Exploring Everyday Chemistry, Short Course | Part time online | University of York | United Kingdom
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Exploring Everyday Chemistry

1 months
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About

This Exploring Everyday Chemistry course at the University of York will help you explore the organic chemistry behind perfume, medicine, brewing and sport.

Overview

This Exploring Everyday Chemistry course at the University of York is for anyone interested in finding out more about chemistry. It's particularly useful for sixth-form students looking to study chemistry at higher education level.

It could be used as an alternative to completing a chemistry-related Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) and used as supporting evidence in your UCAS personal statement.

What will you achieve?

  • By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
  • Identify a range of natural and synthetic attractants
  • Discuss current theories that help to explain how chemical structure is related to smell
  • Describe the mode of action of antibiotics and understand bacterial resistance
  • Describe promising new areas of research to design smarter drugs
  • Engage with the process of brewing, and identify key flavouring compounds
  • Discuss the role of modern analytical methods

Programme Structure

Modules include:

  • Chemical attraction

  • Organic compounds in pheromones
  • Understanding chemical structures, naming and fragrance composition
  • The race for new antibiotics

  • Understanding penicillin

  • An overview of other antibiotics
  • Understanding brewing

  • The chemistry of tea

  • The chemistry of flavour

  • The chemistry of coffee
  • Chemistry in sport

  • Understanding polymers

Key information

Duration

  • Part-time
    • 1 months

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

Language

English

Delivered

Online

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Tuition Fee

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  • International

    Free
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 0 GBP for the full programme during 1 months.
  • National

    Free
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 0 GBP for the full programme during 1 months.
  • Assessments (and subsequent certificates) are optional and carry a fee.

Funding

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