Theoretical and practical training
Our Bachelor's Degree (Chemistry and Biochemistry) and Certificate in Chemical Analysis offer a combination of both theoretical and practical sessions. Student surveys conducted year after year indicate that our faculty offers courses of exceptional quality. Moreover, unlike many other programs of the same type, our practice sessions are a full day. It is thus a real training in the professional life of the chemist and the biochemist.
The department has also invested in a state-of-the-art teaching infrastructure. For example, in the chemical analysis industry, the teaching laboratory recently acquired GC / MS (Clarus 600C Perkin-Elmer), FID GCs (Agilent 7820 and 6850, equipped with headspace), HPLC (Agilent 1100 and 1200), HPLC / MS / MS (Agilent 1100 coupled with Sciex MS Api 2000), ICP / OES (Agilent 5100), NMR (300 MHz Bruker), numerous FTIR, UV- NIR and fluorimeters. You will be required to manipulate each of these instruments, which are standard instruments of the industrial world and R & D, in groups of two. For biochemists, the teaching laboratory also has its own cell culture room, and you will be led to learn the techniques of cell culture. For each laboratory course, about fifteen students are supervised by a teacher, one or more instructors (graduate students), and one or more technicians. UQAM therefore offers a privileged environment for the theoretical, practical and professional training of chemistry and biochemistry.
A friendly and dynamic environment
The department of chemistry is grouped into a single building. The administration is grouped on the first floor with the teaching laboratories, while the upper floors include research laboratories, offices and some teaching laboratories. It is our desire to offer a compact, compact environment that promotes exchanges. Many baccalaureate or certificate students (or even most) do internships in research laboratories during the summer period and conversely students at the master's and doctoral levels are required to do the baccalaureate course. Our professors and lecturers are accessible.