CHEM 1004 — /L FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMISTRY / LAB
ACTS Equivalent Course Number = CHEM 1004 Pre-requisite: Placement into College-Level Reading and Math. This is a survey course introducing Chemistry as it applies to the real world for students in general education. The course incorporates critical thinking to explore, analyze, and evaluate concepts such as the scientific method, measurement, states of matter, atomic structure, the periodic table, chemical properties, chemical bonding, chemical reactions, acids and bases, solutions, and other chemistry-related topics. This course does not fulfill the chemistry requirement for science majors, process technology, or Allied health programs. Three hours lecture and two hours laboratory. Lab required. ACTS Equivalent Course Number = CHEM 1214 Pre-requisite: Placement into College-Level Reading and Math. This is an algebra-based college chemistry course. This course provides a chemistry foundation for work in health-related areas, process technology, and other careers needing fundamental chemistry concepts. The lecture component incorporates critical thinking to explore, analyze and evaluate inorganic chemistry including, atomic and molecular structure, bonding, nomenclature, reactions, stoichiometry, states of matter, solutions, energy, heat, reaction rates, reaction equilibria, acids and bases, nuclear chemistry, and fundamentals of organic and biochemistry. the laboratory component incorporates critical thinking to investigate, analyze, and evaluate measurement, mass, volume, d