Chemistry - University of Alabama at Birmingham

Chemistry from University of Alabama at Birmingham is a Campus Master Chemistry degree that prepares you for a Science career. The graduate curricula in the Department of Chemistry are designed to ensure superior disciplinary quality and research competency in target research areas that UAB can uniquely offer. This department has an outstanding research active faculty that provides a very favorable faculty/student ratio to encourage close contacts between students and their faculty research advisors and provides opportunities for mentors to give personalized attention to the academic and research progress of each of their students. All graduate students are required to pursue a graduate curriculum that provides the general knowledge-based foundation for the student's program through a series of six core curriculum courses (18 semester hours). All students are required to enroll in two Foundations Courses [CH 700, Foundations I (Analytical and Physical); CH 701, Foundations II (Organic and Inorganic)] and four additional courses that they may select to complete their course requirements. Graduate students also enroll in courses offered in the Basic Health Sciences and the Joint Material Sciences Programs to broaden their backgrounds in selective areas and greatly strengthen their ability to carry out interdisciplinary research. Students involved in interdisciplinary programs (pharmaceutical design, materials science, molecular biophysics, forensic science, etc.) may, with the approval of their Advisory Committee, make appropriate substitutions for some of the courses, i.e. Polymer/Materials Chemistry, Biochemistry, etc. A grade of B must be earned in each of these courses for Admission to Candidacy in the Ph.D. program. Courses may be repeated once to raise the grade. All graduate students are to demonstrate communication skills competencies. Adequate performance is required on the literature seminar, written responses to essay exams, dissertation defense, teaching, written publications, presentations at professional meetings, and/or enrollment in the Graduate School course series GRD 701 (Presentation and Discussion Skills), GRD 702 (Writing Up Research), and GRD 717 (Principles of scientific integrity). All incoming international graduate students will be required to take GRD 700 (Culture and speaking in the US as well as GRD 714 (Individualized Pronunciation and Accent Training). All graduate students are required to present a departmental literature seminar after their first year. Students must select a research advisor after their first year and have a research committee in place by the end of their third semester. This selection occurs after the student has interviewed each graduate faculty member in the Department of Chemistry . The student and the major professor will recommend to the director of the graduate program in chemistry the composition of the graduate study committee. Core Courses: CH 629/729, CH 631/731, CH 632/732, CH 633/733, CH 639/739, CH 642/742, CH 649/749, CH 659/759, CH 664/764, CH 669/769, CH 671/771, CH 689/789 Substitutions are permitted with the approval of the student's research advisory committee and director of the graduate program. View more details on University of Alabama at Birmingham . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Chemistry courses.