Chemistry

The American Chemical Society (ACS) approved Chemistry Department offers a broad spectrum of programs in chemistry designed to meet specific needs of students and a variety of vocational objectives. A chemistry degree from Rockhurst can be customized to meet the needs of a variety of career objectives:

• medical, dental and other health care professions
• graduate school
• chemical and pharmaceutical industry
• chemical manufacturing
• medical research
• pharmacy or pharmacology research
• pharmaceutical sales
• chemical engineering
• material science and design
• agriculture
• food and beverage industry
• government research/national laboratories
• quality assurance
• environmental science
• safety and industrial hygiene
• forensic chemistry
• chemical education
• patent law

Program Goals

• To provide the student with sound foundations in all major fields of chemistry.
• To develop skillful laboratory techniques.
• To promote appreciation of chemical experimentation and research.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate laboratory skill proficiency, safety, and teamwork.
• Demonstrate ability to communicate scientific results.
• Analyze chemical problems and develop solutions to those problems.
• Predict how matter interacts with itself and with energy using basic chemical principles.
• Use, critically evaluate, and present scientific literature.
• Integrate chemical principles, knowledge, and critical thinking skills to solve a chemical problem through laboratory and/or computational research, as well as library research.
• Demonstrate and describe the importance of ethics in scientific work.

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