Mission

Since establishment in 1977, the Department mission, in accordance with that of the Faculty of Sciences, An-Najah N. University, is helping Arab Societies in general, and Palestinian Society in particular, to reach sustainable economic and social development by providing quality graduates pure and applied in Chemistry at both under-graduate and post-graduate levels.

Vision

The Department has a comprehensive and ambitious vision to provide distinguished teaching environment that enables graduates undertake leadership in their future careers in private and public sectors. Graduates are equipped with very rich and diverse study plans that enable them pursue their post-graduate study here and elsewhere with no hindrance. Based on excellence in teaching and research, the Department programs expanded vertically (by providing study plans leading to M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry).

Facilities

Each admitted student is expected to successfully complete one compulsory practical course in chemistry (Instrumental Analysis Laboratory  423515).

The course aims at enabling student to acquire theory and practical training on advanced equipment needed in his/her future study and career. The course involves advanced experiments in analytical, inorganic, physical and organic chemistry domains. The pre-requisite for the course is admission to the program.

Research activities are housed in 8 spacious research laboratories equipped with modern basic equipment and services needed to conduct research in different areas of chemistry.

  The research labs are housed in:

Room B4200: Semiconductor & Solar Energy Research Lab (SSERL)

Room B4190 Organic Research Lab

Room B4180 Advanced Instrumental Research Lab

Room B4170 Nano-Tech + Physical

Room B4040 (Spectral Equipment)

Room B5150 (Organic Research Lab)

Room B5170 (Analytical Research Lab)

Room B5180 (Organic /Organometallic Research Lab)

In addition to other additional 6 rooms for specific purposes to be used in future actions:

• B5060 + B5070 Dark rooms
• Clean room
• XRD room
• SEM room
• NMR room
• Other advanced service rooms

Other additional services available include:

• Purchase department
• Dispensing rooms
• Lab technician rooms
• B5200 Glass blowing room
• B5200 Electronic workshop room
• Chemical Central store
• GF Computer services

In addition to all that, the Department host two research labs,

1. Center of Excellence in Materials Science and Nanotechnology
2. Semiconductor & Solar Energy Research Lab (B4200): 

Industry

Based on the stated University mission, the Program undertakes teaching ‎and research activities directly focused at Palestinian society demands. ‎Courses and research activities heavily involve subjects such as:‎

• Environment and water
• Materials, nanotechnology, ‎
• Renewable energies
• Health ‎
• Drug development
• Soil purification and remediation
• Fuel and hydrogen storage ‎
• Waste materials recycling.‎

Starting with such areas of high priority to Palestinian society, the ‎program aims to lay down foundations to establish advanced commercial ‎technologies in Palestine. Using advanced materials in high-value added ‎devices (such as electrochromics, ion-insertion batteries, super-capacitors, ‎solar cells, medical transplants, bio-sensors, and other) ‎

The program also involves courses and research focused on serving ‎Palestinian industry, such as food industry, pharmaceutical industry, and ‎recycling industry. The program conducts R&D to provide consultations ‎for different industrial sectors. ‎
Moreover, the program serves different government and private sectors ‎by providing consultations and solutions to encountered challenges.‎

Teaching and Learning

The chemistry department provides an appropriate learning and ‎educational environment for students.  Where it offers courses depending ‎on the study plan for the student. Students perform advanced studies in ‎the following subjects:  inorganic, organic, physical and analytical ‎chemistry, and do research work.‎

Halls and laboratories suitable for teaching and learning are available. ‎Other educational assistance such LCDs and computer laboratories and ‎the chemistry laboratories that are equipped with modern instruments and ‎library facilities are available.‎

To do the research work, the students often benefit from the available ‎research centers at the university, such as Semiconductor Laboratory, the ‎Center for Chemical and pharmaceutical analysis, and Center of ‎Excellence in Nanotechnology newly founded. The availability of these ‎centers, as well as research laboratories available, offer a suitable ‎environment to do distinguished research.‎

Students must develop the component skills and knowledge necessary to ‎perform complex tasks. Finally, students must learn when and how to ‎apply the skills and knowledge they learn. As instructors, it is important ‎that we develop conscious awareness of these elements of skills so as to ‎help our students learn more effectively.

Coursework and Assessment

Studies consist of lectures, various problems, reports, as well as seminar ‎presentations and examinations.  The student follows the study plan to ‎finish advanced compulsory and elective courses.

The assessment is mainly based on the grades of final or mid-term exams. ‎Also other assessment methods are used including seminar presentations, ‎reports on special topics and laboratory reports, etc. Exam questions and ‎homework are appropriate to the level and content of the course, and ‎focusing on training the students on creativity, perfection and dedication, ‎and giving them the spirit of scientific research and thinking.‎
Master’s thesis will be written as the final work in the degree.‎

In assessment of a completed course, a numerical scale 0-4 in whole ‎numbers or verbal grading Pass/Fail is used.‎