Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Top-up)

Completing your Pharmaceutical Chemistry BSc(Hons) degree with us gives you the to develop a specialism in pharmaceutics. Throughout this final year you’ll be building up your knowledge and getting to practise the skills that are sought after by a wide range of industries.

• You’ll get to grips with the subject areas through lectures, tutorials, focused seminars and hands-on practicals in modern science labs. Guided by teaching staff who are all educated to doctoral level in their respective areas of expertise.

• You’ll be able to develop your logical reasoning skills and establish an imaginative approach to solving problems..

• In your final year, you’ll delve deeper into the complexities of drug action and drug design. You’ll also complete a research project, giving you the chance to make an impact in your area of particular interest or perhaps focus on topics you might wish to pursue in your future career in industry or academia. Wherever you’d like your career path to take you, taking your first steps with us could give you a great start.

Reasons to study Pharmaceutical Chemistry (Top-up)

• The taught modules bring together some of the aspects of advance pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry to enable you to understand present day drug design, activity and delivery.

• Completing your Pharmaceutical Chemistry BSc(Hons) degree gives you the opportunity to develop a specialism in pharmaceutics.

• Your learning will take place in new £18.2 million facilities such as our state of the art chemistry and pharmaceutical formulation labs.

Core modules -
Analytical Science 3
Research Project
Pharmaceutical Formulation and Drug Analysis

Optional modules -
if your first language is not English you must take the following module:
Developing Confidence in Spoken and Written English

and choose two from a list which may include:
Heterocycles, Selectivity and Modern Synthesis
Mass Spectrometry, NMR, Electroanalysis & Sensors
Medical Pharmacology 3
Mechanisms and Pathology of Cancer and other Chronic Diseases

If your first language is English you will be taking:
Heterocycles, Selectivity and Modern Synthesis
Mass Spectrometry, NMR, Electroanalysis & Sensors
Medical Pharmacology 3
Mechanisms and Pathology of Cancer and other Chronic Diseases

All our courses give you an overview of:
• contact time with your tutor
• time spent on independent study
• how you will be taught, assessed, and receive feedback

Take a look at the Teaching and Assessment information on our course page.