NURS at Yale University

A suggested order for the 30 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

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 7470Primary Care of Children II Clinical Practiceopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• NURS 7635Psychopharmacologic Interventions I: Foundations in Psychopharmacologyopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• NURS 7460Primary Care of Children IIopens 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 30 NURS and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 393 more NURS courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

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.

• 3 courses deep, ending at NURS 7500

  1. NURS 6020Advanced Pharmacology
  2. NURS 7460Primary Care of Children II
  3. NURS 7500Primary Care of Children IV

• 3 courses deep, ending at NURS 7540

  1. NURS 6020Advanced Pharmacology
  2. NURS 7470Primary Care of Children II Clinical Practice
  3. NURS 7540Specialty Pediatric Primary Care Clinical Practice

• 3 courses deep, ending at NURS 7735O

  1. NURS 6020Advanced Pharmacology
  2. NURS 7635Psychopharmacologic Interventions I: Foundations in Psychopharmacology
  3. NURS 7735OPsychopharmacologic Interventions II: Application and Special Populations

• 2 courses deep, ending at NURS 6240

  1. NURS 6230Clinical Practice I for Global Health Track
  2. NURS 6240Clinical Practice II for Global Health Track

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

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

• D. Costa
• H. Poghosyan
• R. Ramos
• S. Feder
• X. Cong

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under NURS yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

NURS does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Yale campus feed.