RESTORATIVE HEALTH RELATED TO MULTI-SYSTEM FAILURES (3 cr.) P: All junior-level courses. C: NURS S471. This course focuses on the pathophysiology and nursing care management of clients experiencing multi-symptom alterations in health status. Correlations among complex system alterations and nursing interventions to maximize health potential are emphasized.

NURS S471 RESTORATIVE HEALTH RELATED TO MULTI-SYSTEM FAILURES: THE PRACTICUM (2 cr.) C: NURS S470. The students will apply the nursing process to the care of clients experiencing acute multi-system alterations in health.

NURS S472 A MULTI-SYSTEM APPROACH TO THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY (3 cr.) P: All junior-level courses. C: NURS S473. This course focuses on the complexity and diversity of groups or aggregates within communities and their corresponding health care needs. Through a community assessment of health trends, demographics, epidemiological data, and social/political issues in local and global communities, the student will be able to determine effective interventions for community-centered care.

NURS S473 A MULTI-SYSTEM APPROACH TO THE HEALTH OF THE COMMUNITY: THE PRACTICUM (2 cr.) C: NURS S472. Students will have the opportunity to apply the concepts of community assessment, program planning, prevention, and epidemiology to implement and evaluate interventions for community-centered care to groups or aggregates. Professional nursing will be practiced in collaboration with diverse groups within a community.

NURS S481 NURSING MANAGEMENT (2 cr.) P: All first semester senior-level courses including PHIL P393 and all general education requirements except one 3 credit hour open elective. C: NURS S482. This course focuses on the development of management skills assumed by professional nurses, including delegation of responsibilities, networking, facilitation of groups, conflict resolution, leadership, case management, and collaboration. Concepts addressed include organizational structure, change, managing quality and performance, workplace diversity, budgeting and resource allocation, and delivery systems.

NURS S482 NURSING MANAGEMENT: THE PRACTICUM (3 cr.) C: NURS S481. Students will have the opportunity to apply professional management skills in a variety of nursing leadership roles.

NURS S483 CLINICAL NURSING PRACTICE CAPSTONE (3 cr.) P: All first semester senior-level courses including PHIL P393 and all general education requirements except one 3 credit hour open elective. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate competencies consistent with program outcomes and to refine their nursing care practice skills. Students will collaborate with faculty and a preceptor in choosing a care setting, planning and organizing a learning experience, and practicing professional nursing in a safe and effective manor.

NURS S484 RESEARCH UTILIZATION SEMINAR (1-2 cr.) C: NURS S483. This course focuses on students abilities to refine their critical/analytical skills in evaluating clinical research for applicability to nursing practice. Students will examine the role of evaluation, action research, and research findings in assuring quality of nursing care and in solving relevant problems arising from clinical practices.

NURS S485 PROFESSIONAL GROWTH AND EMPOWERMENT (3 cr.) P: All junior-level courses. This course focuses on issues related to professional practice, career planning, personal goal setting, and empowerment of self and others. Students will discuss factors related to job performance, performance expectations and evaluation, reality orientation, and commitment to life-long learning.

NURS W221 native use of herbs (1 cr.) A field experience course on native uses of herbs with required readings and hands-on working with plants.

NURS W402 seminar: women as agents of change (3 cr.) Variable title. This course focuses on issues and controversies in the new scholarship on women. Recently taught as Women as Agents of change with an emphasis placed on theories of change and women's role in creating change in America.

NURS Z480 Portfolio Review Course Substitution (1-6 cr.) The portfolio review process is available to all students who believe that they can meet the learning objectives/competencies required of a specific nursing course within their course of study.

NURS Z490 Clinical Experience in Nursing (1-6 cr.) P: Consent of instructor. S/F grading only. Planned and supervised clinical experiences in the area of the student's major interest.

NURS Z492 Individual Study in Nursing (1-6 cr.) P: Consent of instructor. Opportunity for the nurse to pursue independent study of topics in nursing under the guidance of a selected faculty member.

PHIL: Philosophy

PHIL P100 Introduction to Philosophy (3 cr.) Perennial problems of philosophy, including problems in ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. Readings in selected writings of philosophers from Plato to the present.

PHIL P105 THINKING AND REASONING (3 cr.) Basic rules of correct reasoning, roles of definitions and of language in thinking; roles of observation, hypothesis, and theory in knowledge; basic techniques for gathering information, testing beliefs for truth, and problem solving.

PHIL P135 Introduction to Phenomenology and Existentialism (3 cr.) Phenomenology as a project of describing human experience is studied in relation to existential themes such as being-in-the-world, authenticity, individualism, commitment and responsibility. Philosophers studied may include Husserl, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Buber, Sartre and Camus.

PHIL P140 iNTRODUCTION TO Ethics (3 cr.) Important philosophical answers to such ethical questions as the nature of good and evil, the relation of duty to self-interest, and the objectivity of moral judgements. Specific ethical issues addressed may include individual needs and public policy, lying, abortion, euthanasia, and punishment.

PHIL P150 Elementary Logic (3 cr.) Study of basic concepts of deductive and inductive logic, including practical applications of these concepts in the critical evaluation of informal arguments.

PHIL P200 Problems of Philosophy (1-3 cr.) Selected writings of philosophers concerning important philosophical problems. May be repeated for credit under new subtitle.

PHIL P201 Ancient Greek Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selective survey of ancient Greek philosophy (pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle).

PHIL P202 Medieval to Modern Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selective survey of medieval philosophy.

PHIL P214 Modern Philosophy (3 cr.) A survey of Western philosophy from 1600 to 1900. An examination of the breakdown of the medieval world view and the rise and revision of Cartesianism.

PHIL P250 Introductory Symbolic Logic (3 cr.) Study of and extensive practice with the concepts and techniques of formal deductive logic.

PHIL P283 Non-Western Philosophy (3 cr.) Selective survey of major philosophical systems from the Far East and India. Possible topics include Taoism, Confucianism, Upanishads, Samkhya, Buddhism, Vedanta, Sri Aurobindo, Zen.

PHIL P303 The British Empiricists and Kant (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selective survey of Continental Rationalism, British Empiricism, and Kant.

PHIL P304 Nineteenth Century Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected survey of post-Kantian philosophy.

PHIL P306 Business Ethics (3 cr.) A philosophical examination of ethical issues which arise in the context of business. Moral theory will be applied to such problems as the ethical evaluation of corporations, what constitutes fair profit, and truth in advertising.

PHIL P310 Topics in Metaphysics (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics such as existence, individuation, contingency, universals and particulars; monism-pluralism, Platonism-nominalism, idealism-realism.

PHIL P311 Metaphysics of Physical Nature (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics such as space, time, causality, determinism, events and change, relation of the mental and the physical, personal identity.

PHIL P312 Topics in Theory of Knowledge (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics such as various theories of perceptual realism, sense-datum theories, theories of appearing, phenomenalism, the nature of knowledge, the relation between knowledge and belief, relation between knowledge and evidence, and the problem of skepticism.

PHIL P313 Theories of Knowledge (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics such as the nature of knowledge, the relation of knowledge and belief, knowledge and evidence, knowledge and certainty, and the problem of skepticism.

PHIL P320 Philosophy and Language (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. A study of selected philosophical problems concerning language and their bearing on traditional problems in philosophy.

PHIL P325 Social Philosophy (3 cr.) Concentrated study of one or more major problems, positions, or authors. May be repeated for credit.

PHIL P335 Phenomenology and Existentialism (3 cr.) A study of Edmund Husserl's philosophy and its extension and criticism in the works of such existential phenomenologists as Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. Topics include the nature of consciousness, intentionality, freedom, intersubjectivity.

PHIL P340 Classics in Ethics (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected readings from authors such as Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans, Augustine, Aquinas, covering such topics as the relation of virtue and human nature, duty and self-interest, pleasure and the good.

PHIL P341 Ethical Classics 2 (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected readings from authors such as Spinoza, Hume, Butler, Kant, Mill, Nietzsche, covering such topics as the role of reason in ethics, the role of the emotions in ethics, the objectivity of moral principles, the relation of religion to ethics.

PHIL P342 Problems of Ethics (3 cr.) P: 6 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. May concentrate on a single large problem, e.g., whether utilitarianism is an adequate ethical theory, or several more or less independent problems, e.g., the nature of goodness, the relation of good to ought, the objectivity of moral judgements.

PHIL P343 Classics in Social and Political Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected readings from ancient and medieval sources such as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, focusing on such topics as metaphysical commitments and political theory, the ideal state, the nature and proper ends of the state, natural law, and natural rights.

PHIL P344 Classics in Social and Political Philosophy 2 (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected readings from seventeenth to nineteenth century sources, such as Machiavelli, Bodin, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Bentham, Mill, Marx, focusing on such topics as the ones mentioned in PHIL P343 and such additional topics as the social contract theory of the state and the notion of community.

PHIL P345 Problems in Social and Political Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Problems of contemporary relevance: justice and economic distribution, participatory democracy, conscience and authority, law and morality.

PHIL P346 Philosophy and Art (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected philosophical problems concerning art and art criticism. Topics such as the definition of art, expression, representation, style, form and content, the aesthetic and the cognitive.

PHIL P358 American Philosophy (3 cr.) This course is devoted to consideration of pragmatism as a distinctly American philosophy. Pragmatism is examined as a continuation of the Western philosophical tradition and as an attempt to overcome that tradition.

PHIL P360 Introduction to Philosophy of Mind (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Selected topics from among the following: the nature of mental phenomena (e.g., thinking, volition, perception, emotion); the mind-body problem (e.g., dualism, behaviorism, materialism).

PHIL P366 Philosophy of Action (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. The nature of human and rational action: the structure of intentions and practical consciousness; the role of the self in action; volitions; the connections of desires, needs, and purposes to intentions and doings; causation and motivation; freedom.

PHIL P371 Philosophy of Religion (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. The nature of religion and religious experience, the status of religious knowledge claims, the nature and existence of God.

PHIL P374 EARLY CHINESE PHILOSOPHY (3 cr.) Origins of Chinese philosophical traditions in the classical schools of Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, and Legalism. Explores contrasting agendas of early Chinese and Western traditions.

PHIL P381 Religion and Human Experience (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Topics such as the phenomenology of religious experience, spirituality and human nature, selfhood and transcendence, spirituality and gender, and religious experience and human relationship.

PHIL P383 topics in philosophy (3 cr.) An advanced study of special, experimental, or timely topics drawn from the full range of philosophical discussion and designed to pursue interests unmet in the regular curriculum. May be repeated for credit under new subtitle.

PHIL P393 BIOMEDICAL ETHICS (3 cr.) P: PHIL P100 or PHIL P105 or PHIL P140. A philosophical consideration of ethical problems that arise in current biomedical practice, e.g., with regard to abortion, euthanasia, determination of death, consent to treatment, and professional responsibilities in connection with research, experimentation, and health care delivery.

PHIL P394 Feminist Philosophy (3 cr.) P: 3 credit hours of philosophy or consent of instructor. Study of contemporary feminist philosophy in the United States and Europe.

PHIL P495 Senior Proseminar in Philosophy (1-4 cr.) For students in their junior or senior years of study. The proseminar will concentrate on a problem and/or figure selected by students and faculty involved. May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credit hours.

PHIL P590 Intensive Reading (cr. arr.)

PHSL: Physiology

(See ANAT, BIOL, MICR, PLSC, and ZOOL for additional biological sciences courses.)

PHSL P130 human Biology (4 cr.) For non-science majors. Credit allowed for only one of BIOL L100, BIOL L104, BIOL T100, and PHSL P130. Credit not allowed toward a biology major. Basic concepts of human biology: reproduction, development, heredity, physiological regulation including stress and drugs, behavioral biology. Includes related social problems. I, II

PHSL P204 Elementary Human Physiology (3 cr.) R: One college-level biology course; one college-level chemistry course or one year high school chemistry. Lectures on blood, circulation, respiration, digestion, metabolism, excretion, endocrine system, muscle, nervous system, and special senses. For dental hygiene majors; credit not allowed toward a biology major. II

PHSL P261 Human Anatomy and Physiology I (5 cr.) P: CHEM C101 or CHEM C102 or CHEM C105 (any may be taken concurrently) or one year high school chemistry or PHSL P130. Introduction to basic structure and function of the human body including laboratory studies in gross anatomy, histology, and physiology. Topics are cellular anatomy and physiology, body tissues and integument, and the skeletal, muscle, endocrine, and nervous systems. Credit not allowed toward a biology major. I, II, S

PHSL P262 Human Anatomy and Physiology II (5 cr.) P: PHSL P261. The continuation of PHSL P261. Topics are the circulatory, respiratory, urinary, digestive, and reproductive systems; fluid and electrolyte balance; and acid-base balance. I, II, S

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