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Chemistry is a diverse discipline, involving substances in every aspect of life — what we see, eat, smell, touch, and taste every day.
With an equal emphasis on theory and practical work, Waterloo's Chemistry program prepares you for a growing number of dynamic career options. You could be searching for the roots of crippling diseases, designing cancer-fighting drugs, optimizing sustainable energy storage systems, creating quantum devices for sensing, or developing new computational methods.
The discipline of chemistry can be subdivided either along traditional lines into a set of subdisciplines such as analytical chemistry, biological chemistry or biochemistry, computational/theoretical chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and polymer chemistry, or along more thematic lines such as chemical synthesis and structure, materials chemistry, physical and chemical interactions, pharmaceutical or medicinal chemistry, environmental chemistry, green chemistry, nanoscience, chemical biology and chemical physics.
The Department of Chemistry at the University of Waterloo operates its Honours Chemistry program in both a regular mode and a co-operative mode.
In addition to honours Chemistry, we offer Two honours Chemistry specializations:
The Department of Chemistry also offers an honours program in Medicinal Chemistry, and shares the following joint academic programs with other departments in the Faculty of Science:
Because our Chemistry programs emphasize research and computer skills, employers find that our students are valuable team members who quickly learn new techniques and who are able to problem-solve quickly.
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Why choose co-operative study? Find out more at the Faculty of Science website.
Department of Chemistry
C2 280
200 University Ave. W
Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada N2L 3G1
Phone: (519) 888-4567 ext 32129
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