Maximum of 2 credits. Study of chemical literature, including primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, and on-line searching techniques. Presentations are delivered by students, faculty, and guests speakers on a variety of chemical topics. In CM303, each student must deliver a public presentation. Junior standing Manufacture, use, and repair of scientific glassware.
Student constructs six types of seal and designs and carries out a project.
CM225 Spectroscopy, including emission, mass, X-ray, ultraviolet, infrared, visible, NMR, fluorescence, and atomic absorption. CM225 Classical and instrumental methods. Design, operating principles, theory, and use of instruments. Stresses chromatography, electroanalysis, thermoanalysis, and automation. CM253 Introduction to structure and function of biomolecules, storage and transmission of genetic information, and reactions, strategy, and regulation of metabolic pathways.