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Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish at their home university in the U.S.

Sociology of medicine. Individual, social, medical, sanitary and economic aspects and determinants of the consumption of medications. Cultural and sub-cultural perspectives. Functional perspective. Symbolic interactions. Prescriptions. The non-medical use of medications. Auto-medicating. Pharmaceutical epidemiology and pharmaceutica vigilance. Treatment and therapy formulas. Essential medications. Pharmaceutical indicators. Modern tendencies in the market and in the utilization of medication: administration of diseases, vertical and horizontal integration in the industry.