BA/BS in Chemistry

Chemistry carries real weight in industry, economics and politics, and as an academic field it underlies advances in molecular biology, new materials and medical devices. Although it is not the youngest science, its frontiers keep moving outward in striking ways. The discipline touches every other branch of science yet retains its own independence in both method and concept. The department introduces students to that dual character, showing how chemical thinking connects with neighboring fields while holding its own distinctive approach. Students gain laboratory experience, quantitative skills and conceptual understanding that prepare them for medicine, pharmacy, research, environmental work, engineering and teaching. The study suits those who want to explain how matter behaves and changes, and who are comfortable moving between hands-on experiments and abstract models of molecules and reactions.