Chemistry

One of the current popular general chemistry textbooks bears the title Chemistry: The Central Science. Indeed, in our study of the physical universe, chemistry holds a pivotal position. Biology, physics and even psychology depend on its findings for their own investigations. Chemistry studies matter, its forms, its process and the changes which it undergoes when it is converted from one form into another, There arc four major areas of chemistry and each treats a specific aspects. The dynamic areas of inorganic and organic chemistry concentrate on the modes of reaction by which inorganic or organic substances are converted into others. Analytical and physical chemistry are more static. The former determines and uses the methods of detecting the presence and identity of substances, while the latter studies the physical properties which they exhibit. Chemistry, or more accurately chemists, have been responsible for much of the scientific progress that has brought greater prosperity, health and happiness to the men and women of our time in such separate fields as pharmaceutical and drugs, agriculture, plastics, rubber, foods and nutrition, cleaning materials, personal grooming, fabrics and dyes. Chemists are involved in a profession that is constantly at the cutting edge of human progress. The chemistry program at the University of Scranton has been fully approved by the Committee on Professional Training of the American Chemical Society. Great stress is placed on the Undergraduate research, done by individual students under the direction of a professor and leading to a thesis which must be defended before the department.

The following is the grid for the Chemistry major at the University of Scranton. It is only what is recommended for when the student takes certain courses but is not the final decision for the course work, especially if the student advances out of General and Analytical Chemistry I by the exemption test given during the Summer Pre-Orientation. For ACS accreditation, the student must also take Differential Equations (MATH 341) and complete Analysis III (MATH 222) and two upper-division chemistry electives.