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Apr 06, 2026
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HIST 477W - History and Trends in Nursing
Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Diversity; UWR
History of nursing and health care in the United States. Intersections with race, gender, and class in the professionalization of nursing. Connections between history and present-day challenges in the nursing profession. Must earn C- (CR) or better for UWR credit.
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper Division Arts or Humanities, Overlay - Diversity; University Writing Requirement
Prerequisites: Upper-division standing, satisfaction of second composition and completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Cross-listed: NURS 477W
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Describe the chronology of nursing history in the United States from the colonial era to the present day;
- Analyze the social, cultural, economic, and political forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the lives and roles of nurses today;
- Consider how race, class, and gender have shaped the development of the nursing profession;
- Explore contemporary nursing challenges and questions through historical perspective.
GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
- Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
- Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.
Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes
- Describe the histories, experiences or views of one or more cultural groups.
- Analyze the overlap or intersection of social identities of oneself and/or other cultural groups (e.g., culture, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, and/or age).
- Examine the impact of their own identity on their experiences with and/or views of other cultural groups.
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