Accelerated General Chemistry

Catalog description

This course is a single-semester accelerated and advanced course for first-year students intending to major in Chemistry or in general in the sciences or engineering. Students enrolling into this course are expected to have completed advanced high school courses in the subject areas of chemistry, math, and physics. The course addresses quantum mechanics in the context of atomic structure, thermodynamics in the context of properties of matter and chemical transformations, and reaction kinetics. The course aims to bolster understanding of the various aspects of chemistry through explorations at a deeper level than in a standard general chemistry course. The course is built around foundational concepts and their application to understanding chemistry broadly. The course is accompanied by an associated laboratory, designed to reinforce lecture topics. The course allows students to proceed faster towards advanced courses in the Chemistry sequence.