Course Expectations and Outcomes
Develop analytical and conceptual thinking skills as well as writing and oral expression skills in evaluating chemical discoveries and theories.
Using critical thinking, recognize patterns that integrate ideas and reduce the need to learn many individual facts.
Apply the principles of chemistry and make more informed choices about the uses of compounds in their work and domestic lives
Compare and contrast environmental aspects of chemistry in the local, state, regional, national and international realms.
Analyze current science problems and potential problems of the future.
Describe/apply the process by which chemistry investigates the world around us and adds to our body of knowledge.
Prepare you to participate in our technological society through exposure to reading and writing about science and chemistry topics
Expose you to concepts of chemistry such as atomic theory, radioactivity, chemical bonding, chemical nomenclature, polarity, states of matter, acids and bases, and nomenclature.
Demonstrate a knowledge of chemical principles
through problem solving.