The graduates from undergraduate program of chemisty recieve Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and can work in official or private chemical industry, health sector, pharmaceutical and fertilizer industries, and may become a teacher of chemistry in secondary schools after having a teaching certificate. If they are interested in scientific research in universities they may continue their education in a master program.
First Cycle
University Admission and Registration Requirement:
1) Final registration are made between the dates specified by Higher Education Council Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM). The candidates who do not make final registration process between the dates indicated by ÖSYM lose the rights of registration.
2) The following conditions are required for the registration to University;
a) Graduated from a high school or from an equivalent vocational school, the diploma equivalance of the people who graduates from high schools of foreign countries have to be approved by the Ministry of Education.
b) As a result of the placement by ÖSYM, to get the rights to register in the teaching faculty of the University/colleges or had the points and conditions which is valid for the academic year for pre-registration system and the units. as a result of the Placement Exam.
c) Providing the necessary documents for registration which are assigned in the ÖSYM exam guide for foreign students to provide the necessary documentation requested by the Department of Student Affairs.
Admission can be made from the institutions of which equivalency is recognized by Higher Education Council. Successful vocational school graduates to continue their education to obtain Bachelor’s degrees if they are successful in vertical transfer examination are also admitted. The courses to be taken by these students are determined by the relevant department, on the basis of courses they have completed in the programs in vocational school from which they have graduated. Recognition of prior non-formal and in-formal learning is at the beginning stage in Turkish Higher Education Institutions. Ataturk University and thus the department is not an exception to this. However, exams of exemption are organized at the start of each year at the University for the courses of English Language. The students who achieve a passing grade from the exam are held exempt from the related course in the curriculum.
As explained in the education and exam regulations of Ataturk University, students must be successful and/or pass all courses of the programme and complete the necessary internship.
In accordance with the requirements of the 21st century, the major aim of Chemistry Department is to educate the chemists who have learned the basic chemistry knowledge, become aware of new scientific and technological developments, can carry out the scientific research, and capable of scientific thinking. The main objectives of the department are both educational and scientific activities of the chemistry at the international level to follow the advanced technologies, to contribute national education with educational and scientific activities, and to educate undergraduate and graduate students who may contribute to science and technology.
Graduates can take professional roles in many public and private sectors. Graduates that have pedagogical formation can work as a teacher in either Ministry of National Education or private schools. In addition, they can be employed as a chemist both in private sector and public organizations belonging to Ministry of Health, Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Livestock, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, and Ministery of Science, Industry and Technology.
Upon a successful completion of the programme, students are eligible to apply to Master’s Degree programmes at national level and /or international level both in the same and in related disciplines.
1. Exams consist of short-term exam, midterm exam, final exam, the single course exam, additional exams, make-up exam and compensate for the exemption exam. These examinations can be applied as written, oral or both written and oral and / or the various types.
2. At least two hours are given for Final exams and at least one teaching hours is given for midterm exams. The examination time is determined by the instructor for the Short-term exams such as multiple choice and fill in the blank.
3. Midterm examinations and any similar studies on laboratory and class, the contribution of the homework and short-term examinations 40% of the average course grades of crude, while the effect of final exams is 60%.
4. Statistical evaluations are taken into account with the lower limit (AL). The students whose crude achievement scores fall below AL are counted fails and evaluated by FF grade. The scores between AL and DKL are counted by the other statistical evaluation. The student who gets the one of the grades of AA, BA, BB, CB ve CC for a course is considered successful. The grades of DC and DD taken for a course are evaluated depending on the students’ AGNO.
5. Among the students who have taken all the courses by the end of the semester successfully and have not taken any disciplinary punishment, the ones with the AGNO between the 3.00-3.49 and with the AGNO between 3.50-4.00 are received a certificate of semester honors and semester high honors, respectively.
In the four-year program of Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Atatürk University gives alumni who take total credit hours of 150 ± 30 or provided at least 240 ECTS in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). The students whose graduation came to the state with a GPA lower than 2.00 are not allowed to graduate.
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