This is a two semester course taught on a college level. General Chemistry investigates stoichemistry, gas laws, atomic and molecular structures, equilibria, reaction kinetics, electrochemistry, thermochemistry, and thermodynamics. This is a two semester elective that provides the student with an understanding of organic nomenclature, reactions, and mechanisms. Laboratory topics include infrared spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy, and UV and Visible Absorption spectroscopy as applied to organic compounds that students synthesize from basic reagents. This is a one semester elective course offered in the fall of each year.
Students study the structures, properties, nomenclature, and function of biological molecules.
The course will also investigate the role these molecules have in metabolic reactions, equilibria, and other biological processes. Laboratory investigations will emphasize methods of separating and identifying biomolecules and their components. Biochemistry can be taken for either a Biology or Chemistry credit. This course is intended to be taken as the first of a one year sequence ending in Molecular and Cellular Biology in the Spring. This course is a special program of one semester or more in length.