Courses Handbook 2009

310386 (v.2) Pharmaceutics 202


Area: School of Pharmacy
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 310384 (v.2) Pharmaceutics 201 or any previous version
OR
12937 (v.2) Pharmaceutics 200 or any previous version
Syllabus: Surface Phenomena: surface and interfacial tension; surfactants, micelle formation and their applications in drug formulation. Emulsions, multiple and microemulsions; their properties and applications. Formulations of drugs for delivery to the skin, rectum and vagina. Sunscreens, suppositories, and pessaries. Sterilisation; its considerations and procedures. United States Pharmacopeia.(USP) and other standards in relation to sterilisation. Formulation of parenteral products. Colloidal drug delivery systems including liposomes, niosomes, micro and nanoparticles and dedrimers.
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 060501 Pharmacy
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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