Analytical and Environmental Chemistry

English
VUB Main Campus Etterbeek
120
 ECTS
2 years

Master of Science in Chemistry Analytical and Environmental Chemistry

Compulsory courses

Part I

Chemometrics
3 ECTS
Applications in Analytical and Environmental Sciences
6 ECTS
Analytical Methods for Material Characterization
9 ECTS
Environmental Analysis
6 ECTS
Multi Scale Modelling
6 ECTS
Scientific and Science Communication / Communicating Science
6 ECTS
Master Thesis Partim I
9 ECTS

Part II

Master Thesis Partim II
21 ECTS
Internship
30 ECTS

Electives

Electives year 1

You choose a total of 15 credits of courses from the following options

Principles & Applications of Stable Isotope Analysis
3 ECTS
Cosmochemistry
3 ECTS
Metal Biogeochemical Cycle
3 ECTS
Chemical Risk Assesment
3 ECTS
Exposure to Contaminants through Food and Environment
3 ECTS
Application of Geochemical Methodologies to Bioarchaeology
3 ECTS
Environmental Law
3 ECTS
Water Quality
3 ECTS
Natural Hazards
3 ECTS
Archaeometry
3 ECTS
Advanced X-ray Spectroscopy
3 ECTS
Analytische Raman Spectroscopie
3 ECTS
Foundations of NMR and XRD for Structure Analysis
4 ECTS
Organic Separation techniques and mass spectrometry
4 ECTS
Light and Matter
4 ECTS
Structure Analysis by X-Ray Diffraction
4 ECTS
Field Sampling and Analysis
3 ECTS

Electives year 2

You choose a total of 9 credits of courses from the following options

Molecular Physical Chemistry
9 ECTS
Capita Selecta in Theoretical Chemistry
3 ECTS
Capita Selecta in Bio-organic Chemistry
3 ECTS
Molecular Simulations of Biosystems
3 ECTS
Advanced Organic Chemistry
9 ECTS
(Bio)Polymers
6 ECTS
Molecular Structure Analysis
6 ECTS
Asymmetric Synthesis
3 ECTS
Chemical Concepts from Quantum Chemistry
3 ECTS
Density Functional Theory
3 ECTS
Homogenous catalysis
3 ECTS
Chemical Applications of Group Theory
6 ECTS
Tracer Isotope Biogeochemistry
6 ETCS
Total number of ECTS
120