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CHEMISTRY

Students taking Laboratory courses in Chemistry are required to pay for
each course a fee of $20.00 and make a special deposit of $5.00 to cover breakage
of apparatus.

Chemistry B1: General Chemistry: The fundamental principles of chemistry.
The first term is devoted to an introduction to the atomic theory and
the chemical view of matter and a study of acids, bases, and salts. The
second term occupies a consideration of the electrolytic dissociation theory,
oxidation and reduction reactions, equilibrium, and typical nonmetallic elements.
The third term is devoted to an introduction to the chemistry of carbon,
the descriptive chemistry of the more important metals and a brief introduction
to qualitative analysis. Three hours of lecture and six hours of
laboratory per week. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 6 session-hours.)

Professor Carter, Mr. Bell and Assistants.

Chemistry B2: Analytical Chemistry: Chemistry B1 prerequisite.—(a)
Qualitative Analysis. First and second terms, three hours of lecture and six
hours of laboratory per week, devoted to the study of systematic qualitative
analysis. (b) Quantitative Analysis. Third term, two hours of lecture and
nine hours of laboratory per week, devoted to elementary quantitative analysis.
In the lecture work special emphasis is given to the theoretical foundations of
analytical chemistry. Some of the topics treated are: Solutions, theory of
ionization, law of mass action, solubility-product principle, hydrolysis, amphoteric
substances, complex ions, types of reactions, oxidation and reduction,
colloids, etc. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 6 session-hours.)

Professor Yoe and Assistants.

Note: This course is specially recommended to pre-medical students
who wish to obtain more chemistry than the minimum requirement of the
Medical School.

Chemistry B3: Organic Chemistry: Chemistry B1 prerequisite.—An introduction
to the study of the compounds of carbon, including the application
of modern chemical theory to such compounds and their reactions. Three
hours of lecture and six hours of laboratory per week. (B.A. or B.S. credit,
6 session-hours.)

Professor Bird and Assistants.

Chemistry B4: Quantitative Analysis: Chemistry B2 prerequisite.—This
course is arranged according to the physico-chemical principles which are involved
instead of the traditional treatment according to the technique employed,
namely gravimetric and volumetric. The important principles around
which practically all quantitative methods may be grouped are: Neutralization,
solubility product, oxidation and reduction, colorimetry, and evolution
and measurement of gases. The laboratory exercises have been selected with
the idea of illustrating these principles as well as introducing the student to
something new in laboratory technique each time. One hour lecture and six
hours laboratory per week. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Professor Yoe and Assistant.

Chemistry B5: Undergraduate Research: To be eligible for this course
a student must have completed at least two of the three courses, B3, B4 and C1,
and must either have taken or be taking the third.—Properly qualified undergraduate
students are given opportunity to undertake an original investigation
of some problem in chemistry under the direction of a member of the teaching
staff. The student will be expected to devote to his problem a minimum of
nine hours per week throughout the year. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)