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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Chemistry, B.S.


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A minimum of 120 credit hours is required for a Bachelor of Scince in Chemistry. 

Chemistry is the study of the properties and reactions of substances ranging from living cells to subatomic particles. It provides the fundamental knowledge and tools needed to address many of society’s needs and to explore the unknown. In addition to the health professions, graduates are qualified for graduate study and for employment in the chemical, petroleum, plastics, metals and pharmaceutical industries, and in many government laboratories. Students contemplating graduate work in either chemistry or one of its related areas or in the chemical industry should select, in consultation with a chemistry advisor, additional mathematics and science courses consistent with those goals. Students interested in the health professions who major in chemistry should consult with the health professions advisor for information about biology courses needed to complete the admissions requirements.

Core Requirements (46 to 49 credits)


The First Year Symposium (3 credits)


Complete the First Year Symposium

World Language Requirement (3-6 Credits)


Complete either 6 credits at the 101 and 102 level or 3 credits at the 200 level or above

  • Introductory Language (For students beginning at the 101 level)
    • XXXX 101 (3)
    • XXXX 102 (3)
  • Advanced Language (For students who begin at the 201 level or above)
    • XXXX 201/301 (or higher).

Foundations of Philosophy (3 Credits)


Origins of the West (3 Credits)


Philosophy in the Modern Age (3 Credits)


Atlantic Encounters (3 Credits)


Mathematical Thinking (3 Credits)


Foundations of Theology: Faith and Revelation (3 Credits)


America in the World (3 Credits)


Theology: Made in God’s Image (3 Credits)


Modernity in Literature or the Arts (3 Credits)


Choose from among one of the following:

Laboratory Science (3-4 Credits)


Choose one laboratory science course:

Global Encounters (3 Credits)


Choose one Global Encounters course:

  • XXGE Global Encounters
    • Global Encounters courses are offered in many departments, including Business, Communication, English, Education, Foreign Language, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Theology.

Ethics and the Human Good (3 Credits)


Complete one of the following:

Ethical Leaders (0 Credits)


The Ethical Leadership Experiential Learning Core Requirement invites students to integrate their own personal call to leadership with a mature reflection on one or more of the core virtues of Justice, Courage, Integrity, and Humility.  Students will accomplish this by engaging in and reflecting upon the practice of virtue ethics within the context of one or more experiential learning activities.

Note


CHEM 451 (Senior Undergraduate Research) may be used to satisfy CHEM 410. Successful completion of the honors research experience (HP 470 & HP 471, 4 credits) may be used to satisfy the CHEM 410 requirement. 

Sample Four Year Sequence


Freshman Year

Fall Semester

FSYM 101 The First Year Symposium (3)  

World Languages I (3)

CHEM 101 General Chemistry I (4)  

MATH 247 Calculus I (4)  

14 credits 

Spring Semester

Foundations in Social Science (3)

World Languages II (3)

CHEM 102 General Chemistry II (4)  

MATH 248 Calculus II (4)  

14 credits 

 

Sophomore Year

Fall Semester 

Elective (3)

MATH 211 Mathematical Thinking (3)  

CHEM 201 Organic Chemistry I (4)  

PHYS 201 General Physics I (4)  

14 credits 

Spring Semester

WCIV 102 Origins of the West (3)  

PHIL 103 Foundations of Philosophy (3)  

Elective (3)

CHEM 202 Organic Chemistry II (4)  

PHYS 202 General Physics II (4)  

17 credits 

 

Junior Year

Fall Semester

WCIV 201 Atlantic Encounters: 1450-1850 (3)  

Elective (3)

CHEM 210 Analytical Chemistry (4)  (offered every fall)

CHEM 303 Physical Chemistry I (5)  

15 credits 

Spring Semester

THEOL 220 Foundations of Theology (3)  

AMER 202 America in the World (3)  

Elective (3)

CHEM 304 Physical Chemistry II (3)  

Elective (3)

15 credits 

 

Senior Year

Fall Semester

THEOL 320 Made In God’s Image (3)  

XXMO 300 Modernity in Lit. or Art (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (3)

Elective (4)

16 credits 

Spring Semester

THEOL/PHIL 300 Ethics and The Human Good (3)

XXGE 3XX Global Encounters (3)

Elective (3)

CHEM 404 Instrumental Analysis (4)  * OR CHEM 420 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (4)  **

CHEM 410 Seminar (1)  

14 credits 

 

 

*CHEM 404 Instrumental Analysis (4)  is offered spring/even years

**CHEM 420 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (4)  is offered spring/odd years

  • Students testing into a World Language at the 201 level or higher will take only one semester of a language.

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