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Pharmacy Curriculum

The University utilizes the block system of curricular design, which provides students with the opportunity to study one content area intensely. Faculty, using a variety of educational strategies, help students achieve the learning objectives for each block. The program does not award students traditional letter grades (e.g., A, B, C, D or F). However, faculty require students to demonstrate competency by successfully passing every assessment (examination) that is associated with each block. The program also offers a unique experiential training program that places students in a community pharmacy practice setting within the first two weeks after beginning classes in the University.

The curriculum of the University of Southern Nevada College of Pharmacy PharmD program can be divided into two major components: the didactic component and the experiential component.

05. PHAR 683 Teaching to Learn-Learning to Teach

Block participants will learn some of the fundamentals of good teaching; e.g., writing clear outcome statements, designing learning experiences, and assessment essentials (using Bloom’s taxonomy for test development, how to write good multiple choice questions, formative vs. summative assessment). Block participants will also observe faculty teaching (with consent) and write about their observations in reports. Block participants will apply what they have learned by designing and implementing at least one learning session and assessment on their own under the supervision of the instructor. Instructors: Coffman, Smith; Cr. Hr.: 4.