Program Requirements
Requirements for the Pharmaceutical Studies Major
| Biology Requirements | (12-13) | |
| BIOL 120C BIOL 127L |
P4 General Biology (3) General Biology Lab (1) |
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| BIOL 128C | SQ General Zoology (4) | |
| Choose ONE: | BIOL 213 Plant Biology (4) | |
| BIOL 214 Microbiology (4) | ||
| BIOL 311 Cell Biology (3) BIOL 311L Cell Biology Techniques (2) |
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| Chemistry Requirements | (18) | |
| CHEM 103C CHEM 103L |
P4 General Chemistry I (3) General Chemistry I Lab (1) |
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| CHEM 104C CHEM 104L |
General Chemistry II (3) General Chemistry II Lab (1) |
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| CHEM 201 CHEM 201L |
SQ Organic Chemistry I (3) Organic Chemistry I Lab (2) |
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| CHEM 202 CHEM 202L |
Organic Chemistry II (3) Organic Chemistry II Lab (2) |
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| Mathematics Requirement | (4) | |
| MATH 120C | P4 Calculus I (4) | |
| Physics Requirement | (4) | |
| PHYS 121C | P4 Introduction to Physics I (4) | |
| Statistics Requirement | (3) | |
| Choose ONE: | ECON 221 SQ Statistics I (3) | |
| PSYC 201 Basic Statistics (3) | ||
| STAT 160 P4 Introduction to Data Science (3) | ||
| Economics Requirement | (3) | |
| Choose ONE: | ECON 105 P3 Principles of Microeconomics (3) | |
| ECON 106 P3 Principles of Macroeconomics (3) | ||
| Communications Requirement | (3) | |
| Choose ONE: | COMM 250 Speech Communication (3) | |
| COMM 353 Public Speaking (3) | ||
| ENGL 290 Science, Rhetoric, Public (3) | ||
| Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacy Practice | (35) | |
| PHAR 3117 | Introduction to the Pharmacy Profession (1) | |
| PHAR 3122 | Pharmacy Calculations (2) | |
| PHAR 3123 | Clinical Application of Epidemiology I (2) | |
| PHAR 3142 | Pharmaceutics I (4) | |
| PHAR 3144 | Systems Pharmacology I (4) | |
| PHAR 3148 | Biosystems I (4) | |
| PHAR 3218 | Introduction to Diversity (1) | |
| PHAR 3226 | State Pharmacy Law (2) | |
| PHAR 3240 | Biosystems II (4) | |
| PHAR 3242 | Pharmaceutics II (4) | |
| PHAR 3244 | Systems Pharmacology II (4) | |
| PHAR 4238 | Self Care & Natural Products (3) | |
| Total | (82-83) | |
Notes on the Pharmaceutical Studies major:
- All courses designated as PHAR and all undergraduate courses listed above, are included in the determination of the grade point average in the major.
- Undergraduate residency requirements must be met. At least 30 undergraduate credits must be earned at St. John Fisher College, half of the undergraduate required courses must be taken in residence at St. John Fisher College, and no more than six of the last 36 undergraduate credits may be taken in transfer.
- Advanced Placement credit may not be awarded for any of the required science courses in the major.
- The College Core, and all English and humanities pharmacy prerequisite courses, must be completed as part of this program.
- Any undergraduate courses that function as prerequisites to the Pharm.D. program must be passed with a minimum grade of "C." Please see the Pre-Pharmacy page for information on prerequisite requirements.
- Any electives taken to reach 120 earned credit hours, as required by New York state for an undergraduate degree program, must be taken at the undergraduate level
- Students accepted into the Pharmacy Early Assurance Program (PHEA) may declare their undergraduate major as the B.S. in pharmaceutical studies upon acceptance to the PHEA program. All other student should declare the B.S. in pharmaceutical studies as their undergraduate major at the start of their Pharm.D. program (P1 year).