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2019-2020 Florida Tech Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

Courses are listed alpha-numerically. The 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 series are undergraduate courses. The 5000 series are graduate courses that can also be taken by undergraduates with cumulative grade point averages of 2.75 or higher, who have satisfied all listed prerequisites and whose registration is approved by the department head or program chair responsible for the course. The 6000 series courses are restricted to graduate students only. Courses below 1000 are developmental in nature, are not counted in GPA calculations and do not count toward any Florida Tech degree.

Courses that may be taken in fulfillment of Undergraduate Core Requirements are designated as follows: CL: computer literacy requirement, COM: communication elective, HU: humanities elective, LA: liberal arts elective, Q: scholarly inquiry requirement, SS: social science elective, CC: cross-cultural, Hon: course may include honors sections during some semesters. These designations follow the course descriptions. Other courses that satisfy Undergraduate Core Requirements are identified by the course prefix: any MTH course can be used toward meeting the mathematics requirement; and any AVS, BIO, CHM or PHY course, or EDS 1031  or EDS 1032 , toward meeting the physical/life sciences requirement.
 

Chemistry
  

  • CHM 0002 Final Program Examination

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
  

  • CHM 0003 Final Program Examination 2

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: CHM 0002   Corequisite: CHM 0002  
  

  • CHM 0004 Final Program Examination 3

    Credit Hours: 0
    Requires registration in order to sit for the final program examination.
    Prerequisite: CHM 0003   Corequisite: CHM 0003  
  

  • CHM 1091 Nanoscience/Nanotechnology Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1
    Introduces science/engineering freshmen interested in careers in nanoscience research/nanotechnology to techniques of nanomaterial fabrication by thin film deposition and chemical synthesis, and sample characterization techniques like atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopes.
    Prerequisite: CHM 1101  
  

  • CHM 1100 Introduction to Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces the basic concepts of modern chemistry. Provides an adequate chemistry background for the successful completion of CHM 1101 .
  
  

  • CHM 1102 General Chemistry 2

    Credit Hours: 4
    Continues CHM 1101 . Covers acids and bases, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, kinetics, descriptive chemistry of metals and nonmetals, coordination chemistry, nuclear chemistry. Introduces organic chemistry. Includes lab component.
    (Hon)
    Prerequisite: CHM 1101  and (MTH 1011  or MTH 1701  or MTH 1000  or MTH 1001  or MTH 1010 )
  

  • CHM 2001 Organic Chemistry 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the fundamentals of structure and reaction mechanisms. Includes a review of bonding, preparations and reactions of organic substances.
    (Hon)
    Prerequisite: CHM 1102  
  

  • CHM 2002 Organic Chemistry 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the fundamentals of structure and reaction mechanisms. Includes a review of bonding, preparations and reactions of organic substances.
    (Hon)
    Prerequisite: CHM 2001  
  

  • CHM 2011 Organic Chemistry Laboratory 1

    Credit Hours: 2
    Introduces organic chemistry techniques for lab operations. Includes preparation, reaction and analysis of organic compounds.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2001   Corequisite: CHM 2001  
  

  • CHM 2012 Organic Chemistry Laboratory 2

    Credit Hours: 2
    Continues CHM 2011 . Introduces organic chemistry techniques for lab operations. Includes preparation, reaction and analysis of organic compounds.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  and CHM 2011   Corequisite: CHM 2002  
  

  • CHM 3001 Physical Chemistry 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes fundamental principles of chemical phenomena; thermodynamics, equilibria and states of matter; and chemical kinetics.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2001  and (MTH 2001  or MTH 2010 ) and PHY 2002   Corequisite: PHY 2002  
  

  • CHM 3002 Physical Chemistry 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Continues CHM 3001 . Includes chemical dynamics, quantum mechanics, atomic structures, chemical bonding and spectroscopy.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3001  
  

  • CHM 3011 Physical Chemistry Laboratory 1

    Credit Hours: 2
    Experiments illustrating the principles and techniques of physical chemistry studied in CHM 3001 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 2011  and CHM 3001   Corequisite: CHM 3001  
  

  • CHM 3012 Physical Chemistry Laboratory 2

    Credit Hours: 2
    Experiments illustrating the principles and techniques of physical chemistry studied in CHM 3002 .
    (CL)
    Prerequisite: CHM 3002  and CHM 3011   Corequisite: CHM 3002  
  

  • CHM 3301 Analytical Chemistry 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Focuses on the principles of modern analytical methods. Includes chemical separation and quantitative measurements, important equilibrium considerations and the treatment of experimental data.
    Prerequisite: CHM 1102  
  

  • CHM 3302 Analytical Chemistry 2: Instrumentation

    Credit Hours: 3
    Principles of modern chemical instrumentation, focusing on spectroscopy.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  and CHM 3001  and CHM 3301  
  

  • CHM 3311 Analytical Chemistry Laboratory 1

    Credit Hours: 2
    Students conduct experiments in quantitative analytical techniques.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3301   Corequisite: CHM 3301  
  

  • CHM 3312 Analytical Chemistry 2: Instrumentation Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 2
    Quantitative and instrumental analysis techniques to accompany CHM 3302 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 3311  and CHM 3302   Corequisite: CHM 3302  
  

  • CHM 4001 Inorganic Chemistry 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers basic theoretical concepts of inorganic chemistry as related to elementary structure and bonding, stressing representative elements; and donor-acceptor concepts, symmetry and group theory. Introduces transition metal chemistry.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3002  
  

  • CHM 4002 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes structure and stability in coordination chemistry, spectroscopy of transition metal compounds; descriptive transition metal chemistry and reactions of metal compounds; and lanthanides and actinides. Introduces bioinorganic chemistry.
    Prerequisite: CHM 4001  
  

  • CHM 4111 Advanced Physical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Selected topics in physical chemistry. Includes statistical mechanics and molecular modeling.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3002  
  

  • CHM 4222 Environmental Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Applies basic principles of inorganic and organic chemistry to natural systems. Includes applications of terrestrial, aquatic and atmospheric chemistry.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2001  
  

  • CHM 4304 Advanced Analytical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes electrode processes, thermodynamic and kinetic considerations, electrochemical methods and recent research articles.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3002  and CHM 3302  
  

  • CHM 4500 Advanced Organic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Fundamentals of physical organic chemistry. Includes stereochemistry and structure, methods of mechanistic elucidation and selected mechanistic descriptions.
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  and CHM 3002  
  

  • CHM 4503 Organic Synthesis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies reagents, their capabilities and limitations, and the use of reagents in the design of an organic synthesis. Meets with CHM 5503 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  and CHM 3001  
  

  • CHM 4507 Natural Products

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys organic natural products, emphasizing marine organisms. Outlines major structural families and their sources. Includes the role of natural products in the environment, approaches to their analysis and structure elucidation, and biosynthesis of major classes of secondary metabolitesis. Meets with CHM 5507 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  
  

  • CHM 4508 Bioorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes structure–function interrelationships, the role of cofactors, origins of efficiency and selectivity, recognition phenomena and artificial enzymes. Meets with CHM 5508 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  
  

  • CHM 4520 Medicinal Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the chemical nature of physiological mediators, the hormones that mediate life processes. Includes isolation, structure determination and synthesis of the mediators. Preparation of inhibitors or activators of enzymes that work on those mediators or agonists or antagonists to the mediators to correct imbalances that cause disease. Meets with CHM 5520 .
    Prerequisite: CHM 2002  and CHM 3001  
  

  • CHM 4550 Polymer Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces classes of polymers, their general patterns of behavior, polymer synthesis, physics of the solid state, polymer characterization, polymer rheology and polymer processing.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3002  
  

  • CHM 4611 Advanced Laboratory Techniques 1

    Credit Hours: 2
    Studies advanced lab techniques. Emphasizes analytical and inorganic methodology.
    Must be enrolled in chemistry (7031, 7034, 7036). Minimum student level - senior
  

  • CHM 4700 Physical Biochemistry

    Credit Hours: 1
    Emphasizes the physical aspects of biochemistry. Includes enzyme mechanism, kinetics, inhibition, thermodynamics and binding constraints. Explores molecular modeling of proteins and protein folding, highlighting chemical interactions. Also includes an examination of protein-DNA binding interactions.
    Prerequisite: CHM 3001   Corequisite: BIO 4010  
  

  • CHM 4800 Undergraduate Research 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Senior research conducted under the direct supervision of a chemistry department faculty member.
    (Q)
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
  

  • CHM 4801 Undergraduate Research 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Senior research conducted under the direct supervision of a chemistry department faculty member.
    Requirement(s): Department head approval
    Prerequisite: CHM 4800  
  

  • CHM 4900 Chemistry Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0
    Presents topics of current chemical research interest by students, faculty and distinguished visiting scientists.
    May be repeated
  

  • CHM 4901 Senior Research Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Students present results of their senior research projects.
    (Q)
    Corequisite: CHM 4911  
  

  • CHM 4910 Senior Thesis in Chemistry 1

    Credit Hours: 3
    Research conducted under the direction of a chemistry department faculty member. Includes the preparation and department approval of a written senior thesis during the second semester of study.
    (Q)
    Must be enrolled in research chemistry (7034). Minimum student level - senior
  

  • CHM 4911 Senior Thesis in Chemistry 2

    Credit Hours: 3
    Research conducted under the direction of a chemistry department faculty member. Includes the preparation and department approval of a written senior thesis.
    Must be enrolled in research chemistry (7034). Minimum student level - senior
    Prerequisite: CHM 4910  
  

  • CHM 5002 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes structure and stability in coordination chemistry, spectroscopy of transition metal compounds; descriptive transition metal chemistry and reactions of metal compounds; and lanthanides and actinides. Introduces bioinorganic chemistry.
  

  • CHM 5018 Special Topics in Inorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Covers advanced topics in inorganic chemistry. May include organometallic compounds, compounds of the less familiar elements, ligand field theory and advanced concepts in coordination chemistry.
    Prerequisite: CHM 5002  
  

  • CHM 5095 Chemical Research Projects

    Credit Hours: 3
    Research projects under the direction of a member of the chemistry faculty in a selected area of chemistry.
  

  • CHM 5111 Advanced Physical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Selected topics in physical chemistry. Includes statistical mechanics and molecular modeling.
  

  • CHM 5112 Special Topics in Physical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Selected topics in physical chemistry.
    Prerequisite: CHM 5111  
  

  • CHM 5201 Green Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Extends and reinforces the basic knowledge introduced in undergraduate chemistry courses. Emphasizes chemistry for a sustainable environment, current clean chemical technology and waste minimization. Introduces new areas such as process design and solvent alternatives. Teaches recognition of the impact of green chemistry on daily life.
  

  • CHM 5304 Advanced Analytical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes electrode processes, thermodynamic and kinetic considerations, electrochemical methods and recent research articles.
  

  • CHM 5305 Special Topics in Analytical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes advanced topics in analytical chemistry. Emphasizes separation techniques (chromatography) and electroanalytical methods (voltammetry).
  

  • CHM 5500 Advanced Organic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Fundamentals of physical organic chemistry. Includes stereochemistry and structure, methods of mechanistic elucidation and selected mechanistic descriptions.
  

  • CHM 5501 Interpretation of Chemical Spectra

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies modern spectroscopic methods in organic chemistry. Includes the interpretation of 1D and 2D spectra obtained by ultraviolet, infrared, proton and carbon-13 nuclear magnetic resonance and mass-spectral techniques.
  

  • CHM 5503 Organic Synthesis

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies reagents, their capabilities and limitations, and the use of reagents in the design of an organic synthesis.
    Prerequisite: CHM 5500  
  

  • CHM 5507 Natural Products

    Credit Hours: 3
    Surveys organic natural products, emphasizing marine organisms. Outlines major structural families and their sources. Includes the role of natural products in the environment, approaches to their analysis and structure elucidation, and biosynthesis of major classes of secondary metabolitesis.
  

  • CHM 5508 Bioorganic Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Includes structure-function interrelationships, the role of cofactors, origins of efficiency and selectivity, recognition phenomena and artificial enzymes.
  

  • CHM 5520 Medicinal Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Studies the chemical nature of physiological mediators, the hormones that mediate life processes. Includes isolation, structure determination and synthesis of the mediators. Preparation of inhibitors or activators of enzymes that work on those mediators or agonists or antagonists to the mediators to correct imbalances that cause disease.
  

  • CHM 5550 Polymer Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Introduces classes of polymers, their general patterns of behavior, polymer synthesis, physics of the solid state, polymer characterization, polymer rheology and polymer processing.
  

  • CHM 5899 Final Semester Thesis

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for thesis completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted petition to graduate
  

  • CHM 5900 Chemistry Graduate Seminar

    Credit Hours: 0
    Seminars on current research in chemistry.
  

  • CHM 5901 Chemistry Thesis Seminar

    Credit Hours: 1
    Students present results of their thesis research.
    Requirement(s): Must be in final semester of thesis research
  

  • CHM 5999 Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3 - 6
    Individual research for the master’s degree under the direction of a member of the graduate faculty in chemistry.
    Must be enrolled in biochemistry or chemistry (7028, 7031, 7034, 7036)
  

  • CHM 6095 Chemical Research

    Credit Hours: 1 - 6
    Research under the guidance of the chemistry faculty. Area chosen may lead to a research proposal for dissertation work.
    Must be enrolled in chemistry (7031, 7034, 7036)
  

  • CHM 6899 Final Semester Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 0 - 2
    Variable registration for dissertation completion after satisfaction of minimum registration requirements.
    Requirement(s): Approval by Office of Graduate Programs and accepted candidacy
  

  • CHM 6999 Dissertation

    Credit Hours: 3 - 12
    Research and preparation of the doctoral dissertation.
    Requirement(s): Admission to candidacy for the doctoral degree