Course description
If you want to be an informed and responsible user of medications within the US Healthcare System, this class is for you. You will study controversial issues surrounding medications and the US Healthcare system and then develop weekly written statements to communicate ideas, persuade others, and defend viewpoints related to the issues. Human choices and behavior impact societal decisions and availability of medications in the United States. Know your rights and responsibilities and become part of national and worldwide healthcare and medication debates! There are no pre-requisites and no textbook to buy because all learning material is available online!
What do students think?
This course will be offered for the first time Fall 2006, but a different, but a similar version (Phar 3200) was offered Spring 2006. Here is what those students had to say:
- I thoroughly enjoyed this course!! I think that it was excellently designed and implemented for the following reason. It was not overwhelming, but I still learned an exceptional amount from it--more than from some of my overwhelming classes. I would take it again in a heartbeat and I have been recommending it to my friends! Thank you!
- I think the weekly assignments kept me on task with the course so I would not get behind or wait till the last minute. I liked that everything was online and I didn't have to go on campus to take a test. It helped a lot, with balancing my other courses. I have taken online classes in the pharmacy department before that required tests to be taken on campus and that was difficult at times to fit the test days into my busy schedule.
- This course is very well organized.
- I enjoyed this course a lot. It was challenging and the topics sparked me to think a lot. Most of the topics were interesting; however, I believe a couple of them were dry. Plan B-OTC was by far, my favorite topic!
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