PhD Curriculum

There are four categories of course work: Required intradepartmental courses (10 credits), intradepartmental course electives (6 credits), core/pre-requisite courses, extradepartmental courses.

Required Intradepartmental Courses (10 credit hours)

■        Pharmacokinetics (PharmSci 700, 2 cr) (DE Smith)

■        Equilibria & Dosage Forms (PharmSci 701, 2 cr) (GE Amidon)

■        Biopharmaceutics (PharmSci 702, 2 cr) (GL Amidon)

■        Physical & Chemical Kinetics (PharmSci 703, 2 cr) (S Schwendeman)

■        Analytical Methods in Drug Delivery (PharmSci 704, 2 cr) (W Cheng)

■        PharmSci 838, first 4 semesters

■        MedChem 660, first 2 semesters

Intradepartmental Course Electives (choose 6 credit hours)

■        Nanotechnology (PharmSci 705, 2 cr) (J Moon)

■        Biologics (PharmSci 706, 2 cr) (A Schwendeman)

■        Solids (PharmSci 707, 2 cr) (N Rodriguez-Hornedo)

■        Cellular Drug Transport (PharmSci 710, 2 cr) (G Rosania)

■        Pharmaceutical Engineering (PharmSci 717, 3 cr) (P Tessier)

■        Advanced Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacometrics (PharmSci 760, 3 cr) (D Sun)

Core/pre-requisite Courses (may petition waiver if these courses have been taken in your previous studies)

Each of the courses below (square bullets) needs to have been completed either prior to joining the department or after beginning the graduate curriculum (and as soon as possible for Pre-requisites (square bullets 3-4)).  If those courses taken during graduate study exceed 9 credit hours (may petition waiver if previously taken), the extradepartmental course requirement will be decreased accordingly (e.g., if 12 credits taken in the courses below during graduate study the extradepartmental requirement would be decreased by 3 credits resulting in a 6 credit extradepartmental requirement).

■        Core Bioscience Courses >= 500 level (choose 6 credits)

●        Pharmacology 601 (3 cr, PSTP required)

●        Physiology 601 (3 cr)

●        Cell and developmental biology 530 (3 cr)

●        Human genetics 541 (4 cr)

■        Statistics (3 cr)  *

■        Differential Equations (3 cr) *

■        Physical Chemistry (3 cr) *

* Either graduate or undergraduate level course can be taken to fulfill this requirement. Undergraduate courses < 400 level are not counted to fulfill graduate credit, but can be counted to fulfill prerequisite requirement)

Extradepartmental Courses (choose 9 credit hours)

Some options for extradepartmental courses below (note: this list is just a suggestion and some courses are also required by PSTP training program, but you may choose any other courses not listed here based on your research interests and your advisor’s approval)

■        Medicinal chemisty 534 (3 cr, PSTP required)

■        Medicinal chemistry 532 (3 cr) or Medicinal chemistry 533 ((3 cr) (one of them is required by PSTP)

■        Pharm 604 (1 cr) (PSTP required)

■        Pharmacology 502 (2 cr) or Med Chem 740 (1 cr) (one of them is PSTP required)

■        Physiology 601 (3 cr)

■        Cell and developmental biology 530 (3  cr)

■        Human genetics 541 (4 cr

■        Cancer biology 554 (4 cr)

■        Microbiology 640 (3 cr)

 

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Monday, September 30, 2013
Monday, September 30, 2013