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The Chemistry minor will powerfully equip you to achieve your career goals by integrating the fundamental principles of chemistry with interdisciplinary applications, allowing you to explore a diverse range of advanced topics related to chemistry and how they impact the world.

Educational Objectives

Our interdisciplinary approach creates exciting opportunities to enrich your studies and expand your knowledge in areas of chemistry like aqueous, computational, environmental, organic, physical, analytical, and biochemistry.

Our Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) program will position you to conduct groundbreaking research alongside acclaimed faculty mentors, where you’ll work together co-authoring peer-reviewed journal articles and, in some cases, co-authoring patents.

Our strong industry connections throughout the region offers a powerful launching pad for your future success, including internship and summer immersion experiences with industry leaders including Â鶹´å Analytics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and UC Santa Cruz.

Our accomplished, supportive faculty dedicate themselves fully to the success of their students, providing mentorship and extensive personalized attention through weekly open study sessions, abundant office hours, and informal problem-solving and work sessions in the “Chem Compound” where faculty offices are clustered.

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You’ll take advantage of our vibrant coastal setting by the incorporation of the local environment in our marine chemistry examples, as well as through course offerings that cover aqueous chemistry, environmental chemistry, and marine chemistry.