THE MINOR IN CHEMISTRY
Course Requirements for the Minor: 23 units
The following courses, or their approved transfer equivalents, are required of all candidates for this minor.
Lower-Division Courses: 12 units
3 courses required:
| CHEM | 111 | General Chemistry | 4.0 | FS * |
Prerequisites: Second-year high school algebra; one year high school chemistry. (One year of high school physics and one year of high school mathematics past Algebra II are recommended.)
| CHEM | 112 | General Chemistry | 4.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: CHEM 111.
| CHEM | 270 | Organic Chemistry | 4.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: CHEM 112.
Upper-Division Courses: 11 units
3 courses required:
| CHEM | 320 | Quantitative Analysis | 4.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: CHEM 112.
| CHEM | 370 | Organic Chemistry | 3.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: CHEM 270.
| CHEM | 370L | Organic Chem Laboratory | 1.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: CHEM 370 may be taken as a prerequisite or concurrently with CHEM 370L.
3 units selected from:
| CHEM | 300 | The Chemical Literature | 1.0 | FA WP |
Prerequisites: ENGL 130 (or its equivalent) with a grade of C- or higher, CHEM 270.
| CHEM | 331 | Physical Chemistry | 3.0 | FA |
Prerequisites: CHEM 320, MATH 220, PHYS 204B, PHYS 204C.
| CHEM | 347 | Radiation/Radioisotopes1.0 | 3.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: Completion of 4 units of physics or physical science and 5 units of chemistry.
| CHEM | 360 | Descriptive Inorganic Chem | 3.0 | Inq |
Prerequisites: CHEM 112.
| CHEM | 398 | Special Topics1.0 | 3.0 | FS |
| CHEM | 399 | Special Problems1.0 | 3.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: CHEM 112, faculty permission.
| CHEM | 440 | Environmental Chemistry | 3.0 | SP |
Prerequisites: CHEM 112.
| CHEM | 445 | Environmental Toxicology | 2.0 | SP |
Prerequisites: CHEM 108 or CHEM 270.
Prerequisites: CHEM 370.
| CHEM | 475 | Advanced Organic Laboratory | 2.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: CHEM 370.
| CHEM | 477 | Seminar Organic Spectroscopy | 1.0 | FS |
Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in or prior completion of CHEM 370.
| CHEM | 491 | Research Project | 3.0 | FA |
Prerequisites: Open by invitation to chemistry majors with a GPA of 3.0 or higher; faculty permission.