Study structure

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Your Bachelor's degree program consists of several modules, which usually end with an exam. Some modules are compulsory, but you can also pursue your personal interests with numerous compulsory electives and create your own individual timetable.

Course content & components

Here you will learn or consolidate the basic knowledge of mathematics, physics and biology that you will need for your chemistry degree.

Choose between various courses on sustainability concepts, strategies, discourses and analyses, global material cycles, etc., which lay the foundation for a holistic understanding of sustainability.

You can gain further key skills for your studies and future career through courses on scientific work, programming or foreign languages, for example.

The basic chemistry course includes general chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, theoretical chemistry, physical chemistry, biochemistry, toxicology and synthetic chemistry.

The lectures are usually combined with exercises, seminars and laboratory practice.

Once you have built up your basic knowledge, you will focus on the principles of green chemistry and aspects of sustainable chemistry. You can choose between two course combinations that offer you insights into either industry or nanostructure science.

Finally, in Sustainable Chemistry, you will learn research-related content from the areas of more sustainable synthesis, energy storage and bio-based materials.

In this area, you can choose from a variety of courses according to your interests - e.g. materials chemistry, computational chemistry or photochemistry.

Broaden your perspectives with related and application-oriented courses from the neighboring sciences - e.g. with water chemistry, construction chemistry, life cycle assessments, resource management and much more.

Prepare for your career with a professional internship or a research internship.

At the end of your studies, demonstrate that you can independently work on and present a project related to current issues in sustainable chemistry.

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Pie chart of study components

Details of the module descriptions

All module descriptions for our degree program can be found in the module handbook.

Links PO & MHB: Forward

How sustainability and sustainable chemistry interact

Chemistry provides the basis for understanding the problems and thus also approaches to solutions for numerous challenges in the context of sustainable development - e.g. for aspects of health, water and energy supply, resource use, industry and production, climate change, ....
Experts from several disciplines, including the Kassel Institute for Sustainability, are involved in your studies so that you get a holistic view of the complex of topics and the economic and social dimension does not "fall behind".
Within the classic basic chemistry lectures, we repeatedly make references to sustainability aspects, be it through examples of nuclear-economic reactions, bio-based plastics, active pharmaceutical ingredients, catalysts for pollutant degradation and much more.
You will then focus on specific approaches, goals and research projects in sustainable chemistry from your fourth semester onwards.
If you would like to illustrate the sustainability aspects of your studies using the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, you can view a marked study plan here.