Compulsory modules

The aims of this module are for the student to develop professional and transferable skills appropriate to the working environment of a chemical scientist in a research and development role.

Optional modules

The aim of this module is to provide advanced training in contemporary inorganic chemistry.

The aims of the module are to teach the students the foundation of the computational techniques used in the modern chemical and biological sciences and to apply these techniques to a variety of problems in current chemistry, biochemistry or related fields.

The aim of this module is to enable students to understand medicinal chemistry, how drugs act at a molecular level and they are designed and synthesised, and how these activities may be assessed in a drug development programme.

The aims of this module are to make the student aware of the range of techniques available for analysis, characterisation and structure determination of a range of inorganic and organic materials.

The aims of this module are to develop an understanding of the processes leading to innovation in analytical science; to introduce students to the methods of critical evaluation of the scientific literature in developing fields; to develop advanced independent scholarship.