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BSc Medicinal Chemistry
Combined Honours
The Combined Honours courses are an exciting way to study operating within the traditional
Keele Combined Honours framework. A wide range of subject combinations are available and the
Combined Honours route allows you broader career options at the end of your degree.
Many exciting areas of research science
happens at the interface of disciplines
– biosynthesis, chemical biology, drug
metabolism, and biocomposites all need
a broad knowledge across scientific
disciplines so a Combined Honours
degree can have real advantages if your
goal is to work in a cross disciplinary
area.
You will study two subjects in Years 1
and 2 and have the option to study two
subjects equally throughout the three
years of your Combined Honours degree.
You are also allowed to specialise in
medicinal chemistry or your other subject
in Year 3 of the three-year course. If
you specialise in medicinal chemistry
you have the option to pick an elective
module in Year 3 from your combination
subject.
Indicative modules
Autumn Semester
Year 1
Chemical Structure and Reactivity
Practical & Professional Chemistry Skills
Year 2
Molecular Chemistry and Reactions
Spectroscopy and Analysis
Medicinal and Biological Chemistry 1
Year 3
Medicinal Chemistry Research Project
or Medicinal Chemistry Dissertation *1
Medicinal and Biological Topics in Medicinal Chemistry
Chemistry 2 Advanced Chemical Analysis *3
Advanced Organic Chemistry
Inorganic, Physical & Solid
State Chemistry *2
Combinations include:
• Astrophysics and Medicinal Chemistry
• Biology and Medicinal Chemistry Chemical Kinetics,
Photochemistry &
• Medicinal Chemistry and Forensic
Science Inorganic Reaction
Mechanisms *2
• Medicinal Chemistry and Human
Biology
• Medicinal Chemistry and Physics
• Biochemistry and Medicinal Chemistry
• Medicinal Chemistry and
Environmental Science
Spring Semester
Specialised Chemistry students study both.
Combined Honours pick 2 modules out of 3
*3
Specialised Chemistry only
*1
*2
• Medicinal Chemistry and Geology
• Medicinal Chemistry and Mathematics
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