Bachelor of Pharmacy (Honours)

Throughout your studies, you will complete clinical placements totalling a minimum of eight weeks (at least 300 hours). Placements may include interstate and overseas opportunities in hospital, community and other healthcare settings. You'll also learn how to administer vaccines as part of your practical experience.

Yes. This course is accredited by the Australian Pharmacy Council and is approved by the Pharmacy Board of Australia as a qualification leading to registration as a pharmacist in Australia.

After graduating, you must complete at least 1,575 hours (about a year full-time) of supervised professional practice to be eligible for general registration as a pharmacist.

In the first year, you will learn the foundations of pharmaceutical science, physiology, human disease and pharmacy practice, as well as interprofessional healthcare alongside students from other health science disciplines. You'll then study pharmaceutics (the science of dosage forms), biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, pharmacology (how medicines work) and pharmacotherapy (treating disease with medicines).

The essential prerequisite subjects are Chemistry ATAR and Mathematics Applications ATAR. Desirable subjects include Human Biology ATAR or Biology ATAR. These prerequisites can also be met through equivalent Curtin units such as CHEM1003 Introduction to Chemistry, CHEM1001 Biological Chemistry, or CHEM1007 Fundamental Chemistry for Biosciences for Chemistry, and MATH1013 Introductory Mathematics, MATH1014 Foundations of Calculus, or MATH1015 Linear Algebra for Mathematics.