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Chemistry Undergraduate Courses

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It is possible to register separately for the lecture component (3 cr.) and the laboratory (1 cr.) of several 4-credit courses that have both components. These courses include MET CH 101, CH 102, CH 203, CH 204, CH 211, and CH 212. However, separate registration is not permitted if the student is taking the lecture and laboratory components simultaneously.

Metropolitan College Chemistry Courses

MET CH 101 General Chemistry I (N)

Prereq: two years of high school algebra. 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 prelab discussion per week. (4 cr.)

MET CH 102 General Chemistry II (N)

Prereq: MET CH 101 or equivalent. 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 prelab discussion per week. (4 cr.)

MET CH 103 General Chemistry I-Lecture (N)

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

MET CH 104 General Chemistry II-Lecture (N)

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

MET CH 105 General Chemistry I-Laboratory (N)

Prereq: two years of high school algebra, MET CH 103, or equivalent. For students who have already taken the lecture portion of CH 101. Three hours lab, one hour postlab discussion per week. (1 cr.)

MET CH 106 General Chemistry II-Laboratory (N)

Prereq: MET CH 104 or equivalent. 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.)

MET CH 131 Principles of General Chemistry

Coreq: MET MA 123. A one-semester, terminal general chemistry course for students who do not require a two-semester sequence. Stoichiometry, atomic and molecular structure, bonding, chemistry of the solid state, chemical thermodynamics, and equilibrium. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, three-and-a-half hours lab. (4 cr.)

MET CH 171 Life Sciences Chemistry I (N)

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.)

MET CH 172 Life Sciences Chemistry II

Prereq: MET CH 171. 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 prelab lecture. (4 cr.)

MET CH 174 Life Science Chemistry II (NS)

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.)

MET CH 201 Quantitative Analytical Chemistry Laboratory

Prereq: MET CH 102 or equivalent. Laboratory applications of quantitative chemical analysis. One hour lecture, eight hours lab. (2 cr.)

MET CH 203, 204 Organic Chemistry

Prereq: MET CH 102 or equivalent. 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. (4 cr. each)

MET CH 205, 206 Organic Chemistry-Lecture

Prereq: MET CH 102 or equivalent. 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. each.)

MET CH 207, 208 Organic Chemistry-Laboratory

Prereq: MET CH 102 and CH 205 or CH 206, or equivalent. 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. each.)

MET CH 232 Inorganic Chemistry

Prereq: MET CH 102; coreq: MET CH 204. Relation of atomic and molecular structure to chemical properties. Bronsted and Lewis acid/base behavior, redox reactions, bonding and reactions of main group elements, d-metal complexes including bonding, spectra, and reaction mechanisms, organometallic chemistry. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion, four hours lab. (4 cr.)

MET CH 273 Life Sciences Chemistry III

Prereq: MET CH 172 or equivalent. 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.)

MET CH 351, 352 Physical Chemistry

Prereq: MET CH 102, MET PY 211, MET MA 124, MET PY 212, MET MA 225. Introduction to thermodynamics, electro-chemistry, statistical mechanics, chemical kinetics, laws and structure of gases, liquids, solids, and solutions. Introduction to quantum mechanics as applied to atomic and molecular systems, including molecular spectroscopy. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion. (4 cr. each.)

MET CH 421 Biochemistry I

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. each.)

CAS and GRS Chemistry Courses

CAS CH 354 Physical Chemistry

Students may take CAS CH 354 Physical Chemistry Laboratory (eight hours per week) with the instructor's permission. Registration for this and all other CAS and GRS courses may be made through Metropolitan College. Tuition and fees are charged at the College of Arts and Sciences and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences rates for day courses.