CHEM 090 Chemistry for Non-Science majors
Introduction to the fundamental concepts of chemistry such as atomic structure, classification of compounds and chemical bonding. The student will acquire the basic knowledge upon which to build an understanding and appreciation of chemistry and its relationship to our world and life processes.
CHEM 091 Survey of Physical Science
Surveys the exciting world of science and explains the basic scientific laws and models by which the physical universe may be understood. Stresses historical aspects and the impact of physical science on modern society. Draws topics from the fields of physics, chemistry, geology, meteorology and astronomy. Uses lectures, dramatizations, audio-visual presentations, and demonstrations.
CHEM 092 Survey of Environmental Sciences for Non-Science Majors
To understand current environmental problems, we need to consider physical, biological and chemical processes that are often the basis of those problems. This course will give you the skills necessary to address the environmental issues we are facing today by examining scientific principles and the application of those principles to natural systems. This course will survey some of the many environmental science topics at an introductory level, ultimately considering the sustainability of human activities on the planet.
CHEM 101 General Chemistry I
CHEM 101 is the first of a two-semester General Chemistry lecture sequence, designed for all science students interested in chemistry-related fields. The course studies fundamental laws and theories of chemistry and begins with consideration of chemical fundamentals such as atomic theory, mole, stoichiometry, and types of chemical reactions. Modern view of atom is considered next followed by concepts in chemical bonding starting with localized bond theory and its use for prediction of molecular and electronic geometry of simple compounds. The course covers basics of chemical kinetics with examples from enzyme kinetics to demonstrate a universal applicability of chemical laws. Thermochemistry, chemical thermodynamics and phase equilibria are also considered to establish a foundation for higher level chemistry and biology courses.
CHEM 101L General Chemistry I Lab
This lab course is designed to introduce students with basic techniques in analytical, inorganic, organic and physical chemistry. In particular, this lab course serves to provide practical hands-on experience of acid-base titration concepts, chemical equilibrium, electrochemistry, kinetics, an introduction to organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry. Applied experimental techniques are also covered, such as determination of calcium and chloride ions etc.
CHEM 102 General Chemistry II
This course focuses on chemical equilibrium and kinetics, with emphasis placed on their application to ‘real-world problems’. The chemistry of transition metals, and their complexes, will be discussed in the context of crystal field and molecular orbital theory. In addition, the course will cover basic topics in organic chemistry including: stereochemistry, structural isomerization, functional groups, and simple reaction mechanisms.
CHEM 189 Independent Study
This an optional course which provides an opportunity for a student to gain practical hands-on work experience in a related field of interest. The student works directly with a professor on a research project.
CHEM 211 Organic Chemistry I
The course covers the basic principles that govern organic reactions with in-depth discussion on the nature of chemical structure and bonding, acid-base chemistry and resonance followed by the introduction into the chemistry and reactivity of alkanes, alkyl halides, alkenes, alkynes, alcohols and ethers. This course approaches the subject from a mechanistic and physical perspective rather than from a simple qualitative viewpoint. It is designed to prepare science majors for upper-division courses in their major field.
CHEM 211L Organic Chemistry I Lab
Lab practical that accompanies CHEM211 course. Experiments are selected in a way that they will provide practical application of principles of organic chemistry. Students will learn new analytical techniques and will be introduced to equipment that aid in structure elucidation.
CHEM 212 Organic Chemistry II
This course builds upon the principles taught in CHEM 211. Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to plan multi-step syntheses of simple organic compounds. The chemistry of aromatic compounds, carbonyl compounds, carboxylic acids and their derivatives, alpha carbon chemistry, amines are considered. A number of modern spectroscopic techniques for structure elucidation of common organic compounds such as NMR, Mass Spectrometry and IR spectroscopy will be also introduced.
CHEM 212L Organic Chemistry II Lab
The course provides the fundamental information of organic chemicals by obtaining, identifying and transforming them. Experiments will focus primarily on utilization of techniques acquired in the first part of this course in preparation for more extensive multi-part syntheses. It is designed to prepare science majors and pre-professional students for upper-division courses in the major field.
CHEM 220 Quantitative Chemical Analysis
The course introduces students to the basic principles of analytical chemistry. The emphasis is on classical analytical methods that measure volume and weight, or so called “wet-chemistry methods”. Classical methods include the “wet-chemistry methods”. These methods represent the early forms of quantitative analysis and are still used in many labs throughout the country. However, some instrumental techniques as well as basics of statistics and analytical quality assurance are also introduced.
CHEM 220 Quantitative Chemical Analysis
The course introduces students to the basic principles of analytical chemistry. The emphasis is on classical analytical methods that measure volume and weight, or so called “wet-chemistry methods”. Classical methods include the “wet-chemistry methods”. These methods represent the early forms of quantitative analysis and are still used in many labs throughout the country. However, some instrumental techniques as well as basics of statistics and analytical quality assurance are also introduced.
CHEM 220L Quantitative Chemical Analysis Lab
Lab practical that accompanies CHEM220. Experiments selected for this course give students hands on experience in methods covered in lectures and therefore they not only teach students a skillset for working in an analytical lab, but also they should enhance the understanding of those basic methods and concepts of analytical chemistry, which are covered in this course. The eight experiments selected for this course represent major classical analytical methods including gravimetric analysis, acid-base, complexometric and potentiometric titrations plus quantitative spectrophotometry and a dry lab introducing student to Excel (spreadsheets) for quantitative and statistical analysis.
CHEM 250 Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry
Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry course serves as a cursory overview of the basic concepts involved in inorganic chemistry, including symmetry in nature and point group theory, atomic packaging, and solid-state chemistry. The main groups of chemical elements and their compounds also covered in the framework of the course that will prepare the students for upper-level courses.
CHEM 320 Instrumental Analysis
Analytical methods are often divided into two classifications: classical and instrumental. Along with technological progress, many of these classical methods or “wet-chemistry methods” are being replaced by more rapid and sensitive instrumental methods. Today’s analytical chemist is rather a problem solver who uses cutting edge scientific technology pulled from a variety of fields. The major objective is qualitative and quantitative analysis of complex systems in order to understand a chemical composition of a given sample. This class, surveying the theory and practice of modern analytical instrumentation, uncovers a toolkit necessary to achieve this objective. Some topics covered will include ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, gas and liquid chromatographic techniques, atomic absorption spectroscopy, electrochemical methods of analysis.
CHEM 320L Instrumental Analysis Lab
The lab course goes hand in hand with lecture material taught in Instrumental analysis. It is designed to enhance understanding of the lectures content and familiarize students with practical application of several diverse analytical instruments. Labs include practicums on thermogravimetric analysis, UV-vis spectrophotometry, fluorescence and Raman and particularly Surface Enhanced Raman spectroscopy/microscopy as well as High Performance Liquid Chromatography.
CHEM 331 Physical Chemistry I
This course provides a fundamental interpretation of the physical principles in quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and thermodynamics including chemical equilibrium, along with their correlations. The postulates in quantum mechanics and the basic methodology to solve the quantum mechanical models will be introduced. Partition functions and their correlations with the quantum mechanics and thermodynamics will be discussed. Thermodynamic laws and their application in various systems will be taught in detail.
CHEM 331L Physical Chemistry I Lab
This course provides a platform by which students can use experimental techniques in order to understand quantum mechanical postulates, quantum mechanical models, and their applications. Throughout the course, students will be able to develop their experimental skills, notably in thermochemistry, where, for example, they will measure the thermodynamic properties of various chemical reactions. This course will also involve the student performing quantum chemical calculations in order to deepen their understanding of the observations in the experiments.
CHEM 332 Physical Chemistry II
More advanced theory and application of quantum mechanics will be introduced along with a few fundamental quantum mechanical models such as “particle on sphere” and “particle on a ring’. The molecular spectroscopy was instructed with abundant and firm support from theoretical perspectives such as angular momentum operator, symmetry and point group. The molecular spectroscopy will be investigated at various energy range from microwave to x-ray. The second half of this course will cover the fundamentals in chemical kinetics including the analysis of reaction mechanism using differential/differential rate law. Hard sphere collision as well as the transition state theory will be discussed in depth.
CHEM 332L Physical Chemistry II Lab
This course provides a platform by which students can use experimental techniques in order to understand Molecular spectroscopy, molecular structure and point group, and their applications. Throughout the course, students will be able to develop their experimental skills, notably in molecular spectroscopy in different energy range, where, for example, they will measure the vibrionic, rovibrational, and vibrational spectra of different species using UV-Visible, FT-IR, and Raman spectrometer. This course will also involve the student performing chemical kinetic related experiments.
CHEM 341 Biochemistry I
The course focuses on the structure and function of nucleic acids, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and some metabolites. The structure and function of proteins is given a special consideration with the emphasis on quantitative relationships underlying enzyme kinetics. The course also covers DNA-based information technologies and most basic aspects of chemistry of carbohydrates, proteins and nucleic acids. The theory behind most popular methods in biochemistry such as protein and DNA sequencing, centrifugation and liquid chromatography will also be considered.
CHEM 341L Biochemistry I Lab
CHEM 341L complements Biochemistry I course (CHEM 341). This course aims at familiarizing the students with most popular and widely applicable methods used in modern biochemistry. These methods include (but are not limited to): purification of nucleic acids, enzymatic modifications of DNA, PCR, molecular cloning, expression and purification of proteins and enzymatic assays. In addition to learning fundamental laboratory methods such as electrophoresis, students will be expected to clone, express, purify and characterize mammalian proteins and in so doing relate their observations to the theory taught in CHEM341.
CHEM 350 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
This course is the second course in a sequence if Inorganic Chemistry courses and follows CHEM 250. This course will discuss chemistry of d-, f- and selected p-block elements with in-depth analysis of bonding theories in coordination compounds, organometallic reactions and properties of main group element and transition metal compounds. Some advanced inorganic topics related to catalysis inorganic solid state chemistry and materials science will be covered.
CHEM 350L Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Lab
This course complements CHEM 350 and affords students the opportunity to apply what they have learnt in CHEM 350 in a laboratory setting. Students will be required to use multiple experimental techniques, some of which were introduced in CHEM 212L, in executing a number of advanced experiments covering transition metal and main group element chemistry, coordination compounds, catalysis and materials chemistry.
CHEM 380 Research Methods
Introduction to various techniques used by scientists to acquire and evaluate data. Extensive use of Reaxys, SciFinder Scholar and other scientific databases as well as specialized chemistry software, such as ChemDraw and others, will be required. Students will acquire research paper writing. Ethics in research will also be discussed.
CHEM 400 Chemistry Seminar
The purpose of the Chemistry Seminar is to engage students in recent research in chemistry to develop skills in the oral, poster, and written presentation of scientific research to develop skills in scientific literature retrieval. Students who successfully complete this course will understand the principles of oral communication in science including accepted presentation techniques, listening skills, critical analysis of scientific presentation, participation in scientific discussions, and introduction of speakers.
CHEM 410 Structural Spectroscopy
This course provides an in-depth understanding of the most common spectroscopic methods used in structure elucidation as applied to organic chemistry: UV-Vis, Infrared, Mass Spectrometry, Proton NMR, C-13 NMR, and two-dimensional NMR methods. The application of these methods to structure elucidation of organic compounds is discussed with examples from chemical synthesis problems.
CHEM 411 Advanced Organic Chemistry I
This course is built upon the principles taught in CHEM211 and CHEM212. An in-depth study into structure and mechanism is the primary focus. A mechanistic study of prevailing organic reactions via structural and electronic effects gives a unifying picture to the complexity of reactions, and a strong mechanistic understanding provides a great degree of rationalization as the subject matter increases.
CHEM 431 Computational Chemistry
The students will learn a variety of commonly used techniques such as geometry optimization, location of transition states, conformational analysis, and prediction of molecular and spectroscopic properties. They will learn basics of implementing key algorithms and familiarize with different computational software packages for quantum chemical calculations.
CHEM 432 Introduction to Cheminformatics and Computer aided drug design
This course aims to teach the use of computational techniques for data storage and analysis. Methods for processing and extracting useful information from multivariate data sets for both exploratory analysis and supervised learning will be introduced. Pattern recognition and clustering algorithms also underpin rational approaches to structure-based drug design and techniques used to describe and compare the properties of molecules will be covered.
CHEM 433 Surfactants & Colloids
The definition and classification of surfactant types will be discussed. The formation of micelles, measurement of the critical micelle concentrations and the Krafft temperature as well as the thermodynamics of micellization and the different types of lyotropic liquid crystalline phases will be covered. The principles of colloidal science, types of colloids, thin liquid films, various types of surface forces, their origin and measurement techniques, wetting and spreading phenomena, contact angle and spreading coefficient, hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces will be discussed. Dispersion and condensation techniques for preparation of colloids, characterization of the particle surface charge and size distribution, electrokinetic mobility and zeta-potential will be covered. Suspensions, emulsions and foams, Brownian motion, sedimentation velocity, dispersion destabilization mechanisms, Ostwald ripening, coalescence, flocculation and creaming, Bancroft rule for preferred type of emulsions and HLB will also be discussed. Applications of foams, emulsions and suspensions in consumer products will be discussed.
CHEM 442 Biochemistry II
This course is designed for undergraduate chemistry students who seek a deeper understanding of the chemical reactions that take place in living organisms. Although enzymes are involved in all biochemical reactions, the focus will remain on the reactivity of the substrate molecules and on the mechanistic details of individual reactions. The goal of the course is to familiarize students with major biochemical pathways by demonstrating that reactions taking place in the cell follow the same rules of chemical reactivity and occur by the same reactions mechanisms as reactions that take place in organic chemistry. Metabolic pathways of amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids and nucleotides will be considered in detail along with pathways leading to synthesis of major classes of natural products such as polyketides and non-ribosomal peptides.
CHEM 451 Applied Homogenous Catalysis
This is an elective course focused on industrial catalytic transformations relevant to petrochemical industry and industrial synthesis of fine and commodity chemicals. We will discuss application of organometallic and transition metal homogeneous catalysts, their properties together with advantages and/or disadvantages of such catalysts over trivial heterogeneous systems. In-depth analysis of mechanisms of catalytic reactions, catalyst separation methods and challenges in applying homogeneous systems in industrial setting will be discussed.
CHEM 471 Environmental Chemistry
In this course students will use the fundamental principles of chemistry to gain an understanding of the source, fate, and reactivity of compounds in natural and polluted environments. Environmental issues that will be discussed include climate change, air pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, pollution and treatment of water sources, and the utilization of insecticides and herbicides.
CHEM 488 Directed Research I
This course is the first course to satisfy the students’ research requirements and is taken after CHEM 380 – Research Methods. Directed Research I is designed to provide hands on research experience to students and to develop skills that are required to plan and conduct experiments in chemistry. The students are required to select a supervisor among Chemistry faculty to work on fundamental problems in chemistry and prepare a research plan that involves survey of literature, description of research problem, experimental approaches and expected results. An essential part of CHEM 488 is supervised work in chemical laboratory that involves conducting experiments, performing calculations, analyzing results and writing reports.
CHEM 489 Directed Research II
This course is the second course to satisfy the students research requirements and is taken after CHEM 488 – Directed Research I. This course enables students to conduct hands on thesis research under faculty supervision. Monitored by the chemistry undergraduate curriculum committee students will make necessary efforts to complete the project started during CHEM 488 – Directed Research I in accordance with the research plan approved by the chemistry undergraduate curriculum committee. The course aims at providing opportunities to the student to finish the project, summarize the results and participate in preparation of research manuscripts.
CHEM 490 Nanochemistry
CHEM 490 course mainly focuses on the description of nanomaterials synthesis, functionalization/modification, and applications, as compared to single molecules and bulk materials. Students will be offered a comprehensive overview of 1) The nano-world (general definition, philosophy), 2) Physico-chemical considerations (band structures, quantum confinement effects), 3) Wet-chemical approaches for nanostructured materials synthesis, 4) Carbon-based nanomaterials, 5) Microporous and mesoporous nanostructured materials, 6) Nanocomposites, 7) Overview of Nanosafety.

Industry:
· Pharmaceuticals: Develop new drugs and medicines to improve healthcare.
· Chemical Manufacturing: Contribute to the production of chemicals used in various industries.
· Materials Science: Work on designing and improving materials for technology, construction, and more.
· Environmental Chemistry: Tackle environmental issues by studying the impact of chemicals on ecosystems.
Healthcare:
· Medicinal Chemistry: Contribute to the design and synthesis of pharmaceuticals.
· Clinical Chemistry: Work in laboratories to analyze patient samples for diagnostic purposes.
Academia:
· Teaching and Research: Educate the next generation of scientists and contribute to the advancement of knowledge through research. Pursuing a career in academia often involves obtaining advanced degrees, such as a master's or a Ph.D., and publishing research in scientific journals.
d. Government and Regulatory Agencies:
· Chemical Safety: Ensure the safe use and handling of chemicals in various industries.
· Environmental Protection: Contribute to policies and regulations aimed at preserving the environment.
· Forensic Science: Apply chemical analysis in solving crimes and legal investigations.
Entrepreneurship:
· Startups: Create your own company, focusing on areas like sustainable chemistry, innovative materials, or specialized analytical services.
· Consulting: Offer expertise to businesses and industries seeking advice on chemical processes, safety, and compliance.

For non-Chemistry major students intending to declare a minor in Chemistry are required to complete the following minor-required courses worth 48 ECTS:

• General Chemistry I and II
• Organic Chemistry I and II
• Quantitative Chemical Analysis
• Descriptive Inorganic Chemistry
• Physical Chemistry I or Biochemistry I