I've got quite an interest in chemistry and was wondering if I should go down that path for one of my sub-majors, or keep it strictly as a hobby outside of my studies?
Some of the highlights of the course include:
-students gain experience in techniques used in performing reactions, and in isolating, purifying and characterising products.
-The structures and reactions of the important families of organic compounds (aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, halogen compounds, alcohols, ethers, carbonyl compounds, carboxylic acid derivatives and amines) are studied with emphasis on stereochemistry, reaction mechanisms and organic synthesis.
-volumetric techniques including acid-base, redox and complexometric titrations
-general chromatographic methods for separation
-topics include: acidic and basic salts, acid-base titrations, buffers, solubility equilibria, complex ion equilibria; introduction to chemical thermodynamics, enthalpy of reactions, Hess's Law, entropy and Gibbs free energy; chemical kinetics; coordination chemistry; redox chemistry, electrode potentials, electrolysis, corrosion, Galvanic cells. Carbon chemistry topics include: structures and reactions of the common families of carbon compounds, alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, arenes, halogen compounds, alcohols, ethers, alkanals, alkanones, carboxylic acids, amines, amides, esters; stereochemistry, chirality and optical isomerism; biological molecules and biopolymers, amino acids, peptides, proteins, carbohydrates, nucleic acids.
Would I have all the necessary tools to perform some profitable extractions in the future? 
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