Program Overview

Our Bachelor of Science in Chemical Sciences is specifically designed to provide flexibility to students. Students select this degree to enable significant activities such as study abroad or multiple majors/minors.

This is also an excellent degree for students intending to pursue professional school. If you want to attend medical school, dental school or pharmacy school, which have many additional requirements, this degree could work for you.

Learning Outcomes

SU’s Chemistry and Biochemistry programs are designed to prepare you to engage with the complex challenges of our increasingly interconnected world and to move towards a just, humane, and hope-filled future. Your experience in the Chemistry Department will engage you across the domains listed below and support you to achieve the specified skills and characteristics. 

• Mastery of chemistry fundamentals: Master fundamental knowledge and principles from general, organic, inorganic, analytical, physical, and biochemistry.
• Proficiency in experimentation and technology: Plan, safely conduct, troubleshoot, and document lab experiments that answer scientific questions with modern tools.
• Rigorous scientific analytical skills: Analyze data, results, theories, explanations, and hypotheses by applying chemical principles.
• Application to complex, real-world problems: Apply mastery of chemistry fundamentals, modern experimentation, and the scientific process to address multifaceted global problems.
• Contemporary science communication: Communicate effectively and persuasively with technical and non-scientific audiences in written and oral forms, and accurately interpret technical scientific literature.
• Collaborative teamwork: Build on individual strengths to work collectively towards a goal, supporting team success through clear communication and active listening.
• Foundations for professional success: Demonstrate timeliness, earnestness, honesty, self-awareness, self-regulation, and ethical responsibility.
• Personal growth and life-long learning: Develop the habit of reconsidering ideas or experiences to gain new insights, to discover deeper meaning, or to improve over time.