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2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

Chemistry, Biological Chemistry Emphasis, B.S. Four-Year Course Plan


All General Education course options can be found here.  

First Year

Fall Spring
CHEM 002: General Chemistry I   CHEM 010: General Chemistry II  
SPRK 001: Spark Seminar  or SPRK 010: Spark Seminar   WRI 010: College Reading and Composition  
MATH 021: Calculus I for Physical Sciences and Engineering   MATH 022: Calculus II for Physical Sciences and Engineering  
Major Computer Science Requirement PHYS 008: Introductory Physics I for Physical Sciences  and PHYS 008L  

Second Year

Fall Spring
CHEM 008: Principles of Organic Chemistry  and CHEM 008L   CHEM 100: Organic Synthesis and Mechanism  
General Education: AREA B MATH 024: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations  
MATH 023: Vector Calculus   BIO 011: Introduction to Molecular Biology  and BIO 011L  
PHYS 009: Introductory Physics II for Physical Sciences  and  PHYS 009L    

Third Year

Fall Spring
CHEM 101L: Advanced Synthetic Laboratory   CHEM 113: Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics  
CHEM 112: Quantum Chemistry and Spectroscopy   MATH 032: Probability and Statistics  
CHEM 111: Biochemistry I  or BIO 101   CHEM 153: Physical Chemistry Laboratory  
General Education: AREA B BIO 012: Introduction to Organismal Biology  and BIO 012L  

Fourth Year

Fall Spring
Major Upper Division In-Depth Emphasis Elective CHEM 150: Inorganic and Materials Chemistry Laboratory  
CHEM 115: Instrumental Analysis and Bioanalytical Chemistry   CHEM 194: Ethics and Communication in Chemistry  
General Education: AREA B Major Upper Division BIO Elective
CHEM 120: Inorganic Chemistry   CHEM 122: Advanced Biochemistry and Molecular Biology  or BIO 102  
CHEM 155: Instrumental Analysis Laboratory   Free Elective