Mission College Courses

This honors nutrition course is intended for students interested in entering the health fields with an emphasis on physiology, metabolism of nutrients, metabolic diseases, and dietary modification to

• California Community Colleges System
• 54 hours
• Paid Course

This course critically examines questions of value and obligation. Students explore prominent ethical theories, including Kantianism, the Utilitarians and virtue ethics. The student then applies these

• California Community Colleges System
• 54 hours
• Paid Course

This course introduces students to a critical study of some major social and political problems. What is society? What is a state? What is freedom? What is authority? What is the nature of political o

• California Community Colleges System
• 54 hours
• Paid Course

In this course students will be oriented to the pharmacy technician program policy and procedures and are introduced to the basic concepts of pharmacy practice, different pharmacy practice settings, p

• California Community Colleges System
• 9 hours
• Paid Course

In this course students will learn laws, standards, and ethics related to pharmacy practice and pharmacy technicians. Through discussions and case studies, students will learn the complex system of in

• California Community Colleges System
• 36 hours
• Paid Course

In this course, students will learn word structure, general terms and concepts of physiology/pharmacology, medical word elements including common roots, prefix, suffix, and combing forms, and abbrevia

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 hours
• Paid Course

In this course students will be introduced to the history of over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, and how they differ from prescription medications. OTC drug classes will be covered, and students will learn

• California Community Colleges System
• 18 hours
• Paid Course

In this course students will learn essential mathematical concepts and skills used on the job by pharmacy technicians. Basic mathematical skills are reinforced by performing drug dose calculations and

• California Community Colleges System
• 9 hours
• Paid Course

This course presents the basic principles of pharmacology. Emphasis is on defining pharmacological classes of drugs, explaining the use of medication, and drug therapy. The student will learn what dru

• California Community Colleges System
• 72 hours
• Paid Course

This lab course is designed to introduce fundamental areas of pharmacy computerized processing of prescriptions and medication orders. Students will work with pharmacy management software to learn and

• California Community Colleges System
• 27 hours
• Paid Course

This introductory course is designed to teach the pharmacy aspect of Managed Care and become an insurance specialist. Students will learn all aspects of insurance, common terminology, and definitions

• California Community Colleges System
• 9 hours
• Paid Course

In this lab and lecture course students learn how pharmacy operations in hospital and institutional settings function such as their use of aseptic techniques, preparation of parenteral medications, pr

• California Community Colleges System
• 27 hours
• Paid Course

This combined lecture and lab course provides the basic principles and hands-on skills necessary to function as a pharmacy technician in the community pharmacy practice setting. Students will learn pr

• California Community Colleges System
• 45 hours
• Paid Course

This course is a series of classes designed to help students develop professional skills and prepare for pharmacy work. The class will cover resume preparation, interviewing skills, job search strateg

• California Community Colleges System
• 9 hours
• Paid Course

This course is designed to help prepare students for externship and licensing procedure for the California State Board of Pharmacy. Students will be placed in a pharmacy environment to reinforce skill

• California Community Colleges System
• 144 hours
• Paid Course