Chemistry Degrees Online

Chemistry at Bridgewater College is a small but well-equipped department, graduating 4-6 majors each year. Of those majors, more than half go on to further their education in graduate or professional schools. Others have joined firms such such as Merck, Dow and W. R. Grace as bench chemists, while others find work in quality control labs both private and state-operated.

curriculum is intended to foster an increasing sense of independence in the student. After the introductory courses, chemistry majors are encouraged to become laboratory assistants in various low-level courses, and are required to complete during each term as Juniors and Seniors individual projects which permit them to become familiar with advanced chemical methods and instrumentation. During these project courses the students may work on their own time, and are given access to all of the working labs in the department by means of a key system.

The Doctoral Program in Chemistry is under the auspices of the Department of Chemistry .

The coordinator of the doctorate is Professor Gastone Gilli.

Several research themes are developped within this doctorate.

The program of study is composed of the following curriculum:
Analytical and Environmental Chemistry
Physical, Structural and Computational Chemistry
Photochemistry and Catalysis
Organic synthesis and reactivity
Inorganic synthesis and reactivity

Each year, the faculty decides the academic coursework expressly created for the doctorate program and that taken from other courses of study.

The annual plan for the academic activity of each graduate student, proposed by the student and his or her advisor at the beginning of each year, is verified at the end of the year by the faculty during the colloquium that decides admission to the following year or to the final exam.

Credits have to be subdivided according to the regulations of the pertaining Macro-Area. Students of the first year will acquire 10 credits in transversal activities, 5 credits in macro-area activities and 45 credits within disciplinar activities.