Preparatory courses

To get your first year of study off to a good start, the University of Namur is offering preparatory courses in physics, chemistry, mathematics, biology and English during the last two weeks of August. Of these, physics and chemistry are compulsory, and you can choose two other subjects from mathematics, biology and English. In addition to the four disciplines, three activities are organized:

• seminars on the methodology of university work;
• a presentation of the first-year English course;
• a guided tour of the university site, the Faculty and the library.

Second- and third-year students will also show you around the university campus, your Faculty and the extra-academic activities organized in Namur.

Operation Tremplin

Optional remedial sessions are organized by the chemistry teaching unit. Depending on requests, they are scheduled from week to week. The content of these sessions varies according to need: subject re-explanations, question-and-answer sessions, completion of additional exercises, correction of formative assessments, ...

Chemistry workshops

Chemistry workshops are only for students in the 1st block in Chemical or Physical Sciences. The aim of the chemistry workshops is to help you in your thinking and learning by working on the knowledge and skills specific to the discipline. Chemistry is not just a game of memorization. It's all about understanding.

These workshops will aim to:

• To help you study more effectively so you don't waste countless hours
• To teach you to ask yourself the right questions to study profitably
• To help you better perceive your teachers' requirements and thus acquire the skills expected for assessment

You will be provided with the tools to better understand your course, to practice key concepts to be able to solve problems similar to exam questions.

During each workshop, an announced theme will be specifically addressed: How to approach a stoichiometric problem? How to visualize a molecule in space using molecular models? ...

In the first quadrimester, a few chemistry workshops will be organized (in place of a physics workshop). In the second term, general chemistry and organic chemistry workshops will be offered at a time slot defined in the timetable.

Chemistry MCQs - drill exercises

To work on and deepen their 1st block general chemistry and organic chemistry courses, in addition to the TP and TD scheduled in your timetable, you have access to numerous MCQ exercises on WebCampus.

Math labs

Math labs are times when Block 1 chemistry, biology, geology, geography and biomedical students can work on their math lessons with the occasional help of an assistant present in the room, like a supervised study. These labs are planned at the start of the term in the timetable of the students concerned.

All detailed information is available on the Virtual Student Office (VSO).