100
This course examines energy production in modern technical society (including food, electricity, and fuel) and some of the associated unintended consequences: air pollution, water pollution, acid rain, radon contamination, and ozone depletion. The fundamental chemistry and physics necessary for understanding these problems are presented on a level appropriate for the non-science major. Three lecture hours per week.
Provides foundational chemical concepts particularly pertinent to students pursuing careers in nursing and in middle childhood education. Topics include matter, measurements, atoms, bonds, moles, solids/liquids/gases, solutions, reactions, acids/bases/salts, and nuclear chemistry. Laboratory work reinforces and applies lecture material and includes computer-based data acquisition and analysis. Three lecture and one 3-hour laboratory periods per week.
For pre nursing and middle childhood education students:
CHM 115
Provides science majors, pre-engineering students, and education majors seeking adolescent/young adult licensure with a comprehensive study of matter, its interactions, and its transformations. This is the first course of a two-course sequence covering the most fundamental concepts and theories of chemistry. Topics covered in this course are measurement and uncertainty, properties and classification of matter, atomic structure, the periodic table and periodic properties of the elements, molecular structure, ionic and covalent bonding, properties of gases, and basic chemical calculations. Three lecture periods per week.
Co-requisite for science majors and for pre-engineering and pre-professional students:
CHM 116
Is the second course of a two-course sequence covering the most fundamental concepts and theories of chemistry. Topics include aqueous solutions, chemical reactions, thermochemistry, kinetics, equilibrium, acid-base chemistry, chemical thermodynamics, and electrochemistry. Three lecture periods per week.
Offers a survey of organic chemistry followed by an introduction to biochemistry within the context of human physiology. Topics include saturated and unsaturated hydrocarbons, alcohols, phenols, ethers, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, esters, amines, amides, carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins. This course is essential for students in the allied health fields, who require a background in the chemistry of the human body. Three lecture periods per week.
Reinforces and applies CHM 110 lecture material and includes computer-based data acquisition and analysis. One 3-hour laboratory period per week.
Provides a hands-on exploration of the theories and laws studied in CHM 111, with an emphasis on the scientific method. One 3-hour laboratory period per week.
CHM 111 (may be taken concurrently)
Provides a hands-on exploration of the theories and laws studied in CHM 112, with an emphasis on the scientific method. One 3-hour laboratory period per week.
Reinforces and applies CHM 114 lecture material and includes computer-based data acquisition. One 3-hour laboratory period per week.