May not be offered every year

Explores sources, identification of active drugs when known, plant parts used, medicinal use, pharmacological basis of action when known, preparations used, dosage recommendations, and adverse effects and contraindications of herbs used for medicinal purposes.

Examines principles of structural, physical, and physical-organic chemistry, including mechanistic considerations involved in synthetic organic chemistry, bioorganic chemistry, and design for chemotherapeutic agents.

Examines medicinal and synthetic organic chemistry aspects of the design, simultaneous synthesis and computerized tracking, in a highly efficient and automated fashion of many new compounds. Students may take the lecture module alone, but the lab requires completion of the lecture and permission of the instructor.

Involves development of a special topic of student interest under a tutorial arrangement.