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PHSCMS - Pharmaceutical Sciences

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Pharmaceutical SciencesGraduate Degree SeekingMS - Master of Science
Completion requirement

Minimum Credit Units

33 

Core Coursework Requirements

  • course: Intro to Pharmacology, Drug Discovery & Pharmaceutics  (4)

  • course: Pharmaceutics  (3)

  • course: Journal Club (2) 

  • course: Pharmaceutical Solids, Nanotechnology & Solid-State Particle Engineering Design in Drug Delivery (3)

  • course: Seminar (1)                                       

  • course: Intro Molecular Drug Discovery (2)

  • course:General and Systems Toxicology (3)

  • course: Current Techniques in Pharm Sci (3)

  • course: Epigenetics in Development and Disease (2)

  • course: Cellular Communications & Signal Transduction (4)

  • course:Principles in Drug Disc., Design, Develop (4)

  • course: Biostatistics (3)

 

Elective Coursework

None

 

Additional Requirements

None

Completion requirement

Minimum Credit Units

36 

Core Coursework Requirements

Students must receive a grade of B or better in all core courses.  A student who receives a grade of C or less in a core course must repeat that course.

  • course: Intro to Pharmacology, Drug Discovery & Pharmaceutics  (4)

  • course: Synthetic & Mechanistic Organic Chem  (3)

  • course: Proteins and Enzymes (3)

  • course: Principles in Drug Discovery, Design, and Development (4)

  • course: ABBS Laboratory rotations (6)

  • course: Seminar (4)

  • course: Science Writing, Presentation & Bioethics (2)

  • course: Research Conference (8)

Elective Coursework

Electives are chosen in consultation with the Advisor.  Need enough units from the list below to total a minimum of 36 for the major:

  • course: Current Techniques in Pharmaceutical Sciences (3)

  • course: Topics in Pharmaceutical Solids, Nanotechnology (3)

  • course: Introduction to Molecular Therapeutics and Drug Discovery (2)

  • course: Topics in Pharmaceutics (2)

  • course: Cellular Communications and Signal Transduction (4)

  • course: General and Systems Toxicology (3)

  • course: Drug Metabolism and Disposition (2)

  • course: Epigenetics in Development and Disease (2)

  • course: Nucleic Acids (4)

  • course: Biological Structure I (4)

  • course: Experimental Design (1)

  • course: Grant Writing for Graduate Student (1)

  • course: Cancer Biology (4)

  • course: Advanced Topics in Cancer Biology (4)

  • course: Practical NMR Spectroscopy (3)

  • course: Mechanisms of Organic Reactions (3)

  • course: Advanced Synthetic Chemistry (3)

  • course: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (3)

  • course: Intro to Molecular Spectroscopy (3)

     

Additional Requirements

Must have been admitted to the PhD program.

Completion requirement

Minimum Credit Units

33 

Core Coursework Requirements

Health and Pharm Outcomes M.S. Coursework

The Graduate Program track in Health and Pharm Outcomes requires at least 33 units.  At least half of the units must have letter grades assigned (i.e., A, B, C, etc.).  A 3.0 grade point average must be maintained.  Probation will result if a student's GPA falls below 3.0.

  • course: Health Technology Assessment (3)

  • course: Health Services Research Methods (3)

  • course: Basic Principles of Epidemiology (3)                            

  • course: Epidemiologic Methods (3)

  • course: Biostatistics in Public Health (3)

  • course: Biostatistics for Research (3)                      

  • course: Student Seminar* (2)

  • course: Applied Health Technology Assessment (3)

  • course: Thesis (6)

 *Enrollment required each semester.

Elective Coursework

Electives approved by major advisor (Minimum 4 units required):

  • course: Healthcare Data Analysis (3)

  • course:Pharmaceutical Education Research (3)

  • course: Poverty, Health and Law (2-3)

  • course: Regulatory Science (1)

  • course: Applied Biostatistics Analysis  (3)

  • course: Data Management and the SAD Programming Language (3)

  • course: Advanced Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Analysis of Public Health Data (3)

  • course: Health Care Economics and Policy (3)

  • course: Advanced Health Policy Analysis (3)

 

Additional Requirements

Students must register for seminar course each semester.  Although only two units of seminar count toward the MS degree study plan, students must attend and participate in seminar each semester they are enrolled.

Thesis Defense: The student is expected to present and defend the first three chapters before preceding to data collection analyses etc.  All five chapters will be orally defended as part of the final exam.  A written thesis is required.  After submission of the thesis, the student must defend it during an oral examination.

Student Handbook

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.

Completion requirement

Minimum Credit Units

33 

Core Coursework Requirements

Core courses (23 units): 

  • course: Health Services Research Methods (3)

  • course: Health Technology Assessment (3)

  • course: Applied Health Technology Assessment (3)

  • course: Basic Principles of Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Epidemiological Methods (3)

  • course: Biostatistics in Public Health (3)

  • course: Biostatistics for Research (3)

  • course: Student Seminar* (2)

  *Enrollment required each semester.

Elective Coursework

Electives (Minimum 10 units required):

  • course: Healthcare Data Analysis (3)

  • course: Pharmaceutical Education Research (3)

  • course: Poverty, Health and Law (2-3)

  • course: Regulatory Science (1)

  • course: Applied Biostatistics Analysis  (3)

  • course: Data Management and the SAD Programming Language (3)

  • course: Advanced Epidemiology (3)

  • course: Analysis of Public Health Data (3)

  • course: Health Care Economics and Policy (3)

  • course: Advanced Health Policy Analysis (3)

 

Additional Requirements

Students will complete a comprehensive project in course: Health Services Research Methods. 

Students will be required to enroll between 7-10 units per semester. 

Students must register for seminar course each semester.  Although only two units of seminar count toward the MS degree study plan, students must attend and participate in seminar each semester they are enrolled.

Completion requirement

Minimum Credit Units

30 

Core Coursework Requirements

Students must receive a grade of B or better in all core courses.  A student who receives a grade of C or less in a core course must repeat that course.

  • course: Intro to Pharmacology, Drug Discovery & Pharmaceutics  (4)

  • course: Pharmaceutics  (3)

  • course: Current Techniques in Pharmaceutical Sciences (3) OR other course approved by the major advisor

  • course: Topics in Drug Discovery  (2)

  • course: General and Systems Toxicology (3)

  • course: Seminar (2 units) or course: Journal Club (2) 

  • course: Principles in Drug Discovery, Design, and Development  (4)

 

Elective Coursework

Elective Courses (9 units) - Chosen in consultation with the Advisor

  • course: Biostatistics (3)                              

  • course: Statistics for Research (3)

  • course: Cellular Communications & Signal Transduction (4)

  • course: Drug Disposition & Metabolism (2)

  • course: Mechanisms of Human Diseases (4)

  • course: Problems in the Biology of Complex Diseases  (2)

  • course: Health Services Research Methods (3)

  • course: Health Technology Assessment (3)

  • course: Bioinformatics and Genomic Analysis (3)     

  • course: Epigenetics in Development and Disease (2)

  • course: Pharmaceutical Solids, Nanotechnology & Solid-State Particle Engineering Design in Drug Delivery (3)

RESEARCH OPTION:

 

Additional Requirements

All new students must attend an orientation session held prior to the first day of classes. The program coordinator will inform the incoming students of the time and location of this orientation in advance.

Students are required to register for course / course for the fall and spring semesters for their term of full-time residence in the Program. 

Completion requirement

Minimum Credit Units

36 

Core Coursework Requirements

Students must receive a grade of B or better in all core courses.  A student who receives a grade of C or less in a core course must repeat that course.

  • course: Pharmaceutics  (3)

  • course: Intro to Pharmacology, Drug Discovery & Pharmaceutics  (4)

  • course: Current Techniques in Pharmaceutical Sciences (3)

  • course:Topics in Pharmaceutics (2)

  • course: Pharmaceutics Research Lab Meeting  (4)

  • course: Seminar (4)

  • course: Bio Statistics (3)

  • course: Science, Society and Ethics (1) OR course: Science Writing, Presentation & Bioethics  (2)

  • course: ABBS Directed Research / course: TSA Directed Research (6)

 

Elective Coursework

 Chosen in consultation with the Advisor

  • course: Air Pollution II: Aerosols (3)

  • course: Interfacial Chemistry of Biomolecules in Environmental Systems (3)

  • course: Analytical Separations (2-3)

  • course: Physical Chemistry of Materials (3)

 

Additional Requirements

Must have been admitted to the PhD program. 

Completion requirement

This program has multiple emphases; see below for specific requirements for each emphasis.