文理学士-药理学

药理学涉及药物的研究及其在大多数人类疾病的治疗中所起的关键作用。医生越来越多地不仅依靠药物来治疗疾病，例如抗生素和感染，而且还依靠疾病的预防，例如降血脂药和心脏病。药理学专业将为您提供有关药物的发现，开发和测试的全面知识，以及其对医学研究和实践的未来重要性。在本专业中，您将学习药物作用，药物吸收，分布，代谢和消除，药物活性和化学结构，药物对人体系统的作用，药物的毒性作用等机理。
Pharmacology is concerned with the study of drugs and the key role they play in the treatment of most human diseases. Increasingly, doctors rely on drugs not only to cure disease, for example antibiotics and infections, but also in the prevention of diseases, such as lipid lowering drugs and heart disease. A major in pharmacology will give you a thorough knowledge of the discovery, development and testing of drugs, and its importance to the future of medical research and practice. In this major you will learn about the mechanisms of drug action, drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination, drug activity and chemical structure, the effect of drugs on body systems, the toxic effects of drugs and more.<br>The Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science is an undergraduate coursework degree that provides you with a background in both the humanities and the sciences. You will study core and core selective liberal studies units in topics including academic writing, critical thinking and ethics. You will choose a major from either the Arts or Science disciplinary pools, and complete additional units from the other faculty to support your studies. You will also complete elective units from the disciplinary pools, the shared pool or the Open Learning Environment as needed to meet the requirements of the course.