FARB2500 Drug Analysis Course description

The following coursework requirements must have been approved in order for the student to take the exam:

• Coursework 1: A project plan of 10 pages (+/- 10 per cent) must be approved before work on the master’s thesis begins in the fourth semester. The project plan must describe the literature, the research question and the plan for the thesis. It also forms the basis for the assignment of an academic supervisor.
• Coursework 2: Attending a first mandatory seminar in the beginning of the fourth semester.
• Coursework 3: Attending a second mandatory seminar later in fourth semester.

All required coursework must be completed and approved by the given deadline in order for the student to take the exam. If the project plan is not approved, the student will be given one opportunity to submit an improved version by the given deadline.

The student may lack a maximum of one passed course from the first year of study. The partial exam in drug calculations in the course FARB1400 is exempt from the progression requirement.

All aids are permitted, as long as the rules for source referencing are complied with.

Subjects covered by the course, with credits specified:

• Drug analysis 10 credits

Grade scale A - F

All thesis are assessed by one internal and one external examiner.

Supervised individual written exam, 4 hours

• Alphanumeric/financial calculator with cleared memory. A digital calculator is available to the student during the exam

Grade scale A-F

All answers are assessed by one examiner. An external examiner is used regularly, at a minimum of every third completion of the course. When selecting answers for external evaluation, a minimum of 10 percent of the answers shall be included, with no fewer than 5 answers. The external examiner’s assessment of the selected answers shall benefit all students.

• 7 credits overlap with the course FARMA2500 Drug Analysis
• 3 credits overlap with the course FARMA3010 Applied Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy