Chemistry and Modern Society I
The primary purpose of this course is to offer you an understanding of how chemistry
affects your everyday life. In addition, you will learn many of the fundamental principles
and some of the vocabulary of chemistry. Successful completion of this course will
leave you with the chemical concepts needed to appreciate the pros and cons of decisions
made by businesses, politicians, and agencies such as the EPA. If your future is in
teaching, both the lectures and the labs should give you enough background to teach
the chemistry that is encountered in K-4 textbooks. The positive experience gained
through this course should clearly give you confidence and interest in promoting this
central science regardless of your chosen profession.
Learning Outcomes
- Describe the relationship between properties and structure of matter.
- Name chemicals, balance chemical and nuclear equations
- Solve problems involving moles and mass ratios in chemical reactions.
- Identify the types of chemical reactions (i.e. acid-base, redox, nuclear) and their applications.
- Apply scientific reasoning to solve problems using chemical principles.
- Evaluate substances based on periodic properties, chemical and reaction classification.
- Perform basic laboratory techniques including data manipulation and analysis.