Undergraduate Student Affairs Office

Eric Chronister Professor of Chemistry & Undergraduate Advisor			Jaime A. Matute Undergraduate Student Affairs
	Office: 128 Chemical Sciences Email: eric.chronister@ucr.edu Office: (951) 827 - 3288 Fax: (951) 827 - 4713			Office: 224 Chemical Sciences Email: jaime.matute@ucr.edu Office: (951) 827 - 2436 Fax: (951) 827 - 4713

Welcome to the official website of the Undergraduate Student Affairs Office in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside! At this site you will find information specifically for Undergraduate Chemistry Majors with links to many related areas of interest. Let's get started....
Academic Advisor - Evelyn Luna (cnasstudent.ucr.edu)

Changing your Major into Chemistry

To change your major to Chemistry from another major within UC Riverside, there are some requirements that to fulfill. Change of Major Criteria Change of Major Criteria Webpage

Declaring a Minor in Chemistry

Follow the guidelines to add Chemistry minor. Chemistry Minor

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) Academic Advising Center

The center provides a variety of services to assist students, faculty, staff and the general public.

1223 Pierce Hall www.cnasstudent.ucr.edu

2012-2013 UC Riverside
General Catalog

The catalog provides a roadmap for any student attending UC Riverside. It provides critical information such as course description, major requirements, and other useful information the student will need in order to navigate thru UC Riverside.

Note: Page 157 starts the Chemistry Major

Major Course Summary Sheets

A one page summary of all the courses (Major and Breadth) required for the B.S. and B.A. Chemistry Degrees. These are VERY USEFUL sheets for planning and tracking progress towards the degree.  Please complete the appropriate sheet prior to counseling sessions with the Chemistry Advisor.

• B.A. in Chemistry
• B.S. in Chemistry
• B.S. in Chemistry with a Chemical Physics option
• B.S. in Chemistry with an Environmental Chemistry option

Quarterly Schedule Planning Sample

Plant out a strategy for your course of instruction, quarter by quarter and year by year.

• Blank: Quarter by Quarter Schedule Planner
• Sample: Program for the B.S. in Chemistry
• Sample: Program for the B.S. in Chemistry for entering the Health Professions

Career Center 2013 Calender

Graduate School in Chemistry

Making chemistry your future gives you an opportunity to explore areas which have not been discovered or explained. At graduate school, it will discover your true potential in chemistry and expand your education for the importance of society. Within the Ph.D. in Chemistry many disciplines fall under this category. Remember, there are many forms of chemistry, discovering which one fits you, will be your true task in graduate school.
(UC Riverside Ph.D in Chemistry)

START HERE

• Planning for Graduate Work in Chemistry - ACS
• The Directory of Graduate Research - ACS
• Peterson's Guide to Professional and Graduate Study

UCR Research Opportunities

Doing undergraduate research is a great opportunity to learn by doing and apply the chemistry knowledge you have acquired through coursework. Most of the UCR Chemistry professors involve un dergraduates in their research. Research in the Chemistry Department covers the sub-disciplines of analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry as well as many interdisciplinary fields such as materials science, environmental chemistry and computational chemistry. Each faculty member provides a description of their research on the department's webpage so that you can acquaint yourself with the diversity of chemistry research at UCR - we really have a lot going on here! As the central science, the knowledge and training provided by your chemistry degree will equip you to do research on chemically-based projects in many related areas.  Contact the faculty member by email and ask to make an appointment to discuss the possibility of doing research in their group. The UCR honors program has good website that provides more advice about how to get started in undergraduate research http://honors.ucr.edu/research.htm

Special Research Programs at UCR
	The MARC U STAR Program is open to qualified undergraduate students majoring in the sciences with both an expressed interest in a career in biomedical research and an intention to pursue graduate education.		Our mission is to develop and implement strategies for recruiting, retaining, educating and graduating students in STEM in order to formally connect a significant number of newly minted LSAMP students to doctoral degree programs.		The goal of MSRIP is to increase the number of outstanding students from diverse backgrounds who pursue the Ph.D. by strengthening their academic and professional development for admission to the University of California campuses.

Chemistry Course Enrollment Help

Honors Courses

Honors courses provide an alternative to being just another number in a large lecture hall. Split into two different types, the honors sections and the honors seminars, the courses provide additional opportunities to get the most out of your classes.

For more information please visit the website at www.honors.ucr.edu

Scholarships

UC Admission Requirements

1.) Subject Requirement: Complete a minimum of 15 college-preparatory courses (“a-g” courses), with at least 11 finished prior to the senior year of high school.

• History/Social Science: 2 years
• English: 4 years
• Mathematics: 3 years, 4 recommended
• Laboratory Science: 2 years, 3 recommended
• Language other than English: 2 years, 3 recommended
• Visual and Performing Art: 1 year
• College-Preparatory Elective: 1 year

The University accepts only “a-g” courses that appear on the official UC-Certified Course list. At least seven of those 15 units must be taken or validated in the last two years of high school. All courses must be completed with a grade of C or better. More information about “a-g” subjects and courses at specific California high schools is available at www.ucop.edu/doorways.

2.) Scholarship Requirement: Students must earn a grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better (3.4 for nonresidents of California) in “a-g” courses taken during 10th and 11th grades, including the summers before and after these years.

3.) Examination Requirement: Students must take and report scores from either the ACT with Writing or the SAT Reasoning by December of their senior year. Students are not required to take the SAT subject tests. However, students are encouraged to take SAT subject tests to:

• Demonstrate mastery of a particular subject
• Apply for a competitive major that recommends certain subject tests
• Use the subject tests to satisfy the “a-g” requirements listed above

Students applying to majors in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences are strongly encouraged to take SAT subject exams in Math Level 2 and either Chemistry or Physics. For more information about the examination requirement, click here.

Any additional information about attending UC Riverside please visit at admissions.ucr.edu