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This 8 week structured practical learning experience provides students an opportunity to expand their knowledge and skills in other areas of professional practice including patient care and non-patient care settings. Students will be responsible for development of their own learning plan including outcomes that demonstrate how they have achieved their goals. Prerequisite: PHARM 454. (Restricted to Pharmacy students).

Biochemical and molecular mechanisms of drug-induced damage. Key concepts include toxicological principles, toxicokinetics, toxic responses, bioactivation of drugs to toxic metabolites, organ directed toxicity, immunotoxicology, and receptor-mediated toxicity. Specialized topics include clinical and medical toxicology, forensic toxicology, pharmacoepidemiology related to drug toxicity, safety assessment of pharmaceutical agents, and environmental toxicology. Prerequisite: Consent of Faculty.

The goals of this course are to discuss fundamental topics in cell and molecular biology and introduce students to important concepts in cellular structure and function as they relate to the design and development of novel drugs. Drug targets for macromolecules, including vaccines, proteins and genetic material will be emphasized. Prerequisite: Consent of Faculty.

Applications of instrumental methods of analysis (ultraviolet and infrared spectroscopy; NMR; mass spectrometry; atomic absorption spectroscopy) to pharmaceutical compounds. Offered in odd-numbered years. Prerequisite: Consent of Faculty.

The course emphasizes the key skills required to study and explore recent trends in pharmaceutical analysis and the latest analytical technologies. The core analytical techniques such as chromatography, LC-MS, ELISA, and, electrophoresis will be discussed in detail along with hands-on experience during laboratory sessions. Prerequisite: PHARM 570 or consent of the Faculty. Offered alternate years.

An introductory course designed to provide students with the background and a hands-on understanding of techniques involved in computer-aided drug design, including bioinformatics, molecular modelling, molecular simulation, docking and QSAR. Prerequisite: consent of the Faculty.

This course will provide students with an overview of health services research methods and their application. Topics covered in the course will lead students through the lifecycle of a health services research study and includes formulation of study objectives, generating a hypothesis, stakeholder engagement, selection and justification of a study design, types of evaluation, and dissemination of results. Common qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods study designs used in health services research will be discussed using examples from the literature. Prerequisites: none. However, a basic understanding of common terms and concepts in health services research and epidemiology is recommended.

Application of radionuclides in medical diagnosis and treatment; control of radionuclides in the hospital. Laboratory: preparation, quality control and clinical utility of currently used radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine. Prerequisite: PHARM 601 or consent of Faculty.

A clinical experience which will provide the student with the opportunity to practice clinical pharmacy in several speciality areas. The student will be expected to demonstrate professional competence in patient counselling, obtaining medication histories, providing drug information, applied pharmacokinetics and related areas. Credit will be granted after the completion of 900 hours of approved clinical training.

A clinical experience which will provide the student with the opportunity to practice clinical pharmacy in several speciality areas. The student will be expected to demonstrate professional competence in patient counselling, obtaining medication histories, providing drug information, applied pharmacokinetics and related areas. Credit will be granted after the completion of 900 hours of approved clinical training.

This course is an introduction into Physiologically Based Biopharmaceutic Modeling (PBBM) and physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling, relevant to modern drug development and regulatory biowaivers. The core pharmaceutical scientific focus is on understanding basic and advanced physical chemical, biopharmaceutic and pharmacokinetic principles through physiological based modeling approaches. The graduate and undergraduate students will actively engage with contemporary modeling software, concurrently learning both the pharmaceutical foundations and practical operation of the software and how this can be used in further mechanistic drug development and for regulatory applications. An appreciation of in silico drug development is important for both in order to develop a thorough understanding of physicochemical and biopharmaceutical principles and advanced concepts such as: in vitro in vivo correlation, bio-relevant dissolution and disposition phenomena and special populations. Prerequisites: Undergraduate students: Pharm 302 and 315 (pharmaceutics 2 and pharmacokinetics). Graduate students: pharmacy degree (M.Sc., PharmD) or equivalent with exposure to pharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics as undergraduate students or with consent from the faculty.

The focus of this course is on the design and development of novel delivery systems for various treatment and diagnostic applications. A particular attention will be paid to the physicochemical principles behind the development of different drug delivery systems, their biological application and significance. Emphasis is given to polymer based systems and assembled nano-carriers for the delivery of therapeutic drugs, proteins, vaccines and genes. Prerequisite: Consent of Faculty.

Theoretical considerations basic to the technology of pharmaceutical dosage forms to meet the requirements of therapeutic efficacy, stability, and safety. Laboratory: development and formulation of pharmaceutical products. Prerequisite: consent of Faculty.

An advanced course designed to provide students with the theoretical aspects of pharmacokinetics including compartmental and non-compartmental methods. Students will gain hands-on experience with the use of computers, population methods, and the role of pharmacokinetics in the development of drugs. Seminar time is devoted to pharmacokinetic analyses used in clinical pharmacology. Prerequisite: PHARM 303 or equivalent, or consent of the Faculty. Note: Offered alternate years.

Basic interpretation and examples of use of NMR spectroscopy in problems of pharmaceutical synthesis and its studies of the mode of action of medicinally active compounds. Prerequisite: consent of Faculty. Note: Offered alternate years.

The chemistry, biochemistry and kinetics of drug metabolism together with the factors affecting metabolism; the practical aspects of in vitro and in vivo studies of drug metabolism; the excretion of drugs by various routes and factors affecting excretion, the kinetics of excretion. Note: Offered alternate years.

Assigned readings, tutorials, and seminars on recent advances and methodological approaches in Pharmacy, conducted under the direction of academic staff members in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Directed studies in pharmaceutical research, using one or more techniques of special interest to individual students. Prerequisites: consent of the Faculty and the supervising faculty member.

This course develops students in the critical written and oral communication skills required for successful graduate training, with particular emphasis on writing abstracts, creating research posters, and presenting research orally. All students deliver a 20-min oral presentation in the Winter term. Required of all MSc and PhD students.

This course develops students in the critical written and oral communication skills required for successful graduate training, with particular emphasis on writing abstracts, creating research posters, and presenting research orally. All students deliver a 20-min oral presentation in the Winter term. Required of all MSc and PhD students.

An introduction to the classical problems of philosophy through study and critical discussion of selected philosophical classics and contemporary works. Emphasis will be placed on questions of moral and other values and on the nature of society and justice.

An introduction to the classical problems of philosophy through study and critical discussion of selected philosophical classics and contemporary works. Emphasis will be placed on questions of the nature and extent of human knowledge and classic problems about the nature of reality and our place in it.

A study of sentential logic, including translation, semantics, decision procedures and natural deduction followed by an introduction to predicate logic, concentrating on translation. Note: Not open to students with credit in PHIL 220.

Elementary methods and principles for analyzing reasoning as it occurs in everyday contexts. Topics may include informal fallacies, introduction to scientific method, elementary statistical reasoning, elementary sentential logic, as well as the study of argument in contemporary debates about issues of social concern.

Basic questions concerning the nature of reality. Topics may include existence, materialism and idealism, freedom and determinism, appearance and reality, causality, identity, time and space, universals and particulars.

This course provides an overview of the ancient and classical period of Indian philosophy (500 BCE-1500 CE); major metaphysical and ethical concepts within traditions such as Yoga, Advaita Vedanta, and Buddhism. Note: Not open to students with credit in PHIL 302. Not open to students with credit in PHIL 301 completed prior to 2012.

A survey of the main figures and schools of thought in the Islamic world from the 10th to the 17th centuries CE.

An introduction to Indigenous systems of knowledge as philosophical systems, which investigates these systems as parallel and coexisting with Western philosophical systems.

Basic questions concerning the mind and our attempts to study it scientifically.

Personal identity, interpersonal relationships, sex and gender, freedom and immortality in historical and contemporary contexts.

A study of such central topics in the theory of knowledge as truth and rationality, skepticism and the limits of knowledge, relativism and the objectivity of knowledge, the role of perception, memory and reason as sources of knowledge.

The philosophical and social impact of historical and contemporary topics in the biological sciences.

Philosophies of the good life. Topics may include integrated wellness, attentiveness, objects of devotion, and community in historical and contemporary contexts.

A brief review of sentential logic followed by an intensive study of predicate logic with identity. Topics include translation, semantics, decision procedures, natural deduction systems, mathematical induction. Other topics include: theories of definite descriptions, elementary modal logic, formal axiomatic systems. Prerequisite: PHIL 120 or consent of Department.

A survey of the thought of the ancient Greek world from its beginnings with the Pre-Socratics up to and including Aristotle.

A philosophical examination of Socrates' death in its cultural, historical and political setting.

Issues concerning human beings, knowledge, ethics and society among Greek thinkers and their impact on Christian thought. Note: Not available for credit with PHIL 139.

A survey of Philosophy in the 17th- and 18th centuries. Philosophers studied may include Descartes, Leibniz, Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.

A survey of philosophy from the 5th to the 15th centuries; Philosophers from the Jewish, Islamic and Christian traditions.

An examination of questions of right and wrong, good and evil, and the application of ethical theories to practical issues.

An introduction to the central issues in contemporary philosophy of science. Topics may include theory evaluation, paradigm shifts and theory change, laws of nature, causation and explanation, the rationality of science and its social and historical setting.

Analysis and evaluation of selected moral and social issues.

A survey of issues in contemporary political philosophy with attention to liberalism and communitarianism, sovereignty, feminism, entitlement and distribution, and global justice.

An introduction to feminist issues in current philosophy. Note: Not open to students with credit in PHIL 332.

The moral, conceptual, existential, environmental, socio-political, and spiritual issues raised by the practice of hunting by humans.

An introduction to some of the traditional theories, such as the expressionist and the formalist theories, which investigate the nature and function of the arts. The nature of aesthetic experience will also be considered.

An investigation of the nature of law and of law's relationship to other systems of norms.

An introduction to the background and main themes of existentialist philosophy. Authors such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre are considered.

Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.

Central topics at the interface of philosophy and psychology. Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.

Prerequisite: At least 3 units in PHIL or consent of the College.

Core topics at the interface of biology and philosophy.

Prerequisite: At least 3 units in PHIL or consent of the College.

A study of the formal theory of rationality including probability and induction, and elementary decision theory, with attention to the paradoxes of choice.

An in-depth study of the philosophy of Aristotle.

A historical survey of western philosophy from the end of classical antiquity until the sixteenth century.

Critical study of Christianity in dialogue with such worldviews as atheism, agnosticism, naturalism, materialism, existentialism, feminism, liberalism, postmodernism.

A survey of the philosophy of Kant and the 19th century. Philosophers studied may also include Hegel, Marx, Mill, and Nietzsche. Note: Not open to students with credit in PHIL 245.

Philosophical approaches to the question of comparative human and animal cognition, emotion, awareness, and language. The course will also address the problem of animal rights vis-à-vis individual and institutional human interests.

A philosophical investigation of theoretical questions about ethics, such as whether ethical values are objective or subjective, why we should be moral, whether virtues really exist, what role reason plays in ethical deliberation, and what constitutes the basis of our ethical obligations.

Philosophical dimensions of issues raised by our relationship to the environment.

General topics in the Philosophy of Religion, which may include the concept of 'religion,' the existence of God, meaning and intelligibility in religious language, religion and morality, implications of the social scientific study of religion.

Philosophical issues arising from computation and computer science. No previous familiarity with computing is necessary.

Cultural, social, ethical and political issues arising from the computer revolution and new digital technologies.

Overview of approaches to the foundations of mathematics and of philosophical issues concerning the nature of mathematical objects, mathematical theories and the special status of mathematics among the sciences and other areas of knowledge.

Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.

Ethical issues in business settings, dealing with such themes as employer-employee relations, job security, advertising, distribution of wealth, acquisitive individualism, the common good, and decision-making. Recommended preparation: 3 units in PHIL. Note: Not available for credit with CHRTC 394.

Ontological, epistemological, political and ethical issues arising through readings of classical and contemporary texts.

An introduction to philosophical approaches to disability.

A broadly based introduction to the intellectual, cultural, and social dimensions of science and their implications. Topics may include the impact of the Newtonian revolution, mechanism, materialism and Darwinism, and the nature of objectivity and rationality.

An introduction to the philosophical foundations of art criticism. Questions concerning the standards of interpretation and of evaluation of the arts will be given special attention.

Study of philosophical issues raised by films: distinguishing film from other arts (photography, theatre, video games), whether films depict or represent reality, emotional engagement, the relation of moral and aesthetic values, and approaches to film criticism.

Variable content course which may be repeated if topic(s) vary.

A study of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence systems.

A study of ethical issues arising in health care and in the practice of health professions.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of the Department.

The theoretical study of formal systems of logic. Topics include formal axiomatic systems, formal syntax and semantics, soundness and completeness proofs for both sentential and predicate logic. Prerequisite: PHIL 220 or consent of Department.

Standard modal systems in sentential and predicate logic including possible world semantics and completeness proofs. Tense logic and epistemic logic may be considered. Prerequisite: PHIL 220 or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: PHIL 220 or consent of Department.

Selected problems concerning the nature of language and meaning. Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

Philosophical logic and its application to the semantics of natural language. Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: PHIL 272 or 332 (taken prior to 2006) or W ST 301 or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200 level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200 level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200 level, or consent of Department.

Topics concerning the early modern philosophical tradition. Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200 level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.

Prerequisite: At least 6 units in PHIL, 3 units of which must be at the 200-level, or consent of Department.