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⇑Chemistry at UJD

Language: Polish Studies in Polish

Subject area: physical science, environment

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

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University website: www.en.ujd.edu.pl

⇑Why study Chemistry (Master's) at UJD?

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Why study it:

Programme: advanced chemistry and teamwork
Specialisation: drugs or the environment
Labs: mostly experimental classes
Exchanges: Erasmus+ and COLOURS
After graduation: expert and managerial roles, or a doctorate

Chemistry at Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa (UJD) is a two-year (4-semester) Master's programme (second-cycle) with a general academic profile, taught in English. It is addressed to graduates of first-cycle Chemistry and to holders of other degrees who have the chemical background needed to continue at Master's level.

Programme: advanced chemistry and teamwork

The programme develops, among others:

advanced knowledge of chemical sciences, related natural sciences, biochemistry and materials engineering,
synthesis, separation, composition analysis and structure determination of compounds, polymers and metal alloys with classical and instrumental methods,
planning laboratory work and chemical processes with risk minimisation,
formulating hypotheses and conclusions from experiments and analyses carried out in a team,
linking chemical processes taking place in the broadly understood environment with chemical knowledge.

Specialisation: drugs or the environment

Drug Chemistry covers the synthesis, isolation and identification of pharmacopoeial substances, modern methods of controlled drug release, pharmacopoeial methods of quantitative analysis of pharmaceuticals and phytotherapy. It also develops your technical English in chemistry.

Environmental Chemistry and Technology focuses on environmental chemistry, water and sewage technology, soil remediation and separation techniques for removing pollutants.

Labs: mostly experimental classes

Classes are mostly experimental. You graduate with experience in laboratory work in chemical analysis and synthesis and in physicochemical measurements. You also have access to the department's computer lab, and research clubs let you take your interests further.

Exchanges: Erasmus+ and COLOURS

International programmes and trips are available, for example within the Erasmus+ programme and the COLOURS European University.

After graduation: expert and managerial roles, or a doctorate

After graduation you can:

work as a manager or expert in chemical, cosmetic and pharmacological laboratories – industrial and research – and in chemical and food industry plants,
take managerial roles in education, science, industry and administration,
work in marketing and sales for chemical, biotechnological, pharmaceutical and biomedical companies,
continue at the Doctoral School if you want to pursue scientific research.

As of the 2026/27 admissions, based on the programme description at rekrutacja.ujd.edu.pl.

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⇑Definitions and quotes

Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds. Chemistry addresses topics such as how atoms and molecules interact via chemical bonds to form new chemical compounds. There are four types of chemical bonds: covalent bonds, in which compounds share one or more electron(s); ionic bonds, in which a compound donates one or more electrons to another compound to produce ions (cations and anions); hydrogen bonds; and Van der Waals force bonds.

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Chemistry

I praise the chemical physicians, for they do not go about gorgeous in satins, silks, and velvets, silver daggers hanging at their sides, and white gloves on their hands, but they tend their work at the fire patiently day and night. They do not go promenading, but seek their recreation in laboratory. They thrust their fingers among the coals into dirt and rubbish and not into golden rings.

Paracelsus (in Jaffe, Bernard. Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry. 4th Edition. New York: Dover, 1976. (Originally, 1930) | Pgs. 13-24)

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Chemistry

We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex substances with high molecular weight will come to rely upon a new structural chemistry, involving precise geometrical relationships among the atoms in the molecules and the rigorous application of the new structural principles, and that great progress will be made, through this technique, in the attack, by chemical methods, on the problems of biology and medicine.

Linus Pauling, Nobel Lecture (11 December 1954)

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Chemistry

You don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means. Life can emerge from physics and chemistry plus a lot of accidents. The human mind can arise from neurobiology and a lot of accidents, the way the chemical bond arises from physics and certain accidents. Doesn't diminish the importance of these subjects to know they follow from more fundamental things plus accidents.

Murray Gell-Mann (2007) TED talk on beauty and truth in physics — video TC 14m48s (March 2007)

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