CHEM 301 - Chemistry Connections

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UDB
Connections between chemistry and other natural sciences and engineering with real-world applications and examples. Focus is on preparing to teach under the K12 Next Generation Science Standards with the goal of teaching science with confidence.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Areas B1-B3.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better; and CHEM 100.
Equivalent Quarter Course: CHEM 3011.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely Online.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UDB- Upper Division Science Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Design a lesson for middle-school students connecting chemistry with another STEM discipline;
Relate the wavelength of light to the electromagnetic spectrum and transitions in the hydrogen atom;
Calculate internal energy from heat and work;
Predict the sign of entropy change, and compute standard entropy changes;
Predict the products of electrolysis reactions.

UD-B. Upper-division Science Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning Learning Outcomes

demonstrate advanced and/or focused science or quantitative content knowledge in a specific scientific field, using appropriate vocabulary and referencing appropriate concepts (such as models, uncertainties, hypotheses, theories, and technologies);
apply advanced quantitative skills (such as statistics, algebraic solutions, interpretation of graphical data) to scientific problems and evaluate scientific claims;
demonstrate understanding of the nature of science and scientific inquiry and the experimental and empirical methodologies used in science to investigate a scientific question or issue; and
apply science content knowledge to contemporary scientific issues (e.g., global warming) and technologies (e.g., cloning), where appropriate.