PC4500:24
Pharmacy Honours
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
30 hours flexible delivery plus supervised research project. Full year.
Available to students who have been awarded a Bachelor of Pharmacy degree or equivalent within five years of proposed enrolment.
Staff: Assoc. Professor B Glass, Dr G Grant, Assoc. Professor A Nimmo, Dr R Rasiah.
This subject consists of research undertaken for preparation of a thesis for the Pharmacy Honours degree. Seminars accompany the research process. Students will be able to choose from a number of pharmaceutical research areas such as pharmaceutics, pharmacy practice, social aspects of pharmacy, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, drug discovery, medicinal chemistry and molecular biology. All projects are subject to approval by the honours coordinator of the Pharmacy course.
Learning Objectives:
- demonstrate an ability to formulate a research question and project plan;
- carry out a literature search and critically review the literature;
- devise a research proposal appropriate to the research question;
- collect data based on the research proposal;
- analyse data, demonstrating use of appropriate methods and demonstrate the ability to evaluate results critically.
Assessment by literature review (10%); project plan (20%); final presentation (10%); examination of thesis (60%).