USC Alfred E. Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

제약 과학 석사

Requirements for Degree Completion

Units Required

최소 24개 과정 단위(아래 과정 제공 참조)와 총 28개 단위가 졸업에 필요합니다. 모든 학생은 12개 단위 또는 핵심 과정 커리큘럼(PSCI 501-503)에 참여하고 4개 4개 단위를 수강합니다. 논문 트랙의 학생은 594A 및 594B(MS 논문)에서 4개 단위를 수강합니다. 핵심 커리큘럼은 약물 발견, 약물 전달 및 분자 약리학을 강조합니다.

Research

Research can be initiated at any point in the program. Students selecting the non-research master’s track may elect and are encouraged to carry out research in their program.

Thesis/Dissertation

Students may choose between two tracks to complete the Master of Science degree. First, the research track requires that the student carry out a research project during their program. As noted above, research towards the thesis can be begun at any point, though typically this begins during the first semester. The thesis should be about 50 pages.

Second, the non-research, non-thesis Master’s track requires that the student complete 28 units of coursework. Several options regarding the nature and scope of coursework are available.

Course Offerings

Graduate students are expected to possess knowledge in various areas of pharmaceutical sciences. The following are graduate courses offered by the program (some courses are not offered every year):

• PSCI 501, Drugs: Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion
• PSCI 502, Drugs: Principles of Therapeutic Mechanisms
• PSCI 503, Drugs: Principles of Research Methodology
• MPTX 510, The Other Side of Drugs
• PSCI 513, Drugs: Biologics and Specialty Pharmaceutics
• PSCI 515, Drugs: Pharmacogenetics
• PSCI 517, Protein Engineering and Drug Discovery
• MPTX 520, Drugs in the Media
• PSCI 557, Introduction to Tools and Techniques for Chemical Biology
• PSCI 655, Immunopharmaceutics
• PSCI 662, Advanced Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics
• PSCI 664, Drug Discovery and Design
• PSCI 665, Drug Transport and Delivery
• PSCI 666, Molecular Structural Biology
• PSCI 667, Intracellular Drug Delivery and Targeting
• PSCI 671, Drug Metabolism (Morphology)

The following are graduate courses offered in Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology:

• MPTX 500, Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Signaling
• MPTX 501, Toxicology of Oxidants and Free Radicals
• MPTX 602, Sciences, Research and Ethics