Nursing Field of Study

The following annotated set of courses, totaling 28 semester credit hours (SCH) of fully transferrable and applicable lower-division academic courses, and an additional set of Workforce Education (WECM) nursing courses, make up the Field of Study Curriculum for Nursing:

Nursing Content Courses

NOTE:  Lower-division nursing content is offered at community colleges through one of two general types of programs:  Blocked or Integrated.  Because of the distribution of content, it is extremely difficult to align curricula from one type of program to another.  Students who desire to transfer from a program utilizing one type of program into the other type of program should be prepared to make up some content through a “bridge” course or through the repetition of some content within courses.  It is recommended that a student make every effort to avoid transferring from one type of program to the other before completing the associate degree in nursing in order not to lose credit.

Lower-division nursing conent courses being transferred from a blocked-curriculum program to another blocked-curriculum program should be applied to the degree on a course-for-course substitution basis, in which the course transferred is applied IN LIEU OF the course at the receiving institution, even if the number of semester credit hours awarded upon the completion of the course varies between the sending and receiving institutions.  The same procedure should be used when a student transfers from an integrated-curriculum program into another integrated-curriculum program.