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2. Class Schedule

3. Subject list

4. Course Plan

5. Lesson plan

6. Tests

7. Test Results
 Subject List

1. MS-NU 501 – Nursing Theory

2. MS-NU 502-Nursing Education

3. MS-NU 503 – Advanced Health & Clinical Assessment

4. MS-NU 504 – Advanced Pathophysiology

5. MS-NU 505 – Research – Qualitative method of inquiry in nursing Research

6. MS-NU 506 – Biostatistics

7. MS-NU 507 – Nursing Administration & Leadership

8. MS-NU 508 – Advanced Pharmacology

9. MS-NU 509 – Nursing Informatics

10. MS-NU 510 – Behavioral Sciences

11. MS-NU-511 – English Language

Multan Collage of Nursing
Southren Bypass
Jahangirabad Multan
MSc Nursing program

Course Nursing theory

Credit Allocated 4

Classroom
Laboratory
Clinical
Total
Placement in Curriculum Year 1
Pre-requisite All BSc Nursing courses

Course Plan of Nursing Theory

Course Description:
The course will prepare students to critique, evaluate and utilize nursing theory specifically with
in a practice setting. It can also enhance their educational competency and skills.

Course Objectives:
On completion Of course, learners will be able to,
The student is expected to critique and apply nursing theory in nursing administration, clinical
setup and education

1. Discuss the history and evolution of advanced nursing practice roles.

2. Analyze the impact of advances in science and technology on health care and patient
outcomes.
3. Describe the structure and function of theories from nursing and other disciplines.
4. Analyze selected nursing and related theories.
5. Describe the application of theory to guide evidence-based nursing practice.
6. Analyze the impact of advances in science and technology on advanced nursing practice.
7. Describe the application of nursing theory and science to support decision-making related to
quality improvement and patient safety
8. Concepts and Theories in Nursing Practice is organized around the following
general learning outcomes. In completing this course students will: Articulate and
demonstrate the relationship between values, ethics, scholarship, and professional integrity

Topical Outline
Unit 1 Role of a Nurse in a Health Team
Unit 2 Towards Development of Nursing Practice Theory
- Stages in nursing progress
Milestone in theory development
Unit 3 The Concept of Nursing Theory – Towards a clearer understanding of the
concept of nursing theory
Theories of nursing; Leninger, Pender, Kolcaba, Mercer, Mischel,
Orem, King, Roy’s theories, and their applications
Unit 4 Nursing Theory – Philosophical considerations
- A theory of theories
- Theory of nursing – borrowed and unique
- Structuring the nursing knowledge system
- Philosophical sources of nursing theory
- Theoretical thinking in nursing – problems & prospects
- Holistic man & the science and practice of nursing
- Analysis of changing trends in philosophies of science on nursing
Perspective on knowing: A Model of nursing knowledge
Unit 5 Nursing science: The challenge to develop knowledge
- Nursing syntax revisited: A critique of philosophies said to
influence nursing theories
Unit 6 Nursing theory and nursing practice
- Practice oriented theory
- Theory: The professional dimension
- The notion of a practice theory
Taking concepts as guides to action: Exploring kinds of know-How
Unit 7 Nursing theory and nursing research
- Practice oriented research
- The interaction between theory and research
- Toward a new view of science: Implications for nursing research
Scientific inquiry in Nursing: A model for a new age

Teaching/Learning Strategies
 Classroom lectures
 Group discussions/role play/simulation & skill laboratory demonstration
  Seminar/conferences
 Tutorials – individual or group
 Skill presentation
 Research
 Assignments

Course Plan

Date Unit Course Teaching/learning Faculty

Content Strategies
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MS-NU 504 – Advanced Pathophysiology

Multan Collage of Nursing

Southren Bypass
Jahangirabad Multan
MSc Nursing program

Course Advanced Pathophysiology

Credit Allocated 4

Classroom
Laboratory
Clinical
Total
 Placement in Curriculum Year 1
Pre-requisite All BSc Nursing courses

Course Plan of Advanced Pathophysiology

Course Description:
This course provides an in-depth study of human pathological processes and their effects on
homeostasis. Emphasis is on interrelationships among organ systems in deviations from
homeostasis. Upon completion, students should be able to demonstrate a detailed knowledge
of pathophysiology
Course Objectives:
On completion Of course, learners will be able to,

1. Apply principles related to normal anatomy and physiology of human body systems to
pathophysiologic processes of common disease processes.

2. Differentiate among normal and abnormal variants of pathophysiologic and physical findings
based on lifespan changes and normal anatomy and physiology.

3. Synthesize pathophysiologic knowledge with current aspects of care relating to commonly

occurring diseases.

4. Incorporate current and emerging genetic/genomic evidence in advanced nursing care

management plans for individuals, families, and communities.

5. Discuss clinical manifestations of selected disease processes and health related problems
across the life span.

6. Identify appropriate pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment and management of

specific health alterations.

7. Develop differential medical diagnoses based on analysis of pathophysiological findings.

8. Identify the role of the advanced practice nurse in the development of an evidence-based
treatment plan for specific pathophysiological processes.

Tropical Outline

Unit 1 Concepts of Health Diseases

Disease etiology, clinical manifestation
Unit 2 Concepts of altered health in adult
Physiologic changes in aging – skin, changes in blood pressure, change in
vision/hearing/taste/smell, decrease in lean body mass

Unit 3 Alteration in cell differentiation/neoplasia

- Cancer cell characteristics

Characteristic of benign and malignant neoplasm

General effects on body function associated with cancer growth

Unit 4 Alteration in activity tolerance
- Physiologic responses during physical activity
- Metabolic and thermal responses during physical activity
- Gastrointestinal response during physical activity
- Cardiovascular response during physical activity
- Psychological response during physical activity

Assessment of activity tolerance – The fatigue severity scale

Unit 5 Hematopoietic Function
- Hematopoiesis
- Red cell metabolism, oxygen transport.
- General aspects of anemias
- Iron deficiency anemia, B12, folate deficiency anemia.
- Anemias of chronic disease. Congenital and acquired hemolytic
anemias, anemias-due to reduced red cell production(Sickle cell
anemia and thalassemias ), aplastic anemia
- White blood cells, normal range, neutrophilia and neutropenia,
eosinophilia.
- Introduction to hemostasis, platelet function disorders and coagulation
factor deficiencies
- Introduction to ABO blood groups, transfusion reactions and management of
acute hemolysis.
Unit 6 Cardiovascular System
- Alteration of cardiac function – The students must know and identify
the signs, symptoms and nursing intervention of the following:
pericardial effusion, stable angina, unstable angina, myocarditis,
infective endocarditis, aortic valve stenosis & regurgitation, MI, CAD,
CHF.
- The student must know the physiology of coronary arteries and
control of coronary blood flow.
- Disorders of cardiac conduction – electrocardiography (P
wave, QRS, ST segment, T wave), action potential phases, absolute &
relative refractory periods
 - Disorders of cardiac rhythm – mechanism of dysrhythmias
and conduction disorders, pre-mature

ventricular beats, ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, atrial

fibrillation, atrial flutter, supraventricular

tachycardia, sinus bradycardia, sinus tachycardia

- Hypertension – Types of hypertension, physiologic changes in

hypertension, complications, physiologic basis of treatment
- Congenital Heart Diseases – Atrial Septal Defect (ASD),

Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), Atrioventricular Septal Defect

(AVSD),Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA), Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF),
Transposition of Great Vessels, Persistent Truncus Arteriosus, Coarctation of
Aorta, Pulmonary Stenosis, Pulmonary Atresia, Aortic Stenosis, Tricuspid
Atresia, Ebstein's Anomaly

Unit 7 Respiratory System

Discuss: Physiology of airway.
- Influenza – Characteristics of the viruses, clinical
picture/symptoms of infection, Physiologic basis of treatment
- Tuberculosis – Epidemiology, diagnosis, clinical
picture/symptoms, physiology of treatment
- Pneumonia – Pathogenesis, host factors, microbial factors, clinical
picture/symptoms, physiologic basis of treatment
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Epidemiology,
pathophysiologic changes in the lungs, clinical
picture/symptoms, physiologic basis of treatment.
- Lung cancers – Types of lung cancers, carcinogenesis,
diagnosis/symptoms/clinical picture, physiology of treatment

Unit 8 Diabetes
- Physiology of fuel metabolism
- clinical picture/symptoms of each type, complications
- physiologic basis of treatment

Unit 9 Skeletal and Muscular System

- Rheumatoid arthritis – etiologic factors, pathophysiologic mechanism, clinical
picture/symptom, physiologic basis of treatment
Note: other types of arthritis can be discussed.

Unit 10 Gastrointestinal and Hepatic disorders

- Gastroenteritis – Pathophysiologic process, clinical
picture/symptoms, physiologic basis of treatment
 - Peptic Ulcer – Epidemiology, clinical picture/symptoms/risk factors,
types of peptic ulcer, physiologic basis of treatment
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Clinical
picture/diagnosis/symptoms, physiology of treatment
Hepatitis A, B & C – Differential diagnosis of each type, clinical picture/symptoms
of each type, physiologic basis of treatment of each type
Unit 11 Genitourinary Disorders
- Urinary Tract Infections – Pathophysiologic mechanism, diagnosis of
urinary tract infection, clinical picture/symptoms, physiologic
basis of treatment
- Sexually transmitted diseases – Types (Neisseria gonorrhea, syphilis,
herpes simplex, candidiasis), clinical picture/symptoms of each type,
physiological effect of each type, predisposing factors of each type,
diagnosis/physiologic basis of treatment of each type.

Unit 12 Disorders of Brain Function

- Cerebrovascular disease – Stroke (brain attack), aneurysm
subarachnoid hemorrhage (physiological changes, clinical
picture/symptoms, physiologic basis of treatment
- Seizure disorders – Generalized convulsive status epilepticus –
etiology, physiological changes, clinical picture/symptom, physiologic
basis of treatment
Discuss: Clinical picture/symptoms/diagnosis, physiologic changes, and physiologic
basis of treatment

Unit 13 Special senses

- Conjunctivitis (bacterial & viral)
- Glaucoma (congenital & infantile)
- Cataract (traumatic & senile)
- Otitis externa, otitis media
Discuss: Clinical picture/signs & symptoms/physiologic changes,
physiologic basis of treatment

Teaching/Learning Strategies
 Classroom lectures
 Group discussions/role play/simulation & skill laboratory demonstration
 Seminar/conferences
  Tutorials – individual or group
 Skill presentation
 Research
 Assignment
Suggested reading:
Pathophysiology – Concepts of Altered Health States, 6th ed., Carol Mattson Porth
Advanced
Course Plan

Date Unit Course Teaching/learning Faculty

Content Strategies
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MS-NU 506 – Biostatistics

Multan Collage of Nursing

Southren Bypass
Jahangirabad Multan
MSc Nursing program

Course Biostatistics
Credit Allocated 4
 Classroom
Laboratory
Clinical
Total
Placement in Curriculum Year 1
Pre-requisite All BSc Nursing courses

Course Plan of Biostatistics

Course Description:
Biostatistics provides an introduction to selected important topics in biostatistical concepts and
reasoning. This course represents an introduction to the field and provides a survey of data and data
types. Specific topics include tools for describing central tendency and variability in data; methods for
performing inference on population means and proportions via sample data; statistical hypothesis
testing and its application to group comparisons; issues of power and sample size in study designs;
and random sample and other study types. While there are some formulae and computational
elements to the course, the emphasis is on interpretation and concepts

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, students are able to:

 Recognize and give examples of different types of data arising in public health and clinical
studies
 Interpret differences in data distributions via visual displays
 Calculate standard normal scores and resulting probabilities
 Calculate and interpret confidence intervals for population means and proportions
 Interpret and explain a p-value
 Perform a two-sample t-test and interpret the results; calculate a 95% confidence interval for
the difference in population means
 Select an appropriate test for comparing two populations on a continuous measure, when the
two sample t-test is not appropriate
 Understand and interpret results from Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), a technique used to
compare means amongst more than two independent populations
 Choose an appropriate method for comparing proportions between two groups; construct a
95% confidence interval for the difference in population proportions
 Understand and interpret relative risks and odds ratios when comparing two populations
 Understand why survival (timed to event) data requires its own type of analysis techniques
 Construct a Kaplan-Meier estimate of the survival function that describes the "survival
experience" of a cohort of subjects
 Interpret the result of a log-rank test in the context of comparing the "survival experience" of
multiple cohorts
 Describe different kinds of studies
 Understand confounding and interaction in studies
 Use SPSS/STATA package to
o Perform two sample comparisons of means and create confidence intervals for the
population mean differences
o Compare proportions amongst two independent populations
o Interpret output from the statistical software package STATA related to the various
estimation and hypothesis testing procedures covered in the course
Tropical Outline

Unit 1 Variables & their Types, Measurement Scales, Types of Data, Data
Collection

Unit 2 Presentation of Data: Frequency Distribution & Graphs

Unit 3 Descriptive Statistics: Measures Of Central Tendency, Measures Of

Dispersion

Unit 4 Inferential Statistics: T-Test. Z-Test, F-Test, ANOVA, Chi-Square Test and
their applications.

Unit 5 Introduction And Application of Linear Regression & Correlation.

Unit 6 Sampling, Random & Non Random Sampling, Sampling Error, Sample Size,
and Questionnaire Design.

Unit 7 Introduction to statistical package(SPSS)

Teaching/Learning Strategies
 Classroom lectures
 Group discussions/role play/simulation & skill laboratory demonstration
 Seminar/conferences
 Tutorials – individual or group
 Skill presentation
 Research
 Assignments

Course Plan

Date Unit Course Teaching/learning Faculty

Content Strategies
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Lesson Plan

MS-NU 507 – Nursing Administration & Leadership

Multan Collage of Nursing
Southren Bypass
Jahangirabad Multan
MSc Nursing program

Course Nursing Administration &

Leadership

Credit Allocated 4

Classroom
Laboratory
Clinical
Total
Placement in Curriculum Year 1
Pre-requisite All BSc Nursing courses

Course Plan of Nursing Administration & Leadership

Course Description:
The content of this course prepares students for the changing role of the professional nurse in
complex and diverse health care settings. The theories and methods of leadership and
management are explored and applied in the clinical experience. There is an emphasis on critical
thinking, team building, communication, priority setting, collaborative decision-making and
advocacy. Students will use nursing leadership and management theory as well as the basic and
applied sciences and humanities from previous courses.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course, students are able to:

 Introduces the management functions and leadership roles of professional registered

nurses within the structure of an organization and is grounded in evidence-based
leadership principles.
 Emphasis on organizational theory, management theory, behavioral theory and political
theory.
 Make them accountability for quality improvement in the provision of nursing care,
interdisciplinary communication, and collaborative relationships.
 Orient them with Legal authority of nursing practice, impact of political and legislative
processes and ethical issues in management, are also discussed.
 Introduce them with various modes of inquiry, including nursing process, problem
solving models and decision-making tools are emphasized.
 Increase them with Information competency through computerized database searching.
An experiential learning approach, using group process and case studies, is used to foster
critical thinking skills.

Tropical Outline

Unit 1 Theoretical basis of nursing administration

- Occupation and profession
- Need for nursing administration
- Administration versus management
Theories of administration and management; Taylor, Fayol, Urwick, Follett,
Lewin, Mintzberg, Ouchi, Yoshida and Deming

Unit 2 Functional authority of nursing administration

- Scope of Management
- Functions of manager
 Planning
 Organizing
 Staffing
 Controlling

Unit 3 Communication skills Effective communication Spheres of communications

Communication-negotiation

Unit 4 Counseling Skills

Unit 5 Conflict management Conflict resolution

- Characteristics, Types
- Conflict Assessment
- Strategies
- Approach to understand the nature of conflict
 Unit 6 Crisis management

Unit 7 Hospital waste management

- Introduction
- Formation of team, plan, techniques, responsibilities
- Incineration; types and trends
- Nosocomial Infections

Unit 8 Quality control

Need of quality health care by nursing personnel Audit as a tool for quality control
Nursing Audit
 Meaning
 Purpose
 Method
Dimensions of quality performance

Teaching/Learning Strategies
 Classroom lectures
 Group discussions/role play/simulation & skill laboratory demonstration
 Seminar/conferences
 Tutorials – individual or group
 Skill presentation
 Research
 Assignments

Course Plan

Date Unit Course Teaching/learning Faculty

Content Strategies
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MS-NU 508 – Advanced Pharmacology

Multan Collage of Nursing

Southren Bypass Jahangirabad Multan
MSc Nursing program

Course Advanced Pharmacology

Credit Allocated 4

Classroom
Laboratory
Clinical
Total
Placement in Curriculum Year 1
Pre-requisite All BSc Nursing courses

Course Plan of Advanced Pharmacology

Course Description:
This course focuses on developing an advanced knowledge base of pharmacology across the lifespan.
Principles of clinical pharmacology, therapeutics, and pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics and drug
metabolism will be discussed.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, students are able to:

1. Identify factors related to pharmaceutical research, general prescription guidelines,

patient education, and economic factors related to prescribing

2. Explain the Pakistan Federal prescription regulations

 3. Describe the most common over-the counter & complimentary & alternative drugs,
related treatment & prescribing parameters

4. Discuss the concepts and principles related to pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and

pharmacotherapeutics.
5. Describe strategies for monitoring expected effects and potential adverse effects of
medications including legal and ethical ramifications

Tropical Outline

Unit 1 Pharmacokinetics
- Routes of drug administration
- Absorption of drugs
- Bioavailability of drugs
- Volume of distribution
- Drug metabolism
- Drug elimination
- Kinetics of continuous administration

Unit 2 Laws relating to drugs

-Local regulation of drugs – Pakistan

Unit 3 Drug receptor interaction and pharmacodynamics

- Chemistry of receptors and ligands
- Major receptor families: ligand gated ion channels G protein coupled
receptors enzyme linked receptors intracellular receptors
- Dose response relationship:
graded dose response relations - potency, efficacy, drug receptor binding,
relationship of binding effect, agonists, antagonists, functional antagonism,
partial agonist
- Quantal dose response relationship: therapeutic index
determination of therapeutic index

Teaching/Learning Strategies
 Classroom lectures
 Group discussions/role play/simulation & skill laboratory demonstration
  Seminar/conferences
 Tutorials – individual or group
 Skill presentation
 Research
 Assignments

Course Plan

Date Unit Course Teaching/learning Faculty

Content Strategies
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MS-NU 509 – Nursing Informatics

Multan Collage of Nursing

Southren Bypass Jahangirabad Multan
MSc Nursing program

Course Nursing Informatics

Credit Allocated 4

Classroom
Laboratory
Clinical
Total
Placement in Curriculum Year 1
Pre-requisite All BSc Nursing courses
 Course Plan of Nursing Informatics
Course Description:
In this course students will explore the use of informatics in nursing practice and its role in
enhancing client care. You will gain an appreciation of the competencies required of an expert
knowledge worker and apply the relevance of those competencies to your day-to-day practice as
a nurse. You will also examine issues related to the protection of the privacy, confidentiality, and
security of health information and consider the potential utility of a wide array of social
networking tools in communicating health-related information.
Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, students are able to:

 Appreciate the concept of nurse as knowledge worker and apply digital literacy competencies in
your day-to-day practice;
 Use information and communication technologies and consider how these can be used to
enhance client care;
 Explore healthcare information systems and electronic health records and examine their use in
the delivery of nursing care;
 Explain the need for protection of privacy, confidentiality and security in the collection and use
of health information;
 Examine the use of Tele health to deliver health care at a distance; and
 Investigate the utility of social media within the contexts of consumer health information, client
education, and professional practice.

Tropical Outline

Unit 1 Nursing informatics

- careers in nursing informatics
- educational preparation using nursing informatics
- informatics organizations

Unit 2 Hospital information system

- Computers: the need to manage information
- Nursing knowledge: access via bibliographic data bases

Unit 3 Computers as patient care tools

- Information system
 - Nursing classification system
- Computerized patient records

Teaching/Learning Strategies
 Classroom lectures
 Group discussions/role play/simulation & skill laboratory demonstration
 Seminar/conferences
 Tutorials – individual or group
 Skill presentation
 Research
 Assignments

Course Plan

Date Unit Course Teaching/learning Faculty

Content Strategies
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MS-NU 510 – Behavioral Sciences

Multan Collage of Nursing

Southren Bypass Jahangirabad Multan
MSc Nursing program
 Course Behavioral Sciences
Credit Allocated 4

Classroom
Laboratory
Clinical
Total
Placement in Curriculum Year 1
Pre-requisite All BSc Nursing courses

Course Plan of Behavioral Sciences

Course Description:
The program includes courses in psychology, sociology, and cultural anthropology.
Course work emphasizes normal and abnormal individual development, as well as family,
group, and cultural dimensions of behavior. ... Classroom courses provide a blend of theory
and application

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of the course, students are able to:

 Explain the foundational principles of medical ethics through a careful examination of the
essential features of the doctor-patient relationship
 Explain the medical concept of capacity (and related legal concept of competence), and analyze
the essential elements involved in the informed consent process, applying this to clinical case
scenarios
 Assess the strengths and limitations of the most influential ethical theories, and describe the
person-centered ethics model, applying this methodology to clinical case scenarios.
 Sequentially describe the various stages of development across the lifespan (child, adolescent,
adult, aging), and interpret the features of each stage in light of the most influential theories of
development.
 Classify and summarize the key clinical features of common behavioral disorders, including
eating disorders, substance use disorders, sexual dysfunctions and disorders.
 Identify and interpret the most common risk factors and key protective factors associated with
suicidal behavior.

Tropical Outline
 Unit 1 Introduction to Behavioral Sciences
- Communication Skill
- Counseling
- Breaking Bad News

Unit 2 Sociology and anthropology in health and disease

- Culture
- Beliefs, Values and Norms
- Social Structure
- Family
- Child Rearing Practices
- Death and Dying
- Health Belief Models and Explanatory Models of Illness
- Social Support
- Treatment Adherence
- Stigma
- Sick Role
- Delivery of Culturally Relevant Care and Cultural Sensitivity

Unit 3 Psychological Aspect of health and disease

- Anxiety and depression
- Loss and grief
- Hope and hopelessness
Unit 4 Stress and its management
Unit 5 Cultural Diversity in Nursing: How much can we tolerate

Teaching/Learning Strategies
 Classroom lectures
 Group discussions/role play/simulation & skill laboratory demonstration
 Seminar/conferences
 Tutorials – individual or group
 Skill presentation
 Research
 Assignments
Course Plan

Date Unit Course Teaching/learning Faculty

Content Strategies
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MS-NU-511 – English Language

Multan Collage of Nursing

Southren Bypass Jahangirabad Multan
MSc Nursing program

Course English Language

Credit Allocated 4

Classroom
Laboratory
Clinical
Total
Placement in Curriculum Year 1
Pre-requisite All BSc Nursing courses

Course Plan of English Language

Course Description:
The course aims at developing a wide range of skills: Language Development, which involves
grammar and extensive vocabulary learning. Writing skills, which have a specific focus on
literacy and short essays, memoranda, notes. Reading, which involves study of instructional
business-related texts of topical relevance.

Course Objectives:
By the end of this course, students will be able to

 Interact with academic content: reading, writing, listening, speaking;

 Demonstrate ability to think critically
 Utilize information and digital literacy skills; and
 Demonstrate behavior and attitudes appropriate to a university environment.

Tropical Outline

Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5

Teaching/Learning Strategies
 Classroom lectures
 Group discussions/role play/simulation & skill laboratory demonstration
 Seminar/conferences
 Tutorials – individual or group
 Skill presentation
 Research
 Assignments

Course Plan

Date Unit Course Teaching/learning Faculty

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