CHEMISTRY IN THE NEW GENERATION OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION STANDARDS IN BELARUS

The article presents the structure and content of a new generation of post-secondary education standards in Belarus. New educational standards consist of four units: a social science core, a natural science core, a core of professional disciplines, and a selection of special courses. We discuss the place and role of chemistry in new curriculums for students of natural sciences, engineering and humanities. For chemistry students, the natural science core includes such disciplines as Higher Mathemat-ics, Physics, Ecology, Introduction to Information Technology, Information Technology in Chemistry, and Mathematical Modeling of Chemical Processes and others. In the core of professional disciplines there are classical selection of chemistry courses including Inorganic Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Chemistry of Polymers and Biopolymers, Chemical Technology, In-strumental Methods of Chemical Analysis, Physical Methods of Structure Determination, Quantum Chemistry, Crystal chemistry, Structure of Matter, Fundamental Problems of Chemistry, etc.