Component
Faculty of Science & Technology
Location(s)
Orleans
Presentation
This Bachelor's degree offers a " Minerve Excellence pathway ". This is a selective " Under-Graduate Program ofexcellence", U-GPEx, part of 'MINERVE', the FRANCE 2030 project 'ExcellencES sous toutes ses formes' obtained by the Université d'Orléans. Based on the classic Bachelor's degree course(s), and anchored in the research community of universities and research organizations, this program offers training reinvented BY and FOR Research, with an awareness from the1st year of the Research approach, ultimately leading to a career as a research engineer or researcher through a doctorate.
This adapted course offers the opportunity to follow additional training to :
- Learn about the scientific process ;
- Understand the importance of Research and Innovation in meeting societal challenges;
- Discover the diversity of jobs related to research and innovation;
- Develop critical thinking skills and learn to manage controversy;
- Learn and master cutting-edge digital tools;
Students selected for the Minerve U-GPEx Excellence program will benefit from :
- A solid disciplinary foundation in the chosen degree course
- Gradual immersion in the world of Research and Innovation
- Personalized support to tailor the course to the student's ambitions
- Learning by doing" through practical projects
- An inter-, multi- and trans-disciplinary approach to skills acquisition and reinforcement
- Privileged access to Minerve GPEx Master's degree courses
In addition to the Bachelor's and Master's degrees, the Minerve Master of Excellence program will lead to the award of an additional DU "Diplôme Universitaire Minerve" (Minerve University Diploma ).
The aim of the Bachelor's degree in Chemistry University Bachelor of Technology (B.U.T) is to provide a high level of general knowledge, both theoretical and experimental, in chemistry, and more particularly in the fields of organic and inorganic chemistry, and physical and analytical chemistry. This degree is designed to give students the possibility of immediate professional integration in all areas of chemistry. It also provides access to various scientific Masters degrees in chemistry offered by the University of Orléans, or available on the national and international training scene, in applied or specialized areas of chemistry.
The Licence Chimie offers 3 additional courses:
- Chemistry for Innovation in Therapeutics and Cosmetics (CMI CITC) engineering master's program
- Enhanced Chemistry & Life Sciences pathway
- Multidisciplinary pathway
Skills
Disciplinary skills
- Mobilize the right concepts and technologies to tackle and solve problems in the various fields of organic, inorganic and/or physical and analytical chemistry.
- Mobilize essential concepts from mathematics, physics and computer science in the context of chemical problems.
- Identify and independently carry out the various stages of an experimental approach.
- Use the most common laboratory measuring devices and techniques in the fields of organic and inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry and analytical chemistry
- Interpret experimental data to envisage their modeling.
- Validate a model by comparing its predictions with experimental results, and assess its limits of validity.
- Identify sources of error to calculate the uncertainty of an experimental result.
- Manipulate fundamental mechanisms at the microscopic scale, model macroscopic phenomena, link macroscopic phenomena to microscopic processes.
- Use data acquisition and analysis software with a critical eye.
- Use the main synthesis and purification techniques.
- Identify specific regulations and implement the main preventive health and safety measures.
Pre-professional skills
- Situate your role and mission within an organization to adapt and take initiatives.
- Identify the process of producing, disseminating and promoting knowledge.
- Respect the principles of ethics, deontology and environmental responsibility.
- Work as part of a team as well as independently and responsibly on a project.
- Identify and situate the professional fields potentially related to the skills acquired in this field, as well as the possible pathways to access them.
- Characterize and promote your identity, skills and professional project in a given context.
- Step back from a situation, assess yourself and challenge yourself to learn.
Cross-disciplinary and linguistic skills
- Use digital reference tools and IT security rules to acquire, process, produce and distribute information, and to collaborate internally and externally.
- Identify and select various specialized resources to document a subject.
- Analyze and synthesize data for further processing.
- Develop arguments with a critical mind.
- Use the different registers of written and spoken French with ease.
- Fluency in written and spoken comprehension and expression in at least one modern foreign language.
Useful contacts
Faculty of Science & Technology
Chemistry Department
1 rue de Chartres - 45062 Orléans Cedex 2
Minerve U-GPEX Excellence Program :
aide.minerve @ univ-orleans.fr
https://www.univ-orleans.fr/fr/minerve/decouvrir
Department secretary :
secretariat-chimie.st@univ-orleans.fr
Tel: 02 38 41 70 99
Organization
Special features
Chemistry courses are taught by teacher-researchers from the Chemistry division, who belong to leading research laboratories in these disciplines.
Program
The first semester is a common core allowing a choice of orientation towards chemistry or physics.
- Chemistry & Applications
The Bachelor of Science in Chemistry & Applications offers basic chemistry courses with applications in the main fields, in particular:
- General chemistry: structure and properties of matter, reactivity, thermodynamics, kinetics.
- Organic chemistry: synthesis and analytical methods.
- Inorganic chemistry: solutions and solids, analytical methods and materials.
The aim is to acquire a solid theoretical and experimental grounding in all these fields.
The 6 semesters making up the Chemistry & Applications degree are structured around scientific teaching units in chemistry, mathematics and physics, as well as English and computer science, and form the backbone of the Chemistry degree. The first semester is a core curriculum, allowing students to choose between Chemistry and Physics.
In semesters 2 and 3, students can choose from a number of free teaching units designed to introduce them to other scientific fields. Under no circumstances are they intended as a springboard for reorientation in another field.
Semesters 4, 5 and 6 include a compulsory internship, providing students with greater insight into the world of industry and research.
- Physical Sciences
Offered in partnership with the physics field, it provides basic general training in the main areas of chemistry and physics. Its University Bachelor of Technology (B.U.T) objective is to train physical chemists with a sound knowledge of both Physics and Chemistry, from a theoretical and experimental point of view. Its main aim is to prepare students for competitive teaching exams at secondary school level, as part of the Master-MEF program.
The Physical Sciences pathway is a multi-disciplinary preparation for all fields that require knowledge of physics and chemistry, such as the study and control of materials, the study and control of pollution, laboratory work, secondary education, etc.
This pathway is based on UEs from the Chemistry and Applications pathway and the Physics pathway. The program provides a progressive and coherent acquisition of basic knowledge in physics and chemistry.
The teaching units (TUs) in this pathway are divided into compulsory core TUs, specialization TUs and opening TUs, comprising 50% chemistry TUs and 50% physics TUs
It provides general training for students in the fields of Chemistry:
- General Chemistry and Physical Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry,
- Inorganic Chemistry,
- Analytical Chemistry.
- Health Access Course
This pathway includes the Health module, giving access to health courses (Medicine, Maieutics, Odontology, Pharmacy and Physiotherapy) subject to admission.
Admission
Admission requirements
This Excellence Minerve Bachelor's program recruits in L1 with demanding criteria: an excellent disciplinary level is required, as well as a pronounced taste for Research and pluridiciplinarity, and a clear desire to pursue a career in Research, in particular via a doctorate.
- Apply in L1 on the "Excellence Minerve" portal/course of the chosen Licence via the " Parcoursup " or " Etudes en France " platform Selection will be based on the quality of the application and motivation for research and innovation.
- You can also apply for L2 and L3 (2nd and 3rd years of a Bachelor's degree) via the ecandidat platform in May of each year.
Applicants for the Chemistry degree are expected to :
- Have c cientific skills
This specialization requires the ability to analyze, problematize and reason, as well as the capacity for abstraction, logic and modeling, and mastery of a core of disciplinary knowledge and associated experimental methods.
- Communication skills
This specialization requires the ability to communicate both orally and in writing in a rigorous and appropriate manner, the ability to document in at least one foreign language, primarily English, and the ability to write and speak it at B level.
- Methodological and behavioral skills
This specialization requires intellectual curiosity, the ability to organize and manage learning, and the ability to plan personal work and stick to it over time.
In these main areas, and for all scientific bachelor's degrees, high-school students must demonstrate at least an adequate command of the main scientific skills targeted in their final year of high school.
In addition :
- Each science degree is characterized by a major discipline (the name of the degree), for which we recommend a very good command of the corresponding subjects in high school, and a good command of any associated experimental skills.
- Each specialization often includes a second discipline, for which a good command of the corresponding subjects in high school is recommended.
A very good command of the skills expected in Physics and Chemistry at the end of the final year of high school is recommended.
A good command of the experimental skills expected in Physics and Chemistry at the end of the final year of high school is recommended.
A good command of the skills expected in Mathematics at the end of the final year of high school is recommended, depending on the portal to which the course belongs.
How to register
Licence application procedures for (future) baccalaureate holders with a French baccalaureate obtained in France and applying for the 1st time: https: //www.parcoursup.fr
Enrolment in JULY, as soon as the results of the baccalauréat are known, in accordance with the procedures communicated at the time of pre-registration.
Entry to this degree is via the "Licence générale scientifique spécialité chimie" portal.
All students holding a baccalaureate or a diploma deemed equivalent by the pedagogical committee are eligible to enroll in the first year.
Tuition fees
For students:
https://www.univ-orleans.fr/fr/univ/formation/droits-dinscriptions
For adults returning to school; consult SEFCO.
And then
Further studies
The bachelor's degree gives access to Master's degrees in general, but also to engineering schools by competitive examination, as well as the possibility of orientation towards professional bachelor's degrees.
Master of Chemistry and Materials Science
Master of Molecular Chemistry
Master of Risk and Environment
Master MEEF1er et 2ème degré(Métiers de l'Enseignement,de l'Education et de la Formation)
Professional Degree instrumentation, measurement and quality control, formulation chemistry, chemical and pharmaceutical processes
Professional integration
Target professions :
- Public and private laboratory technician,
- Technical advisor,
- Assistant engineer,
- Project assistant,
- Project manager,
- Engineer, Expert, Researcher...