Student profile
Type of Degree
The multidisciplinary nature of the qualification makes chemists highly versatile. Chemists work to improve the quality of life of individuals, with better drugs, safer materials, new electronic devices, more sensitive analysis techniques and new energy sources, encouraging the use of renewable resources that mean that this quality of life can be maintained in the future. The study of Chemistry has a vocational component and students must be interested in science, experimentation, have a critical mind and the ability to defend their arguments.
This is an officially recognised University Degree, valid throughout the European Higher Education Area.
WORLD HERITAGE
This Degree complies with European Higher Education Area requirements
Career opportunities In recent reports on work placement, the Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry is listed as one of the most demanded. Over half the jobs offered are in the chemical sector, which includes the manufacturing and distribution of chemical and pharmaceutical products. Other sectors with a major demand for this qualification are industry, hospitals, food and drink, research, services, health, and glass and ceramics. Teaching has traditionally been a professional opportunity for chemists, and professional activities related to the environment and new technologies have become important in recent years.
FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY
Course contents Chemistry is the study of matter and its transformations. Among the types of matter are people, rocks, bacteria, computers and cars, making Chemistry essential for understanding how the world works. As a result, Chemistry has been called the Central Science, as it shares areas of knowledge with sciences such as Biology, Physics, Pharmacy, Medicine, Engineering and the Environmental Sciences. During the first year of the course, students acquire basic knowledge of Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Biology and are trained in the various areas of Chemistry in the following three years (Biochemistry, Chemical Engineering, Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry). The practical classes take place in modern laboratories and in small groups. The Chemistry degree has adapted its study plan to the European teaching-learning model (ECTS), which fosters personalised teaching, with a system for the recognition and accumulation of credits, in which the credits taken at another university are recognised and included in the student’s record. The organisation of courses encourages students’ mobility within the same university and between Spanish universities, as well as between European universities and those elsewhere in the world. As a complement to their training, and in order to reinforce the commitment to graduate employability, future chemists can undertake external practical training in chemical, pharmaceutical, food or materials companies, among others sectors, or in one of the many research groups at the Faculty of Chemistry.
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BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN:
Chemistry
Overall credit distribution SUBJECT TYPE
ECTS
Basic Training (B)
60
Obligatory (Ob)
120
Optional (Opt)
48
Bachelor's Degree Final Project (Ob)
12
TOTAL CREDITS
240