This program prepares versatile, well-informed chemistry teachers by providing advanced training for chemistry teachers or chemists who wish to pursue educational opportunities beyond the master's degree. At the professional level, program graduates are qualified to do fundamental research in chemical education and to direct chemistry research at the undergraduate level. In addition to meeting the admission requirements of the Graduate School, students should have completed requirements of an ACS-certified baccalaureate degree in chemistry. If these requirements are not met, students may be provisionally admitted to the program.
Deficiencies are to be removed early in the program.
Students will have two opportunities to pass each area exam. Qualifier examinations are scheduled during the week preceding the beginning of classes each semester. Students entering the program with a bachelor's degree are required to complete 94 credit hours. Students must demonstrate research skills in areas pertinent to the dissertation research topic. The student's competence in these skills will be assessed by the student's dissertation committee members.