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PHT 181 Interprofessional Relations in Pharmacy
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Overview of effective communications skills needed by the pharmacy technician to use interpersonally and between the
pharmacist, the patient, and other health care professionals. Includes human relations development, personality inventory,
and elements in communication in areas of non-verbal, interpersonal, barriers, listening, empathy and interviewing. Also
includes building better patient understanding in special situations such as death and dying, ethnicity, conflict resolution,
and ethical patient care.
Prerequisite(s): PHT 170 or concurrent enrollment.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
PHT 182 Drug Therapy II
4 cr. hrs. 4 periods (4 lec.)
Relationship between anatomy and physiology, disease states, and pharmaceutical therapy. Includes origins, dosage
forms, indications, actions, routes of administration and side effects of both prescription and non-prescription drugs used
in diseases of the cardiovascular, circulatory, renal, endocrine, respiratory, digestive, reproductive, and integumentary
systems.
Prerequisite(s): PHT 172.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
PHT 187 Pharmacy Law and Ethics
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Practical guide to pharmacy law and ethics for the pharmacy technician. Includes state and federal law, roles of the
pharmacist and the pharmacy technician, and ethical practices for patients.
Prerequisite(s): PHT 170 or concurrent enrollment.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
PHT 190LB Pharmacy Technician Internship
4 cr. hrs. 16 periods (16 lab)
On-site training in outpatient and inpatient pharmacy services under direct supervision of designated pharmacist.
Information: Consent of program coordinator is required before enrolling in this course.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
PHT 197 Clinical Seminar
2 cr. hrs. 2 periods (2 lec.)
Topics and discussions of importance to the pharmacy technician. Includes employment search preparation, research
reports, and technical papers. Also includes a review of the Arizona Pharmacy Association Pharmacy Technician
Certification Exam.
Information: Consent of program coordinator is required before enrolling in this course.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
Philosophy
For courses numbered 098, 198, 298, see “Topic Courses” on page 292
PHARMACY TECHNOLOGY — PHILOSOPHY
PHI 101 Introduction to Philosophy SUN# PHI 1101
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Survey of Western philosophy. Includes primary source readings in western philosophic areas: logic, epistemology, ethics,
social/political philosophy, philosophy of religion, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and aesthetics.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
PHI 120 Introduction to Logic SUN# PHI 1103
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Introduction to the main types of logical reasoning. Includes the nature of language, deductive logic, and inductive logic.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
PHI 122 God, Mind, and Matter
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Introduction to the metaphysics and epistemology of the cognitive and material domains of Western philosophy. Includes
philosophic method, distinctions, God, mind, and matter in ancient philosophy, medieval philosophhy, modern philosophy,
and contemporary philosophy and physics.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
PHI 123 Philosophical Foundations of Science
3 cr. hrs. 3 periods (3 lec.)
Introduction to Western philosophical foundations of science. Includes philosophical and scientific methods, classical,
medieval, modern and contemporary science and mathematics, and philosophical problems raised by discovery and change.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
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