In this course, you will begin to learn how to teach Chemistry in secondary contexts. You will use relevant syllabus documents to develop innovative and engaging lesson plans. You will learn and practise a range of effective teaching strategies designed to engage a diversity of learners in a safe and supportive classroom environment. You will learn how to use digital and other innovative resources to assess and improve learning in the discipline and to develop language, literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum. Through self and peer evaluation you will also learn how to present yourself in a professional, supportive manner.

This course enables science students studying majors in the School of Chemistry to apply their disciplinary knowledge and transferable skills in a professional context, through a work placement experience at an organisation external to UNSW. Students will have the opportunity to develop key professional skills that align with their career goals and contextualise their field of study in a professional workplace setting. The main component of the course is a minimum 105-hour work placement related to the students field of study. The placement can be paid or unpaid. This supervised workplace experience is supported by professional development and discipline-specific modules that students can select from, in line with their individual career goals. CHEM3199 will count as a science or free elective and is graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. The course is available to domestic and international students. If a domestic or international student wishes to undertake an overseas work placement, extra conditions will apply before the placement and enrolment into the course is approved. Eligibility and Enrolment Enrolment is subject to approval and completion of required pre-requisites. Permission to enrol will only be granted if the student:

This course is the second of the Chemistry work placement courses and builds on the skills and experiences gained in CHEM3199 Chemistry Work Placement 1.  CHEM3199 must be completed as a co-requisite or pre-requisite to CHEM3299. This work placement course is for Chemistry students who wish to extend their work placement experience by completing a longer work placement (over two terms) or a more intensive placement (more hours in one term). Placements may be paid or unpaid. The three work placement options available to students are provided below -  the same eligibility and approval processes apply for all work placement options.

This course builds on an elementary knowledge of chemistry (equivalent to one year of high school chemistry, such as Year 11 chemistry, or CHEM1001 at UNSW) to explore the structures of atoms which leads to an understanding of the periodic trends in the properties of the elements. This knowledge is applied to understanding chemical bonding and intermolecular forces which together are responsible for determining the properties of diverse materials including drug molecules. General principles of chemical equilibrium are developed and applied to chemical reactions involving acids and bases. The applications of the laws of thermodynamics to chemical processes are described and ultimately linked to chemical equilibrium. A key part of chemistry is to study the speed of chemical reactions, which will provide a strong foundation for subsequent courses in the program.

This course will explain how cosmetics and personal care products work from a scientific standpoint. Chemistry plays a key role in the manufacturing and continual improvement of personal care and other household products. It is involved in all stages, from the chemical extraction of natural products to the packaging of final consumer products. Throughout the course, students will learn the interaction of skin-care chemicals with lipids in the skin, the suspension of oil in emulsions, and how sunscreens filter or scatter UV light. Furthermore, the students will learn how to interpret ingredient lists and understand their roles. Marketing hype and trends, such as anti-aging, will be dissected to examine the underlying scientific principles and negative campaigns analysed to evaluate their veracity.

Chemistry is fundamental not just to the design of small molecules, but increasingly to the preparation of materials ranging from hard colloidal nanomaterials to soft complex macromolecular architectures. These materials have been used by humans throughout the ages: from the Lycurgus Cup of ancient Rome to natural polymers such as wool and silk. This course will explore the synthesis and characterisation of such materials, as well as the physical chemistry that underpins their behaviour both in solution and in the solid state. A particular emphasis will be placed on chemistry at the interface, the modification of surfaces, and the self-assembly of block copolymers for the preparation of nanostructures materials.