41 courses with the subject CHE, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CHE 106The Chemistry of Art
Instructor Staff Art objects, materials and techniques examined from a chemical perspective. Designed to fulfill the ways of knowing requirement for science with lab. No previous exposure to chemistry assumed; does not count toward a major in chemistry or for pre-medical requirements. Satisfies the Natural Science Ways of Knowing requirement. Prerequisites & Notes One laboratory meeting per week.
Instructor White This course is designed for non-science majors interested in learning about the world around them through the lens of chemistry. The course contains lectures and labs that center on scientific concepts to explain both nature and human-created phenomena. Topics potentially covered in CHE 107 include, but are not limited to, the following: What is a chemical?, The air we breathe and its contents, The world of plastics and polymers, Light’s interaction with matter, and the Chemistry associated with global climate change. Each week’s laboratory period will focus on applying topics learned during lecture, while developing students’ abilities to critically analyze experimental observations and effectively communicate results. The course assumes zero or limited previous exposure to chemistry and does not count toward a major in chemistry or for pre-medical requirements. Satisfies Natural Science requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Students cannot have taken CHE 110 or above
Instructor Offermann Chemistry 108 is a non-major’s chemistry course that focuses on what components make up our food, the properties of those components, and what changes occur during processing, handling, and storage. This course is designed to allow the students to read about, observe, manipulate, and explore model food systems. Satisfies the Natural Science requirement.
Instructors El-Zaatari, Travis White Topics include stoichiometry, chemical thermodynamics, atomic and molecular structure, chemical equilibria, chemical dynamics, and descriptive chemistry of the main group elements. The laboratory illustrates the lecture topics and emphasizes quantitative measurements. This course is intended for students who plan to take additional courses in chemistry. Satisfies the Natural Science requirement. Prerequisites & Notes One laboratory meeting per week. (Fall and Spring)
CHE 220Introduction to Analytical Chemistry +Lab (=ENV 315)
Instructors Hauser Topics in chemical equilibrium, electrochemistry, spectroscopy, chromatography, and nuclear chemistry, with applications in biological, environmental, forensic, archaeological, and consumer chemistry. Laboratory experiments include qualitative and quantitative analyses using volumetric, electrochemical, chromatographic, and spectroscopic methods. Satisfies the Natural Science requirement. Counts as an Applied Environmental Science course in the Natural Science track of the Environmental Studies interdisciplinary major. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 115. One laboratory meeting per week. (Fall)
Instructors Myers Introduction to the chemistry of biological systems. Includes the study of amino acids and proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, carbohydrates, enzymes and enzyme mechanisms, and the chemistry of important metabolic pathways and regulatory mechanisms. Satisfies the Natural Science requirement. Satisfies a requirement in Group A of the Biology major. Satisfies a requirement in the Chemistry major. Satisfies a requirement in the Neuroscience major and interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies a requirement in the Genomics major and interdisciplinary minor. Satisfies a requirement in the Bioinformatics major. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 115 and 250. One laboratory meeting per week. (Fall and Spring)
Instructor Anstey Foundational course in inorganic chemistry. Topics include nuclear chemistry and atomic structure, simple bonding and molecular orbital theory, molecular symmetry and group theory, acid-base and donor-acceptor chemistry, solid-state and crystal-field theory, coordination chemistry, and modern inorganic chemistry topics in fields such as solar energy conversion, materials science, and nanoparticles. Satisfies Natural Science requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 115. One laboratory meeting per week.
Instructors Key, Burde Introduction to organic chemistry including nomenclature, structure and properties of organic and bioorganic molecules, spectroscopic analysis, and reactions of carboxylic acid and carbonyl derivatives. Laboratory introduces students to basic experimental techniques. Satisfies Natural Science requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 115. One laboratory meeting per week. (Fall and Spring)
Instructors El Zaatari, Striplin This course addresses the specific topics of thermodynamics and kinetics with an increased emphasis on biochemical systems. Satisfies the Natural Science requirement. Prerequisites & Notes CHE 115; MAT 113 or MAT 140. MAT 140 recommended and may be used as a co-requisite. One laboratory meeting per week. (Fall)
Instructors Blauch, Hauser In-depth course in analytical methods including optical spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy, separations, and advanced topics in chemical equilibrium. Emphasis will be placed on the principles behind, and components of, chromatographic and mass spectrometry instrumentation. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 220. One laboratory meeting per week. (Spring, offered every two years)
CHE 321Special Topics in Analytical Chemistry: Mass Spectrometry
FALL 2019 Mass Spectronomy Instructors Blauch This course examines the principles of mass spectrometry, including the design and operation of ion sources and mass analyzers, interpretation of mass spectra and fragmentation processes. Mass spectrometry is applied to problems in chemistry, biochemistry, food science, and environmental science.
Instructor Hauser What is smoke, how is smoke formed, what instrumental methods are associated with the characterization of the physical and chemical properties of hookah smoke, and how do they work? In the second half of the course, students will investigate the physical and/or chemical properties of smoke formed as a function of a variable of interest such as type of filtration media or shisha or height of water pipe. Prerequisites & Notes Notes and Prerequisites - Chemistry 220. (Fall)
Instructor Myers Chemistry and mechanisms of gene expression, signal transduction, and advanced metabolism. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 230. Biology 111 recommended. One laboratory meeting per week. (Fall)
CHE 331Topics in Biological Chemistry: Protein Chemistry
Instructor Staff Advanced topics in protein chemistry including: protein synthesis, isolation, purification, manipulation, and characterization. A strong emphasis will be placed on the biochemical and biophysical methods that lead to protein characterization. This course also will include the study of protein-protein and protein-small molecule interactions as well as structure-function relationships. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 230. No laboratory. (Fall)
Instructor Myers This course is designed to expose students to critical components of the biological chemistry research experience including reading and interpretation of the primary literature, writing literature reviews and proposals, completing an independent project around a guided question, and presenting the results of their work in oral and written forms. Methods covered in this course will be related to the instructor’s areas of interest and expertise. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 230.
Instructor Anstey This course qualifies as a lecture with a laboratory in the Chemistry curriculum. The laboratory will examine the course content through a semester-long exploratory research project. All students will take part in the research process as a team, asking and answering research questions through experimentation. Like other labs in the Chemistry department, there will be approximately three hours of lab work each week of the semester. However, to accommodate this research experience, the timing of those hours will be coordinated at the start of each successive week to accomplish that week’s research tasks. The student will have flexibility in scheduling, including the use of multiple short blocks of time instead of a single three-hour block. Students will not be asked to work alone or without supervision.”
Instructor El-Zaatari Whether it’s synthetic plastics and rubbers that surround us, or natural occurring biopolymers such as proteins and DNA that are fundamental to biological structure, polymers are ubiquitous in almost every part of our lives. This course will focus on the design, synthesis and characterization techniques of polymers while emphasizing their applications. Special topics such as biological applications of polymers and the recyclability of plastics will be highlighted. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 250
Instructor Anstey This course is designed to expose students to critical components of the inorganic chemistry research experience including reading and interpretation of the primary literature, writing literature reviews and proposals, completing an independent project around a guided question, and presenting the results of their work in oral and written forms. Methods covered in this course will be related to the instructor’s area of interest and expertise. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 240
Instructors Stevens Continuing studies in organic chemistry. Emphasis on carbon-carbon bond forming reactions, oxidations, and reductions. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 250. One laboratory meeting per week. (Fall and Spring)
Instructors N. Snyder, E. Stevens In pharmacology we will discuss how different drugs (natural and synthetic) function by examining the mechanisms through which they act. General topics will include drug receptors, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and toxicology. In addition, an overview of the different classes of drugs, their structure/function and mechanisms of action will be discussed. Drug classes will include drugs that are used treat inflammation, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, drugs that act on the nervous system, drugs that are used to treat autoimmune diseases, drugs that are used during organ transplant, and drugs that are used to treat infectious diseases and malignant diseases. Satisfies a major requirement in Chemistry. Prerequisites & Notes CHE 250 required and CHE 230 preferred. No laboratory.
Instructor El-Zaatari Whether it’s synthetic plastics and rubbers that surround us, or natural occurring biopolymers such as proteins and DNA that are fundamental to biological structure, polymers are ubiquitous in almost every part of our lives. This course will focus on the design, synthesis and characterization techniques of polymers while emphasizing their applications. Special topics such as biological applications of polymers and the recyclability of plastics will be highlighted. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 250
CHE 355Group Investigation in Organic Chemistry: Carbohydrates in Materials and Medicine
This course is designed to expose students to critical components of the organic chemistry research experience including reading and interpretation of the primary literature, writing literature reviews and proposals, completing an independent project around a guided question, and presenting results of their work in oral and written forms. Methods covered in this course will be related to the instructor’s area of interest and expertise. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 250.
Instructors Blauch, Striplin This in-depth course covers quantum mechanics and its application to spectroscopy and the structure of matter. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 115 and Mathematics 113 or 140.
Instructor Striplin Physical chemistry topics covered in this course will be related to the instructor’s area of interest and expertise. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 260. No laboratory.
Instructor Striplin This course is designed to expose students to critical components of the physical chemistry research experience including reading and interpretation of the primary literature, writing literature reviews and proposals, completing an independent project around a guided question, and presenting the results of their work in oral and written forms. Methods covered in this course will be related to the instructor’s area of interest and expertise. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 260.
Instructor Striplin Course focuses on energy fundamentals such as the various guises of energy, combustion, inescapable inefficiencies, electric generation, and the planet’s energy balance. Unsustainable energy technologies (coal, oil, gas, nuclear, and hydropower), sustainable energy technologies (solar, photovoltaics, wind, wave and tidal, biomass, geothermal, and fusion), and other fuel technologies such as hydrogen/fuel cells, carbon sequestration, and syngas production will be discussed and, in some cases, demonstrated. Satisfies depth and breadth course requirement in the Natural Science track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor. Counts as an Applied Environmental Science course in the Natural Science track of the Environmental Studies interdisciplinary major. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 115
Instructor Hauser Introduction to environmental chemical principles and methodology including aspects of the chemistry of air, water, and soil; identities, sources, properties, and reactions of pollutants; green chemical approaches to pollution prevention; environmentally-benign synthetic methodologies, design of safer chemical products, alternative solvents and catalyst development, and applications of biomimetic principles. Satisfies depth and breadth course requirement in the Natural Science track of the Environmental Studies major or interdisciplinary minor. Counts as an Applied Environmental Science course in the Natural Science track of the Environmental Studies interdisciplinary major. Satisfies the Justice, Equality, and Community requirement Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 220. No laboratory.
Instructor E. Stevens Chemical basis of pharmaceuticals and pharmaceutical development. Topics include drug discovery, pharmacokinetics (delivery of a drug to the site of its action), pharmacodynamics (mode of action of the drug), drug metabolism, and patent issues that affect the development and manufacture of pharmaceuticals. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 250. No laboratory. (Fall)
CHE 375Spectroscopy and Structural Determination in Organic Chemistry
Instructor Burde This course expands on some of the spectroscopic identification you learnt in CHE 250 and CHE 350. Essentially it may be described as analytical organic chemistry. It is heavily weighted towards problem solving with a very minor lecture component. You will learn about NMR, IR, UV and Mass spectroscopy and how each of these can be used to elucidate the structure of organic molecules. Most topics in the course will be discussed briefly with most lecture periods dedicated to solving spectroscopic problems. Satisfies a Chemistry major requirement. Prerequisites & Notes CHE 250
Instructors Hauser This course is designed for any qualified student who desires to pursue a literature research project in an area of special interest in chemistry under the direction and supervision of a faculty member. The latter reviews and approves the topic of research and evaluates the student’s work. Admission by consent of the faculty member following acceptance of the student’s written research proposal. Consult the department’s guidelines for the preparation of independent research proposals. Prerequisites & Notes Permission of the instructor. (Fall and Spring)
Instructors N.Snyder Experimental chemistry projects conducted with the direction and supervision of a faculty member, who reviews and approves the topic of the research and evaluates the student’s work. Admission by consent of the faculty member following acceptance of the student’s written research proposal. Consult the department’s guidelines for the preparation of independent research proposals. This course is intended for non-senior students. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 396. Permission of the instructor. (Fall and Spring)
Instructor Blauch, Hauser Advanced topics in analytical chemistry related to instructor’s areas of interest and expertise. Satisfies a major requirement in Chemistry. Satisifes Environmental Studies major requirement. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 220
Instructor Key, Snyder Advanced topics in biological chemistry related to instructor’s areas of interest and expertise. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 230
CHE 440Seminar in Inorganic Chemistry: Bioinorganic Chemistry
Instructor Anstey Many biochemical reactions depend on the presence of metal ions: adjusting the acid-base behavior of water, changing redox potentials and providing adequate pathways for electron and ion transfer, and transporting and activating small molecules like oxygen. Modern medicine has explored inorganic chemistry for cancer treatments (cisplatin), MRI contrast agents (gadolinium), and anti-inflammatories. Inorganic chemists have been inspired by biochemistry to develop new and more elegant chemical compounds that replicate enzymatic processes ex vivo such as photosynthetic electron transfers and carbon-carbon bond-forming reactions. Chemistry 440 will touch on these and many other aspects of bioinorganic chemistry. In the beginning of the semester, we will discuss general reaction processes in inorganic chemistry. These processes will then be placed in a biological context through literature discussions and case studies. Students will discuss relevant and recent literature as well as ultimately develop a sample research proposal as a final project in the course Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 240. No laboratory.
Instructors El-Zaatari, Snyder, E. Stevens Advanced topics in organic chemistry related to instructor’s areas of interest and expertise. Prerequisites & Notes CHE 250 (Spring 2026)
Instructors Blauch, Striplin Advanced topics in physical chemistry related to instructor’s areas of interest and expertise. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 352/360. No laboratory. (Fall, offered every two years)
Instructors Hauser, Key, Snyder N. Experimental chemistry project conducted with the direction and supervision of a faculty member, who reviews and approves the topic of the research and evaluates the student’s work. Admission by consent of the faculty member following acceptance of the student’s written research proposal. Consult the department’s guidelines for the preparation of independent research proposals. This course is intended for senior chemistry majors. Prerequisites & Notes Permission of the instructor. (Fall and Spring)
Instructors Staff Experimental chemistry project conducted with the direction and supervision of a faculty member, who reviews and approves the topic of the research and evaluates the student’s work. Admission by consent of the faculty member following acceptance of the student’s written research proposal. This course is not intended for students who are completing a thesis and pursuing an honors degree (See Chemistry 498). Consult the department’s guidelines for the preparation of independent research proposals. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 496 or a summer of research with the instructor after the student’s junior year. (Fall and Spring)
Instructors Staff Experimental chemistry project conducted with the direction and supervision of a faculty member, who reviews and approves the topic of the research and evaluates the student’s work. Admission by consent of the faculty member following accepatance of the student’s written research proposal. This course is intended for senior students that are completing a thesis for evaluation by the department and pursuing an honors degree. Consult the department’s guidelines for the preparation of independent research proposals. Prerequisites & Notes Chemistry 496 or a summer of research with the instructor after the student’s junior year. (Fall and Spring)
