This course is designed primarily for future elementary school teachers. It introduces the student to the basic concepts of chemistry including atoms, radioactivity, bonding, chemical equations, solutions, acids and bases, and some aspects of organic and biochemistry.
Circumstances permitting, the course ends with practice teaching at an elementary school.
Computers are used as aids to instruction and as laboratory tools. The course CHEM 100L must be taken concurrently with this course. Current or prior enrollment in CHEM 100 is required. Topics to be covered include the scientific method, atomic theory, redox chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. The sequence CHEM 101 and 102 can be used to fulfill the general studies requirement of a year of laboratory science.