[mass]

Natural products (8 lectures) — chemotaxonomy; steroids, essential oils; alkaloids; chemical and microbiological modifications of plant secondary metabolites; natural products for the treatment of skin conditions; natural products with potential use as anti-cancer agents; biologically active compounds from microbial sources; the interaction between natural products and mammalian metabolic processes.
Advanced analysis (4 lectures) — capillary electrophoresis (CE) for the analysis of mixtures of natural products and biological fluids; immunological methods of analysis; hyphenated techniques and their use in bioanalysis.
Drug Design (12 lectures) — lead structure discovery; high throughput screening; in silico screening; bioactive materials developed from natural sources; rational (mechanism-based) drug design; pharmacophore-based drug development; regulatory issues.
Pharmacogenetics (4 lectures) — the Human Genome project; single nucleotide polymorphisms, polymorphic drug absorption, metabolism, transport and elimination; individual patient genotypes.
Biotechnology (4 lectures) — genetic engineering, recombinant DNA; proteins and enzymes.
Research Methods (6 lectures) — general research methodology, COSHH, statistics.

I am wondering whether most of the above material is organic chemistry or whether there is a lot of calculations involved.

The recommended book for this material is Foye’s Principles of Medicinal Chemistry, TL Lemke and DA Williams, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, 2007, ISBN 0-6833-0737-1 so would that imply it is organic?

[Dan]

It's a medicinal chemistry course, so I expect it basically involves organic and analytical chemistry, pharmacology, biochemistry etc. I doubt it's heavily mathematical - but I would expect some maths in the analytical side of the course. It's not my field though, the best people to talk to are your lecturers.

[sjb]

Ive been sick a lot lately, and I need to retake organic chemistry probably, but itll depend on who will be teaching it.  Does anybody know yet who will be teaching it this summer?  I know it was Dr. Queen last summer.

I don't even know who Dr Queen is. What institution are you at?