The objectives of this course include:

- to get the students acquainted with basic principle and main application of group theory.

- to give an idea of molecular symmetry and its implementations.

- to be able to use symmetry properties of wavefunctions and operations in quantum mechanical calculations.

- to teach how to interpret electronic and vibrational spectra of molecules using symmetry approach.

- to inform about ligand field theory, Tanabe-Sugano diagrams, wavefunction and its physical meaning.