BSc Forensic Chemistry
Entry requirements
A level: BBC in three A levels including C in Chemistry IB: 554 in three Higher Levels including 4 in Chemistry, or 29 points including 4 in Higher Level Chemistry
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Chemistry, combining core chemical principles with forensic science applications. Core topics include Statistics, Laboratory Techniques, and Research Methods. The programme includes crime scene simulation facilities and a final-year independent research project. An optional work placement year is available.
Modules
- Practical and Professional Chemistry Skills
- Chemical Structure and Reactivity
- Forensic Investigation: From Documents to DNA
- Forensic Analysis: Evidence under Investigation
- Chemistry Career Planning and Employability Skills
- Sustainable Chemistry
- CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Science and Society
- Practical and Professional Chemistry
- Chemical Characterisation and Transformations
- Chemical Analysis and Detection
- Drugs of Abuse
- Crime Scenes: Blood, Marks and Prints
- Counterfeits, Fakes and Forgeries
- Principles of Drug Design
- Flexible Work Placement (Level 5)
- Kinetics, Catalysis and Mechanism
- Chemical Analysis: Instrumentation and Evaluation
- Independent Research Project
- Forensic Chemistry Literature Review
- Crime Scene to Court
- Forensic Toxicology: Ingestion to Detection
- Explosives, Arson and Evidence
- Synthetic Strategies in Organic Chemistry
- Inorganic, Physical and Quantum Chemistry