Courses

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  • MET CH 105: General Chemistry I--Laboratory (N)
    For students who have already taken the lecture portion of CH 101. Three hours lab, one hour postlab discussion per week.
  • MET CH 106: General Chemistry II--Laboratory (N)
    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.
  • 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.
  • MET CH 172: Life Sciences Chemistry II
    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.
  • 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.
  • MET CH 203: Organic Chemistry
    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.
  • MET CH 204: Organic Chemistry
    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.
  • MET CH 205: Organic Chemistry-Lecture
    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.
  • MET CH 206: Organic Chemistry-Lecture
    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.
  • MET CH 207: Organic Chemistry-Laboratory
    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.
  • MET CH 208: Organic Chemistry-Laboratory
    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.
  • MET CH 273: Principles of Biochemistry
    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.
  • MET CH 351: Physical Chemistry I
    Quantum Theory, atomic and molecular structure, molecular spectroscopy, statistical mechanics, solid state chemistry. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.
  • MET CH 352: Physical Chemistry II
    Introduction to thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics. Applications include electrochemistry, phase transitions, catalysts, aqueous solutions and polymers. Three hours lecture, one hour discussion.
  • 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.
  • MET CJ 101: Principles of Criminal Justice
    This course provides a comprehensive overview of the criminal justice system (law enforcement, the courts, and corrections) while developing students' critical thinking skills. In addition to class lectures, the course provides multiple venues for learning, to include web-based study via Blackboard, group activities, guest lectures, a prison tour, and carefully selected films that highlight some of the most contentious issues in criminal justice today.
  • MET CJ 251: Police and Society
    This course examines the policies, strategies, procedures, and mechanics of policing in the environment of the 21st century American urban polity. The police function, duties, and responsibilities will be surveyed, explicated, and critically analyzed through the prism of successful and innovative strategies that have won praise and commendation as well as through institutional and individual failures that have resulted in criticism and condemnation.
  • MET CJ 271: Corrections: Concepts, Systems, and Issues
    This course provides an overview of models of punishment and rehabilitation from the perspectives of the humanities and social sciences, including a review of correctional practices and procedures, institutional treatment, probation, parole, prison conditions, programs for juveniles, and comparative systems. Correction administration topics are covered including personnel, legal, operating practices, overcrowding, and planning.
  • MET CJ 351: Criminal Law
    Theory and practice of criminal law, including sanctions, individual liability, limitations on state action, criminal and victim rights, evidence, defense, deterrence, mandatory sentencing, decriminalization, intent, entrapment, vagueness, and capital punishment. Case studies of recent court decisions.
  • MET CJ 352: Courts, Society, and Criminal Procedure
    Federal, state, and local criminal courts and their relationship to contemporary social and political issues. Historical background of the current criminal court system. Institutional functions of the courts. Role of the courts in reducing crime. Judicial process and criminal procedure, case studies and court decisions.

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