Analytical Chemistry

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to provide students with a rigorous and comprehensive exposure to the techniques and methods used in biotech, environmental, forensic, and pharmaceutical industrial and research laboratories. The principles, methodology and practical aspects of both traditional and modern chemical analysis will be discussed. Laboratory and lecture are fully integrated, emphasizing the importance of the laboratory component to achieving mastery of overall course content. Concepts will include acid-base, precipitation, chelation, electrochemistry, UV/Vis spectroscopy, and introductory chromatography, as well as some more advanced topics at the instructor's discretion. Students will be expected to develop both their chemical problem solving and laboratory skills, and will be evaluated on their ability to speak and write clearly, solve context-based chemical problems, maintain a research style laboratory notebook, and carry out reliable chemical analysis individually as well as part of a team. This course is relevant to any student majoring or minoring in Chemistry or Forensic Science.