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Curriculum and Core Skills
Skill Sets Are Cumulative – Building And Expanding Each Term
Freshman Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• First Year Experience • Laboratory safety
• General Biology & Lab • Use common lab equipment
• General Chemistry or Principles of • Statistical analysis of
Chemistry & Lab experimental data
• Written & Oral • Preparation of solutions
Communications I • Acid-base titration curves
• Computing & Algorithm I • Conductivity measurements
• Calculus I • Gravimetric analysis
• Human Biology & Lab • Electrochemistry
• General Chemistry II & Lab • Determine reaction rates, reaction
• Survey of Organic Chemistry order, rate constants &
• Calculus II activation energy
• Determination of heats of reaction
• UV/Vis spectrophotometry
Sophomore Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Organic Chemistry I & Lab • Crystallization & recrystallization
• Economic Principles techniques
• Newtonian Mechanics & Lab • Extraction & Distillation techniques
• Introduction to Social Science • Determination of chemical/
• Introduction to Humanities physical properties
• Organic Chemistry II & Lab • Functional group tests
• Multivariate Calculus • Multi-step synthesis, isolation &
characterization of organic reactions
• Catalysis
• Analytical techniques such as TLC,
GC, GC/MS, HPLC, FTIR, NMR,
and UV/Vis spectrophotometry
• Kinetics of reactions
Get In The Lab • Literature Searches
• In our Chemistry labs, you’ll learn Junior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Calibration & optimization of
the fundamentals of chemical • Biochemistry I & Lab analytical methods
properties and interactions—and get • Physical Chemistry I & Lab • Determination of phase transitions
• Written & Oral
a chance to perform experiments Communication II & phase diagram
with instrumentation not seen by • Advanced Humanities • Electrochemistry
most undergraduates. You’ll gain • Analytical Chemistry & Lab • Techniques such as NMR, GC, GC/
hands-on experience in areas such as • Advanced Inorganic MS, HPLC, FTIR, UV/Vis, & AA
reaction energetics, organic synthesis, Chemistry & Lab spectrophotometry
chromatography, spectroscopy and • Free Elective • Protein isolation techniques &
protein quantification
chemical thermodynamics. • Technical Elective
• Molecular Biology & molecular
• In our Life Science Labs, (like General cloning techniques
Biology, Human Biology, Genetics, • Nucleic Acid isolation & manipulation
Molecular & Cellular Biology, Anatomy State-of-the-Art • Electrophoretic techniques: SDS-
& Physiology), you’ll study the surface LAB PAGE, DNA electrophoresis, &
Western blotting
structure and elemental composition • Enzyme activity & enzyme kinetics
of everything from insects to complex FACILITIES • Chemical Safety
computer chips with our Environmental • Experimental design
Scanning Electron Microscope.
• Life Science — we’ve got that too! You Senior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
will learn biological techniques such as • Chemical toxicology
DNA mutagenesis, protein expression • Molecular Biology & Lab • Synthesis & purification of
and purification and microscopy where • Biostatistics I inorganic compounds
• Genetics
students look at human tissues & • Biochemistry II & Lab • Site directed mutagenesis
microorganisms under the microscope, • Advanced Humanities or Social • Cell culture techniques
dissect organisms, study polymerically Science Elective • Protein expression & isolation
preserved human cadavers and • Advanced Chemistry or Biology • DNA/Protein Quantification
perform simulated surgeries. With Elective & Lab • Enzymatic reactivity & Kinetic assays
facilities like these, it’s no surprise • Senior Research/Seminar • PCR
• Biological assays
that we attract some of the brightest • Free Elective
and best Chemistry and • Technical Elective
• Culminating Undergraduate
Biochemistry faculty. Experience
