Applied Chemistry with Foundation Year

The BSc (Hons) Applied Chemistry with Foundation Year at Liverpool John Moores University is the ideal course if you are interested in this subject but lack the necessary qualifications to study it at degree level.

• £12 million invested in new state-of-the-art laboratories
• High percentage of practical work to investigate the applications of chemistry to 21st-century problems
• Graduates will have hands-on capability required for professional success in the chemical and allied industries
• Option to complete year out in industry (sandwich year)

Work-related learning

Translating your academic studies into essential professional experience

Work-related learning is a vital element of your studies, as it will give you that extra competitive edge when you come to negotiate your way around the graduate job market. For this reason, we highly recommend that you opt to undertake an industrial summer placement or an industrially-based research project. Although this is not compulsory, it will boost your job prospects and give you a chance to put into practice skills and knowledge you have acquired in the first two years.

Support and guidance

Dedicated personal tutor plus study skills support

There will be times during your course when you need guidance and advice related to your academic studies or more personal matters. For this reason you will be allocated a personal tutor for the duration of your course and take part in small tutorial groups where you can discuss course material in a more informal setting.

Individual support is also particularly valuable when you work independently on your fourth year research project and work-based learning modules, so you will be allocated a supervisor who will discuss aspects of your work in one-to-one tutorials.

About the Foundation Year

The Foundation Year is ideal if you have the ability to study for a degree but don’t have the qualifications to enter directly onto the Applied Chemistry honours degree programme. Once you pass the Foundation Year you will progress directly onto the first year of the honours degree. If you are a full-time UK student, you will qualify for student financial support for the full duration of your course (subject to eligibility criteria).

About the BSc (Hons) Applied Chemistry degree

This new degree programme combines traditional education in chemistry with 21st century high-technology applications, in order to produce graduates suitable for immediate employment in the chemical and allied industries, or to move onto postgraduate studies.

Chemistry makes up our environment, whether we are in the countryside, surrounded by natural materials, or in a brightly lit, shiny city centre. Increasingly, we seek to adapt our surroundings to make them warmer, more comfortable or more pleasing to look at. Similarly, we try to improve ourselves with supplements or fight diseases with drugs. We communicate with each other to a degree undreamt of, even a decade ago. All of these things require the creative application of chemistry by the chemical and related industries.

However, modern industry must ensure that such activity does not have a detrimental effect on the environment. The three-year BSc (Hons) course will provide a thorough education in chemistry, covering areas such as:

• nanotechnology
• photomedicine
• computational chemistry
• modern materials 
• green chemistry

The course structure is traditionally based around Inorganic, Organic, Physical and Analytical Chemistry, but with a high practical content of 100 hours per year.

The BSc Applied Chemistry covers topics across Organic, Inorganic, Physical and Analytical Chemistry in the first two years, with more applied and specialised subjects covered in levels 6. In addition, the Level 6 Research Project, taking up the majority of the final semester, offers you valuable experience in carrying out independent work at the cutting edge of this applied science.

Level 3

• Skills and Perspectives in Science
• Introductory Chemistry and Cell Biology
• Physical and Inorganic Chemistry
• Skills and Perspectives in Science
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry   

Level 4 

• Atomic Structure and Reactivity 
• From Atoms to Molecules Practical Labs 
• Properties of Molecules 
• Properties of Matter

Level 5 

• Radiation and Matter 
• Understanding Molecules 
• Practical Labs 
• Understanding Materials Structure and Analysis

Sandwich year 

• Year-long industrial placement   

Level 6 

• Modern Materials
• Industrial Chemistry
• Modern Synthesis
• Practical Labs
• Molecular Design
• Research Project

Requirements

• Successful completion of a first year of Bachelor degree/Bakalvr from a recognised institution or a Diploma of Completed Specialised Secondary Education (basic level) will be considered.
• Make sure you add as much detail as possible – including grades and results. Without enough information universities might struggle to make a decision.
• The application fee is £13 if you’re applying to just one course, or £24 for multiple courses 
• All academic transcripts
• Copies of degree/diploma certificates or work reference (if employed)
• One academic reference
• An English Language test score (IELTS) 6.0
• Your personal statement
• Copy of your valid passport (with a minimum of 6 months left before expiration)

Scholarships

• John Moores International Undergraduate Scholarship
• English for Undergraduateand Postgraduate Studies Bursary