7025 (v.5) Pharmaceutics 121

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 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Laboratory:

1 x 3 Hours Weekly

Syllabus:

Metrology including mass and volume, qualitative and quantitative accuracy, triturates and aliquots. Percentage solutions, wt per mL, density and specific gravity. Alligation. The prescription, pharmaceutical latin. Scheduling of drug substances. Formulation, preparation, constituents and uses of aromatic waters, mouth washes and gargles, inhalations, linctuses, glycerols and other alcohols and syrups. Separation, methods of separation and clarification. Dosage form design - absorption of drugs, mechanisms and factors influencing absorption. General formulation of mixtures, solutions and suspensions, topical preparations applied tokeratinised surfaces (ointments, creams, lotions liniments), topical preparations applied to mucous surfaces (suppositories, enemas, pessaries, ophthalmic products), parenteral preparations (injections). Flavouring agents, colouring agents, including legislative control and toxicology. Posology - factors affecting drug dosage, infants and children's doses, introductory toxicology. Pharmaceutical solids, solids and the crystalline state-melting point, heat of fusion, sublimation, polymorphism, isomorphism.

** 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:

060500 Pharmacy (Narrow Grouping)

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

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
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	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