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Teaching

The Department of Chemistry teaches courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. There are currently over 460 undergraduate students taking either the 3 year BSc or 4 year MChem course.

The department has a large graduate school with approximately 150 students; most of these students are registered for a PhD research degree.

There are also a number of specialist taught courses available at graduate level.

Undergraduate teaching

The department prides itself on innovative teaching delivered at the highest possible standards.  There is a particular focus on small group teaching, with the tutorial system being a major part of our delivery methods.  Since its inception in 2005, the National Student Survey has always rated York Chemistry in the top 5 of UK chemistry departments, with it being ranked top in 2007.

The distinctive and attractive undergraduate course at York (approximately 900 applications for a quota of 131 places for 2007/8) has a flexible modular structure: it builds on core chemistry by offering a range of courses including the opportunity for specialisation in areas of contemporary importance in environmental, industrial and biological/medicinal chemistry, as well as advanced topics in chemistry.

There are three-year (BSc) and four-year (MChem) degree programmes. The fourth year of the MChem course can be spent in York, in industry (UK, EU) or in an overseas university; there are opportunities for students to spend a year at universities in Aachen, Caen, Grenoble, Helsinki, Montpelier, Münster, Modena, Seville, Nanyang (Singapore) or Strasbourg. These courses are described in the prospectus and brochures.

Postgraduate teaching

The Department of Chemistry has a graduate school of approximately 80 research fellows and around 175 postgraduate students – the majority of whom are registered for a PhD degree.

There are also a number of taught courses available at postgraduate level. The department runs an MSc course in:

• Green Chemistry and Sustainable Industrial Technology

The Department also offers joint courses with other departments including the MRes courses in Functional Genomics (with Biology) and Computational Biology (with Biology and Computer Science)

There is also a new MSc course in Chemoinformatics which is a joint course between the departments of Chemistry and Mathematics.