FARMA2010 Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy Course description

After completing the course, the student have acquired the following learning outcomes, defined as knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

· has knowledge about aesthetics and different aesthetic approaches

· has knowledge about historical changes in the view upon children and young people, normality and deviance, inclusion and exclusion

· has knowledge about receiver orientation in communication and collaboration with children with special needs and media

Skills

The student is able to

· accomplish and perform an aesthetic project for children and young people with special needs

· reflect on work with children and young people with special needs

· communicate with children and young people through aesthetics

General competence

The student

· has a understanding of aesthetics and its value for children and young people with special needs

· has an understanding of the value of autobiography as a means of critically reflecting on one’s own learning

· is able to analyse and discuss how to understand and respond to children and young people with special needs

Tree individual and four group requirements must be passed in order to take the exam. Aesthetics and/or children and young people with special needs are supposed to play an important part in the work requirements.

Individual:

1. Story telling
2. Theory presentation
3. Participate in excursions
4. Participate in International Week

In group:

1. Production of a drama
2. Production of radio theatre
3. Production of stop-motion animation
4. Blog production
5. Practical work in connection to International Week

Coursework requirements shall be met within fixed deadlines. Coursework requirements are evaluated Passed/Not Passed.

Valid absence documented by such as a medical certificate is not an excuse from not meeting the coursework requirements. Students who, due to illness or other valid and documented reasons, do not meet the coursework requirements within the fixed deadlines, may be given a postponed deadline. A new deadline for meeting the coursework requirements is in each case agreed upon with the relevant teacher.

Students who meet the coursework requirements within the fixed deadline, but are evaluated as Not Passed, shall be given the possibility to meet the coursework requirements one more time. A new deadline for meeting the coursework requirements is in each case agreed upon with the relevant teacher.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

The student

• has knowledge of the chemical and physical properties of pharmaceuticals and of their reactions and reaction mechanisms in a physiological environment
• is capable of explaining different main groups of pharmaceuticals (ATC classification)
• is capable of explaining how pharmaceuticals are metabolised in the body
• is capable of explaining the use of different derivatives of pharmaceutical molecules and their significance in relation to pharmaceutical effects
• is capable of explaining the main principles of interaction between pharmaceuticals and their target molecules (receptors/enzymes/transport proteins) and how pharmaceuticals influence the activity in the body's different mediator systems
• is familiar with the classes of natural products and their traditional use

Skills

The student is capable of

• assessing the structure-activity relationship and molecular mechanisms of action for the main groups of pharmaceuticals and natural products
• analysing the chemical and physical properties of the substances, functional groups, stereochemistry, absorption and metabolism, structure-activity relationship (SAR), the connection between the chemical structure of pharmaceuticals and their pharmacodynamic properties

General competence

The student is capable of

• independently acquiring knowledge about and assessing the properties of a pharmaceutical product and its activity relationship

Work and teaching methods include lectures, group work and a prescription lab with student-active discussion. Discussing the discipline with fellow students and teachers is emphasised.

The Flipped Classroom is used as a teaching method for part of the course. Digital learning resources will be made available to students in advance and the time they spend at the university will be used to work on assignments and group work.

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• minimum attendance requirement of 90 % at the prescription lab
• laboratory reports in accordance with specified criteria

Exam content: The learning outcomes

Exam form: Supervised individual written exam, 4 hours

Molecular model set

Grade scale A-F

One external and one internal examiner will assess all the papers