Master of Science in Analytical Chemistry
Programme Director: Dr Kelvin S Y Leung
 

This is a two year part-time or one year full-time postgraduate programme offered by the Department of Chemistry to candidates with BSc (Hons) or equivalent qualifications. The aims of the programme are two-fold: (1) to provide an opportunity for further education for working professionals in the field of analytical chemistry and related areas, and (2) to offer a programme of study relevant to the need of public and industrial laboratories as well as research organizations. Students graduated from the programme will possess a more integral view on real life problems of analytical nature and the ways and means at their disposal to solve them. The programme also provides training in laboratory management, quality assurance, computer applications and laboratory automation and help to instil an integrated analytical mind in students so that they can comfortably assume supervisory or managerial positions in establishments dealing in chemical analysis or related fields.

Part-time and full-time students will be required to spend two evenings (about four hours per week) and four evenings (about eight hours per week) respectively on lectures and seminars. In addition, both part-time and full-time students have to devote one Saturday and weekday respectively, every alternate week, to laboratory and dissertation. As an integral part of a professional training process, each student is also required to complete an independent dissertation related to chemical analysis.

The distribution of lectures, laboratory and dissertation hours is given below:

 
Study Duration: One year (full-time)
Hour
Period
Lecture
Seminar
Laboratory
Dissertation
1st Semester 96 4 100 60
2nd Semester 78 4 140
Total 174 8 100* 200
 
Study Duration: Two years (part-time)
Hour
Period
Lecture
Seminar
Laboratory
Dissertation
Yr I - 1st Sem
  - 2nd Sem
48
54
2
2
100

Yr II - 1st Sem
  - 2nd Sem
48
24
2
2

100
100
Total
174
8
100*
200
 
* The number represents actual hours in the laboratory, the students are expected to spend about an additional 50 per cent of the time in preparatory work and report writing.
 

Student may apply for an interim award of postgraduate diploma if they cannot complete all the programme requirements for reasons deemed acceptable to the Programme Board. To qualify for the postgraduate diploma, students will need to have completed at least 18 units of study, including all core courses except for the dissertation, with a GPA of 2.50 or above and no course grade below C-. Students with the interim award have the option of surrendering the postgraduate diploma and returning to complete the programme for the MSc degree within five years of obtaining the interim award.

Students intending to return and resume their studies, however, will be subject to the availability of the programme, and they may be required to take extra units if the programme structure has undergone subsequent changes.

 
The structure of the curriculum is as follows:
 
I) Core Courses 23 units
II) Elective Courses 4 units
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  27 units
 
Requirements
 
I. Core Courses 23 units
  CHEM 7210 Analytical Process & Applied Statistics 2 units
  CHEM 7220 Chemical Instrumentation 2 units
  CHEM 7240 Analytical Spectroscopy 2 units
  CHEM 7250 Laboratory Management 2 units
  CHEM 7331-2 Dissertation 6 units
  CHEM 7390 Separation Science 3 units
  CHEM 7401-2 Seminar I & II 1 unit
  CHEM 7403-4 Seminar III & IV 1 unit
  CHEM 7411-2 Advanced Analytical Laboratory 4 units
         
II. Elective Courses 4 units
  CHEM 7270 Electroanalytical Chemistry 1 unit
  CHEM 7280 Surface Analysis 1 unit
  CHEM 7340 Environmental Analysis & Monitoring 1 unit
  CHEM 7350 Sample Pretreatment Methods 1 unit
  CHEM 7380 Food Safety Analysis 2 units
  CHEM 7420 Mass Spectrometric Analysis 1 unit
  CHEM 7430 Pharmaceutical & Traditional Chinese Medicinal Analysis 1 unit
  CHEM 7440 Bioanalysis 1 unit
  CHEM 7450 Chemosensor & Biosensor 1 unit
  CHEM 7460 Forensic Analysis 1 unit
  CHEM 7470 Food Analysis 3 units
  CHEM 7480 Food Microbiology for Chemists 1 unit
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        27 units
 
 
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Source: Calendar/Bulletin 2015-2016
Last modified: July 2015