PHRC 4403 - Pharmaceutics

4 Credit(s)

This course will emphasize the rational design of drug dosage forms including liquid dosage forms, solid dosage forms, semisolid dosage forms, and parenteral dosage forms for different pharmaceutical drug administration routes. Physicochemical concepts such as colligative properties, ionic equilibria, solubility, dissolution, and partitioning will be discussed. The drug and excipients’ key chemical and physical properties will be emphasized to design different dosage forms rationally. Within these concepts, examples, and roles of excipients, will be discussed that help identify components of dosage forms.

Prerequisite(s): PHRC 4101/PHRC 4300 with a C- or better.
Restriction(s): Senior year status in declared pharmaceutical sciences major.