BSc (Hons) Chemistry Bachelor's degree at East London

Gain essential skills to boost your career prospects, particularly for roles connected to health and wellbeing fields. You'll engage with digital platforms, industry-led workshops, and real-world tasks to build confidence in communication, research, and digital professionalism.

Prepare for success in higher education by developing the academic, personal, and professional skills needed for your studies and beyond. You'll learn effective time management, research strategies, digital proficiency, and academic writing techniques.

Practical maths skills are essential across health and education careers. You'll explore statistics, probability, and basic financial numeracy, learning how to apply them to real workplace scenarios.

Essential communication skills underpin success at university and beyond. This module focuses on developing your oral, written, and interpersonal abilities, preparing you to adapt your communication style to different academic and professional contexts.

Solid foundations in chemistry and biology underpin success in biosciences. You'll study atomic structures, bonding, organic molecules, cell biology, genetics, metabolism, and physiological systems, combining theoretical knowledge with practical laboratory experience.

This module will support you in your 'transition' from school, college or the workplace towards degree level study, focusing on core skills required for the bioscience and chemistry programmes. The module will have at its core the key academic, employability and transferable skills of English for academic writing, ICT, numeracy in biological and chemical sciences, statistics, basic laboratory techniques, presentation, and personal development and study skills.

The module aims to enable you to develop a knowledge and understanding of the synthesis, reaction, theoretical and practical techniques underpinning the fundamentals of organic chemistry. You will also develop an understanding of chemical chirality and its clinical significance in pharmaceuticals and other industrial applications.

The module aims to enable you to develop a knowledge and understanding of the mathematical techniques underpinning all aspects of physical sciences and their application in theoretical and applied chemistry.

The module aims to enable you to develop a knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of analytical, mathematical and quantification techniques underpinning all aspects of chemistry.

The module aims to enable you to develop a knowledge and understanding of the theoretical and practical techniques underpinning the fundamentals of inorganic chemistry. Topics of study will include acids, bases and buffers, atomic and electronics structure, solid state chemistry and fundamental applications of spectroscopy to inorganic chemistry.

The module aims to enable you to develop a knowledge and understanding of the major areas and practical techniques underpinning the fundamentals of Physical Chemistry. This module will introduce key topics such as thermodynamics, kinetics, and properties of gases and liquids and will provide you with the ability to apply standards experimental methodology to solve theoretical and practical problems.

This module is designed to give you an opportunity to develop professional skills and experience within the workplace. It will also help you to establish a range of professional contacts that have the potential to be useful both for project work and assisting in finding employment after graduation.

This module will provide you with an exciting learning experience spanning theoretical and practical elements of advanced analytical chemistry. The key pillars of organic structure elucidation are 2D 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy, Fourier transform, IR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. Evolving from principles learned in the first year, a more diverse range of molecular spectra is interpreted.

The module aims to enable you to develop expertise in environmental and green chemistry. Topics of study will include the twelve principles of green chemistry, water pollution, atmospheric chemistry and geochemistry. Your role as a chemist in helping alleviate the environmental impact of laboratory activities will be discussed in-depth along with strategies for reducing chemical waste or energy expenditure during synthetic procedures.

The module aims to enable you to understand and apply theoretical and practical techniques to study important inorganic compounds and to develop your expertise in symmetry and spectroscopy. Topics of study include properties and reactions of groups 1-18, coordination of compounds, group theory, f-block elements and organometallic chemistry.

This module is structured to offer you reflective, integrated components in which different scientific disciplines and specialities belonging to your and other programmes of study are discussed in a system-led approach to developing professional competencies required in carrying out independent laboratory work in a professional setting.

The module aims to enable you to develop expertise in implementing the drug synthesis, reaction, and theoretical and practical techniques underpinning the core principles of organic chemistry. This will include the rationale for various protecting group strategies and consolidating disconnection approaches in the context of drug synthesis.

The module aims to develop your expertise in implementing the theoretical and experimental techniques underpinned by the core principles of Physical Chemistry by also providing examples of the application of quantum theory to spectroscopy. You will also explore topics in molecular structure and the application of statistics to thermodynamics.

This module is designed to give you an opportunity to develop professional skills and experience within the workplace. It will also help you to establish a range of professional contacts that have the potential to be useful both for project work and assisting in finding employment after graduation.

This module is designed to give you an opportunity to develop professional skills and experience within the workplace. It also enables you to apply knowledge and skills in the competent performance of