Department of Chemistry
URL : http://chem.kaist.ac.kr/eng
Summary
Understanding and application of substances and energy is an important subject that can change human civilization. Chemistry is a study of changes of substances and energy surrounding us. With its rapid advance in the 20th century, chemistry is the base of everything that makes our life rich and has become a foundation of engineering developments. Technical development of applied science is currently facing many limitations, and as such there are great expectations for the advancement of chemistry in the 21st century. The School of Chemistry offers an educational system that leads research development in the 21st century.
Curriculum
The undergraduate program offers a curriculum balanced between theoretical learning and training in experimental methods, with the aim of nurturing qualified scientists with flexible application capabilities of specialized knowledge in the fields of physical, organic, inorganic and analytical chemistry, biochemistry, and high molecule chemistry. Students will be guided to understand modern chemistry through direct participation in their professors’ research projects, and will be trained to obtain application capabilities that will serve as a foundation for academic research as well as industrial development.
The graduate program offers physical, organic, inorganic and analytical chemistry, and biochemistry. We train our students to obtain ability and creativity in solving problems according to each field.
Field and research
The school offers active research opportunities in various fundamental and applied fields such as theoretical chemistry, computer chemistry, solution reactions, gas substance reactions, natural products chemistry, organic synthesis chemistry, high molecule chemistry, photochemistry, surface and catalyst chemistry, compound chemistry of new inorganic and organic metals, biochemistry, organs chemistry, structural chemistry, solid state chemistry, and medical chemistry. Chemistry is a key research field for the latest advanced technologies such as Nano Technology, Bio Technology, and Information Technology.
After graduation
Since its establishment in 1973, the School of Chemistry has nurtured human resources for the academic, research, and industrial worlds and has played a key role in educational institutions, research institutions, companies, and governmental institutions. Chemistry is the basis of all science, and as such its importance has been greatly recognized. Accordingly, demand for our graduates has been continuously growing. Graduate school students and the skills they have learned are particularly needed because of the recent tendency of research developments.