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for California State University, Fresno.
Department of Chemistry
COURSES
Chemistry (CHEM)
1A. General Chemistry (5)
CHEM 1A not open to students with credit in CHEM 1B. Students
with credit in CHEM 3A receive only 1 unit of credit. Prerequisites:
high school chemistry or CHEM 15R, and General Education area
requirement (may be taken concurrently). Fundamental principles
of chemistry, including the wave mechanical model of the atom,
chemical bonding and structure, valence bond, VSEPR and molecular
orbital theory; stoichiometry, thermochemistry, oxidation-reductions,
and states of matter. G.E. Breadth B1. (3 lecture, 6 lab hours)*
(CAN CHEM 2)
1B. General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis (5)
Prerequisite: CHEM 1A or CHEM 4 with a grade of C or better.
Acid-base theory; chemical kinetics; equilibrium (acid-base, hydrolysis,
and solubility); thermodynamics, electrochemistry; selected topics
in nuclear chemistry, coordination chemistry, and/or chemistry
of selected groups. (3 lecture, 6 lab hours)*
(CAN CHEM 4)
3A. Introductory General Chemistry (4)
No credit for CHEM 3A after 1A. High school chemistry or CHEM
15R recommended. Prerequisite: completion of the General Education
B4 area requirement. For applied science and nonscience majors.
Composition of matter and physical and chemical changes; fundamental
laws and principles; atomic and molecular structure; acid-base
theory, redox and equilibria; qualitative and quantitative theory
and techniques. G.E. Breadth B1. (3 lecture, 3 lab hours)*
3B. Introductory Organic and Biochemistry (3)
No credit for CHEM 3B to students with credit in 1B. Primarily
for students in health-oriented professions; not a substitute
for CHEM 8. Prerequisite: CHEM 3A. Introduction to the basic concepts
of organic and biochemistry. Structure and behavior of organic
and biological compounds, metabolism, and regulation.
4. Introduction to Chemical Theory (3)
No credit for CHEM 4 after CHEM 1A. Not recommended for the
health-oriented professions. Prerequisite: CHEM 3A. Beginning
and intermediate development of the concepts of chemistry, including
the laws and principles of atomic and molecular structure, stoichiometry,
nomenclature, ionic equilibria, and energy relationships. CHEM
3A and 4 are equivalent to CHEM 1A. (Spring semester)
8. Elementary Organic Chemistry (3)
Not open to chemistry majors. Recommended for students requiring
a one- semester course in the field. Prerequisite: CHEM 1A or
3A. Lectures, discussions, and demonstrations of fundamental principles;
structure and chemical behavior of organic compounds.
10. Chemistry and Society (4)
Not open to students with credit in college chemistry; for nonscience
majors. Prerequisite: completion of the General Education B4 area
requirement. The significance of chemical principles in contemporary
society; benefits and hazards relative to areas such as energy,
health, diet, environment, and agriculture. G.E. Breadth B1. (3
lecture, 2 lab hours)* (Formerly
CHEM 1)
15R. Preparation for Chemistry (2)
Prerequisite: one year of high school algebra. Recommended for
students without high school chemistry who are interested in taking
additional chemistry or science courses. Basic principles and
concepts of chemistry with an emphasis on problem solving. Preparation
for CHEM 1A and CHEM 3A. CR/NC grading only. Not applicable to
baccalaureate degree requirements. (Formerly CHEM AR)
102. Analytical Chemistry (5)
For chemistry majors; recommended for other science majors. Prerequisites:
CHEM 1B (with a grade of C or better) and128A. Students with credit
in a similar lower-division quantitative analysis course will
receive only one additional unit of credit. Introduction to principles
and methods of analytical chemistry. (3 lecture, 6 lab hours)*
105. Quantitative Analysis Laboratory (4)
Not open to chemistry majors. Prerequisites: CHEM 1A or 3A. Laboratory
study of principles and methods of applied quantitative analysis.
(2 lecture, 6 lab hours)*
106. Analytical Measurements Laboratory (4)
Prerequisites: CHEM 102 (with a grade of C or better),
CHEM 110A and PHYS 4C, or permission of instructor. Principles
and methods of analytical measurements of organic and inorganic
substances by instrumental and non-instrumental techniques. (2
lecture, 6 lab hours) (Fall semester)*
108. Introductory Physical Chemistry (4)
Prerequisites: MATH 76 (MATH 77 strongly recommended), CHEM 8
or 128A and PHYS 2A, 2B (PHYS 4A, 4AL, 4B, 4BL, and 4C strongly
recommended). Basic treatment of gas laws, thermodynamics, phase
equilibria, properties of solutions, kinetics, and spectroscopy.
(Fall semester)
109. Elementary Organic Chemistry Laboratory (3)
Not open to chemistry majors. Prerequisite: CHEM 8 or 128B or
concurrently. Laboratory study of the carbon compounds with coordinating
lectures. (1 lecture, 6 lab hours)*
(Spring semester)
110A-B. Physical Chemistry (3-3)
Prerequisites: MATH 77; CHEM 1B, 8 or 128A; CHEM 110A requires
PHYS 4B; CHEM 110B requires PHYS 4C or permission of instructor.
Mathematical treatment of the laws of thermodynamics, reaction
kinetics, elementary statistical and quantum mechanics, properties
of solutions, kinetic theory of gases, crystal structure, molecular
structure, and nuclear chemistry. (CHEM 110A fall semester; CHEM
110B spring semester)
111. Physical Chemistry Laboratory (3)
Prerequisite: CHEM 110B or concurrently, CHEM 102. May not be
taken concurrently with 106. Techniques of physical measurements,
error analysis and statistics; ultra- violet, infrared, and nuclear
magnetic resonance spectroscopy; dipole moments, viscosity, calorimetry,
kinetics, phase diagrams, thermodynamic measurements, and report
writing. (1 lecture, 6 lab hours) (Spring semester)*
123. Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (3)
Prerequisites: CHEM 1B, 102 and 110A (or concurrently). Treatment
of ionic and covalent bonding, atomic structure, molecular structure,
and reaction mechanisms. Introduction to visible and infrared
spectroscopy of transition metal complexes, special topics. (Fall
semester)
124. Synthesis and Characterization (2)
Prerequisite: CHEM 123 or concurrently. Techniques of preparation
to include high temperature reactions, vacuum line and glove box
preps, nonaqueous syntheses, solid state reactions. Emphasis on
structural characterizations using instrumental methods. (6 lab
hours) (Spring semester)*
125. Laboratory Instrumentation (3)
Not open to chemistry majors. Prerequisites: CHEM 8 or 128A and
CHEM 105. Basic electricity /electronics, light and optical systems
as they apply to the design, use and limitations of instrumentation
typical to the analytical and bioscience laboratory. (1 lecture,
6 lab hours)*
127. Organic Problems (1)
Prerequisites: CHEM 8 or 128A; 128B concurrently. Designed to
review organic chemistry, in particular for those students who
have taken only a brief course in organic chemistry. CR/NC grading
only; not applicable to the requirements of a major in chemistry.
128A-B. Organic Chemistry (3-3)
For chemistry majors; recommended for premedical students and
other science majors. CHEM 128A not open for credit to students
with credit in CHEM 8. Prerequisites: CHEM 1B or CHEM 4 with a
grade of C or better; for CHEM 128B: CHEM 128A with a grade of
C or better. Introduction to structure and reactivity
of principal classes of organic compounds with emphasis on theory
and mechanism.
129A-B. Organic Chemistry Laboratory (2-2)
Prerequisites or corequisites: CHEM 128A (for 129A); 128B and
129A (for 129B). Laboratory study of the methods, techniques,
syntheses, and instrumentation or representative classes of organic
compounds; introduction to research techniques by way of independent
projects; introduction to qualitative organic analysis. (6 lab
hours)*
130. Organic Analysis (3)
Prerequisites: CHEM 102, 128B, 129B. Characterization of organic
compounds through study of chemical and physical properties; application
of spectroscopy, chromatography and functional group analysis
to elucidation of structure. (1 lecture, 6 lab hours)*
139. Chemistry and the Consumer (3)
Prerequisite: CHEM 3B, 8, or 128A. The impact of chemistry on
society and individual lives. Topics selected from: foods as chemicals,
food additives, drugs and medication, petrochemistry and the source
of chemicals, pesticides and agricultural chemicals, chemical
ethics, and current topics of interest.
140T. Topics in Chemistry
(1-4; max total 6 if no area repeated)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Seminar covering special
topics in one of the areas of chemistry: analytical, biochemistry,
inorganic, organic, physical. Some topics may have a laboratory.
142. Introduction to Biotechnology (3)
Prerequisite: CHEM 150 or permission of instructor. Emphasizes
the principles and industrial utilization of recombinant DNA,
monoclonal antibodies, enzyme and cell immobilization, fermentation
technology, and downstream processing.
150. General Biochemistry (3)
Prerequisite: CHEM 8. (CHEM 150 and 153 together constitute a
year sequence.) Chemistry and metabolism of basic cellular constituents
including carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
151. General Biochemistry Laboratory (2)
Prerequisites: CHEM 8, 105, 109, 150 (or concurrently). Chemical
and physical properties of naturally occurring compounds; introduction
to techniques of chromatography, polarimetry, electrophoresis,
photometry, and enzymology. (6 lab hours)*
153. Physiological Chemistry and Metabolism (3)
Prerequisite: CHEM 150 or 155. Continuation of CHEM 150 or 155.
Intensive discussion of the degradation and biosynthesis of major
cellular constituents; energy metabolism; control of metabolic
processes and pathological implications in mammalian systems.
(Spring semester)
155. Fundamentals of Biochemistry (3)
Primarily for chemistry majors; recommended for premedical students
and graduate students in the sciences. Prerequisites: CHEM 102
or 105, 109 or 129A, 128B. (CHEM 155 and 153 together constitute
a year sequence.) Structure, function, and metabolism of chemical
entities in living systems. (Fall semester)
156. Biochemical Laboratory Techniques (3)
Prerequisites: senior standing or permission of instructor; CHEM
150 or 155 (or concurrently), 102 or 105, 109 or 129A. Provides
the student with a range of techniques and methodology appropriate
to the study or phenomena at the biochemical, cellular, and organismic
levels. Satisfies the senior major requirement for the B.A. in
Chemistry. (1 lecture, 6 lab hours) (Spring semester)*
160. Research Techniques (3)
Concepts in the design of experiments. Development of practical
research skills through the planning and undertaking of a short
laboratory project. Satisfies the senior major requirement for
the B.S. in Chemistry. (1 lecture, 6 lab hours)*
170. Chemistry in the Marketplace (3)
Not open to chemistry majors. Prerequisites: completion of General
Education Quantitative Reasoning and Area B2 Breadth requirements,
completion of CHEM 10 or 3A or 1A. The impact of chemistry and
chemicals on society and individual lives. G.E. Integration IB.
(3 lecture hours)
171. Fireworks, Gemstones, and Dyes: The Science of Color (3)
Primarily for non-science majors. Prerequisites: completion of
General Education Quantitative Reasoning and Area B Breadth requirements.
The chemistry and physics behind the color of objects and color
perception, and the interaction of light with matter. G.E. Integration
IB. (2 lecture, 3 lab hours)
190. Independent Study (1-3; max total 6)
Prerequisite: CHEM 160 or permission of instructor. See Academic
Placement -- Independent
Study. Approved for SP grading.
GRADUATE COURSES
(See Course Numbering System.)
Chemistry (CHEM)
201. Chemistry Laboratory Teaching Techniques (1)
Laboratory safety, lab lecture techniques, equipment setups, grading,
etc. Primarily for teaching assistants in chemistry.
207. Radiotracer Methodology in the Natural Sciences (3)
(Same as BIOL 207 and PHYS 207.) See BIOL 207 for course description.
211. Chemical Thermodynamics (3)
Prerequisites: CHEM 110A, 110B, 111. Principles of thermodynamics;
application to chemical problems; introduction to statistical
methods, calculation of thermody namic functions from spectroscopic
data.
212. Chemical Applications of Group Theory (1-2; max total
2)
Prerequisites: CHEM 110A, 110B. Introduction to symmetry operations,
point groups and their properties. Application of group theory
to chemical problems such as; selection rules for electronic,
IR, Raman and microwave activity, molecular orbital theory, transition
metal complexes, hybridization, and other chemical topics.
215. Quantum Chemistry (3)
Prerequisite: graduate standing. Seminar on recent advances in
quantum mechanics; chemical bonding, and atomic and molecular
spectroscopy.
220. Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry (3)
Prerequisites: CHEM 110A, 110B. Seminar on theoretical inorganic
chemistry emphasizing structure and bonding of inorganic and coordination
compounds, valence bond, molecular orbital and ligand field theories;
correlation of structure and reactivity.
222. Advances in Inorganic Chemistry (3)
Prerequisites: CHEM 110A, 110B, 128B. Seminar on recent advances
in inorganic chemistry. Topics may include, but are not limited
to, organometallic chemistry, solid-state chemistry, nonmetallic
complexes, and the chemistry of rare-earth compounds.
225. Separation Methods in Chemistry (1-3)
Prerequisites: CHEM 106 and 129B. Seminar on the theory, application,
and literature of various separation methods for organic and inorganic
analysis. May include laboratory.
226. Electrochemistry (1-3)
Prerequisite: CHEM 106. Seminar on the theory, application, recent
developments, and literature of electrochemistry and electrochemical
methods of organic and inorganic analysis. May include laboratory.
227. Analytical Spectroscopy (1-3)
Prerequisites: CHEM 106, 110A, 110B, or permission of instructor.
Theory, instrumentation, and application. Recent developments
and literature of spectroscopic techniques. May include laboratory.
230. Advanced Organic Chemistry (3)
Prerequisites: CHEM 128B, 129B. Seminar on recent advances in
organic chemistry including reaction mechanisms and synthetic
applications with references to current literature.
235. Physical Organic Chemistry (3)
Prerequisites: CHEM 110A, 110B, 128B. Seminar in application of
modern theoretical concepts to the chemical and physical properties
of organic compounds.
240T. Topics in Advanced Chemistry (1-3)
Seminar covering special topics in one of the areas of chemistry:
analytical, biochemistry, inorganic, organic, physical. Some topics
may have a laboratory.
241A-B. Molecular Biology I-II (3-3)
(Same as BIOL 241A-B.) Prerequisites: BIOSC 140A-B, CHEM 150 or
155, or permission of instructor. BIOL/CHEM 241A is prerequisite
for BIOL/CHEM 241B. Current topics in molecular biology are addressed,
including protein and nucleic acid structure, DNA replication,
transcription, translation, prokaryotic and eukaryotic regulation,
mechanisms of exchange of genetic material, and recombinant DNA
technology.
242. Techniques in Protein Purification and Analysis (3)
(See BIOL 242.)
243. Nucleic Acid Technology
Lab (3)
(Same as BIOL 243.) Prerequisites: BIOL/CHEM 241A and 242.
Corequisite: BIOL/CHEM 241B. A lecture/laboratory course focusing
on the technologies used in nucleic acid chemistry; specifically,
synthesis, translation, mutagenesis, and genetic engineering.
(1 lecture, 6 lab hours)
244. Cell Culture and Hybridoma (3)
(See BIOL 244.)
248. Seminar in Molecular Biology
and Biotechnology (1-2; max total 4)
(Same as BIOL 248.) Prerequisite: admission into the Biotechnology
Certificate Program. Reviews and reports on current literature
in various aspects of biotechnology and molecular biology.
250T. Topics in Advanced Biochemistry (1-4)
Prerequisite: CHEM 150 or 155. Seminar covering special advanced
topics in biochemistry such as the structure and function of enzymes,
metabolic regulation, nucleic acid, biochemistry, and analytical
biochemistry.
260. Advanced Research Techniques (3)
Prerequisites: classified standing, permission of instructor.
Advanced concepts in the design of experiments. Development of
practical research skills through the planning and undertaking
of a short laboratory project. (1 lecture, 6 lab hours)
280. Seminar in Chemistry (1; max total 3)
Approved for SP grading.
290. Independent Study (1-3; max total 6)
See Academic Placement -- Independent
Study. Approved for SP grading.
295. Research (2)
Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Independent investigations
of an advanced character for the graduate student with adequate
preparation. Approved for SP grading. (May include conferences,
laboratory, library.)
299. Thesis (4)
Prerequisite: See Criteria
for Thesis and Project. Preparation, completion, and submission
of an acceptable thesis for the master's degree. Approved for
SP grading.
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* In all lab courses, the wearing of approved safety glasses is
mandatary.
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