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Engineering, Mathematics and Science
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In the Senior Sophister (fourth) year, lectures consist of core
fundamental material and an extensive range of optional courses
that allow each student to develop her/his own particular interests.
The practical component of this year is an extended
research
project
which you will carry out from September to December.
This may be conducted in Trinity College or in an academic
laboratory abroad.
A wide range of projects at the forefront of
chemistry are available within the many research areas located
in the School.
Study abroad
The School of Chemistry has exchange agreements with a
large number of other universities where students carry out
their final-year research projects, from September to December.
Centres where students have completed their research projects
in recent years have included Vienna, Berlin, Bologna, Toulouse
and Utrecht in Europe and McGill and Duke Universities in North
America. The areas of research cover modern chemical interests
such as cancer chemotherapy and DNA chemistry, through
device fabrication and materials processing, to homogeneous
catalysis and supramolecular chemistry.
Assessment
You will be assessed by a combination of continuous
assessment and end-of-year examinations.
Career opportunities
The chemical and pharmaceutical industries, which contribute
some 20% to Ireland’s exports, are excellent employers of Trinity
College’s chemistry graduates. Former graduates of chemistry
are working in companies such as Henkel, Pfizer, Glaxo-Smith-
Kline and Bristol Meyers Squibb. Patent offices, government
advisory and information services, libraries, public analytical
laboratories, schools and third-level institutions also employ
chemists. Or you may decide to carry out postgraduate research
leading to a higher degree either in Trinity College or in another
university in Ireland or abroad. Other equally successful routes
graduates have taken in the past include careers in the business
and financial services sectors, and in management.
Did you know?
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As well as offering a broad choice of topics for study
in the traditional areas of chemistry (organic, inorganic
and physical chemistry), the School of Chemistry
has
research strengths
in the cutting-edge areas
of medicinal and biological chemistry, materials and
nano-chemistry and computational chemistry. Students
can select a range of lecture courses from topics as
diverse as the chemistry of cancer, biological polymers
and synthetic materials, metal chelation therapy,
catalysis and molecular recognition and synthetic
receptors, providing fascinating illustrations of the
basic modes of chemical reactivity. These topics are
used to review important chemical principles, to gain
insight into the history of discovery, and to become
acquainted with cutting-edge research that fills the
pages of the scientific literature and occasionally
enters those of the popular press.
Further information
www.tcd.ie/Chemistry
Tel: +353 1 896 1726 / 2040