The aims of the module are to:

Enable students to develop essential laboratory skills that are required in inorganic, organic, analytical and physical chemistry, and introduce students to fundamental software packages required for chemical report writing and data manipulation.

A part aim for this module is to enable students to become aware of and develop their academic, professional and personal skills through Personal Best. Personal Best is a development programme available to all students at Loughborough University.

The aims of the module are to introduce mathematical concepts and introduce the fundamental concepts and applications of Thermodynamics and Kinetics.

The aims of the module are to introduce students to the fundamental principles underpinning core synthetic chemistry (organic and inorganic chemistry).

The aim of this module is to introduce the principles and experimental methods of spectroscopy and analytical chemistry as a measurement science.

The aim of this module is to introduce concepts in thermodynamics, redox and phase equilibria, and to introduce their applications to the understanding of chemical and physical change, and in chemical analysis.

The aim of this module is to introduce the fundamental concepts of structure and how this influences reactivity in organic and inorganic chemistry.