NURS at Boston College

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate NURS coursework.

• NURS 7420Advanced Pharmacology Across the Life Spanopens 18 courses (15 directly)
• NURS 7430Advanced Health Assessment Across the Life Spanopens 14 courses (14 directly)
• NURS 9731Pharmacotherapeutics in Advanced Practice Nursingopens 10 courses (10 directly)
• NURS 9732Advanced Health/Physical Assessment across the LifeSpanopens 10 courses (10 directly)
• NURS 9814Bridge to Primary Care Advanced Practice Nursingopens 6 courses (6 directly)
• NURS 7004Direct Entry Clinical Pharmacologyopens 3 courses (3 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate NURS work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 71 NURS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 35 more NURS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on NURS, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in NURS. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at NURS 9906

  1. NURS 9720Epidemiology
  2. NURS 9816Population Health Principles, Program Planning, and Evaluation
  3. NURS 9717Methods of Advanced Scholarly Inquiry
  4. NURS 9904DNP Project Seminar 1
  5. NURS 9906DNP Project Seminar 2

• 4 courses deep, ending at NURS 7726

  1. NURS 7672Advanced Pathophysiology Across the Life Span
  2. NURS 7420Advanced Pharmacology Across the Life Span
  3. NURS 7719Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced Practice Nursing Across the Lifespan Clinical Practicum I

• 4 courses deep, ending at NURS 9821

  1. NURS 9730Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology across the Lifespan
  2. NURS 9731Pharmacotherapeutics in Advanced Practice Nursing
  3. NURS 9814Bridge to Primary Care Advanced Practice Nursing

• 4 courses deep, ending at NURS 9839

  1. NURS 9730Advanced Physiology and Pathophysiology across the Lifespan
  2. NURS 9731Pharmacotherapeutics in Advanced Practice Nursing
  3. NURS 9836Advanced Psychopharmacology Throughout the Lifespan

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on NURS sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Ahn, Soojung
• Barone, Stacey H
• Broden-Arciprete, Elizabeth
• Burney, Sharran
• Camp, Lindsey N
• Capotosto, Melissa K
• Caraballo, Mila
• Clancy, Megan
• Conahan, Catherine
• Conley, Ceara D
• Connolly, Carol
• Crevecoeur, Thamarah
• Croke, Bethany A
• Cullinan, Donna L
• Duffany, Meghan W
• Dwyer, Andrew A
• Emery, Susan A
• Flanagan, Jane M
• Gennaro, Susan
• George, Erin K
• Given, Sarah
• Gordon, Leah M
• Hayden, Sarah E
• Haze, Nanci J
• Holiver, Heidi Anna
• Howard, Elizabeth P
• Hurley, Dorean L
• Hutchinson, Katharine
• Jung, Wonkyung
• Jurgens, Corrine Y
• Klarare, Anna-Helena
• LaPierre, Kellie L
• Lee, Christopher S
• Lisa Jane
• Longacre, Ashley
• Lyons, Karen S
• Marshall, Alison O
• McGuane, Arlene
• McNutt-Clarke, Beth
• Milliken, Aimee
• + 17 more

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under NURS yet.

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Department events

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