UBC Chemistry: Recommended Changes

   After completing (well on the verge of completion) I would like to note a couple of my suggestions of which pertain to the changes they should make in the program.  First off I would like to mention that there are no computer science credits required to complete this degree, and in my opinion this is wrong.  For the physical sciences of physics and chemistry, one of the growing fields in these two topics is the computational aspect.  Chemistry is no longer just experiments in the chemical world, but it also ventures into the tools of computing. At this point in my university career I regret not having taken one as I try with much difficulty to teach myself coding languages in the attempts to learn more computational skills. Also within the major program (already contained in the honours program) Chem 320: Structures of Atoms and Molecules demands to be a required course as it intros computational methods in chemistry.  The chemistry department does recognize the changing field, but it must look into enforcing these changes onto the students.
    Another change of which is needed is a history of chemistry course. Yes, this sounds redundant to learning the aspects of chemistry, but in my education I found myself bottling up all this theoretical knowledge without knowing how this theoretical knowledge was produced.  I have talked to a number of my graduating classmates and most of them agree that we have little knowledge of how the scientific method works.  So if the chemistry department was to enforce students to take a history course of chemical experiments I believe we will be more prepared to enter the world as scientists instead of entering the world as hardened students.  This idea came to me as one of my organic professors, who always gave small history lectures amidst the curricular lectures, taught me how this organic technology came to exist; with this knowledge I grasped a better understanding of what it was that creates a great discovery.
    This isn't a complete posting, so as I think of additional issues with the Chemistry program at UBC I will add them in here.  And in the next couple of days I will include a suggestions post for anyone starting out in the UBC chemistry program.