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Course # Course Title Credits
CHEM 104 Survey Of Chemistry (Health) 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring

Studies the fundamental concepts of chemistry including metric system, atomic structure, chemical reactions and gas laws, buffers, solution chemistry and acids and bases. Examines the relationship of chemical principles to current environmental and health related topics. Lab required.Prerequisites: MATH 60, or suitable placement score.

CHEM 105 Survey Of Chemistry (Health) 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Studies the fundamental concepts of chemistry, including nuclear radiation, energy, and organic chemistry. Lab required.Prerequisites: CHEM 104.

CHEM 106 Survey Of Chemistry (Health) 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Studies the fundamental concepts of chemistry, including carbohydrates, lipid and protein metabolism, RNA and DNA synthesis, action of enzymes, hormones and steroids, and overall integration of metabolism. Lab required.Prerequisites: CHEM 105.

CHEM 121 General Chemistry 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Provides an introduction to the fundamentals of inorganic chemistry, including metric system, atomic structure, chemical reactions and gas laws, buffers, solution chemistry, and acids and bases. Lab required.Prerequisites: MATH 65 or suitable placement score.

CHEM 122 General Chemistry 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Covers the radiation and environmental issues. Introduces organic nomenclature, functional groups and reactions.Prerequisites: CHEM 121 or 104.

CHEM 123 General Chemistry 4.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Covers the basics of organic and biochemistry. Lab required.Prerequisites: CHEM 122

CHEM 221 College Chemistry 5.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Studies measurement, chemical reactions, stoichiometry, thermo chemistry, atomic structure, chemical bonding and gas laws. Lab required.Prerequisites: MATH 95 or suitable placement score. Previous chemistry experience strongly recommended.

CHEM 222 College Chemistry 5.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Includes molecular bonding, solution chemistry, chemical reactions, oxidation reduction, chemical equilibrium and acid base equilibrium. Lab required.Prerequisites: CHEM 221.

CHEM 223 College Chemistry 5.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Includes thermodynamics, electrochemistry, nuclear chemistry, metals, nonmetals and transition elements and brief survey of organic and biochemistry. Lab required.Prerequisites: CHEM 222.

CHEM 227 Organic Chemistry 5.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Fall

Presents alhanes, alhenes, stereochemistry, role of solvents and organic reactions. Lab required.Prerequisites: CHEM 223.

CHEM 228 Organic Chemistry 5.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Winter

Examines alhynes, aromaticity, aromatic substitution, spectroscopy, NMR, CMR, IR, aldehydes and ketones and carboxylic acids. Lab required.Prerequisites: CHEM 227

CHEM 229 Organic Chemistry 5.00 Credits

Quarters Offered: Spring

Includes amines, phenols, molecular orbital theory, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. Lab required.Prerequisites: CHEM 228