The Teaching of Analytical Chemistry in the Philippines

Authors

  • Fortunato Sevilla III College of Science, University of Santo Tomas, Manila
  • Christina A. Binag College of Science, University of Santo Tomas, Manila

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26534/kimika.v17i1.27-33

Keywords:

Chemistry teaching, analytical chemistry education, Philippines

Abstract

Analytical chemistry has undergone a number of changes during the past decades. However, the teaching of analytical chemistry in Philippine colleges and universities has not coped up with the developments in this branch of chemistry. A survey of the curriculum for analytical chemistry in sixteen major Philippine universities offering an undergraduate degree in chemistry revealed that the course is still being taught in the traditional manner. Almost all of the universities followed the traditional division and nomenclature for the courses. Even though the instrumental methods have been incorporated in the curriculum, a major part of the course is still devoted to the classical methods of chemical analysis. Very few universities are equipped to provide an adequate training on the instrumental methods. The paradigm shift presently pervading in analytical chemistry as an information science has still to find its way in the curriculum.

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Sevilla III, F., & Binag, C. A. (2001). The Teaching of Analytical Chemistry in the Philippines. KIMIKA, 17(1), 27–33. https://doi.org/10.26534/kimika.v17i1.27-33

Issue

Vol. 17 No. 1 (2001)

Section

Research Articles

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