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Courses: Pharmacy Interdepartmental (PHAR)

2362: Principles of Drug Action
Cr. 3. (3-0). A critical examination of man's environment with particular emphasis on the benefits and risks of drug usage and exposure to chemicals. This course has been approved to satisfy the natural science component of Level 2 of the core curriculum.

2361: Drugs and Disease States
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: open to non-pharmacy majors only. BIOL 1310:1320 and PHAR 2362 helpful but not required. An examination of common human diseases and the drug therapy used to treat these diseases.

4305: Nonprescription Drugs and Their Use
Cr. 3. (3-0). Prerequisite: second professional year standing or consent of instructor. Consideration of selected medications available without prescription, and the counseling of patients as to their use.

4260: Pharmacy Management I
Cr.2. (2-0). Prerequisite: First year standing in the College of Pharmacy. Management and accounting principles related to community and hospital pharmacy practice and computers in pharmacy practice.

4261: Pharmacy Management II
Cr.2. (2-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 4260. Principles and theories of pharmacy practice site management.

4270: Pharmacy Practice I
Cr.2. (2-0). Prerequisite: First year standing in the College of Pharmacy, SPCM 1331. Instruction in problem solving and basic communications, interpersonal relationships, drug information, medical terminology, introduction to pharmacy and history of pharmacy and its professional organizations.

4271: Pharmacy Practice II
Cr.2. (2-0). Prerequisite: MATH 2311 and PHAR 4270. Identifying, evaluating, and selecting appropriate drug information sources; pharmaceutical calculations and measurements.

4320: Organ Systems Life Sciences I
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: First year standing in the College of Pharmacy and BIOL 1431-1432. Principles of human anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of the body including fetal physiology; an introduction to neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and pathophysiology of the human central nervous system.

4330: Pharmaceutics I
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: First year standing in the College of Pharmacy. Physicochemical properties of drugs and their dosage forms with emphasis on drug delivery systems.

4331: Pharmaceutics II
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 4330. Design of novel drug delivery systems including physicochemical and biopharmaceutical properties of drugs and their dosage forms.

4350: Pharmacy Skills Program I
Cr.3. (0-9). Prerequisite: First year standing in the College of Pharmacy. Laboratories/ demonstrations in the basic pharmaceutical sciences, problem solving sessions, practice site visitation, and application of computers to pharmacy.

4351: Pharmacy Skills Program II
Cr.3. (0-9). Prerequisite: PHAR 4350. Laboratories/demonstrations in the basic pharmaceutical sciences, patient counseling skills in non-English speaking populations (Elementary Spanish/Vietnamese), basic statistics and pharmaceutical calculations.

4400: Cellular Life Sciences I
Cr.4. (4-0). Prerequisite: First year standing in the College of Pharmacy, CHEM 3331-3332 and CHEM 3221-3222. An introduction to the chemistry and metabolism of biological molecules including: carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids; and coverage of vitamins and their components, with emphasis on their relationship to disease states and drug therapy.

4401: Cellular Life Sciences II
Cr.4. (4-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 4400. A study of human immunology and genetics as it relates to normal body function, disease states, and drug therapy.

4421: Organ Systems Life Sciences II
Cr. 4. (4-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 4320. Human physiology and pathophysiology of cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, gastrointestinal, reproductive, and endocrine systems.

5181:5182: Clinical Seminar
Cr. 1. (1-0). Prerequisite: Fourth year standing in the College of Pharmacy. Patient history collection and review, patient medication counseling, drug information presentation and pharmacy in-service programs.

5198:5298:5398:5498: Special Problems
Cr. 1-4 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of dean. It should be noted that these courses are graded as S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) courses.

5274: Pharmacy Practice V
Cr.2. (2-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 5373. Knowledge, description and counseling information concerning durable medical supplies, diagnostic agents, nutritional supplements and sterile products.

5275: Pharmacy Practice VI
Cr.2. (2-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 5274. Development of counseling skills associated with non- prescription drug dispensing and drug information retrieval.

5297:5397: Selected Topics in Pharmaceutical Studies
Cr. 2-3 per semester. (2-0:3-0). Prerequisite: consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Selection of specific topics of interest for group study.

5304: Pharmacognosy
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. The chemistry, pharmacology and therapeutics of specialized drugs derived from plants.

5305: Pharmacodynamics Research
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Introduction to basic research into drug chemistry, pharmacology, and/or pharmacokinetics.

5306: Molecular Biology Research
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Introduction into the molecular biology and chemistry of drug action.

5322: Toxicology
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 5703. Basic toxicology of therapeutic agents, environmental agents and drug and substance abuse.

5323: Public Health
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Discussion of epidemiological principles and their applications in establishing etiologies and preventative strategies with regard to chronic diseases, infectious diseases, substance abuse and genetic disease.

5333: Advanced Statistics
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A study of common statistical methods used to evaluate the effectiveness of drug therapy in various populations.

5334: Pharmaceutics Research
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Introduction to basic research into pharmaceutics including formulations, dosage forms, and drug delivery systems.

5352: Pharmacy Skills Program III
Cr.3. (0-9). Prerequisite: PHAR 4351. Laboratories/demonstrations in the basic pharmaceutical sciences, compounding, dispensing and patient counseling techniques and practice.

5353: Pharmacy Skills Program IV
Cr.3. (0-9). Prerequisite: PHAR 5352. Problem solving utilizing clinical physical assessment, compounding, dispensing and patient counseling exercises, and drug information retrieval.

5354: Pharmacy Skills Program V
Cr.3. (0-9). Prerequisite: PHAR 5353. Therapeutic case studies, journal literature evaluation, and clinical pharmacy practice site experiences.

5355: Pharmacy Skills Program VI
Cr.3. (0-9). Prerequisite: PHAR 5354. Therapeutic case studies applied to non-prescription drugs and drug histories, clinical pharmacy site experiences and exercises in applied statistics.

5362: Pharmacy Management III
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 4261. Principles of personnel management, managed health care, ownership/franchise issues and government regulations.

5364: Pharmacy Psychology/Sociology Issues
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Insight into patient psychology and the consideration of social issues in pharmaceutical health care.

5365: Pharmacy Public Speaking
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Emphasis on the development of speaking skills required to effectively present drug and pharmacy issues to various general audiences to both inform and educate them as knowledgeable pharmaceutical consumers.

5372: Pharmacy Practice III
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 4271. History of Pharmacy and the development of pharmacy ethics and law.

5373: Pharmacy Practice IV
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 5372. Integration of the scientific principles of pharmaceutics and a practical knowledge of pharmacy applied to preparation, compounding, and dispensing of medications. Drug therapy counseling of prescription and nonprescription medication.

5376: Advanced Community Pharmacy Practice
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Clinical pharmacy services and pharmaceutical care as practiced in a community pharmacy setting.

5377: Advanced Hospital Pharmacy Practice
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Clinical pharmacy services and pharmaceutical care as practiced in a hospital pharmacy setting.

5378: Specialized Patient Pharmaceutical Care
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Clinical pharmacy services and specialized needs of patients with specific disease states such as infectious disease, cancer, chronic cardiac conditions, etc.

5379: Specialty Compounding
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: Third-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. The preparation of unique and difficult pharmaceutical preparations and formulations.

5380: Physical Assessment
Cr.3. (3-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 5702. Concurrent enrollment in: PHAR 5703 or consent of the instructor. Understanding and application of physical diagnostic examinations and gross pathological states as it relates to rational drug prescribing.

5432: Pharmacokinetics
Cr.4. (4-0). Prerequisites: PHAR 4401, PHAR 4421, and PHAR 4331. Concurrent enrollment in: PHAR 5702. Application of the principles of pharmacokinetics to drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion. Effect of disease on drug response and pharmacokinetics. The clinical pharmacokinetics of drug doses and specified drugs in relation to the rational administration of these agents. Influence of dosage form and disease on therapeutic and toxic response.

5581: Advanced Therapeutics I
Cr.5. (5-0). Prerequisites: PHAR 5703 and PHAR 5432. Clinical pharmacy practice and therapeutics. Requires integration and application of pharmacological and biopharmaceutical principles to the treatment of specific disease states.

5582: Advanced Therapeutics II
Cr.5. (5-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 5581. Continuation of Advanced Therapeutics I. Integration and application of pharmacological and biopharmaceutical principles to the treatment of specific disease states.

5670: Community Pharmaceutical Care
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Advanced clinical pharmaceutical health care experience in a community pharmacy setting.

5671: Hospital Pharmaceutical Care
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Advanced clinical pharmaceutical health care experience in a hospital pharmacy setting.

5672: Clinical Pharmaceutical Research
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. An experiential introduction to clinical pharmaceutical research.

5673: Veterinary Pharmaceutical Care
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A structured pharmacy experience in a veterinary health care setting dealing with both dispensing and clinical functions.

5680: Oncology
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A structured pharmacy experience in an institutional setting dealing with oncology patients.

5681: Infectious Diseases
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A structured pharmacy experience in an institutional setting dealing with patients with infectious diseases.

5682: Surgery
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A structured pharmacy experience in an institutional setting dealing with surgery patients.

5683: Cardiology
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A structured pharmacy experience in an institutional setting dealing with cardiology patients.

5684: Family Medicine
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Clinical pharmaceutical health care experience in a family practice setting.

5685: Critical Care
Cr.6. (0-18). Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Clinical pharmaceutical health care experience with patients in a critical care unit.

5686: Psychiatry
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Clinical pharmaceutical health care experience with psychiatric patients.

5687: Nuclear Pharmacy
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Clinical pharmaceutical health care experience with patients undergoing nuclear pharmacy treatments.

5688: Home Care
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Clinical pharmaceutical health care experience in a home care setting.

5689: Consulting Pharmacy
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Clinical pharmaceutical health care experience with a consultant pharmacist.

5690: General Medicine
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A structured pharmacy experience in an institutional practice setting dealing with internal medicine.

5691: Drug Information
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A structured pharmacy experience in a practice setting dealing with drug information services.

5692: Hospital Pharmacy
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A structured preceptored experience in hospital pharmacy practice.

5693: Community Pharmacy
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A structured pharmacy experience in community and ambulatory practice stressing management and prescription dispensing functions, patient counseling, and over-the- counter medication.

5694: Pediatrics
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A structured pharmacy experience in an institutional setting dealing with a pediatric population.

5695: Geriatrics
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. A structured pharmacy experience in an institutional setting dealing with a geriatric population.

5698: Medicine-Special Problems
Cr.6. (0-18). Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in the College of Pharmacy or consent of the instructor. Clinical pharmaceutical care experience with patients in a particular medical subspecialty category.

5702: Pharmacodynamics I
Cr.7. (7-0). Prerequisites: PHAR 4401 and PHAR 4421. Chemistry, pharmacology and basic therapeutics of drugs affecting the nervous system, skeletal muscle system, and cardiovascular system.

5703: Pharmacodynamics II
Cr.7. (7-0). Prerequisite: PHAR 5702. Chemistry, pharmacology and basic therapeutics of agents used in inflammatory diseases, gastrointestinal conditions, chemotherapy, and as endocrine drugs or immunosuppressants.