For the first two years of any of the Chemistry majors, the major
courses are the same. Everyone must take at least one semester of
General and Analytical Chemistry and two semesters of Organic
Chemistry plus their laboratory sections. Only the Chemistry and
Biochemistry, Research majors need to take the one semester of
Inorganic Chemistry, and this course is without a laboratory requirement.
This course introduces the student to the world of chemistry through qualitative and quantitative analysis of the subject. Topics under this course include basic reactions, stoichiometry, gas laws, thermochemistry, and types of chemical bonds. The accompanying lab course highlights experimental proofs to the theory provided in class as well as basic skills needed to use the equipment properly and safely.
This course continues where the first course left off in the
introductory study of chemistry. Topics under this course include
molecular shape and size; bond strengths; properties of liquids,
solids, and solutions; chemical equilibrium; acid-basic theories;
thermodynamics; electrochemistry; and kinetics as well as a look at
the elements themselves and their common properties. The accompanying
lab course highlights the experimental proofs to the theory and basic
skills needed to handle equipment and chemicals safely and properly.
Chemistry Course 114L is the accompanying
laboratory course to Chemistry 113 if taken in the fall semester.
This course's material is taken from the most demonstrative lab work
from the other two laboratory courses and fulfills the requirement of both.
Organic Chemistry I introduces the student into the study of chemistry with carbon. This course concentrates on the nomenclature, synthesis and reactions of the hydrocarbons (alkanes, alkenes, alkynes and their derivatives) as well as provide basic organic theory and an introduction to infrared spectroscopy needed for the other two courses. The accompanying laboratory course provides the student the opportunity to synthesize specific compounds in both the microscale and the macroscale talked about in theory as well as the basic skills needed to create the complex apparatus needed to create or separate the compounds created.
This course continues where Organic Chemistry I leaves off in the introduction to the carbon-based compounds. This course concentrates on the nomenclature, synthesis, and reactions of the oxygen-bearing carbon chain (aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, esters, ethers, and carboxylic acids), nitrogen-bearing carbon chains (amides, amines), and aromatic group (benzene derivatives) as well as a more detailed look at spectroscopy using both infrared and proton NMR. The accompanying lab focuses on synthesis and testing of these compounds.
Descriptive chemistry of main group and selected transition elements and their compounds correlated with the periodic table, physical properties, atomic and molecular structure.