University Catalog Chemistry Courses
Chemistry Department Course Listings
Core Courses
Listed below are the core courses for each major.
There are no core course requirements for the Chemistry major. The courses are decided upon by the student and the committee.
Analytical
| Chem 511 | Advanced Quantitative Analysis | 3 credits |
| Chem 512 | Electrochemistry | 3 credits |
| Chem 513 | Analytical Molecular and Atomic Spectroscopy | 3 credits |
| Chem 516 | Analytical Separations | 3 credits |
| Chem 611 | Seminar | 1 credit each semester |
Inorganic
| Chem 502 | Advanced Inorganic Chemistry | 3 credits |
| Chem 505 | Physical Inorganic Chemistry | 3 credits |
| Chem 600 | Seminar | 1 credit each semester |
| Four additional credits from the following courses: |
| Chem 503 | Bioinorganic Chemistry | 2 credits |
| Chem 571 | Solid State Chemistry | 2 credits |
| Chem 573 | Nanochemistry | 2 credits |
| Chem 574 | Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals | 2 credits |
| Chem 578 | Chemical Kinetics and Mechanisms | 2 credits |
Organic
| Chem 531 | Organic Synthesis I | 3 credits |
| Chem 532 | Organic Synthesis II | 2 credits |
| Chem 537 | Physical Organic Chemistry I | 3 credits |
| Chem 538 | Physical Organic Chemistry II | 3 credits |
| Chem 572 | Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds | 3 credits |
| Chem 631 | Seminar in Organic Chemistry | 1 credit each semester |
| Chem 632 | Selected Topics in Organic Chemistry | 2 credits |
Physical
| Chem 561 or *Phys 591 | Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics or Quantum Physics | 4 credits |
| Chem 562 or 564 or *Phys 592 | Fundamentals of Atomic and Molecular Quantum Mechanics or Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure or Quantum Physics II | 3 credits/4 credits |
| Chem 563 or *Phys 531 | Statistical Mechanics | 2 credits |
| Chem 583 | Chemical Group Theory | 1 credits |
| Chem 660 | Seminar in Physical Chemistry | 1 credit each semester |
Chemical Education
| Courses outlined for one of the above listed programs | 13 credits |
| Chem 555 | Chemical Pedagogy | 2 credits |
| Statistics 587 | Statistical Methods for Research Workers | 3 credits |
| Statistics 571 | Introduction to Experimental Design | 3 credits |
| Curriculum & Instruction 533 | Educational Psychology of Learning, Cognition and Memory | 3 credits |
| Curriculum & Instruction 541 | How People Learn: Implications for Teaching Science. | 3 credits |
| Curriculum & Instruction 546 | Advanced Pedagogy in Science Education. | 3 credits |
| Psychology 516 | Advanced Cognition | 3 credits |
