Departmental Courses
PCOL260: Pharmacology - (3 hours) Online
Audience: Undergraduate | Term Offered: Summer Online
Online course covering interactions of clinically useful therapeutic agents with mammalian systems.
PCOL449: Drugs and Medicine - (3 hours)
Audience: Undergraduate | Term Offered: Spring
Introduction for interested students to information about drugs and pharmaceutical preparations including administration, mechanisms, therapeutic and adverse effects, drug interactions, and drug abuse.
PCOL516: Pharmacology for Physician Assistants - (2 hours)
Audience: PA students | Term Offered: Spring
Principles of pharmacology including administration, mechanisms, therapeutic and adverse effects, and drug interactions.
PCOL549: Applied Pharmacology - (4 hours)
Audience: Undergraduate or Graduate | Term Offered: Spring
For Exercise Physiology and other graduate students or select undergraduate seniors with consent. Effect of drugs in humans with emphasis on application of drugs relevant to health professionals.
PCOL760: Pharmacology and Therapeutics - (3 hours)
Audience: Professional (Dental) | Term Offered: Fall
Lecture and demonstrations relevant to explaining how drugs function in the human body. Team teaching by basic science faculty and clinical dental faculty.
PCOL763: Applied Dental Pharmacology - (2 hours)
Audience: Professional (Dental) | Term Offered: Fall
Lecture and demonstrations relevant to explaining how drugs function in the human body. Team teaching by basic science faculty and clinical dental faculty.
PCOL765: Advanced Biomedical Sciences: Applied Pharmacology - (1 hours)
Audience: Professional (Dental) | Term Offered: Fall
PCOL801 / PCOL770: Summer Medical Pharmacology - (9 hours) Online
Audience: Professional (Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, Pediatric Medicine) | Term Offered: Summer Online
Online course covering basic principles of drug action, mechanisms of therapeutic effects and undesirable effects. Emphasis on the classes of drugs currently used in medical practice.
PCOL812: Medical Pharmacology 1 - (3 hours)
Audience: Professional (Medical) | Term Offered: Spring
First course in the pharmacology series for medical students, covering general principles, immunopharmacology, cancer chemotherapy, antibiotics, and neuropharmacology.
PCOL820: Medical Pharmacology 2 - (5 hours)
Audience: Professional (Medical) | Term Offered: Fall - Spring
Second course in the pharmacology series for medical students, covering drugs related to the following systems: hematology, cardiovascular/renal, respiratory, musculoskeletal, endocrine, gastrointestinal, reproductive, and integrated systems.
PSIO107: Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology - (4 hours)
Audience: Undergraduate | Term Offered: Spring - traditional, Summer - online
This is an introductory level course integrating anatomy and physiology with emphasis on material appropriate for pre-nursing students. A systems approach is used to prepare students to understand relationships among structures that contribute to the functioning of organ systems, and to develop knowledge and critical thinking skills as applied to anatomical and physiological terminology and concepts.
PSIO241: Elemental Physiology - (4 hours)
Audience: Undergraduate | Term Offered: Spring - traditional, Summer - online
For undergraduate students in para- medical sciences and nursing students on regional campuses. Systematic presentation of basic concepts.
PSIO441: Mechanisms of Body Function - (4 hours)
Audience: Undergraduate | Term Offered: Spring
A systematic examination of the homestatic functions of the human body with emphasis on the physicochemical mechanisms involved. Pathophysiology and clinical correlations are introduced in relation to normal physiology.
PSIO541: Integrative Physiology - (4 hours)
Audience: Professional (Pharmacy) | Term Offered: Fall
First professional year standing in the School of Pharmacy. A systematic examination of the homeostatic functions of the human body with emphasis on the physicochemical mechanisms involved. Pathophysiology and clinical correlations related to pharmacy are introduced in relation to normal physiology.
PSIO580: Integrative Physiology - (4 hours)
Audience: Professional | Term Offered: Fall
This course is designed to provide students with a systematic examination of the homeostatic functions of the human body with emphasis on integrative, systems physiology. A major focus of the course will be to examine the complex relationship among organ systems that allows the body to adapt to various forms of physiological stress. The course will also emphasize connections to pathological and pharmacological principles.
PSIO743: Fundamentals of Physiology - (4 hours)
Audience: Professional (Dental, Graduate, Pathology Assistants, Physician Assistants) | Term Offered: Fall
Analysis of facts and concepts relating to cellular processes, organ systems, and their control.
PSIO744: Graduate Seminar - (1 hour)
Audience: Graduate | Term Offered: Spring, Fall
CIP graduate students are required to attend weekly seminars hosted by the Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology.
PSIO750: Graduate Physiology/Pharmacology 1 - (5 hours)
Graduate | Term Offered: Fall
Survey at a quantitative level of basic concepts and experimental approaches to cellular, endocrine, and neural mechanisms controlling physiological processes and the pharmacological manipulation of these processes.
PSIO751: Graduate Physiology/Pharmacology 2 - (5 hours)
Graduate | Term Offered: Spring
Survey at a quantitative level of basic concepts and experimental approaches to the physiology and pharmacology of cardiovascular, renal, pulmonary, and gastronintestinal function, including the mechanisms controlling these systems and their pharmacological manipulation.
PSIO760: Medical Physiology - (6 hours) Online
Audience: Professional (Medical) | Term Offered: Summer Online
Online summer course which uses a systems approach to reinforce physiological principals and prepare students to successfully complete the first-year medical school curriculum.
PSIO790: Teaching Practicum - (1-3 hours)
Audience: Graduate | Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall
Supervised practice in college teaching of physiology. Note: This course is intended to insure that graduate assistants are adequately prepared and supervised when they are given college teaching responsibility. It will also present a mechanism for students not on assistantships to gain teaching experience. (Grading will be S/U.)
PSIO796: Graduate Seminar Online - (1hour)
Audience: Graduate | Term Offered: Spring, Fall
CIP graduate students are required to present a seminar to the department once per year. Students use this course number in the semester which they present their work.
PSIO797: Research - (1 to 9 hours)
Audience: Graduate | Term Offered: Spring, Summer, Fall
Credits for CIP graduate students assigned for laboratory research.
PSIO801 : Summer Medical Physiology (7 hours) Online
Audience: Professional (Medical) | Term Offered: Summer online
Online course covering physiological principals of cellular, organ, and organ systems as they apply to the maintenance of homeostasis. This course is directed at first-year medical students who require remediation and is comprehensive of the physiology lectures from CCMD 730: Human Function. Successful completion of the course requires a passing percentage on the final exam: the physiology shelf exam.
PSIO820: Principles of Medical Physiology - (5 hours)
Audience: Professional (Medical) | Term Offered: Fall - spring
Principles of Medical Physiology examines the functions of the human body required for the study of clinical medicine with an emphasis of the connections of physiology to pathology and pharmacology.