Bachelor’s Degree

Sciences

Chemistry
Syllabus
COURSE TYPE ECTS ELECTIVE COURSES ECTS
Compulsory Core Courses 60 Applied Analysis and Quality 6
Compulsory Courses 126 Bioinorganic Chemistry 6
Elective Courses 36 * Environmental Biochemistry 6
Bachelor’s Degree Final Project 18 Computational Chemistry 6
TOTAL 240 Metallic Materials: Production and 6
* Includes 12 ECTS for External Internships. Performance in Service
Advanced Methodologies in Analytical
Offers a bilingual group English-Spanish. 6
Chemistry
FIRST YEAR ECTS Spectroscopic Methods Applied to 6
Biology 6 Chemistry
Applied Statistics and Numerical Molecular Modelling and Simulation
6 6
Methods Methods
General Physics 9 Environmental Analytical Chemistry 6
Geology 6 Solid State Chemistry and Advanced 6
Applied Computer Chemistry 6 Inorganic Materials
Mathematics 9 Applied Organic Chemistry 6
Basic Laboratory Operations 6 Applied Physical Chemistry 6
General Chemistry 12 Structural Organic Chemistry 6
Organometallic Chemistry: Applications 6
SECOND YEAR ECTS in Catalysis
Materials Science 6 Organic Synthesis 6
Chemical Engineering 9 Environmental Technology 6
Analytical Chemistry I 9 External Internships 12
Physical Chemistry I 12 PARTICIPATION CREDITS ECTS
Inorganic Chemistry I 12
Any course 6
Organic Chemistry I 12
THIRD YEAR ECTS
Biochemistry 9
Analytical Chemistry III 6
Analytical Chemistry II 9
Physical Chemistry II 12
Inorganic Chemistry II 12
Organic Chemistry II 12
FOURTH YEAR ECTS
Design and Implementation of a Project 6
in Chemistry
Six Electives or four Electives and 36
External Internships
Bachelor’s Degree Final Project 18
Knowledge Professional
acquired opportunities
ƒ Chemical language concerning nomenclature ƒ Municipal and provincial chemists.
and formulation of elements and compounds. ƒ Chemists for/in public health institutes.
ƒ Fundamental concepts of chemistry: laws of ƒ Customs chemists.
chemical combination, stoichiometry, compo-
ƒ Chemists for any government agency, or state
sition of matter, atomic structure, periodic pro-
companies (even indirectly), where this specific
perties of the elements, aggregation states and
function is required.
chemical bonds.
ƒ Chemists for private companies.
ƒ Fundamental concepts of chemical equilibrium,
structure and reactivity and their practical appli- ƒ Clinical analysis.
cations. ƒ Clinical biochemistry.
ƒ Instrumental analysis and separation techni- ƒ Microbiology and parasitology.
ques ƒ Radiopharmacy.
ƒ Analytical chemistry as a metrological science. ƒ (specialist in) Clinical radiophysics.
ƒ Chemical bond, structure, properties, obtaining ƒ University teaching.
methods and chemical reactions. ƒ Secondary school teaching.
ƒ Main topics of coordination, organometallic and ƒ Scientific research.
solid state chemistry.
ƒ Experimental methods for synthesis and charac-
terization of inorganic compounds.
ƒ Principles of chemical thermodynamics.
ƒ Principles of statistical thermodynamics.
ƒ Quantum mechanics and its application to spec-
troscopy and to determination of the properties
of atoms, molecules and solids.
ƒ Chemical and electrochemical reactions in ter-
ms of reaction mechanisms and rate equations.
ƒ Structural bases of organic compounds and
their physical, spectroscopic and chemical pro-
perties.
ƒ Protocols for synthesis, isolation and purifica-
tion of organic compounds.
ƒ Structure of biological macromolecules and
their determining factors.
ƒ Function and understanding of cells in chemical
terms.
ƒ Principles of metabolism and metabolic pa-
thways. Biosynthesis of proteins and nucleic
acids.
ƒ Experimental methods in biochemistry and bio-
logical chemistry.
ƒ Principles of mechanics and relationships to one
and many particles and fluid systems.
ƒ Mathematical fundamentals: variables and
functions, differential equations and applied
statistics.
ƒ Most relevant processes in the chemical indus-
try.
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