Program Objectives
Program Educational Objectives
Undergraduate Chemistry Program
Leading to B.S. and B. A. degrees
Objectives of the program:
- Employment as a practicing chemist, or where chemical and technical knowledge and skills are beneficial
- Entrance into a graduate program in chemistry or a related field, or
- Entrance into a professional degree program (e.g., medicine, dentistry, law, or veterinary science).
Learning Outcomes of the program:
- Mastery of basic and advanced chemical concepts
- Mastery of fundamental laboratory techniques
- Mastery of basic computer programs commonly used in scientific work
- Proficiency in using instrumentation commonly found in modern chemistry laboratories and the ability to interpret the data obtained from these instruments
- Proficiency in Problem Solving Skills
- Defining problems to develop testable hypotheses
- Designing and executing experiments so that appropriate statistical methods are used to analyze data
- Understanding uncertainty and limitations in measurement and outcomes
- Proficiency in Communication Skills
- Ability to write in a style proper for reports in scientific journals and the ability to give scientific presentations of an appropriate quality
- Writing clear proposed methods and techniques as well as results and data
- Proficiency in Information Management Skills
- Successfully searching and understanding chemical literature to design experiments and explain observed experimental phenomena
- Keeping clear laboratory notebooks, properly archiving data, and labeling samples
- Referencing appropriate literature and results
- Searching technical databases (includes structure searching)
- Assessing quality of information
- Critical evaluation of articles
- Proficiency in Teamwork Skills
- Working and communicating with others to solve scientific problems
- Properly assigning credit for others’ work and citing literature
- Effectively distributing tasks among group members, meeting deadlines, and working as a group to develop and report results and conclusions
- Understanding of Professional Ethics
- Students should display high personal standards and integrity
- Students should conduct themselves responsibly,
- Students should be aware of contemporary issues related to chemistry.