Program Learning Outcomes (PLOs)

The purpose of the health sciences program is to provide graduates with the relevant knowledge base, skills, attitudes, ethics, and values to succeed in basic and applied health-related careers.
Graduates will have a strong foundation in the physical, biological, and clinical, and behavioral sciences coupled with an understanding of how business and management models apply to health sciences- related fields. Graduates will develop the skills and habits to acquire and apply new knowledge:
1. Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively with others and to be understood in both the spoken and written word.
2. Use critical thinking skills to identify, analyze, and solve pharmaceutical science problems.
3. Use logic to solve problems and draw valid conclusions by interpreting mathematical formulas, tables, and graphs.
4. Recognize and assess the interdependence of social and cultural systems and evaluate their impact on achieving unity and harmony in everyday life.
5. Demonstrate Christian values in serving others.
6. Retrieve, assess, and use information effectively to improve outcomes of academic and personal endeavors.
7. Apply the chemical and biological principles that govern the function of the human body to assess health related problems.
8. Integrate principles of chemistry, biochemistry, biology, and mathematics in drug development and in the design of drug delivery systems.