| Learning outcomes | The chemistry training programme is designed to enable students to acquire due knowledge, insight and skills and to gain a duly scientific method of thinking.
Specifically, the Bachelor training programme aims to:
1 teach students a broad-based foundation in science;
2 introduce students to the main disciplines of chemistry, with the inclusion of biochemistry, and their respective applications;
3 teach students to situate the importance of chemistry in everyday life, the environment and society;
4 to initiate students in the methods and ways of putting forward solutions for scientific issues in a self-reliant and scientifically responsible manner;
5 to gradually familiarise students with the relevant scientific literature;
6 to gradually teach students how to interpret scientific results with a due sense of scientific critique and to draw the pertinent conclusions from such results;
7 to initiate students to how to familiarise themselves with new scientific knowledge, in particular in the field of chemistry, with the inclusion of biochemistry;
8 to teach students how to use recent information technology resources in collating and assimilating information, conducting experiments or making calculations and how to report on the work performed;
9 to teach students how to report on their work, both orally and in writing, and/or to use the same skills in transferring discipline-related know-how;
10 to sensitise students to social developments and the impact thereof on man, the environment and society at large;
11 to instil due insight into students into the hazards that are concomitant with conducting experimental research and to teach them to duly understand and apply safety measures (inspection report § 1).
Demands which the graduated bachelor in chemistry must meet:
1. The graduate must posess a broad general knowledge within the area of sciences and the subject area, must have the attitude to permanently continue educating him/herself, in order to remain informed of recent developments within the subject area and of the evolution of chemistry and the sciences in general.
2. The graduate must posess the knowledge, skills and attitude that enable the exercise of a diversity of professions, specifically within research and industry.
3. The graduate must have developed the attitude and problem solving capacity to work in a scientifically sound, professional and ethically responsible manner.
4. The graduate must be capable of performing experimental work with chemical products in a safe manner.
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