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Graduate Coursework

• Students meet with their Faculty Area Advisor during New Grad Training to plan course selection

  • Biochemistry: CHEM 226, 234, 241-256, 259, 261, 262AB, 281, and other select BMSE courses

  • Inorganic: CHEM 268AB and 270-279

  • Materials: CHEM 240, 265, 274, 282ABC, 285, and other select CHEM and MATRL courses

  • Organic: CHEM 224, 226-233, 239, 240, 258, and CHEM 263

    • Students are also expected to participate in CHEM 223 regularly, though it does not apply toward the 18 required units

  • Physical: CHEM 217-222, 225, and other select CHEM courses

• Most students take all of their courses in their first year

• This requirement must be met before advancing to candidacy

Research Area and Advisor Selection

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• In order to remain in good academic standing, students are required to formally join a research group by the end of their second year

  • Must be after December 1st of their first year

  • Must be after rotations are completed (even if a student has worked for and been paid by a professor during the preceding summer)

• In order to officially join a research group, you will fill out an Advisor Selection Petition. This requires:

  • 2-3 sentences of detail regarding the content of each rotation

  • Signatures from your Primary Advisor, Co-Advisor (if applicable), and Area Advisor

Teaching Requirement

• Students are required to enroll in Chemistry 501A-B-C or 502A-B-C, as appropriate, during each term in which they are employed as Teaching Assistants

• Satisfactory evaluation of your teaching performance is required to remain in good standing as a graduate student

First Year Chair’s Meeting

• All new students must meet with the Department Chair individually at the end of winter or spring quarter

• You will be asked to prepare or collect:

  • Updated Resume/CV

  • Questionnaire

  • Statement from your Advisor

Establishing a Thesis Committee

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