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MINORS · MASTER OF SCIENCE PROGRAM

Education Minor

The Education Minor is offered to students interested in teaching. Most frequently these teaching skills and accompanying knowledge base are used in academic nursing education in associate degree or baccalaureate programs. They may also be used to provide in-services education, present continuing education content, and provide patient education.

The Education minor requires completion of:

At least two academic courses in education (e.g. N201A, B, C), and
A minimum of 3 units of N400 practice teaching.

Courses

N201A Curriculum Development (2 units):
Course addresses strategies for the development of curricula in nursing education in contemporary society.

N201B Teaching Learning (2 units):
Course explores principles and theories that form the basis for interacting between students and teachers and among students, and examines teaching-learning practices, including presentation skills, for student-centered and distance (distributed) education.

N201C Clinical Instruction (2 units):
Theoretical foundations for clinical supervision, teaching, and evaluation in nursing education. The focus will be on clinical activities commonly utilized to enhance the learning process in the clinical setting.

N434 Teaching Residency (4-12 units):
A residency is "immersion into a role." With this residency you prepare yourself to do all the various aspects of the job the teaching role involves.

N436 Teaching Practicum (variable units):
A practicum is an opportunity to learn skills, e.g., lecturing, writing test questions, clinical evaluation.

N467 Doctoral Teaching Residency (1-3 units):
Same as N434, but for doctoral students.

Coordinator

Nancy Stotts, RN, EdD, FAAN;
(415) 476-4412; nancy.stotts@nursing.ucsf.edu

Revised: Mar. 2008
School of Nursing
University of California, San Francisco