The Committee on Studies determines the Programs of Study for graduate students for each concentration. In general, this program consists of core and elective course work required of all students. However, in some cases, the Committee on Studies may approve a Program of Study that takes advantage of previously completed coursework or provides interdisciplinary training of interest to particular students. The Pharmacoeconomics, Epidemiology, Pharmaceutical Policy and Outcomes Research (PEPPOR) concentration is a program of study and research leading to the M.S. and/or Ph.D. degree emphasizing the social, psychosocial, political, legal, historical and economic factors that impact on the use, non-use and misuse of drugs. It emphasizes human behavior in health illness, cultural determinants, health service systems organization, finance and economics. Individuals examine the societal systems in which patients, pharmacists and other healthcare practitioners interact, behave, perform, generate revenues, provide services and are educated.