Program Description
About the discipline:
- Chemistry is a wide ranging scientific discipline and is fundamental to other scientific disciplines—a central science.
- Chemistry is important to the economics of industrialized nations and represents the fifth largest domestic industry with sales of approximately $200 billion per year.
- Chemistry is an unusually comprehensive single major for pre-medical students.
Career opportunities:
Because the curriculum is based on the guidelines of the American Chemical Society and provides a high-quality program of study, graduates have found career opportunities in the fields of medicine, dentistry, pharmaceuticals, college and secondary education, environmental science, material science, engineering, law and a wide variety of other industrial areas.
Strengths and emphases:
The chemistry faculty are qualified professionals with significant research and teaching experience. They can help you plan your program and help you be successful in your career goals.
In addition to excellence in the classroom, the chemistry faculty recognize that research is a vital component of undergraduate education and offer research experience to all interested students. Students need not be chemistry majors and may undertake research for direct academic credit.
- A distinctive honors program is available for students of outstanding ability. As part of this, all majors are required to complete a research project and attendant thesis, an accomplishment very attractive to future industrial employers along with graduate and medical schools.
- A major strength of the Spring Arbor University chemistry program is the high acceptance rates of students into graduate or medical schools. Over 70 percent of the chemistry majors pursue advanced training.
- Specialized instruction and advising.
- Wide range of laboratory experiences.
- Computer assisted instruction and laboratory.
Notes on general education: Advanced science lab courses included in the major meet the general education science requirement.
Notes for students certifying to teach: Both the chemistry major and minor meet certification requirements for secondary education.