Lectures, demonstrations, laboratory experiments, and tutorial sections are integrated to promote a deeper understanding of chemistry fundmentals and to develop the analytical skills necessary for solving problems. In the weekly tutorials, students work in small groups at solving problems collaboratively. The general topics, text book and laboratory are the same as those for CHEM 117-118. CHEM 114 will serve as a prerequisite course to all upper-level courses which list CHEM 118 or CHEM 126 as a prerequisite. Designed for first year students intending to major in science and engineering.
Descriptive chemistry is included throughout in all developments.
Frequent live demonstrations and classroom computer use emphasize the unifying experimental and theoretical aspects of the subject. The lab introduces experimental chemistry with examples from all areas of chemistry. The experiments range from traditional wet chemistry to modern instrumental analysis. The lab consists of prelab lecture and individual laboratory work. In both semesters, computers are integrated into the experiments.