Chemistry

Course summary

Chemistry is a subject of global impact. As a fundamental science, it has a profound effect on our planet and is involved in nearly every facet of everyday life. A chemistry qualification isn’t just an end in itself, it’s a beginning. The range of jobs available to someone with a chemistry qualification is greater than with most other qualifications. The reasons are simple. Chemistry underpins everything in our modern lifestyle and there are a few things that we use that have not, at some stage, been made, processed, or monitored by chemists. The Salters’ chemistry course aims to: • Emphasise the ways chemistry is applied and the work that chemists do • Broaden the appeal of chemistry by showing how it relates to people’s lives • Emphasise frontier areas of chemistry • Include a broad range of teaching and learning activities • Provide a rigorous and stimulating treatment of chemistry The course is organized into teaching units, each of which is freestanding and tells its own story about modern applications of chemistry. This means that the important ideas in chemistry are introduced gradually and are revisited and further developed in different contexts in later units.