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  • 4.00 Credits

    This course is required for all science division majors. It is a prerequisite to all other chemistry courses. The material includes the tools of chemistry; atoms and elements; compounds and molecules; reactions in aqueous solution; atomic structure; electron configurations and periodicity; chemical bonding; orbital hybridization; molecular orbitals and metallic bonding. Four hours lecture, one hour recitation, and one three-hour laboratory per week are required.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course is required for all science division majors. It is a prerequisite to all upper level chemistry courses. The material includes the behavior of gases and solutions; chemical kinetics; chemical equilibria; chemistry of acids and bases; precipitation reactions; entropy and free energy; electron transfer reactions; and thermochemistry. Four hours lecture, one hour recitation, and one three-hour laboratory per week are required.
  • 4.00 Credits

    CHE 120 is an introductory course, which is designed for Health Sciences majors and other health-related professions. It is a one-semester course that will discuss fundamental principles of General Chemistry basic to the understanding of the health related sciences. Principles of atomic structure, periodicity, chemical bonding, molecular structure, stoichiometry, states of matter, thermodynamics, acids and bases, concentration units, kinetics, equilibria, nuclear chemistry, and electrochemistry will be discussed. Additionally, fundamentals of organic nomenclature and a survey of the physical, chemical and biological properties of the main organic functional groups will be covered. One year of high school chemistry is recommended.
  • 4.00 Credits

    The material in this course includes: Statistical analysis of data; gravimetric analysis; acid-base equilibria; acid-base, precipitation and complexometric titrations; spectrophotometric analyses; and fundamentals of electrochemistry. Four hours of lecture and six hours of laboratory per week are required.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course covers the properties, nomenclature, reactions and syntheses of alkenes, alkenes, alkynes, arenes, alkyl halides, alcohols and ethers. Major reaction types include electrophilic addition, radical addition and substitution, nucleophilic substitution, elimination, acid-base and stereochemical reactions. The laboratory involves the separation, purification and synthesis of organic compounds using microscale apparatus. Four hours lecture, one hour recitation, and one three-hour laboratory per week are required.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course covers the remaining major functional group compounds including carbonyl compounds, carboxylic acids and acid derivatives, amines, phenols and an introduction to the major biochemical groups. Spectroscopic methods (infrared, ultraviolet, mass and nuclear magnetic resonance) are studied and used in the laboratory for qualitative analysis. Four hours lecture, one hour recitation, and one three-hour laboratory per week are required.
  • 4.00 Credits

    This course involves the study of chemical nomenclature, chemical reactions of the elements, acid-base theory and reactions. Other material covered includes an introduction to inorganic chemistry; building a network of ideas to make sense of the periodic table; hydrogen and hydrides; oxygen, aqueous solutions; acid-base character of oxides and hydroxides, alkali metals; alkaline-earth metals; groups 3A and 4A elements; group 5A: the pnicogens; sulfur selenium, tellurium and polonium; the halogens; and group 8A: the noble gases. Four hours lecture, and one three-hour laboratory per week are required.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Students will study and use methods and software tools for visualizing and understanding biological data by using computer science and statistics to analyze and interpret biological data. This course will inroduce tools usefut for retrievins and analzing biological data and will show how these skills can be applied to a wide range of disciplines such as molecular biology, medicine, biotechnology, forensic science, and anthropology. Students will explore topics such as protein-protein interactions and genomic sequencing data. Basic concepts in computer science (e.g. Linux command-line, batch scripting) will be followed up with introduction to data collection and mining techniques with current software packages (which will be updated frequently and may include NCBI, UCSC genome browser, UnProt, GenBank, 1000 genomes The Cancer Genome Atlas, HapMap, R, cBioPortal, Tetrad).
  • 4.00 Credits

    The material in this course includes: Gases; the first, second and third laws of thermodynamics; chemical equilibria; phases and solutions; phase equilibria; composite reaction mechanisms; and kinetics of elementary reactions. Four hours lecture and six hours laboratory per week are required.
  • 4.00 Credits

    The material covered in this course includes Electrochemistry, surface chemistry, colloids, transport properties, quantum mechanics and atomic structure, chemical bond, chemical spectroscopy, molecular statistics, the solid state and the liquid state. Four hours of lecture and six hours of laboratory per week are required.
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