Chemistry (CHEM)
Prerequisites: Permission and junior or senior standing
Pass/No Pass only
Description: Practical chemical research outside of academic settings.
Description: Introduction to chemistry careers and faculty research interests in the Department of Chemistry. This course is required for all chemistry majors (B.S. and B.A.) but is open to all students interested in learning about the chemistry program and its relationship to careers.
Prerequisites: MATH 101, MATH 103, or Math Placement Exam score for MATH 102, MATH 104, or MATH 106.
Description: The extraordinary chemistry of ordinary things. The chemical model of solids, liquids, gases, molecules, and salts. How these models are used to explore chemical aspects of biological, social, or economic situation.
Prerequisites: MATH 102, 103, or a Math Placement Exam score for MATH 106; CHEM 109L recommended parallel.
Ideally, CHEM 109A and CHEM 109L should be taken together. Credit toward the degree may be earned in only one of: 109, 109A, 111, 113 or 113A.
Description: Lecture serving as an introduction to chemical reactions, the mole concept, properties of the states of matter, atomic structure, periodic properties, chemical bonding, and molecular structure.
This course is a prerequisite for: ASCI 240; BIOC 205; BSEN 321, CIVE 321; BSEN 321H, CIVE 321H; CHEM 106A; CHEM 109L; CHEM 110A; CHME 114; ENVE 210; FDST 205; FORS 300; FORS 411; GEOL 200; GEOL 418, GEOL 818, NRES 419, NRES 819, WATS 418; MATL 260; MATL 360; NRES 319; PLAS 327; PLAS 455, AGRO 855, NRES 455, NRES 855, SOIL 455
Ideally, CHEM 110A and CHEM 110L should be taken together. Credit toward the degree may be earned in only one of CHEM 106, 106A, 110, 110A, or 114.
Description: Lecture serving as an introduction to intermolecular forces, kinetics, chemical equilibrium, thermodynamics, and electrochemistry.
This course is a prerequisite for: ASCI 320; ASCI 321; ASCI 340; BIOS 459, BIOS 859, NRES 459, NRES 859, WATS 459; BSEN 244; BSEN 321, CIVE 321; BSEN 321H, CIVE 321H; BSEN 355; CHEM 110L; CHEM 221A; CHEM 221L; CHEM 251; CHEM 261; FDST 205; FORS 300; GEOL 418, GEOL 818, NRES 419, NRES 819, WATS 418; PLAS 455, AGRO 855, NRES 455, NRES 855, SOIL 455
Prerequisites: MATH 102, MATH 103 or a Math Placement Exam score for MATH 106; CHEM 113L recommended parallel.
Ideally, CHEM 113A and CHEM 113L should be taken together. Credit toward the degree may be earned in only one of: 109, 109A, 111, 113 or 113A.
Description: Fundamentals of chemistry for students in physical sciences or chemical engineering. Includes atomic and molecular structure, chemical bonding, states of matter, solutions, and acid-base reactions. Intended for students who plan to take upper-level courses in chemistry.
CHEM 221L is the associated laboratory course and is recommended parallel. Credit toward the degree may be earned in only one of CHEM 110, 110A, or 114.
Description: Chemical kinetics, oxidation-reduction reactions and electrochemistry, ionic solution equilibria, thermodynamic concepts, and chemistry of selected elements.
Description: Covers general and food chemistry, nutrition, food microbiology, food safety and quality, standards that are enforced by regulatory agencies, and food processes applied to improve food quality, shelf life and safety.
This course is a prerequisite for: FDST 205
Description: Covers general and food chemistry, nutrition, food microbiology, food safety and quality, standards that are enforced by regulatory agencies, and food processes applied to improve food quality, shelf life and safety.
Description: Topics vary.
Description: Methods of statistical data evaluation and rigorous treatment of chemical equilibria, including chemical activity and coupled equilibria, will provide a foundation for understanding classical chemical quantitation techniques.
Description: Methods of statistical data evaluation and rigorous treatment of chemical equilibria, including chemical activity and coupled equilibria, will provide a foundation for understanding classical chemical quantitation techniques. Emphasis on laboratory techniques, including gravimetric and volumetric methods.
It is suggested that CHEM 253 be taken parallel with CHEM 251. Credit toward the degree may be earned in only one of CHEM 251 or 261.
Description: Chemistry of carbon compounds including basic principles of bonding and structure; properties and reactions of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alkyl halides; stereochemistry, and spectroscopy.
Prerequisites: CHEM 251 or parallel.
CHEM 221 or CHEM 221A & CHEM 221L recommended. Shares a quiz section with CHEM 251 and normally accompanies it.
Description: Basic techniques of organic chemistry. Structure, identification, physical properties of compounds, molecular modeling, and introduction to the spectroscopic characteristics of organic compounds.
Description: Topics vary.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Independent reading or research under direction of a faculty member.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Special research project under the direction of a member of the departmental faculty. The grade will be awarded following the submission of a written progress and/or final report.
Description: Chemical and physical properties applied to quantitative chemical analysis. Solution equilibria, stoichiometry, and instrumental theory and techniques.
Prerequisites: LIFE 120 with a grade of C or better; CHEM 252 or CHEM 262 with a grade of C or better.
BIOS 206 or PLAS 215 is recommended. First course of a two-semester, comprehensive biochemistry course sequence.
Description: Structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates and lipids; nature of enzymes; major metabolic pathways of catabolism; and biochemical energy production.
This course is a prerequisite for: AGRO 810, BIOC 810, HORT 810; ASCI 820; ASCI 917; ASCI 925, NUTR 925; ASCI 926, NUTR 926; ASCI 927, NUTR 927; BIOC 305; BIOC 390; BIOC 432, BIOC 832, BIOS 432, CHEM 432, CHEM 832, BIOS 832; BIOC 433, BIOC 833, BIOS 433, BIOS 833, CHEM 433, CHEM 833; BIOC 440; FDST 470, FDST 870; NUTR 450; NUTR 455; NUTR 820, NUTR 420; NUTR 821; PLAS 434, BIOC 434, BIOS 434, CHEM 434, AGRO 834, BIOC 834, BIOS 834, CHEM 834; VBMS 410; VBMS 805; VBMS 950
Description: Introduction to techniques used in biochemical and biotechnology research, including measurement of pH, spectroscopy, analysis of enzymes, chromatography, fractionation of macromolecules, electrophoresis, and centrifugation.
Prerequisites: BIOC/BIOS/CHEM 431/831.
Description: Biochemical metabolism unique to plants. Relationships of topics previously acquired in general biochemistry to biochemical processes unique to plants. Biochemical mechanisms behind physiological processes discussed in plant or crop physiology.
Description: Fundamentals of chemical biology with an emphasis on the underlying principles of biomolecular structures, macromolecular-small molecule interactions, including mechanistic aspects of enzymes and cofactors, use of modified enzymes to alter biochemical pathways, and the use of chemical tools for understanding biological processes.
Description: Introduction to techniques of chemical biology including the study of biological macromolecules and their interaction with small molecule ligands and effectors. Explore modern methods for macromolecular isolation, characterization, and for kinetic analysis and modeling.
Description: Introduction to computational chemistry applications including molecular dynamics simulations, density functional theory optimizations, and computational docking of small molecules to protein targets.
CHEM 443 is recommended to be taken parallel.
Description: CHEM 441/841 and the accompanying lab course, CHEM 443/843, constitute a basic course in inorganic chemistry. Structure, bonding, properties, and reactions of inorganic compounds with emphasis on the relationships and trends that are embodied in the periodic table of the elements.
This course is a prerequisite for: CHEM 845
Description: Biosynthetic pathways for bioactive natural products and pathway engineering with an emphasis on those that are medicinally significant, including the biosynthesis of fatty acids, polyketides, phenylpropanoids, terpenoids, steroids, alkaloids, non-ribosomal peptides, and carbohydrates.
Description: Conceptual and mathematical foundations of classical and statistical thermodynamics. Applications of thermodynamics to phase and chemical equilibria. Thermodynamics of solutions of small molecules and of polymers. Biological applications of thermodynamics. Introduction to chemical and biochemical spectroscopy.
Description: CHEM 481/881 and 482/882 with accompanying lab 484/884 form a continuous basic course in physical chemistry for students interested in chemistry as a profession. Introduction to quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics; application to problems in atomic and molecular structure and to spectroscopy.
Prerequisites: CHEM 481/881
Description: Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics and their application to the study of solids, liquids, gases, solutions, phase equilibria, and chemical equilibria. Chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
Prerequisites: Permission
Description: Independent research leading to a thesis.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Independent research leading to a thesis.