Course Description
CHE 200 Introduction to General Chemistry (3 credits)
This course is offered for students who need to strengthen their understanding of basic concepts of atomic structure and stoichiometry before beginning the general chemistry sequence. A placement exam is offered to decide on the students’ level before embarking in more advanced courses.
Prerequisite: MCPE
CHE 205 General Chemistry I (3 credits)
This course provides students with foundations of inorganic chemistry based on theoretical as well as practical working knowledge. Topics covered include: atomic structure, chemical bonding, properties of gases, liquids, and solids, acid-base chemistry, and chemical equilibria are emphasized.
Prerequisite: MAT 211, CHE 200 or MCPE,
Co-requisite: ENG 201, CHE 205L
CHE 205L General Chemistry I Laboratory ( 1 credit)
This is the practical part of CHE 205. Students will develop skills and techniques to experimentally assess and quantify chemical relationships.
Co-requisite: CHE 205
CHE 210 General Chemistry II (3 credits)
This course complements what students have studies in CHE 205. Students are provided with an introduction to inorganic chemistry and qualitative and quantitative analysis. Topics covered include: electrochemistry, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, and coordination chemistry.
Prerequisite: CHE 205
Co-requisite: CHE 210L
CHE 210L General Chemistry II Laboratory (1 credit)
This course is a continuation of CHE 210 and provides an introduction to laboratory practices in inorganic chemistry and qualitative and quantitative analysis. Electrochemistry, thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, and coordination chemistry are stressed.
Co-requisite: CHE 210
CHE 220 Organic Chemistry I (3 credits)
This course covers the fundamentals of the classification, identification and structural characterization of organic compounds. Topics include properties, preparation, and commercial significance of hydrocarbons, halogen derivatives, alcohols, ethers and selected polymers, mechanisms of organic reactions, and basic principles of organic stereochemistry.
Co-requisite ENG 201 and CHE 220L
CHE 220L Organic Chemistry I Laboratory (1 credit)
The laboratory will include an introduction to laboratory methods in organic chemistry, including separation and methods of purification of organic compounds.
Co-requisite ENG 201 and CHE 220
CHE 240 Organic Chemistry II (3 credits)
Students are familiarized with synthesis and reactivity of carbonyl compounds, organic acids and their derivatives, nitrogen-containing compounds, sulfur derivatives, simple aromatic compounds. Also covered, survey of the chemistry of carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids and peptides, and selected hetero-cycles, synthesis, stereochemistry, reaction intermediates and mechanisms of organic chemistry, and heterocyclic chemistry.
Prerequisite: CHE 220, Co-requisite CHE 240L
CHE 240L Organic Chemistry II Laboratory ( 1 credit)
The laboratory will include experiments related to the topics covered in CHE 240. This course will utilize micro-scale laboratory techniques in organic chemistry. Experiments include the preparation, purification, and analysis including multi-step sequences, of typical moderately complicated organic compounds. Students will use independent skills in synthesizing and characterizing organic compounds.
Prerequisite: Co-requisite CHE 220
CHE 250 Physical Chemistry (3 credits)
This course aims to introduce student to the molecular interpretation of physico-chemical phenomena. Topics include an introduction to quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and spectroscopy, kinetics theory of gases, chemical kinetics (order of a reaction, Arrhenius equation, reaction mechanism), surface chemistry, adsorption isotherms, structure of adsorbed layers, colloids, viscosity, diffusion, and sedimentation.
Prerequisite: Co-requisite CHE 250L
CHE 250L Physical Chemistry Laboratory (1 credit)
Students will experiment on topics discussed in CHE 250. Experiments are designed to train students on the physical methods for studying properties of matter.
Prerequisite: Co-requisite CHE 250
CHE 280 Introduction to Analytical Chemistry (3 credits)
This course provides students with theoretical and practical principles needed in quantitative analysis. Topics covered include: acid-base equilibria and titrations, precipitation and complex formation, oxidation reduction and statistical treatment of data. Course also introduces spectro-chemical and electrochemical methods of analysis and chemical separations.
Prerequisite: CHE 210
Co-requisite: CHE 280L
CHE 280L Introduction to Analytical Chemistry Laboratory (1 credit)
The laboratory will include an introduction to laboratory methods in analytical chemistry, including acid-base equilibria and titrations, precipitation and complex formation, oxidation reduction and statistical treatment of data.
Co-requisite: CHE 280
CHE 320 Physical Chemistry for the Biosciences (3 credits)
Thermodynamics, electrochemistry, transport, chemical kinetics and molecular structure with emphasis on biological systems.
Prerequisite: CHE 250
CHE 340 Inorganic Chemistry (3 credits)
This course offers students a firsthand introduction to the basic theoretical concepts involved in inorganic chemistry. Periodic trends, chemical bonding, structure and reactivity.
Prerequisite: CHE 210, CHE 280
Co-requisite: CHE 340L
CHE 340 Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (1 credits)
This lab course provides students with an experimental outlook covering topics in synthesis and characterization of inorganic and organometallic compounds.
Co-requisite: CHE 340
CHE 420 Instrumentation (3 credits)
Course aims to train students on current concepts of instrumentation for chemical analysis. Emphasis is on an in-depth examination of spectro-chemical and electrochemical methods and chemical separations.
Prerequisite: PHY 210, CHE 280
Co-requisite: CHE 420L
CHE 420L Instrumentation Laboratory (1 credit)
Laboratory experiments designed for students to perform examination of spectro-chemical and electrochemical methods and chemical separations.
Co-requisite: CHE 420
CHE 440 Organic Spectroscopy (3 credits)
Students are provided with hands-on experience with the concepts and practices of characterization and identification of organic compounds by spectral methods including IR, UV, NMR and mass spectrometry.
Prerequisite: CHE 240
CHE 450 Organic Chemistry of Polymers (3 credits)
Students are provided with hands-on experience with the concepts and practices of classification of polymerization types and mechanisms from a mechanistic/organic point of view. The structure of synthetic and natural polymers and polyelectrolytes. Reactions of polymers and practical synthetic methods of polymer preparation.
Prerequisite: CHE 240
CHE 460 Physical Chemistry - Thermodynamics and Kinetics (3 credits)
Gas laws, kinetic theory, classical and statistical thermodynamics and applications to solutions, phase equilibria, chemical equilibria and electrochemistry.
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: PHY 210, CHE 280
Co-requisite: CHE 460L
CHE 460L Physical Chemistry Thermo. & Kinetics Laboratory (1 credit)
A series of laboratory experiments designed to support and justify the concepts covered in the main course.
Co-requisite: CHE 460
CHE 470 Physical Chemistry - Chemical Bonding and Spectroscopy (3 credits)
This course is designed to introduce students to the concepts of quantum theory, atomic and molecular structure, chemical bonding and spectra, chemical reaction rate laws and mechanisms, and statistical and collision theories of reaction rates.
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: PHY 210, CHE 280
Co-requisite: CHE 460L
CHE 480 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (3 credits)
This course is designed to introduce students to advanced concepts of modern inorganic chemistry. Students are provided with the knowhow and methods to deal with advanced themes including the application of group theory to structure and bonding, molecular orbital treatment of reactivity, fundamental organometallic chemistry and introduces vibrational and electronic spectroscopy.
Prerequisite: PHY 210, CHE 340
CHE 490 Special Topics in Inorganic Chemistry (1-3 credits)
Students are assigned a reading program or development of an assigned experimental problem.
Prerequisite: Consent of Advisor
CHE 492 Special Topics in Undergraduate Research (1-3 credits)
Students apply supervised laboratory or literature investigations of chemical problems of contemporary interest.
Prerequisite: Consent of Advisor
CHE 497 Practical Training ( 3 credits)
Students in their junior year are required to work on part time or full time basis in order to experiment with and practice what they learned in class. A student presents a formal report by the end of this training period then he/she makes a public presentation exposing his/her experience.
Prerequisite: Junior standing and Consent of Advisor
CHE 499 Capstone Project (3 credits)
Students will utilize the blue prints prepared in the curriculum to deal with Chemistry Problems not encountered in regular course of study. It integrates and synthesizes concepts in Inorganic Chemistry theory with applications. Topics include open-ended analysis of data, review of research literature on current techniques and practice of Inorganic Chemistry, development of chemistry communication skills and the use of instrumentation tools in data analysis. Each student is required to learn and use an inorganic chemistry technique beyond what is covered in the previous courses. Students are expected to introduce the method in a presentation and to prepare a comprehensive, professional report detailing the selected method and its application to a real problem.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
PHY 210 Physics I (3 credits)
Introduction to mechanics. Topics covered include vectors, statics, uniform accelerated motion, energy, momentum, uniform circular motion, elasticity and simple harmonic motion. This course emphasizes the development of quantitative concepts and problem solving skills for students needing a broad background in physics as part of their preparation in other major programs.
Prerequisite: MAT 211 or Placement, ENG 201
PHY 220 Physics II (3 credits)
This course provides students with the principles and applications of electricity, magnetism, light, sound, atomic physics, and nuclear physics. Topics covered include: wave motion, sound, electric field, electric potential, direct current circuits, electrochemistry, the magnetic field, electromagnetic function, flux and electromotive force.
Prerequisite: PHY 210