化学课程为希望从事化学，生物技术，医学，牙科，相关健康领域，科学教学，环境科学，材料科学和工程学的职业的学生提供教育和培训。化学被视为中心科学，因为它是充分理解许多其他科学以及医学所必需的。化学系提供通识教育课程以及化学，生物学，生物技术和护理专业的课程。除化学专业和辅修专业外，该系还集中于生物化学，绿色化学和环境化学，材料科学和无机化学以及生物信息学。该系为有机化学，生物分析化学，纳米科学和分子建模的本科研究提供了机会。化学系在课程和研究中推广绿色化学。化学专业的学生可能有资格获得马萨诸塞州药物与健康科
The chemistry program provides education and training to students who wish to pursue careers in chemistry, biotechnology, medicine, dentistry, allied health fields, science teaching, environmental science, materials science, and engineering. Chemistry is considered the central science because it is required for a full understanding of many other sciences as well as medicine. The Chemistry Department offers courses for general education and for majors in chemistry, biology, biotechnology, and nursing. Besides the chemistry major and minor programs, the department also has concentrations in biochemistry, green chemistry and environmental chemistry, materials science and inorganic chemistry, and bioinformatics. The department offers opportunities for undergraduate research in organic chemistry, bioanalytical chemistry, nanoscience, and molecular modelling. The Chemistry Department promotes green chemistry in its curriculum and research. Majors in chemistry may be eligible for the Accelerated Pharmacy Program with the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. In addition, students may opt to major in Chemistry with a concentration in Pre-Medicine. <br><br>The purpose of this interdisciplinary concentration is to prepare students to enter computer-intensive fields of bioinformatics, computational biology, computational chemistry, and molecular modeling including genomics and proteomics. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, an explosion of genomics information has occurred and databases such as GenBank and EMBL have grown at a rate that now requires storage, organizing, and indexing of the information. Questions of gene expression have led to computational biology, the process of analyzing genomic sequences, and to the field of proteomics, the understanding of protein structure and function. The information obtained by computational biology and computational chemistry is used in the design of new drugs to treat a variety of diseases. Major drug and biotechnology companies are seeking people trained in bioinformatics.