Pharmacology (Foundation)

Reasons to choose Kingston

• This course aligns with the core curriculum requirements set out by the British Pharmacological Society (BPS), the professional association for pharmacologists.

• This course is accredited by the Royal Society of Biology.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

About this course
Our degree with foundation year courses are ideal if you have non-traditional or unrelated qualifications or experience, are returning to education or would like some support to prepare for a degree. Subject materials and teaching are tailored to degrees at Kingston. You’ll develop practical, technical and communication skills, and apply knowledge to real-life problems during the four-year integrated degree.

Want to learn how do medicinal drugs treat and prevent disease? How are they discovered and tested? How do they affect society? If you want to delve deeper into these questions, this could be the course for you.

This course is taught by award-winning experts with a focus on biological and physiological processes, rather than chemical ones. We'll examine how drugs act on their targets in major organs and systems, and how the body reacts.

You'll study the treatment of infectious and non-infectious diseases, such as cancer, diabetes, asthma, and cardiovascular disease. You'll also have opportunities to learn about new drugs affecting the brain, treating epilepsy and depression, and how drugs influence addiction.

We have recently updated our modules to enhance student-centred teaching and align course content with industry needs.

Future Skills
Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities
Graduates work in clinical trials, drug research, medical writing, pharmaceutical marketing, and science communication. The course can also provide a gateway into graduate studies for clinical routes or academic research programmes.

Example modules:
– Human Physiology with Pharmacology.
– Pharmacotherapy of Infection and Cancer.
– Drugs, Brain and Behaviour.

For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston university course webpage

Teaching includes lectures, tutorials and practical laboratory work. There is an emphasis on problem-based/case-based learning as the course progresses.

Assessment is by exams and also a variety of different forms of coursework, including oral presentations, reports, essays and poster presentations.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• British Pharmacological Society
• Royal Society of Biology