CHEM 1409 - Chemistry and Society

Three hours lecture. Three hours laboratory per week. Four credit hours.

The class develops a base of chemical knowledge for students to consider the impact chemistry has on the world while meeting the goals of the University’s core curriculum competencies in critical thinking, ethical and moral consciousness, historical consciousness, mathematics, and philosophy and methods of science. Material will address topics starting with the atomic and molecular foundations of chemistry to applying principles of scientific modeling to topics such as the environment, medicine and public policy. The class satisfies four hours of the University’s laboratory science curriculum requirement and meets ACTS criteria. (ACTS Course Number CHEM 1004)