Chemistry

Course summary

Chemistry is known as the ‘central science’ and brings together the physical sciences like physics, maths and biology. It can be essential to study courses like medicine and engineering. Chemistry is all around us and an understanding of the subject can help answer many simple questions about your lives like why does ice float and how does sun screen protect you? Chemistry is one of the Russell Group universities ‘facilitating’ subjects – so called because choosing it at A level allows a wide range of options for degree study including project management. It also allows you to develop skills that can help with other studies and are crucial employability skills such as how to be objective, analytical and methodical and in turn can help problem solving skills. Possible career paths from studying chemistry include, medicine, dentistry, forensic chemistry, geochemistry, zoology, law, research and development management, pharmacy, chemical engineering or even perfumery. We study topics including atomic structure, bonding, moles, inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry. An important part of the course is developing practical skills which are assessed but practiced frequently.