The chemistry major may choose a path in one of these directions. Synthesis of new materials and drugs is often the goal of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Many of our chemistry majors choose paths leading to careers in these areas. Large numbers of our former chemistry majors follow non-chemistry career paths. They tell us that their chemistry major provided excellent grounding in analytical thinking and an understanding of the basics of nature that helped make them successful in their chosen line of business.
Chemistry is an old and well established science.
Its sub-disciplines are well agreed upon. We have organic chemistry and biochemistry, inorganic and analytical chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry. Yet the subject seems ever new. New molecules, new principles of reaction, new overlaps with neighboring fields. Even new forms of the simple element carbon, such as Buckministerfullerene, C60.