Course summary

Allow you to gain those experiences and abilities to enter at an appropriate level and achieve to the maximum of your potential. The course will provide progressive, coherent and challenging learning opportunities informed by research, scholarly activity and appropriate development of skills. Enable you to achieve clearly defined subject specific and generic academic outcomes and to develop a range of key skills to fit you for subsequent employment and/or further study, Encourage you to take responsibility for your own learning, foster a spirit of enquiry, and develop attitudes and skills to underpin independent, life-long learning. The overarching course related aim: Pharmaceutical Science is a relatively new discipline and is concerned with fostering a multi-disciplinary approach towards the study of exciting new developments in the chemical, biological and biomedical science areas focusing upon the biochemistry, pharmacology, design, methods of analysis and delivery of pharmaceutical substances. The course aims to produce high quality pharmaceutical science graduates with the generic, subject-specific and transferable knowledge and skills suited to a career in the pharmaceutical industry or other related laboratory based scientific discipline. The Course aims to:To support you in the development of intellectual and key interpersonal skills as well as subject knowledge that will equip you for life-long learning. To develop a knowledge of the physico-chemical and biological principles necessary to understand the sourcing, preparation, analysis and properties of medicinal agents. This will include the design, delivery, mode of action, therapeutic application and clinical usage of medicines. To encourage the development of practical and problem solving skills, research methods and the techniques and processes necessary for the evaluation, crititical appraisal and systematic review of pharmaceutical science.