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Graduate Program - Curriculum

The M.S. degree requires at least 30 semester hours, which may include 6 semester hours of research. The degree usually requires a thesis.

The Ph.D. candidate is required to have completed the courses outlined below. The Ph.D. degree is primarily a research degree conferred upon students who have demonstrated proficiency in their chosen field of research. Ph.D. students take a comprehensive examination between the beginning and end of their third year of graduate study. The dissertation if defended in a final oral examination.

The Core Curriculum that students must complete is based upon the focus area selected. At the time of selection of an advisor, the student should also designate the focus area for their graduate program: Physical & Applied Pharmaceutics, Drug Disposition & Dynamics, or Drug Delivery & Tissue Engineering. The core curriculum for each of the focus areas is outlined below. Requests for deviation from the core requirements or acceptance of course work at another institution in lieu of a core course must be approved by the student’s major advisor.

Physical & Applied Pharmaceutics

Prerequisites (may be taken subsequent to enrollment in graduate program)
Entering graduate students are expected to have undergraduate training and course work equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts degree in a science discipline. Undergraduate course work should include one year of general chemistry, one year of organic chemistry, two semesters of calculus and at least one semester of physics. Advanced science electives in pharmacology, physiology, microbiology, biochemistry, and computer science are desirable but not required.

Suggested electives for the Physical & Applied Pharmaceutics Focus
Advanced Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (046:229), 3 sh
Probability and Statistics (022S:120), 4 sh
Regression Analysis (022S:152), 3 sh
Experimental Design and Analysis (22S:158), 3 sh
Biophysical Chemistry I (099:241), 3 sh
Advanced Organic Chemistry (004:172), 3 sh
Spectroscopy (004:208), 3 sh
Separations (004:209), 3 sh
Chemical Systems Modeling, 2 sh
Chemical Equilibrium and Solutions Properties, 1 sh
Mechanisms of Organic Reactions, 3 sh

Drug Delivery & Tissue Engineering

Required Courses
The student must select a minimum of six courses from the following:

* 25 of these 50 credits must be comprised of didactic courses beyond the pre-requisite courses listed below.

Pre-requisites (may be taken subsequent to enrollment in the graduate program)

Coursework equivalent to:
Principles of Chemistry I & II (004:011, 012)
Organic Chemistry I& II (004:121, 122)
Physical Chemistry I (004:131)
Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations (022M:100)
College Physics (029:011,012)
Quantitative Research Methods in Pharmacy (046:157)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I & II (099:120, 130)
Physiology (027:130, 072:151, or 072:154)
Intermediate Pharmacology (071:130)

Suggested Electives for the Drug Delivery & Tissue Engineering Focus
Cell Physiology (002:155), 4 sh
Electron Microscopy Techniques (002:218)
Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-Ray Microanalysis (052:156),
Chemical Systems Modeling (004:214), 2 sh
Physical Chemistry II (004:132), 3 sh
Regression Analysis (022S:152), 3 sh
Experimental Design and Analysis (022S:158), 3 sh
Advanced Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (046:229), 3 sh
Enzymatic Basis of Drug Metabolism (046:137) 3 sh
Receptors and Signal Transduction (072:209), 3 sh
Responsible Conduct of Research (072:270), 1 sh
Biophysical Chemistry I (099:241), 3 sh
Biophysical Chemistry II (099:242), 3 sh
Enzymatic Kinetics and Bioorganic Mechanisms (099:226), 1-2 sh
Graduate Biological Systems Analysis (151:144), 3 sh
Biotransport Processes (151:160), 3 sh
Polymers as Biomaterials (151:172), 3 sh
Tissue Engineering (151:144), 3 sh
Principles in Molecular and Cellular Biology (156:201), 4 sh
Introduction to Biostatistics (171:161), 3 sh
Design and Analysis of Biomedical Studies (171:162), 3 sh

Drug Disposition & Dynamics

Prerequisites (may be taken subsequent to enrollment in graduate program)
Entering graduate students are expected to have undergraduate training and course work equivalent to a Bachelor of Arts degree in a science discipline. Undergraduate course work should include one year of general chemistry, one year of organic chemistry, math through ordinary differential equations and at least one semester of physics. Advanced science electives in pharmacology, physiology, microbiology, biochemistry, and computer science are desirable but not required.

Suggested electives for the Drug Disposition & Dynamics Focus
Stability of Pharmaceuticals (046:206), 3 sh
Polymers in Pharmaceutics (046:207), 3 sh
Equilibria (046:235), 3 sh
Surface Phenomenon (046:236), 3 sh
Transport Phenomenon (046:237), 3 sh
Enzymatic Basis of Drug Metabolism (046:137), 3 sh
Principles of Clinical Pharmacology I (046:xxx), 3 sh
Principles of Clinical Pharmacology II (046:xxx), 3 sh
Clinical Pharmacogenomics (046:xxx), 3 sh
Research Methods and Analytical Techniques in Therapeutics (046:xxx), 3 sh
Mathematical Statistics I (22S:153), 3 sh
Mathematical Statistics II (22S:154), 3 sh
Bayesian Statistics (22S:138), 3 sh
Computer Intensive Statistics (22S:248), 3 sh
Microscopy for Biomedical Research (061:218), sh
Principles of Pharmacology (071:135), 4 sh
Receptors and Signal Transduction (071:209), 3 sh
Pharmacology for Graduate Students (071:302), 6 sh
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I (099:120), 3 sh
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II (099:130), 3 sh
Statistical Genetics I: Dichotomous Traits (171:271), 3 sh