Chemistry Undergraduate Courses

For science concentrators, premedical students, and students in related fields. Stoichiometry, states of matter, acids and bases, equilibrium, and selected chemical systems. Laboratory course. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, three hours lab per week, and one hour postlab discussion per week.   [ 4 cr.]

Prereq: two years of high school algebra.

Offered: Spring 2010

For science concentrators, premedical students, and students in related fields. Covers thermodynamics, atomic structure and bonding, electrochemistry, chemical kinetics, and selected chemical systems. Laboratory course. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, three hours lab, and one hour postlab discussion per week.   [ 4 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 101; or equivalent.

Offered: Spring 2010

Lecture component of MET CH 101. See CH 101 course description. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion per week.   [ 3 cr.]

Offered: Spring 2010

Lecture component of MET CH 102. See CH 102 course description. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.   [ 3 cr.]

Offered: Spring 2010

For students who have already taken the lecture portion of CH 101. Three hours lab, one hour postlab discussion per week.   [ 1 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 103; two years of high school algebra, MET CH 103, or equivalent.

Offered: Spring 2010

Laboratory component of MET CH 102. For students who have already taken the lecture portion of CH 102. Three hours lab, one hour postlab discussion per week.   [ 1 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 104; or equivalent.

Offered: Spring 2010

Primarily for students in allied health professions. Introduction to chemistry, including separation and purification of matter, atomic theory, structure of atoms, molecules, and chemical bonding. Laboratory course. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion per week, three hours lab weekly, with one hour prelab lecture each week.   [ 4 cr.]

Offered: Spring 2010

Primarily for students in the allied health professions. Organic chemistry, including structure, stereochemistry, and reactions of carbon compounds. Emphasis on compounds of biochemical interest. Laboratory course. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, three hours lab weekly with one hour pre-lab lecture.   [ 4 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 171.

Offered: Spring 2010

Prereq: MET CH 171 or CH 101, 102. Organic chemistry: structure, stereochemistry, and reactions of carbon compounds; emphasis on compounds of biochemical interest. Lecture component of MET CH 172. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.   [ 3 cr.]

Offered: Spring 2010

Organic chemistry: structure, stereochemistry, and reactions of carbon compounds; emphasis on compounds of biochemical interest. Structure and function of -molecules of biological importance. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, one hour prelab lecture, and three hours lab.   [ 4 cr.]

Prereq: METCH171 or METCH101, METCH102

Offered: Spring 2010

Structure and reactivity of organic compounds. Synthesis, reaction mechanisms, bonding, stereochemistry, laboratory methods. Coverage of the families of organic compounds, including molecules of biological interest. Laboratory course. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, one hour prelab lecture, and three-and-a-half hours work period alternate weeks. Laboratory course.   [ 4 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 102; or equivalent.

Offered: Spring 2010

Structure and reactivity of organic compounds. Synthesis, reaction mechanisms, bonding, stereochemistry, laboratory methods. Coverage of the families of organic compounds, including molecules of biological interest. Laboratory course. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, one hour prelab lecture, and three-and-a-half hours work period alternate weeks. Laboratory course.   [ 4 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 102; or equivalent.

Offered: Spring 2010

Lecture component of MET CH 203, 204. Structure and reactivity of organic compounds, synthesis, reaction mechanisms, bonding, and stereochemistry. Coverage of the families of organic compounds, including molecules of biological importance. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion weekly.   [ 3 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 102; or equivalent.

Offered: Spring 2010

Lecture component of MET CH 203, 204. Structure and reactivity of organic compounds, synthesis, reaction mechanisms, bonding, and stereochemistry. Coverage of the families of organic compounds, including molecules of biological importance. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion weekly.   [ 3 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 102; or equivalent.

Offered: Spring 2010

Laboratory component of MET CH 203, 204. An introduction to laboratory techniques, including experiments in distillation, extraction, chromatography, purification, derivitization, and synthesis. Laboratory course. One hour prelab lecture and three-and-a-half hours work period alternate weeks.   [ 1 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 102 and MET CH 205 or MET CH 215; or equivalent.

Offered: Spring 2010

Laboratory component of MET CH 203, 204. An introduction to laboratory techniques, including experiments in distillation, extraction, chromatography, purification, derivitization, and synthesis. Laboratory course. One hour prelab lecture and three-and-a-half hours work period alternate weeks.   [ 1 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 102 and MET CH 205 or MET CH 215; or equivalent.

Offered: Spring 2010

  [ 4 cr.]

Offered: Spring 2010

Primarily for students in allied health professions. Biochemistry. Structure and function of biological macromolecules: polysaccharides, proteins, and nucleic acids; lipids; enzymes and metabolism; bioenergetics, control mechanisms; hormones; body fluids; nutrition; and biochemical pathology. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.   [ 4 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 172 or equivalent.

Offered: Spring 2010

Quantum Theory, atomic and molecular structure, molecular spectroscopy, statistical mechanics, solid state chemistry. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.   [ 4 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 102 or CAS CH 102 ; CAS CH 108 or CAS CH 110 or CAS CH 112 ; MET PY 211 ; MET MA 124.

Offered: Spring 2010

This course description is currently under construction.   [ 4 cr.]

Prereq: MET CH 102 or CAS CH 102 ; CAS CH 108 or CAS CH 110 or CAS CH 112 ; MET PY 211 ; MET MA 124.

Offered: Spring 2010

Prereq: CAS CH 204, CH 212, CH 214, or CH 282. Introductory biochemistry. Protein structure and folding, enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, and allostery; nucleic acid structure; lipids and membrane structure; bioenergetics; vitamins and coenzymes; introduction to intermediary metabolism. Students must register for two sections: lecture and laboratory. Meets with CAS CH 421.   [ 4 cr.]

Offered: Spring 2010