Chemistry (CM-GY)

This course covers special topics in polymer chemistry. | Prerequisite: Adviser’s approval.

This course requires original experimental or theoretical research, guided by a chemistry faculty member that may serve as basis for an MS degree. The minimum research registration requirements for the master's thesis: 9 credits. Registration is required each semester consecutively until students complete adequate research projects and acceptable theses and have passed required oral examinations. | Prerequisite: Advisor approval

This course is a hands-on introduction to methods and tools for searching and includes both electronic (CD-ROM and online) as well as print databases. Students may emphasize topics related to their research. Graduate students are required to take this course.

This course discusses problems of health and safety in chemical laboratories, including how to work safely with dangerous chemicals. This course must be completed by graduate and undergraduate chemistry students before they begin laboratory research.

This course covers characterization methods for linear-chain polymer and macromolecules in solution such as static and dynamic light scattering, osmometry, size exclusion chromatography, and viscometry. Also covered are characterization methods for macromolecules in solid state such as crystallography and mechanical and thermal analysis. | Prerequisite: Undergraduate physical chemistry or adviser approval.

This course covers special topics in polymer chemistry. | Prerequisite: Adviser’s approval.