THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE FACULTY SENATE Senate Document Number 1693S Date of Senate Approval 3/11/93 Signature of Senate Chair _______________________________ Date _________________ Action of Vice Chancellor: Approval ________________________________________ Date ____________________ Denied _________________________________________ Date ____________________ Reasons for denial and suggested modifications: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Statement of Faculty Senate Action: APC Document #12 "Catalog Changes in Chemistry" Effective Date: Fall Semester, 1993. PROPOSED CHANGES 1. Chemistry 221, Modern Organic Chemistry Laboratory I, be changed from a two (2) semester hour credit course (meeting 6 hrs./week) to a one (1) semester hour credit course (meeting 3 hrs./week) and be renumbered as Chemistry 211, and, that 2. Chemistry 321, Modern Inorganic Chemical Concepts I, be changed from a two (2) semester hour course (meeting two lecture hrs./week) to a three (3) semester hour credit course (meeting three lecture hrs./week) and be renumbered and renamed as Chemistry 333, Modern Inorganic Chemical Concepts, and, that 3. Chemistry 421, Modern Inorganic Chemical Concepts II, be renamed as Physical Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry and be provided a new course description. SPECIFIC CATALOG CHANGES (Reference is made to 1992-1993 Catalog) 1. page 74, line 5 of the page under "Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Science Degree" delete"221" and add "211" in its place. 2. page 74, line 6 of the page under "Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Science Degree" delete "321" and add "333" in its place. 3. page 74, line 18 of the page under "Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Arts Degree" delete "221" and add "211" in its place. 4. page 74, line 19 of the page under "Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Arts Degree" delete "321" and add "333" in its place. 5. page 74, line 28 under "Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Science Degree with a Concentration in Clinical Chemistry" delete "221" and add "211" in its place. 6. page 74, line 29 under "Major in Chemistry for the Bachelor of Science Degree with a Concentration in Clinical Chemistry" delete "321" and add "333" in its place. 7. page 74, line 37 under "Teacher Certification in Chemistry" delete "221" and add "211" in its place. 8. page 74, line 38 under "Teacher Certification in Chemistry" delete "321" and add "333" in its place. 9. page 75, line 12 under "Chemistry Minor", Analytical Chemistry Minor, delete "221" and add "211" in its place. 10. page 75, line 14 under "Chemistry Minor", Inorganic Chemistry Minor, delete "221" and add "211" in its place. 11. page 75, line 14 under "Chemistry Minor", Inorganic Chemistry Minor, delete "321" and add "333" in its place. 12. page 75, line 16 under "Chemistry Minor", Organic Chemistry Minor, delete "221" and add "211" in its place. 13. page 76, line 6 of the page, delete 221, 222 Modern Organic Chemistry Laboratory I and II (2,2) add 211, 222 Modern Organic Chemistry Laboratory I and II (1,2). 14. page 76, line 20 of the page, delete 321, 421 Modern Inorganic Chemical Concepts I and II (2,2) add 333 Modern Inorganic Chemical Concepts (3). 15. page 77, following line 25 of the page (i.e., .....CHEM 341 or PHYS 324) add 421 Physical Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry (2) Elements of theoretical inorganic and computational chemistry including such topics as quantum atomic theory and vector model of the atom (L-S coupling), ligand field , angular overlap and semiempirical mo- lecular orbital methods applied to inorganic species, introduction to molecular modelling, group theory and its applications to infrared and electronic absorp- tion spectra. Prerequisite: CHEM 341. IMPACT STATEMENTS The propoed changes increase the number of credits in one course (a lecture course, Chemistry 321) and diminish a like number of credits in a second course (a laboratory course, Chemistry 221), so that there is no net change in the number of required credits in any Chemistry Department degree program. Teacher Certification in Chemistry would be affected in a like manner, i.e., there is no net change in the number of credits hours required. A MEMO from Dr. Gwen Henderson of the Education Department is appended. Outside of the Chemistry Department and the Education Department, diminishment of the credit hours in Chemistry 221 would formally impact only the Environmental Studies Track in Pollution Analysis and Control. Attached is a statement from Professor Gary Miller, Director of Environmental Studies, verifying that this change will not produce an adverse affect on the indicated program. RATIONALE The proposed changes will bring about the following advantages: 1. Reducing Chemistry 221 by one (1) credit hour will free up six contact hours (historically, two sections of Chemistry 221 have been offered each fall semester). This will provide three contact hours to introduce a badly needed third section of Chemistry 221 (for the past several years, as many as 10-12 students wanted to take 221 but could not get into either of the sections offered because both were filled). In addition, reducing the credit hours in this course will make the course somewhat less onerous and may attract additional students from other majors. Certainly, a decrease in required laboratory hours will result in a decrease in the actual cost of offering this laboratory course. The change will also free up two additional faculty contact hours that can be used to reduce required adjunct time. Changing the number of credit hours from two to one should be reflected in the course number to maintain consistency (the second digit of the course number indicates the number of credit hours earned for the course). 2. Expanding Chemistry 321 by one credit hour will enable the introduction of several topical areas of inorganic chemistry not currently included but deemed essential by a majority of modern inorganic chemical educators and will, along with the other proposed changes, assure that our inorganic chemistry offerings meet requirements for degree certification by the American Chemical Society (the American Chemical Society recommends that students take a post-general chemistry, three-credit, "Intermediate Level Inorganic Course"). The proposed expansion in course credits, will also assure that all chemistry graduates earn at least three credits of inorganic chemistry lecture beyond the general chemistry course (currently, only our BS graduates achieve this desirable curricular objective). Finally, increasing the number of credits in this course will facilitate a restructuring of Chemistry 321 to include some elements of the current Chemistry 421 such that the new Chemistry 421 could be transformed into a more theoretical chemistry course including some elements of computational chemistry. Computational chemistry is one of the most rapidly developing areas of modern chemistry and an introduction to this very important area at the undergraduate level is highly desirable. Expanding the number of credits in Chemistry 321 should be accompanied by a numbering change to 333 to reflect the new number of credit hours (the numbers 331 and 332 are already used for other courses). Restructuring of Chemistry 421 should be accompanied by a title change and course description change that better reflect the nature of the course.