Chemistry with a Year’s Professional Placement

King’s College London

Bachelor's degree

In London

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

Overview
Our BSc (Hons) Chemistry with a Year’s Professional Placement will give you a strong theoretical and experimental understanding of chemistry, with an additional year’s internship in a major UK company to allow you to test your training, and assess your career choices, in the workplace. Our course is delivered within a research-enriched teaching context, transcending the traditional divisions of physical, organic and inorganic chemistry and integrating computational methods throughout. It is designed to train the next generation of articulate, flexible chemists for a wide variety of careers starting with chemical, biotech and pharmaceutical industries and extending to wider careers eg finance, law and media.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.
The parent BSc Chemistry course is accredited by the Royal Society for Chemistry,with research enriched teaching delivered by internationally renowned scientists and researchers.
Enhanced by the opportunity for a Year’s Professional Placement for which students apply to nationally competitive year-long internships in the wide variety of professions open to our graduates from traditional chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech industries through to business, finance, law and more.
Designed to develop graduates for flexible careers that apply chemical skills to a wide and changing range of challenges.
New (2016) teaching laboratories and research facilities.

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Location

Start date

London
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Great Maze Pond, SE1 9RT

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • IT Law
  • Teaching
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Physical Chemistry
  • Finance
  • Law
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Computational

Course programme


Year 1

Year 1 Each course is divided into modules. Each year you will normally take modules totalling 120 credits, except for the third year which includes a 30 credit module in addition to your placement. Required Modules You are required to take:

• Integrated Chemistry Laboratory 1 (15 credits)
• Integrated Chemistry Laboratory 2 (15 credits)
• General Chemistry (15 credits)
• Organic Chemistry 1 (15 credits)
• Organic Chemistry 2 (15 credits)
• Inorganic Chemistry 1 (15 credits)
• Physical Chemistry 1 (15 credits)
• Mathematics for Chemists (15 credits)

Optional Modules


Year 2

Year 2 Required Modules You are required to take:

• Integrated Chemistry Laboratory 3 (15 credits)
• Integrated Chemistry Laboratory 4 (15 credits)
• Organic Chemistry 3 (15 credits)
• Inorganic Chemistry 2 (15 credits)
• Physical Chemistry 2 (15 credits)
• Physical Chemistry 3 (15 credits)
• Chemistry in Cells (15 credits)

Optional Modules In addition, you are required to take 15 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

• Nano-scale and Extended Systems (15 credits)
• Protein Structure and Function (15 credits


Year 3

Year 3 Required Modules You are required to take:

• Chemistry Professional Placement Report (30 credits)
• Year’s Professional Placement

Optional Modules


Year 4

Year 4 Required Modules You are required to take:

• Research Methods (30 credits)
• Catalysis (15 credits)
• Advanced Analytical Chemistry (15 credits)
• Advanced Topics in Synthesis and Reactivity (15 credits)
• Advanced Topics in Physical and Computational Chemistry (15 credits)

Optional Modules

In addition, you are required to take 30 credits from a range of optional modules, which may typically include:

  • Chemistry of Disease and Therapy (15 credits)
  • Advanced Topics in Chemistry 1 (15 Credits)
  • Molecular Biology in Chemistry (15 credits)
  • Advanced Topics in Chemistry 2 (15 credits)

King’s College London reviews the modules offered on a regular basis to provide up-to-date, innovative and relevant programmes of study. Therefore, modules offered may change. We suggest you keep an eye on the course finder on our website for updates.

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