This course opens up opportunities in high-technology industries and research, including pharmaceutical design, advanced materials, biochemical study and environmental protection. The skills you will acquire on this course are widely recognised and a Chemistry course will also open up career paths in areas as varied as computing, teaching, accountancy and marketing. This course is accredited for partially satisfying the requirements for Chartered Chemist (CChem) by the Royal Society of Chemistry. This course aims to instil in students a sense of enthusiasm for chemistry, and to generate an appreciation of the importance of chemistry in an industrial, economic, environmental and social context and to provide students with a broad and balanced foundation of chemical knowledge and practical skills, and to develop, through an education in chemistry, a range of transferable skills which are of value in chemical and non-chemical employment.