BA Degree with a Major in Chemistry
Upon completing the BA degree with a major in Chemistry, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of and proficiency with:
- the structure, bonding, spectroscopy, and reactivity of organic compounds and functional groups;
- curved-arrow formalism to describe reaction mechanisms, and
- the synthesis of organic compounds.
- Demonstrate understanding of and proficiency with:
- thermochemical principles, acid-base and redox reactions,
- structure of simple solids and construction of molecular orbital diagrams (group theory), and
- survey of main group chemistry.
- Demonstrate understanding of:
- the principles of quantum mechanics and applications to atomic and molecular structure and spectroscopy,
- classical and basic statistical thermodynamics and applications to equilibrium physico-chemical systems, and
- kinetics of gas phase processes and chemical reactions.