Courses

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 5110Advanced Quantitative Analysis3 credits
Chem 5120Electrochemistry3 credits
Chem 5130Analytical Molecular and Atomic Spectroscopy3 credits
Chem 5160Analytical Separations3 credits
Chem 5770Mass Spectrometry 3 credits
Chem 6110Seminar1 credit each semester

Inorganic

Chem 5020Advanced Inorganic Chemistry3 credits
Chem 5050Physical Inorganic Chemistry3 credits
Chem 6000Seminar1 credit each semester
Four additional credits from the following courses:
Chem 5030Bioinorganic Chemistry2 credits
Chem 5710Solid State Chemistry2 credits
Chem 5730Nanochemistry2 credits
Chem 5740Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Metals2 credits
Chem 5780Chemical Kinetics and Mechanisms2 credits

Organic

Chem 5310Organic Synthesis I3 credits
Chem 5320Organic Synthesis II2 credits
Chem 5370Physical Organic Chemistry I3 credits
Chem 5380Physical Organic Chemistry II3 credits
Chem 5720Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds3 credits
Chem 6310Seminar in Organic Chemistry1 credit each semester
Chem 6320Selected Topics in Organic Chemistry2 credits

Physical

Chem 5610 or *Phys 5910Fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics or Quantum Physics4 credits
Chem 5620 or 5640 or *Phys 5920Fundamentals of Atomic and Molecular Quantum Mechanics or Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure or Quantum Physics II3 credits/4 credits
Chem 5630 or *Phys 5310Statistical Mechanics2 credits
Chem 5830Chemical Group Theory1 credits
Chem 6600Seminar in Physical Chemistry1 credit each semester

Chemical Education

Courses outlined for one of the above listed programs13 credits
Chem 5550Chemical Pedagogy2 credits
Statistics 5870Statistical Methods for Research Workers3 credits
Statistics 5710Introduction to Experimental Design3 credits
Curriculum & Instruction 5330Educational Psychology of Learning, Cognition and Memory3 credits
Curriculum & Instruction 5410How People Learn: Implications for Teaching Science.3 credits
Curriculum & Instruction 5460Advanced Pedagogy in Science Education.3 credits
Psychology 5160Advanced Cognition3 credits