Graduate health studies and nursing course offerings

Athabasca University may modify the list of available courses at any time. Students are advised to check course eligibility and prerequisites before attempting to register for courses. Students who have registered for a course without completing the course prerequisites will have their course registration cancelled and will be removed from the course.

Note the scheduling of NP courses:

  • All NP courses are offered in three semesters each year (Fall, Winter, and Spring).
  • NURS 518 is offered in all three semesters but may have limited seats in the fall term.
  • NURS 000 is required for students taking Nurse Practitioner programs. Students will be registered by our program staff at the time of admission. Non-program students who are planning to apply for Nurse Practitioner programs may take the orientation course prior to admission, but must contact gcapadmin@athabascau.ca to register.
  • Course offering is contingent on a minimum enrolment of 10 students per course.
  • Athabasca University reserves the right to modify the list of available courses at any time.

NURS 519 and NURS 521 are no longer offered. If you required either of these courses for your program, please contact your Graduate Student Advisor.

Master of Health Studies and Master of Nursing – Move to Brightspace Spring 2024

  • Spring 2024 courses in Brightspace: Courses in the Master of Nursing Generalist (MNGen) and Master of Health Studies (MHS) programs will be live in Brightspace, AU’s new learning platform.

    The link to your course home pages can be found by logging into myAU, but please note that courses will not appear until closer to the first day of classes. Once the term starts, you may also log in to Brightspace.

    Brightspace training can be found here.

    You must ensure that your AU Microsoft Office365 account is activated and that you use your new @learn.athabascau.ca email address to log in.

    Courses are set to open May 1, but please expect the first day of classes to be May 2.

  • Course name (prefix) changes: Today, you register for MHST and NURS curriculum elective courses, depending on your program. To simplify the experience for our learners, starting for Spring 2024 registration, all curriculum electives will be offered by one program, but will be open for any program learner to take. For example, the 610 Evidence Based Health Care course will appear as NURS 610, and not also as MHST 610. All learners interested in this course will register in NURS 610, regardless of their program. This change does not affect the overall number of courses being offered in the spring term, the course learning outcomes or the course content in any way.

Updated June 03, 2024 by Digital & Web Operations (web_services@athabascau.ca)