Curriculum (CO)Visioning

The PhD Program at Elaine Marieb College of Nursing is currently engaged in a Mission, Vision and Curriculum (co)visioning process. This process began in fall 2020, and has been led by the PhD Academic Matters committee. Using an equity-centered community design approach, we've invited students, faculty, staff, community, and members of the public into this co-creative process of imagining and manifesting the future of research-focused doctoral study at UMass Amherst. 

What constitutes innovative and high-quality curricula for research-focused doctoral study in nursing is contested, and must evolve with the ever-changing landscape of nursing and health care, science, and society as a whole (Hodgson, Madigan, Mishan & Montalvo, 2020). The purpose of this (co)visioning process is to co-create new programmatic objectives, teaching and learning experiences, evaluation strategies, and a community of practice to better meet emergency and contemporary needs in doctoral nursing education, and to shape and lead future directions for the discipline, health, and health care. 

The PhD Program launched its new curriculum for incoming PhD students in Fall 2023. 

Students who matriculated prior to Fall 2023 will continue with their previous curriculum/plan of study.  

Click here for a copy of the New EMCON PhD Program Plan of Study and Course Rubrics 

Access Course Objectives for the New Curriculum here. 

To view a Sample BS-PhD Plan of Study, see here.

To view a Sample MS-PhD Plan of Study, see here.

CO-VISIONING ARCHIVES

This Padlet provides a timeline of PhD curriculum (co) visioning efforts to date: Click to access the timeline. 

Read the New PhD Program Mission, Vision & Objectives (approved by EMCON Faculty Assembly in March 2022)

Here is the approved New Plan of Study grid (approved by the EMCON Faculty Assembly in November 2022)