APC #27 Senate #32 Approved 4/17/87 Senate Document #32 APC Document #27 April 9, 1987 Include in the attached Catalog Changes in the Department of Chemistry the following: ______ Under "Track C," "II" change present required courses outside the major to include "23-25 hours" and ";BIOL 105 or 131, and 338." _______ _______ Under 1986-87 Catalog listing for CHEM 411 (pg. 77) Prerequisites: "CHEM 221, 231; and BIOL 105 or 131." M E M O R A N D U M February 20, 1987 TO: Academic Policies Committee FROM: Dexter Squibb, Chairman Leo Bares Debra L. Van Engelen Chemistry Department COPIES TO: Dr. Lorence Rapoport Dr. John Stevens SUBJECT: Catalog Changes The Chemistry Department requests the following changes in the 1986-87 Catalog: * * * * Page 74 * * * * ______ Change FROM: Track A - Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Science Degree I. Required courses in the major - 36 hours, including Chemistry 221, 222, 223, 224, 231, 232, 321, 341, 342, 412, 413, 421, and 442 and two courses chosen from Chemistry 322, 323, and 422. TO: Track A - Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Science Degree I. Required courses in the major - 36 hours, including 221, 222, 223, 231, 232, 321, 332, 241, 342, 412, 413, 421, and 432 and two courses chosen from Chemistry 322, 323, 422, and 424. (Items II, III, IV remain unaffected.) Rationale: Track A changes involve course number changes necessitated by the restructuring of the analytical chemistry courses discussed below. In addition, inclusion of CHEM 424 among the advanced organic courses provides the student with more options and encourages them to take this important course. Page 3 ______ Change FROM: Track B - Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Arts Degree I. Required courses in the major - 33 hours, including Chemistry 221, 222, 223, 224, 231, 232, 321, 323, 331, 413, and twelve additional semester hours selected from biology, chemistry, mathematics, and/or physics. II. Required courses outside the major - 16 hours, including MATH 191, 192, PHYS 221, 222. (Items III and IV are unaffected by this proposal.) __ TO: Track B - Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Arts Degree I. Required courses in the major - 36 hours, including Chemistry 221, 222, 223, 231, 232, 321, 323, 331, 332, 412, 413, and twelve additional semester hours selected from biology, chemistry, mathematics, and/or physics, excluding those courses listed in II below. II. Required courses outside the major - 16 hours, including MATH 191, 192, PHYS 221, 231. (Items III and IV remain unaffected by this proposal.) Rationale: The addition of Chem 332 and Chem 412 will require our students to achieve more depth in this curriculum at the 300-400 level, and will broaden their chemical literature and laboratory experience. The change from PHYS 222 to PHYS 231 is necessary to conform to the changes made by the Physics Department (i.e., requiring more mathematics for PHYS 222). In essence, we are increasing the strength of this major in required chemistry courses while at the same time we are slightly decreasing its strength in required physics courses. ______ Change FROM: Track C - Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Science Degree with a Concentration in Clinical Chemistry I. Required courses for the major - 34 hours including Chemistry 221, 222, 223, 224, 231, 232, 321, 323, 331, 411, 442, 443, and 444. II. Required courses outside the major - 31 hours including MATH 191, 192; PHYS 221, 222; BIOL Page 4 131, 132, 133, 338, 444. (Items III, and IV remain unchanged by this proposal.) __ TO: Track C - Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Science Degree with a Concentration in Clinical Chemistry I. Required courses for the major - 34 hours including Chemistry 221, 222, 223, 231, 232, 321, 323, 331, 332, 411, 432, 443, and 444. II. Required courses outside the major - 23-25 hours, including MATH 191, 192; PHYS 221, 231; BIOL 105 or 131, and 338. (Items III, and IV remain unchanged by this proposal.) Rationale: The change from PHYS 222 to PHYS 231 is necessary to conform to curriculum changes made by the Physics Department (i.e., requiring more mathematics for PHYS 222). We further propose to drop BIOL 444 and its prerequisites BIOL 132, 133, to lighten the extremely heavy cognate course requirements for this track. BIOL 444 (Biological Biochemistry) is similar to content to Chem 323 (Biochemistry) which will still be required. In essence, the cognate course requirement for this track is reduced by 8 hours (from 31 hours to 23-25 hours) by this change. The changes in requirement I are simply course number changes necessitated by the restructuring of the analytical chemistry courses proposed above. * * * * Page 75 * * * * Chemistry Minor ______ Change FROM: I. Analytical Chemistry Minor - 23 hours: Chemistry 141, 142, 221, 223, 224, 231 and six additional hours selected from 300-400 level chemistry courses. TO: I. Analytical Chemistry Minor - 24 hours: Chemistry 141, 142, 221, 223, 231, 332, and six additional hours selected from 300-400 level chemistry courses. (Minors 2, 3, and 4 are unaffected.) Rationale: The changes in the analytical Chemistry minor are necessitated by the restructuring of the analytical Page 5 courses proposed below. * * * * Page 76 * * * * ______ Change FROM: 223, 224 Modern Analytical Chemical Concepts I and II (2, 2) Gravimetric, volumetric, electrometric, and optical methods of analysis, including modern separation techniques. Prerequisite: 142. TO: 223 Modern Analytical Chemical Concepts (2) Principles of quantitative analysis with emphasis upon classical methods including gravimetric analyses; acid-base, complexometric and oxidation- reduction volumetric analyses; experimental statistics; and chemical equilibrium. Laboratory emphases upon good technique as well as accurate and precise measurements. Prerequisite: 142. Rationale: Currently, the analytical segment of the chemistry program consists of eight credit hours (CHEM 223, 224 are each two-credit courses and CHEM 442 is four credits). All eight of these hours are required for the B.S. Degrees; however, only four are required for the B.A. Degree (and these - 223 and 224 - are at the sophomore level). In addition, only eight credit hours of chemistry at the 300-400 level are required for the B.A. Degree. The Chemistry faculty unanimously agree that only four credits of analytical chemistry at the sophomore level is inadequate for this degree program, as is the requirement of only eight credit hours of chemistry at the 300-400 level. Restructuring the analytical courses as proposed will, in appreciable part, remove these deficiencies without substantially increasing the course load requirement for the B.A. student. NOTE: Simply requiring the four-credit course CHEM 442 for the B.A. Degree cannot be done because B.A. students would not, in general, have the necessary prerequisites. * * * * Page 77 * * * * ADD: 332 Intermediate Chemical Analysis (3) Principles of quantitative analysis with emphasis upon instrumental methods including potentiometry and electrolytic methods, molecular and atomic spectrometry, separation techniques, and chromatographic methods. Discussion of contemporary applications in industrial, Page 6 clinical, forensic and environmental analyses. Prerequisite: 223; Pre- or Co-requisite: either 331 or 341. Rationale: See Rationale under CHEM 223 above. * * * * Page 78 * * * * ADD: 424 Chemical Spectroscopy (2) A study of molecular identification, characterization and structural analysis employing such spectrometric methods as mass and nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry, electronic absorption, and infrared spectrophotometry with emphasis on organic molecules. Prerequisites: 232. Rationale: This course has been taught for a number of years as a Special Topics (CHEM 472) course by a number of different instructors. The Chemistry Department is of the opinion that the material included in this course as described is of sufficient importance to warrant the offering of the course on a regular and consistent basis, and that the course should, therefore, be listed in the catalog. ______ _____ Change FROM: ____ ____ ___ ________ ________ ________ __ __ CHEM 426, 445 Advanced Chemical Research I, II ___ __ (2, 4) __ TO: CHEM 425, 427 Advanced Chemical Research I, II (2, 2) (Description remains unchanged) DELETE: Presently listed 425 Chemical Laboratory Techniques (2) and its description. Rationale: Senior students will be more easily able to schedule a 2 semester-hour research course than the present 4 semester-hour research course; hence, enrollment should improve. The currently listed 425 Chemical Laboratory Techniques (2) was previously replaced by 412 Chemical Literature (1) and 413 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (1). ______ Change FROM: 442 Advanced Chemical Analysis (4) Theory, methods, and instrumentation of modern analytical chemistry including spectroscopy, Page 7 nuclear magnetic and electron spin resonance, mass spectrometry chromatography, electrochemical techniques, flame photometry, etc. Prerequisites: 224 and either 331 or 341; PHYS 222, MATH 291. TO: 432 Advanced Chemical Analysis (3) Advanced theory methods and instrumentation of modern analytical chemistry including comparison of advantages, optimization and limitations of each technique. Extensive survey of methods including state-of-the-art developments. Prerequisites: 332 and either 331 or 341; MATH 291 and PHYS 222. Rationale: See Rationale under CHEM 223 above.