Coordinators: listed below for each year level
The
School of Chemistry provides units in chemistry for students with a wide
variety of interests. As well as those students who major in chemistry, there
are many who need some chemistry as a prerequisite or recommended unit for
their higher-level studies.
Both observation and measurement are essential in chemistry. Therefore, all
chemistry units involve laboratory work and practice in solving problems in
addition to lectures, tutorials and opportunity for oral and written
communication.
Students may graduate with a BSc(Hons) degree in chemistry after a fourth year
of study which combines units on advanced topics in chemistry together with
work on a research topic under supervision.
Four
six-point units are offered at level one, two in each semester. A sequence of
two of these is required for most second-year chemistry units and some
mathematics units are also recommended. These sequences are CHM1011 and
CHM1022, or CHM1031 and CHM1042.
The school offers units that allow a level of specialisation within chemistry
as summarised below.
This program allows sub-specialisation in analytical chemistry, forensic chemistry, applied/industrial chemistry or environmental chemistry.
Two or more units selected from:
Students intending to complete a major sequence in chemistry should note that CHM2911 and CHM2922 are prerequisites for many level-three chemistry units.
All students majoring in chemistry complete two core units:
Remaining units for a major sequence in analytical chemistry specialisations should be chosen from the following:
This program allows sub-specialisation in agricultural chemistry, biological chemistry, biomedical chemistry, forensic chemistry, molecular modelling or pharmaceutical chemistry.
Students intending to complete a major sequence in chemistry should note that CHM2911 and CHM2922 are prerequisites for many level-three chemistry units.
All students majoring in chemistry complete two core units:
Remaining units for a major sequence in biological chemistry specialisations should be chosen from the following:
This program allows sub-specialisation in materials chemistry, polymer chemistry, solid state chemistry or synthetic chemistry.
Students intending to complete a major sequence in chemistry should note that CHM2911 and CHM2922 are prerequisites for many level-three chemistry units.
Students
intending to complete a major sequence in chemistry should note that CHM2911
and CHM2922 are prerequisites for many level-three chemistry units.
All students majoring in chemistry complete two core units:
Remaining units for a major sequence in materials chemistry specialisations should be chosen from the following:
Additional points towards level-three studies could include the materials science units MSC3011 and MSC3022. Students intending to complete a major sequence in chemistry should note that CHM2911 and CHM2922 are prerequisites for many level-three chemistry units.
Environmental chemistry concerns the chemistry of water, soils and the atmosphere. It involves the behaviour, analysis and transport of chemicals in the environment and is important in understanding the effects of man on the natural world.
Students intending to complete a major sequence in chemistry should note that CHM2911 and CHM2922 are prerequisites for many level-three chemistry units.
All students majoring in chemistry complete two core units:
Remaining units for a major sequence in environmental chemistry specialisations should be chosen from the following:
Synthetic chemistry focuses on the reactions of organic and inorganic molecules and understanding reaction mechanisms in the laboratory and industry. It focuses on chemical synthesis applied to industrial processes, bioactive molecules and sustainable chemistry.
The units CHM2941 (Chemistry of life) and/or CHM2962 (Food chemistry) are also recommended. Students intending to complete a major sequence in chemistry should note that CHM2911 and CHM2922 are prerequisites for many level-three chemistry units.
All students majoring in chemistry complete two core units:
Remaining units for a major sequence in synthetic chemistry specialisations should be chosen from the following:
The
coordinators for chemistry units for 2002 are:
Dr Steven Langford -- CHM1011 and CHM1022
Dr Ian McKinnon -- CHM1031 and CHM1042
Dr Andrea Robinson -- CHM2911, CHM2922,
CHM2932, CHM2941, CHM2951 and
CHM2962
Dr Peter Junk -- all level-three chemistry units
Associate Professor David Hewitt -- CHM4000
Professor Doug MacFarlane -- SCI3090/SCI3092, SCI3094
Inquiries about units should be addressed in the first instance to the
appropriate unit coordinator.
More general information about courses involving chemistry units in relation to
other studies may be obtained from school course advisers:
Dr Steven Langford
Professor Keith Murray
Dr Andrea Robinson
Mrs Nicola Williams
CHM1011 and CHM1022 or CHM1031 and CHM1042 together are prerequisites for most level-two chemistry units and also are prerequisites or recommended for some other science units.
Three chemistry units together make a major second-year study and progression to particular level-three units will require a pass at a satisfactory level in an approved level-two unit. The program is designed to introduce students to many concepts of modern chemistry in a variety of interest areas. Students intending to complete a major in Chemistry should note that CHM2911 and CHM2922 are prerequisites for many level-three chemistry units.
Chemistry is offered as a range of eight six-point units at level three, two of which are compulsory for all chemistry majors. The other units are made up of stand-alone units so that for students completing at least 24 points of chemistry it is possible to tailor a choice of units to specific interests.
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