Unit name | Industrial Experience and Advanced Distance Learning |
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Unit code | CHEM30003 |
Credit points | 120 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Eastoe |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites | |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Chemistry |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
The unit comprises a year spent on an industrial placement with a major chemical company. The major part of the year is spent carrying out a research project under the supervision of a member of staff of the Company and a member of staff of the School of Chemistry. Students also undertake coursework consisting of distance learning of key level 3 lecture courses.
This unit provides the experience of working in an industrial environment to provide students with skills they will use in a career as a professional chemist, or in an area of employment requiring the skills of scientific reasoning, critical evaluation and numeracy. Students will use laboratory techniques they have learned in their previous two years of study which can be employed to face new challenging experiments where they can learn to research and choose appropriate techniques for a given problem and work independently, managing their own time. This placement aims to provide an advanced understanding and knowledge of the an area of practical chemistry, reinforcing and building on year 2 material and laying the basis to enable progress to independent laboratory work in later years and academic study in the final year.
Much teaching will be provided ‘on the job’ by members of staff at the company. Formal academic teaching will be entirely by distance learning using e-learning methods.
Students will assessed remotely by online assessment. This assessment will account for 25% of the course mark with the remaining 75% for final written report and oral presentation.
The reading needed for this course will be made available via the Distance Learning module.