Professional Electives Search
This search tool is designed to help you identify professional electives that may align with your interests. You can search by any/all of the fields provided. This tool is not intended as an exhaustive list of all possible professional electives; rather, it includes electives offered through the college of pharmacy, professional electives approved by the Curriculum and Assessment Committee, and electives that have been taken by students at some of the other schools on campus. Term offered is only provided for College of Pharmacy courses; a link to the appropriate course guide is provided for all other courses.
As a reminder, graduate courses (>500 level) that are relevant to biomedical, human health, and/or the practice of pharmacy which are offered through the U-M health-science schools (Pharmacy, Nursing, Social Work, Public Health, Medicine, and Dentistry) qualify as professional electives provided they are not attendance-only courses. Attendance-only courses offered through the health-science schools (e.g., seminars or journal clubs that do not require a rigorous form of student assessment) are not accepted for professional elective credit. Courses offered through U-M non-health-science schools must be reviewed and approved by the Curriculum and Assessment Committee.
Perspectives in Global Health (Credits: 2)
Interdisciplinary clinically focused elective course. Explores issues that directly or indirectly affect health in low and middle resource countries. Students will learn about health care delivery systems with a focus on global/public health concepts and health promotion and risk reduction. Purpose is to broaden the student's worldview and global perspectives of health care issues. Emphasis is on health equity among nations and for all people.
**Students may take only one of the following for professional elective credit: Nursing 420, Nursing 421, or Nursing 521.**
Prerequisites: Please view the course schedule for current advisory and/or enforced prerequisites.For more information see the Nursing Course Guide
Introduction to Global Health: Issues and Challenges (Credits: 3)
This course will explore the issues that directly or indirectly affect health in low and middle resource countries from an interdisciplinary approach. We will focus on global and public health concepts and on health promotion and risk reduction in countries to which students plan to travel for field work, or from which they have returned. We will consider how history, culture, politics and social institutions influence health and health systems. Lecture this year focuses primarily on Latin America and the Caribbean and Southeast Asia. Students who are not traveling are encouraged to use course assignments to explore how the issues being discussed impact health in another country of particular interest in them. The purpose of the course is to broaden the student's worldview and global perspective on health care issues. Emphasis for this course is on health equity among nations and for all people.
**Students may take only one of the following for professional elective credit: Nursing 420, Nursing 421, or Nursing 521.**
For more inforamtion see the Nursing Course Guide
Food Literacy for All (Credits: 2)
This course offers a unique opportunity for students to gain an interdisciplinary overview of crises and opportunities in today's food system through a weekly lecture series bringing high-profile speakers to campus from diverse sectors: academia, grassroots movements, public health, farming, and more. Designed as an academic-community partnership, the course is led by a UM faculty member (Leung) with a leader in food justice in Detroit (Hebron), along with the program manager of the UM Sustainable Food Systems Initiative (Shapiro).
Cross listed with ENVIRON 444, PUBHLTH 318, EAS 444
Prerequisites: Please view the course schedule for current advisory and/or enforced prerequisites.Molecular Nutrition (Credits: 3)
Individual food decisions can have profound impacts on our health. Here, you will learn about the molecular components of food, and how we digest, absorb, transport, and use them in our bodies. We will then use this information to understand how individuals differ in terms of how foods affect them.
Prerequisites: Please view the course schedule for current advisory and/or enforced prerequisites.Nutrigenomics (Credits: 3)
This course aims to understand, in depth, the influence of genetics on micronutrient metabolism, and implications for human diseases including inherited inborn disease, metabolic disease, cancer neurodevelopment, and neurodegenerative diseases, etc.
Prerequisites: Please view the course schedule for current advisory and/or enforced prerequisites.Sensors in Pharmacy and Medicine (Credits: 2)
This elective course introduces the principles of modern qualitative and quantitative physical, chemical, and biosensors and analytical techniques that are utilized frequently in the pharmacy and medicine. These sensors have critical roles in pharmaceutical preparations, point-of-care diagnostics and patient monitoring. The course will cover the fundamentals of physical sensors (for measuring temperature, pressure, flow, humidity, motion), chemical sensors (for measuring pH, blood gas, anesthetic gases and exhaled breath) and biosensors (for measuring blood glucose, proteins, DNA, liposomes, biomarkers), from the simplest applications to the most advanced and novel applications.
Prerequisites: Please view the course schedule for current advisory and/or enforced prerequisites.Medicinal Cannabis (Credits: 2)
This course will cover all aspects related to the medicinal use of Cannabis, focusing on different perspectives offered by lecturers with highly relevant, related expertise. Lecturers will include local scientists and physicians, Medical Cannabis doctors, dispensary owners, Cannabis lawyers, politicians, and students who are pursuing Cannabis-related careers.
Prerequisites: Junior & Senior students or with permission. Successful completion of General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry (Chem 210/211) and Biology (Biology 172) required.Pharmaceutical Engineering (Credits: 3)
Concepts necessary in the adaptation of engineering principles to pharmaceutical and life sciences related industries. Topics include process engineering in drug discovery, high throughput characterization and optimization of new chemical entities, solid-state engineering and intelligent pharmaceutical manufacturing systems.
Cross listed with Chemical Engineering 519
Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing, permission of instructor.Research (Credits: 1-6)
The experiences will vary depending on the specific faculty member's project but may include: conducting clinical or basic science research, performing an extensive review of the literature and preparing a summary report/manuscript, analyzing data that has previously been collected. Students may work on a single project or be exposed to several types of projects during the course. For specific details of the course, students should contact individual faculty.
Prerequisites: Graduate and PharmD students. Permission of Instructor.Biologic Products: Recombinant Proteins, Cell Therapies and Biosimilars (Credits: 2)
In 2016 the top selling drugs are monoclonal antibodies, and half of the new drugs approved are biopharmaceuticals and numerous biosimilars are being developed. This class is about how biologic drugs are discovered, manufactured, formulated, analyzed, developed and regulated - now essential information for scientists seeking careers in the pharmaceutical industry.
Prerequisites: Graduate students
