Course Descriptions in Leather Chemistry and Engeering

 

 

 

1. Leather Tanning Chemistry and Technology (6 Credits)

Course Descriptions:

   The course mainly illustrates the rawhide chemistry and histology, preparation before leather tanning, various tanning agents and chemical theory of tanning agents making rawhide into leather. It is one of the main courses of Leather Chemistry and Engineering. On the basis of Histology, Complex Coordination Chemistry, Tanning Chemistry Mechanism and Theory, the course describes the tanning mechanism of various mineral, basic theory of coordination chemistry, pre-treatments of leather tanning, and tanning methods.

Teaching Style:

Standard Face to Face Teaching

Credit Hours:

Up to 112 hours per semester (including 88 hours of theoretical lectures and 8 hours of laboratory work)

 

2. Leather Finishing Chemistry and Technology (2.5 Credits)

Course Descriptions:

Leather Finishing Chemistry and Technology is an important basic theoretical course of Leather Chemistry and Engineering, and has an important position and role in the knowledge structure and curriculum system of personnel training. The course covers dyeing, greasing, drying and finishing processes, and illustrates the characteristics and process of materials used in the leather dry-wet finishing process.

Teaching Style:

Standard Face to Face Teaching

Credit Hours:

Up to 40 hours per semester

 

3. Leather Chemical Materials Science (2 Credits)

Course Descriptions:

   Leather Chemical Materials Science mainly introduces students to the catalogues, structure and properties of chemical materials for the leather manufacture; their applications and general/special effects in the tanning process; the correlation between materials’ composition and application; the interaction mechanism between a variety of materials and leather; the source materials as well as conventional tanning theory and process method. This course can provide a solid foundation for students to properly select and use leather chemical materials in two aspects of theory and methods.

Teaching Style:

Standard Face to Face Teaching

Credit Hours:

Up to 32 hours per semester

 

4. Polymer Chemistry and Physics (2.5 Credits)

Teaching Style:

Standard Face to Face Teaching

Semester 5

Course Descriptions:

    Polymer Chemistry and Physics is a cross subject that focuses on Polymer material as the fundamental research object, and it is the basis of Polymer Science. This course can help students design and prepare different kinds of polymers with high performance by studying the structure and chemical, physical properties of raw polymer materials.

Learning Objectives:

1. Master the basic theory and related knowledge in polymer chemistry and physics;

2. Cultivate the students’ basic experiment skills in polymer synthesis.

Credit Hours:

Up to 40 hours per semester

 

 

5. Bachelor Thesis (14 Credits)

Teaching Style:

The 8th semester

Course Descriptions:

    Thesis of Leather Chemistry and Engineering aims to fully train students to be capable to apply the comprehensive knowledge on solving the problem, and also can evaluate the undergraduate learning outcomes in the leather making area. The main contents include chemistry and leather making theories, training and inspection of literature retrieval capabilities and language ability.

Credit Hours:

14 weeks