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CHEMISTRY SINGLETON PARK CAMPUS
IN THE UK
STUDENT SATISFACTION (Complete University Guide 2020)
Swansea’s Chemistry curriculum is informed by the needs of modern industry and is constantly updated, ensuring you will always be taught materials applicable in the wider world. You will gain the breadth of knowledge you need to practise chemistry professionally, and the depth to enable you to specialise through our research expertise in natural products, materials engineering, and medicine.
Foundation Year available Global Opportunities available Welsh Scholarships/Bursaries available Full details available on the Course Reference Grid (page 134)
Our core subjects cover not only organic, inorganic and physical chemistry, but also instrumental and analytical chemistry. You will get the opportunity to engage in cutting-edge research, contributing to a research project or pursuing your own ideas. We offer you the possibility of getting research skills early on, encouraging and facilitating ways for you to develop research plans and ideas, write proposals, conduct chemistry research interacting with other disciplines, analyse research data and present your research results in oral and written work.
AREAS STUDIED TYPICALLY INCLUDE: Year 1 • Chemical practice • Chemical reactions • Chemical thinking • Structure and bonding Year 2 • Biological and medicinal chemistry • Computational and theoretical chemistry • Further inorganic chemistry • Further organic chemistry • Further physical chemistry Year 3 • Chemistry project • Materials chemistry project • Inorganic chemistry • Organic chemistry • Physical instrumental and analytical chemistry Year 4 (MChem) • Advanced inorganic materials • Advanced organic, medicinal and natural product chemistry • Advanced physical, theoretical and instrumental chemistry • Research project
TYPICAL OFFER: BSc: AAB-BBB MChem: AAA-AAB (to include Chemistry and one other science or maths subject)
Detailed entry requirements and course features available on the Course Reference Grid (page 134)
FUTURE CAREERS: • Analytical and Forensic Science • Discovery of new medicines • Environmental Sciences • Management • Renewable Energy • R esearch and development in academia or industry ▲ 3 YEAR ♦ 4 YEAR For individual UCAS course codes please visit the course web page BSc Single Honours ▲ Chemistry ♦ Chemistry (with Foundation Year) ♦ Chemistry (with Year in Industry/Abroad) MChem Single Honours ♦ Chemistry
For more detailed course content, including a full module list, visit: swansea.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses
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