AA/AS in Chemistry

Chemistry at Cuesta College is aimed at students who want to understand the particles that make up everything around us, in a program that is both stimulating and demanding. The subject underpins work in medicine, materials, forensics, engineering, agriculture, molecular biology, and the earth sciences. Popular subjects include environmental chemistry, fuels, batteries, plastics, and common household products, and the ways chemists design the molecules people use daily. Students who want to look further can open the matching area-of-study page on the Cuesta College website. It lays out sequences of courses meant to help with choosing classes each term and with planning what comes after graduation, whether that means transfer, work, or more study. The division also lists a contact for specific questions about the subject.