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BACHELOR OF SCIENCE - CHEMISTRY

Academic Year:

DEGREE: BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
MAJOR: CHEMISTRY

CURRICULUM

CREDITS

UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS

ENGL 110

Critical Reading and Writing (minimum grade C-)

First Year Experience (FYE)		0-4
CHEM 164	Freshman Majors Seminar	1

University Breadth Requirement (minimum grade C-)		12
Up to 3 credits from each of the University Breadth Requirement categories may be used to simultaneously satisfy the College of Arts and Sciences Breadth Requirements.

Discovery Learning Experience (DLE)

Multi-cultural Course

COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS

Writing: (minimum grade C-)

A second writing course involving significant writing experience including two papers with a combined minimum of 3,000 words to be submitted for extended faculty critique of both composition and content. This course must be taken after completion of 60 credit hours. Appropriate writing courses are normally designated in the semester's Registration Booklet. (See list of courses approved for Second Writing Requirement.)

ENGL 410

highly recommended.

Foreign Language:

0-12

Completion of the intermediate-level course (107 or 112) in a modern foreign language. Number of credits needed and initial placement will depend on number of years of high school study of foreign language. Students with four or more years of high school work in a single modern foreign language may attempt to fulfill the requirement in that language by taking an exemption examination.

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES BREADTH REQUIREMENTS (minimum grade C-)
The College Breadth Requirements are in addition to the University Breadth Requirement. Up to 3 credits from each of the University Breadth Requirement categories may be used to simultaneously satisfy the corresponding College of Arts and Sciences Breadth Requirements.

A total of twenty-one credits from Groups A: Creative Arts and Humanities, Group B: History and Cultural Change, and Group C: Social and Behavioral Sciences is required with a minimum of six credits in each group. Six credits from each group can be from the same area.

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS
Minimum 46 credits total in CHEM:

CHEM 115	Introduction to Chemical Sciences	2
CHEM 111/CHEM 112	General Chemistry	6
CHEM 120	Quantitative Chemistry	3
CHEM 331/CHEM 332	Organic Chemistry	6
CHEM 333/CHEM 334	Organic Chemistry Majors Laboratory I and II	4
CHEM 443/CHEM 445	Physical Chemistry and Laboratory	4
CHEM 437/CHEM 438	Instrumental Methods and Laboratory	4
CHEM 527 or CHEM 641	Introductory Biochemistry or Biochemistry	3

CHEM 444/CHEM 446	Physical Chemistry and Laboratory	4
CHEM 457/CHEM 458	Inorganic Chemistry and Laboratory	4
CHEM 465	Seminar (two semesters, fall and spring)	2
Advanced Chemistry course at 600-level or higher		3
CHEM 468	Undergraduate Research (optional)	3

Related Work:

MATH 241/MATH 242/ MATH 243	Analytic Geometry and Calculus A, B and C	12
PHYS 201/PHYS 202 or PHYS 207/PHYS 208	Introductory Physics I and II or Fundamentals of Physics I and II	8

Strongly Recommended:

MATH 302

Ordinary Differential Equations I

ELECTIVES
After required courses are completed sufficient elective credits must be taken to meet the minimum credit requirement for the degree.

CREDITS TO TOTAL A MINIMUM OF

124

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