BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN:

FACULTY OF CHEMISTRY

Chemistry

This Degree complies with European Higher Education Area requirements

Type of Degree

This is an officially recognised University Degree, valid throughout the European Higher Education Area.

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

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Student profileThe multidisciplinary nature of the qualification makes che-mists 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 resou-rces that mean that this quality of life can be maintained in the future.The study of Chemistry has a vocational component and stu-dents must be interested in science, experimentation, have a critical mind and the ability to defend their arguments.

Career opportunitiesIn 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 pharma-ceutical 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 tra-ditionally been a professional opportunity for chemists, and professional activities related to the environment and new technologies have become important in recent years.

Course contentsChemistry is the study of matter and its transformations. Among the types of matter are people, rocks, bacteria, com-puters and cars, making Chemistry essential for understan-ding 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 Che-mistry, 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 Chemis-try). The practical classes take place in modern laboratories and in small groups.

The Chemistry degree has adapted its study plan to the Euro-pean teaching-learning model (ECTS), which fosters per-sonalised 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, phar-maceutical, food or materials companies, among others sec-tors, or in one of the many research groups at the Faculty of Chemistry.

CAMPUS UNIVERSITARIO

Ctra. Madrid-Barcelona, km 33,60028871 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)

www.uah.es/quimica

INFORMATION CENTRE

www.uah.esciu@uah.es

STUDY PLAN General characteristics of the Study Plan

The timeframe of the study plan is available in two ver-sions: one for full-time students over four years (at 60 ECTS credits per year) and another for part-time stu-dents over 8 years (at 30 ECTS credits annually).

All the basic subjects are taught in the first year and are subjects for the students to reach the appropriate level enabling them to understand and assimilate the content of the subjects in later years.

As well as the basic subjects (60 ECTS credits) a total of 120 mandatory credits has been established, which are distributed between the second and third year. In this sense, all students must take the subjects in the first three years of the Bachelor’s degree. The second year mainly includes the subjects that provide the students with the scientific, technical and instrumental founda-tions of Chemistry. The third and fourth year contain the compulsory and optional subjects, which apply the knowledge acquired in previous years to enable stu-dents to develop the skills they will need in their future as professionals.

Students must take 36 credits in optional subjects. In order to obtain these credits, a total of 11 subjects with a study load of 6 credits each will be on offer, from which students must choose six. It is also possible to obtain half these cre-dits by undertaking External Practical Training (18 ECTS credits), in which case students only have to take 3 of the optio-nal subjects.

As well as the optional subjects men-tioned above, the 4th year includes the Bachelor’s Degree Final Project (12 ECTS credits), which is produced in the second semester of the fourth year. In this final year students consolidate the abilities and skills, practices and techni-ques acquired.

The University of Alcalá has established 12 credits for cross-disciplinary skills, which must be available in all study plans and which must be taken by all students. Every academic year, the university provides a range of subjects and activities with 6 ECTS credits each, which enable all students to complete these 12 credits for cross-disciplinary subjects.

According to current regulations, students will also be able to request academic recognition for a maximum of 6 optional credits for participation in cultural, huma-nitarian and cooperation activities, or in other activities related to sports and student representation.

Full time:

FIRST YEAR

First semester Type ECTS Second semester Type ECTS

Physics B 6 Physics B 6

Basic Chemistry B 6 Basic Chemistry B 6

Basic Laboratory Operations B 3 Basic Laboratory Operations B 6

Mathematics B 9 Numerical Calculation and Applied Statistics B 6

Biology B 6 Chemical Binding and the Structure of Matter B 6

Total ECTS 30 Total ECTS 30

SECOND YEAR

First semester Type ECTS Second semester Type ECTS

Analytical Chemistry I Ob 9 Analytical Chemistry I Ob 6

Chemical Thermodynamics Ob 6 Molecular Physical Chemistry Ob 6

Inorganic Chemistry I Ob 6 Inorganic Chemistry I Ob 6

Organic Chemistry Ob 9 Organic Chemistry Ob 3

Biochemistry Ob 9

Total ECTS 30 Total ECTS 30

THIRD YEAR

First semester Type ECTS Second semester Type ECTS

Physical Chemistry Ob 9 Physical Chemistry Ob 3

Analytical Chemistry II Ob 9 Introduction to Organic Synthesis Ob 6

Inorganic Chemistry II Ob 6 Inorganic Chemistry II Ob 6

Structural Determination of Organic Compounds Ob 6 Chemical Engineering Ob 9

Materials Science Ob 6

Total ECTS 30 Total ECTS 30

FOURTH YEAR

First semester Type ECTS Second semester Type ECTS

Optional subjects Opt 18 Optional subjects/External practical training Opt 18

Cross-Disciplinary Skills Opt 12 Bachelor's Degree Final Project Ob 12

Total ECTS 30 Total ECTS 30

TOTAL ECTS CREDITS: 240

B: Basic Training; Ob: Obligatory; O: Optional