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. ]

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. ]

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

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

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

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. ]

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. ]

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 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. ]

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. ]

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. ]

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. ]

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. ]

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. ]

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. ]

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. ]

Primarily for students in allied health professions. 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. ]

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

Introduction to thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics. Applications include electrochemistry, phase transitions, catalysts, aqueous solutions and polymers. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.  [ 4 cr. ]

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. ]