Chemistry
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ScheduleDaytime schedule
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ECTS Credits120
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LanguageFrench
Description
This 120-credit Master’s degree prepares students for a career as a science teacher through specific pedagogical and didactic courses and teaching placements. This Master’s degree also allows students to familiarise themselves with research, by carrying out a dissertation in one of the Chemistry Department’s laboratories.
Access conditions
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Target audience
Students with a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (or equivalent subject to approval) who are interested in teaching.
Program and structure
The Master’s degree in Chemistry (Teaching Focus) is composed of specific courses in pedagogy and didactics, as well as teaching placements. The Master’s degree also offers extensive training in chemistry with three main specialist focuses: Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Spectroscopies, and Bio-inspired Chemistry and Chemistry of Living Things.
Distribution of Credits
- Courses and placements specific to the specialist focus
- Compulsory courses
- Optional courses
- Dissertation
Teaching profile
The programme description defines the expected learning outcomes at the end of the cycle (Bachelor's, Master's, etc.). The programme description defines the expected learning outcomes, i.e. what the student should know, understand and be able to achieve at the end of a learning activity, a teaching unit or a study cycle (Bachelor's, Master's, etc.). Learning outcomes are defined in terms of knowledge, expertise and soft skills.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Use their acquired professional skills according to the objectives of the degree programme
- Adequately interpret situations in and outside the classroom by applying knowledge of humanities
- Adapt to different school audiences by applying knowledge of humanities
- Maintain effective partnerships with the institution, colleagues and parents
- Fully grasp legal documents in order to exercise the profession appropriately
- Fully grasp the disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge that justifies their teaching activities
- Apply a broad general culture in order to stimulate pupils' interest in the cultural world
- Further develop interpersonal skills linked to the demands of the profession
- Measure the ethical issues linked to their daily practice
- Work in teams with their teacher colleagues
- Design, test, evaluate and regulate teaching methods
- Maintain a critical and autonomous relationship with scientific information
- Plan, manage and evaluate learning situations
- Reflect on their own practice
- Present information in a neutral and unbiased manner
- Fully grasp the language of instruction, both orally and in writing
- Understand the disciplinary teaching methods which guide the teaching process.
For more information, consult the programme description for this study cycle below (in French).
Opportunities
Through its didactic pathway, chemistry is a discipline that covers both chemistry and physics.
