CHIMICA

Access to further study.
This degree grants access to all the degree courses of the 2° cycle, 
including the first level university masters.

Professional status.
Graduates in Chemistry are positioned within a framework of skills that ideally is placed between those of a high-executive type typical of the Graduate of Technical Institutes (eg: chemical expert from Industrial Technical Institute) and those of ideational-planning specific to typical skills of Master's Degrees (or Specialized Graduates, or VO Chemistry Doctors) in Chemical Sciences. Basically, the graduate in Chemistry has a sufficiently broad framework of chemical disciplines coupled with good practice and autonomy in laboratory and experimental activities. He correctly interprets the data obtained from the instruments / equipment entrusted to him and manages to propose simple variations of procedures and methods in relation to the type of chemical problem faced. The degree of mastery of the scientific method of investigation makes him able to interact constructively within multidisciplinary contexts.
Freelance, employment in the industrial sector, in research and analysis laboratories, in structures that deal with environmental protection, conservation of cultural heritage, health, energy and materials science.

Employment and professional opportunities for graduates.
No-specific profile
Graduates in Chemistry, after acquisition of the requested qualification, may operate as Junior Chemists. Graduates can also find employment in research or analysis laboratories, industries and small-medium firms, structures involved in environment preservation, protection of cultural heritage, health and energy.

Language(s) of instruction/examination.
ITALIAN

Skills associated with the function
No-specific profile
Graduates will have an adequate understanding of the chemical aspects related to industrial contexts, research and analysis laboratories, environmental protection, preservation of cultural heritage, health, energy and materials science.
Graduated students will be able to independently use scientific instrumentation and properly interpret analytical results; they will correctly understand and use chemical procedures and methods of analysis.
They also will have a good level of interaction, also in multidisciplinary settings, a good degree of autonomy and will be potentially able to coordinate a small group of people.

Function in a work context
No-specific profile
Graduates can operate with a good level of autonomy, carrying out technical and executive tasks in public or private sectors. They can occupy entry-level graduate positions in chemical workplaces, including analysis, control, quality certification and research laboratories, chemical industries and all working structures that require an intermediate chemical knowledge.

Specific learning outcomes

The degree in Chemistry at the University of Sassari provides theoretical, methodological, experimental and applied abilities in the fundamental areas of chemistry. The fundamental aim of the course is to build a figure able to access the largest possible number of opportunities in science and technology, offered by the diverse world of work. The graduates will be able to use the skills acquired in an industrial environment, research and analysis laboratories in the fields of environmental protection, conservation of cultural heritage, health and energy. Graduates will be able to use complex scientific equipment and apply the scientific method of inquiry, including in relation to practical problems in all those areas in which they are involved methodologies, technologies and chemical processes. They will also have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a sufficient degree of autonomy.
Regarding the field of chemistry, graduates will acquire the following disciplinary skills and practical skills:
- knowledge and understanding of facts, essential concepts and principles, as well as theories related to the subject identified above.
- the ability to apply such knowledge and understanding to the solution of problems of quality and quantity of a common nature.
-the ability to evaluate, interpret, and synthesize information and chemical data.
-the ability to recognize and implement, by means of theoretical and experimental knowledge, good laboratory practice.
-skills in presenting scientific material and arguments in written and oral form to a public authority, also in English.
-computer skills and data-processing information and data related to chemicals.
-ability to handle chemicals safely, taking into account their physical and chemical properties, including the specific risks associated with their use.
-ability to conduct laboratory standard processes, including the use of instrumentation to the activity of synthesis and analysis, in relation to both organic and inorganic systems.
-ability to monitor, through observation and measurement of physical and chemical properties, events or processing of real systems, through systematic and reliable recording and documentation of process variables.
-ability to interpret data derived from observations and measurements in the laboratory, and to relate them with the appropriate theories
-ability to use tools and instruments for automatic calculation in the collection, management, processing and transfer of scientific data.