This certificate is designed to provide students with expertise necessary for working with individuals, families and groups of various cultures and with cultural institutions exhibiting diverse values, beliefs and lifestyles. The courses are focused to contrast and compare different cultures throughout the world offering students the opportunity to understand how culture influences health care. The Ph.D. program is designed to prepare researchers and scholars who will provide leadership to the profession and discipline of nursing. The program emphasizes the development of the student s capacity to make significant original contributions to nursing knowledge. The curriculum focuses on scientific inquiry and consists of a series of nursing seminars that address nursing theory and the substantive domains of the discipline.
Students select a minor area of study from the rich diversity of resources within the university.
Upon completion of the program, graduates are prepared to provide leadership as nurse researchers, educators or administrators in current and emerging academic and health-care settings.