Winter 07/Spring 08 Course Descriptions

All courses below are approved to be taught in Winter 2007 and Spring 2008; however, some (or all) may not be offered in either term.  The courses that are offered in Spring link to the Schedule of Classes.  Classes with alternative delivery modes (Web based, cable TV, correspondence, etc) are noted in the Schedule at the section level.  The complete list below is a good indicator of what may be offered over the next few years (contact department about offerings).  For explanations of course elements see the Key to Course Descriptions.

Pharmaceutical Sciences (PHSC)  Department Info

PHSC 507 -- Pharmacokinetics  (4 units)
Description:  Quantitative description of the processes of drug absorption, distribution and elimination and factors affecting those processes. Application of kinetic principles to chronic drug administration. Quantitative description of the processes of drug absorption, distribution and elimination and factors affecting those processes. Application of kinetic principles to chronic drug administration.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  Concurrent registration, PHSC 508A.
May be convened with:  PHPR 807.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 508A -- Pharmacokinetics Discussion  (1 unit)
Description:  Discussion related to the application of pharmacokinetic principles with case-study examples. Discussion related to the application of pharmacokinetic principles with case-study examples.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  Concurrent registration, PHSC 507.
May be convened with:  PHPR 808A.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 508B -- Pharmacokinetics Discussion  (1 unit)
Description:  Discussion related to the application of pharmacokinetic principles with case-study examples. Graduate-level requirements include an in-depth analysis of a pharmacokinetic problem.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
May be convened with:  PHPR 808B.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 511 -- Health Care and Health Policy  (3 units)
Description:  History, organization and administration of health care services.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  CPH 511.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 512 -- Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships  (3 units)
Description:  Approaches to the quantification of pharmacological actions of drugs on the basis of chemical structure.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

PHSC 513 -- Health Technology Assessment  (3 units)
Description:  Provides an overview of methods in health technology assessment, including cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, and cost-utility analysis. Current controversies in technology assessment are discussed. Emphasis will be placed on critical assessment of the published literature.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  CPH 513.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 530 -- Proteins and Nucleic Acids as Drug Targets  (3 units)
Description:  [Taught alternate years beginning Spring 2005]. The course will be coordinated through the Medicinal Chemistry Division of Pharmacology & Toxicology and will be Team Taught. Each semester four to five topics will be chosen for which the core areas of (chemistry, biochemistry, and medicinal chemistry) have been brought to bear on a specific biological question. Faculty, from the core areas, will lecture on each topic and lead discussions. Students will present material and lead discussions.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  CBIO 530, CHEM 530, PCOL 530.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 537A -- Medicinal Chemistry II  (3 units)
Description:  Continuation of the comprehensive survey of the medicinal chemistry of drugs, including agents acting on the autonomic, cardiovascular, hematopoietic, inflammatory, and gastrointestinal systems, vitamins and radiopharmaceuticals. Continuation of the comprehensive survey of the medicinal chemistry of drugs, including agents acting on the autonomic, cardiovascular, hematopoietic, inflammatory, and gastrointestinal systems, vitamins and radiopharmaceuticals.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  PCOL 536A.
Identical to:  PCOL 837A.
May be convened with:  PCOL 837A.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 537B -- Medicinal Chemistry III  (2 units)
Description:  Continuation of the comprehensive survey of the medicinal chemistry of drugs, including agents acting on the endocrine and central nervous systems. Continuation of the comprehensive survey of the medicinal chemistry of drugs, including agents acting on the endocrine and central nervous systems.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  PCOL 536A and PHSC 537A.
Identical to:  PCOL 837B.
May be convened with:  PCOL 837B.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 542 -- Professional Management Practice  (3 units)
Description:  Management of professional situations and the interaction among patients, colleagues, and other health-care providers, with application to institutional, community, and clinical pharmacy practice. Management of professional situations and the interaction among patients, colleagues, and other health-care providers, with application to institutional, community, and clinical pharmacy practice.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
May be convened with:  PHPR 842.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 543 -- Health Services Research Methods  (3 units)
Description:  Design and evaluation of health services research. Application of scientific, ethical, and methodological principles to the investigation of research questions regarding health and health care delivery.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  CPH 543.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 544 -- Pharmaceutical Policy  (3 units)
Description:  Survey of public and private policies affecting the development, availability, and use of pharmaceuticals in the U.S. and other countries.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  PHSC 511.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 547 -- Perspectives in Geriatrics Lab  (1 unit)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  GERO 547.
May be convened with:  PHPR 847.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 548 -- Perspectives in Geriatrics  (2 units)
Description:  Multidisciplinary approach to the health-care needs of the elderly, including medication use, nutrition, health care agencies and roles of individual health care professionals. Graduate-level requirements include one in-depth research paper on a single topic relevant to geriatric care.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  CPH 548, GERO 548.
May be convened with:  PHPR 848.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 549 -- Chemistry of Natural Products  (3 units)
Description:  Chemical, biochemical and genetic survey of secondary metabolic pathways leading to biologically active natural products. Combinatorial biosynthesis of hybrid "unnatural" natural products.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  CHEM 549; CHEM is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 555 -- Drug Delivery Systems  (3 units)
Description:  A course dedicated to applying basic physical chemical property understanding to the development of drug delivery systems.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  Graduate level student in Chemistry, Engineering or Pharmacy
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 561 -- Pharmaceutical Research and Drug Literature Evaluation  (3 units)
Description:  Application of research design, statistical methods, evaluation techniques, and ethical dimensions to critically evaluate published literature, research reports and proposals Graduate students will write either an additional paper or proposal.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 585 -- Advanced Clinical Pharmacokinetics  (3 units)
Description:  An overview of the U. S. health care system and the consumers, providers, payers, and regulators that comprise it. The role of pharmacy and pharmacists within the health care system will be explored, including an examination of social, behavioral, and economic factors associated with the prescribing, dispensing, and use of medications.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 588 -- Clinical Psychopharmacology  (1 unit)
Description:  The course will cover the advanced principles of psychopharmacology and utilization of psychotropic agents in clinical practice
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  or Concurrent registration, PHSC 589; PHPR 875A.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 589 -- Clinical Pharmacotherapy of Mental Disorders  (2 units)
Description:  A multidisciplinary approach to clinical psychopharmacology, therapeutics, and diagnosis of mental disorders for health professionals. Graduate students will be required to write a paper on a topic related to psychopharmacology or mental health. Topics must be approved by course coordinator.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  PHPR 816A.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 593 -- Internship  (1-6 units)
Description:  Specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

PHSC 596A -- Medicinal and Natural Products Chemistry  (1 unit)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

PHSC 596B -- Pharmaceutical Chemistry Research  (1 unit)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
May be repeated:  for credit 5 times (maximum 6 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

PHSC 596C -- Pharmaceutics Research  (1-2 units)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
May be repeated:  for a total of 12 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

PHSC 596D -- Pharmaceutics  (1 unit)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
May be repeated:  for credit 4 times (maximum 5 enrollments).
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

PHSC 596E -- Pharmacy Administration  (1 unit)
Description:  The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
May be repeated:  for a total of 5 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 596H -- Special Topics in Pharmaceutical Sciences  (1 unit)
Description:  In-depth examination of new and emerging topics in toxicogenomics, drug design, drug discovery and related areas through lectures, readings and small-group exercises and discussions.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
May be repeated:  for a total of 6 units of credit.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

PHSC 596L -- National Health Care Systems  (1 unit)
Description:  This seminar course will compare US healthcare delivery systems with the national health care systems of 12 other industrialized nations. Each of these 12 nations has a health care system that covers all or nearly all of its citizens. Each nation is a member of OECD which has collected comparative health care data on each country since 1960.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
Identical to:  CPH 596L; CPH is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 599 -- Independent Study  (1-5 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

PHSC 601 -- Advanced Physical Pharmacy  (3 units)
Description:  Applications of physical chemistry to pharmacy.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  physical pharmacy or physical chemistry. Open to majors only.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 602 -- Physiochemical Factors Influencing Drug Action  (3 units)
Description:  The role of acid-base equilibrium, dissolution, and complexion in influencing drug formulation and drug action.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  PHPR 802.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 609A -- Pharmacokinetics  (3 units)
Description:  Quantitative treatment of kinetics of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and pharmacological response, including development of mathematical models for these processes and use of digital computer for simulation and nonlinear regression analysis.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  PHPR 407.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 611 -- Pharmaceutical Education Research  (3 units)
Description:  Cultural, social, behavioral, and organizational foundations of pharmacy, including the development of the present state of practice.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  CPH 611.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 612 -- Patient-Reported Health Outcomes  (3 units)
Description:  Survey of the theory, measurement, and applications of patient-reported health outcomes, specifically health-related quality of life and consumer assessments of health care.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Identical to:  CPH 612.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 621A -- Applied Health Technology Assessment  (4 units)
Description:  Application of the methodologies and tools used in the assessment of health technologies. Included are the application of decision analytic tools and techniques as well as methodologies such as cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit and cost-utility analysis
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  PHSC 513.
Identical to:  CPH 621A.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 634 -- Biomedical Applications of Mass Spectrometry  (3 units)
Description:  Principles of mass spectrometry including instrumental design, interpretation of spectra, and applications to biomedical and related problems.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  CHEM 241B.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 670 -- Principles in Drug Discovery, Design, and Development  (3 units)
Description:  An introduction into principles of drug discovery, design, and development covering the process and tools such as computational chemistry, combinatorial chemistry and subjects such as molecular target identification, drug receptor interactions, DNA and proteins as molecular targets, drug metabolism, and drug delivery systems.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  BIOC 460, BIOC 461, and an undergradute degree in pharmacy, chemistry, biochemistry, or biology.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 694A -- Clinical Clerkship  (1-15 units)
Description:  The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

PHSC 694B -- Administrative Clerkship  (1-15 units)
Description:  The practical application, on an individual basis, of previously studied theory and the collection of data for future theoretical interpretation.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

PHSC 699 -- Independent Study  (1-5 units)
Description:  Qualified students working on an individual basis with professors who have agreed to supervise such work. Graduate students doing independent work which cannot be classified as actual research will register for credit under course number 599, 699, or 799.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

PHSC 795A -- Introduction to Research  (1-6 units)
Description:  The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons. Research projects may or may not be required of course registrants.
Grading:  Regular or alternative grades can be awarded for this course: A B C D E or S P C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  open to MCB, CHEM, PHSC, and BIOC majors only.
May be repeated:  for a total of 10 units of credit.
Identical to:  BIOC 795A; BIOC is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring.

PHSC 815L -- Research  (5 units)
Description:  contact department.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  available only after completion of all required and didactic coursework in the first three professional years.
May be repeated:  for credit 1 time (maximum 2 enrollments).
Identical to:  PHPR 815L; PHPR is home department.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

PHSC 837A -- Medicinal Chemistry II  (3 units)
Description:  Continuation of the comprehensive survey of the medicinal chemistry of drugs, including agents acting on the autonomic, cardiovascular, hematopoietic, inflammatory, and gastrointestinal systems, vitamins and radiopharmaceuticals. Continuation of the comprehensive survey of the medicinal chemistry of drugs, including agents acting on the autonomic, cardiovascular, hematopoietic, inflammatory, and gastrointestinal systems, vitamins and radiopharmaceuticals.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  PCOL 836A.
Identical to:  PCOL 837A; PCOL is home department.
May be convened with:  PHSC 837A.
Usually offered:  Fall.

PHSC 837B -- Medicinal Chemistry III  (2 units)
Description:  Continuation of the comprehensive survey of the medicinal chemistry of drugs, including agents acting on the endocrine and central nervous systems. Continuation of the comprehensive survey of the medicinal chemistry of drugs, including agents acting on the endocrine and central nervous systems.
Grading:  Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E.
Prerequisite(s):  PCOL 836A, PCOL 837A.
Identical to:  PCOL 837B; PCOL is home department.
Usually offered:  Spring.

PHSC 900 -- Research  (1-12 units)
Description:  Individual research, not related to thesis or dissertation preparation, by graduate students.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P C D E K.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

PHSC 910 -- Thesis  (1-8 units)
Description:  Research for the master's thesis (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or thesis writing). Maximum total credit permitted varies with the major department.
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P E K.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

PHSC 920 -- Dissertation  (1-9 units)
Description:  Research for the doctoral dissertation (whether library research, laboratory or field observation or research, artistic creation, or dissertation writing).
Grading:  Alternative grades are awarded for this course: S P E K.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.

PHSC 930 -- Supplementary Registration  (1-9 units)
Description:  For students who have completed all course requirements for their advanced degree programs. May be used concurrently with other enrollments to bring to total number of units to the required minimum.
Grading:  Grade of K is awarded for this course except for the final term.
May be repeated:  an unlimited number of times, consult your department for details and possible restrictions.
Usually offered:  Fall, Spring, Summer.