CHEM 100 - Chemistry and Today’s World

(4 units)

Prerequisite: One GE Foundation course (GE categories A1, A2, A3, or B4).
Introduction to basic principles of chemistry and a consideration of the benefits and problems arising from applications of chemistry. Discussions of foods and food additives, drugs, plastics, and other materials of everyday life, fuel sources, the atmosphere, and fresh water. Suitable for general education credit.

Both grading options. Course fee may be required. (Lecture 3 hrs., laboratory 3 hrs.) Not open for credit to chemistry or biochemistry majors or students with credit in CHEM 111A or CHEM 140.

General Education: Lower Division B - Scientific Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning