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UnderGraduate Diploma in Chemistry

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Undergraduate Diploma

Courses Offered in CHEMISTRY

The following courses are available for your Associate's degree. Each course provides you a unique educational experience. Each course is developed by an international staff of highly skilled instructors. The course material is updated to provide students with the latest current information in the subject.

Specialized Course

  • Course Name

  • Courses Description

  • Credit Hours

  • Principles of Chemistry

  • Chemistry is the science of composition, structure, properties, and reactions of matter, especially of atomic and molecular systems. This course discusses the fundamentals of chemistry along with basic underlying principles of chemistry; these topics include Atoms, Molecules, Ions, Chemical Reactions, Atomic Structure, Chemical Bonds, and Nuclear Chemistry.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Organic Chemistry

  • Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds other than simple salts such as carbonates, oxides, and carbides. This course encompasses topics such as Introduction to Organic Compounds, Reactions of Alcohols, Amines, Ethers, And Epoxides, and Carbonyl Compounds.

  • 6 Credits

  • Chemistry and Society

  • In this course, You will explore chemistry with an approach that shows the ways in which chemistry impacts Your life every day. The topics that will be examined will demonstrate the ways in which chemists look at the world, learn from them, and then come up with solutions to problems.

  • 6 Credits

  • Principles of Biochemistry

  • Biochemistry deals with the chemistry of biological transformations in the cell. This course deals with a general treatment of various areas of modern biochemistry including molecular basis of genetic and developmental processes, cellular mechanisms and intermediary metabolism.

  • 6 Credits

  • Introduction to Ecology

  • Ecology is the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environment in a hierarchy of levels of organization: individuals, populations, communities, and ecosystems. This course provides a comprehensive survey of The Organism in Its Environment, Population Interactions, Ecological Genetics and the Ecosystem.

  • 6 Credits

  • Chemistry and Environment

  • This course covers topics that would help you to understand how chemists utilize various concepts in chemistry to influence the environment around us. The topics include Air Resources, Material Resources, Energy Resources of Carbon and Synthetic and Biological Polymers.

  • 6 Credits

Principles of Chemistry

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Chemistry: matter and measurement
    Atoms, molecules, and ions
    Stoichiometry: chemical calculations.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Chemical reactions in aqueous solutions.
    Gases.
    Thermochemistry.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Atomic structure.
    Electron configurations, atomic properties, and the periodic table.
    Chemical bonds.
    Bonding theory and molecular structure.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    States of matter and intermolecular forces.
    Physical properties of solutions.
    Chemical kinetics: rates and mechanisms of chemical reactions.
    Chemical equilibrium.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Acids, bases, and acid-base equilibria.
    More equilibria in aqueous solutions: slightly soluble salts and complex ions.
    Thermodynamics: spontaneity, entropy, and free energy.
    Electrochemistry.
    Nuclear chemistry.
    The s-block elements.
    The p-block elements.
    The d-block elements and coordination chemistry.
    Chemistry and life: more on organic, biological, and medicinal chemistry.
    Chemistry of materials: bronze age to space age.
    Environmental chemistry.

Introduction to Organic Chemistry

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Electronic structure and covalent bonding
    Acids and bases
    An introduction to organic compounds
    Alkenes: structure, nomenclature, stability, and an introduction to reactivity
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Reactions of alkenes and alkynes: an introduction to multi-step synthesis
    Delocalized electrons and their effect on stability, reactivity, and p
    Aromaticity: reactions of benzene and substituted benzenes
    Isomers and stereochemistry
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Reactions of alkanes: radicals
    Substitution and elimination: reactions of alkyl halides
    Reactions of alcohols, amines, ethers, and epoxides
    Carbonyl compounds i: nucleophilic acyl substitution
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Carbonyl compounds ii: more reactions of carboxylic acid derivatives
    Carbonyl compounds iii: reactions at the x-carbon
    Determining the structure of organic compounds
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Carbohydrates
    Amino acids, peptides, and proteins
    Enzymes, coenzymes, and vitamins
    Metabolism

Chemistry and Society

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    A science for all seasons
    Atoms: are they for real?
    Atomic structure: images of the invisible
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Nuclear chemistry: the heart of the matter
    Chemical bonds: the ties that bind
    Chemical accounting: mass and volume relationships
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Acids and bases: please pass the protons
    Oxidation and reduction: burn and unburn
    Organic chemistry: the infinite variety of carbon compounds
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Polymers: giant among molecules
    Chemistry of earth: metals and minerals
    Air: the breath of life
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Water:
    Energy: a fuels
    Biochemistry: a molecular view of life
    Food: molecular gastronomy
    Household chemicals: helps and hazards
    Fitness and health: some chemical connections
    Drugs: chemical cures, comforts and cautions
    Poisons: chemical toxicology

Principles of Biochemistry

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Introduction to biochemistry.
    Water.
    Amino acids and the primary structures of proteins.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Proteins: three-dimensional structure and function.
    Properties of enzymes.
    Mechanisms of enzymes.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Coenzymes.
    Carbohydrates.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Nucleotides.
    Lipids and membranes.
    Introduction to metabolism.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Glycolysis.
    The citric acid cycle.
    Additional pathways in carbohydrate metabolism.
    Electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation.
    Photosynthesis.
    Lipid metabolism.
    Amino acid metabolism.
    Nucleotide metabolism.
    Nucleic acids.
    Dna replication, repair, and recombination.
    Transcription and rna processing.
    Protein synthesis.
    Recombinant dna technology.

Introduction to Ecology

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Ecology: its meaning and scope.
    Adaptation.
    Climate.
    Water balance.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Light and biological cycles.
    Nutrients.
    Soils.
    Concept of the ecosystem.
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    Ecosystem energetics.
    Biogeochemical cycles.
    Grassland to tundra.
    Forest.
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Freshwater ecosystems.
    Saltwater ecosystems.
    Properties of populations.
     18 population growth and regulation.
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Intraspecific competition.
    Population genetics.
    Interspecific competition.
    Predation.
    Plant-herbivore systems.
    Herbivore-carnivore systems.
    Parasitism.
    Mutualism.
    Community structure.
    Disturbance.
    Succession.

Chemistry and Environment

Topics Covered in This Course:
  In Section 1 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Chemistry is a science
    Elements of chemistry
    Discovering the atom and subatomic particles.
    The atomic nucleus.
  In Section 2 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Atomic models
    Chemical bonding and molecular shapes
    Molecular mixing
    Those incredible water molecules
  In Section 3 of this exam you will be evaluated on below listed topics:
    An overview of chemical reactions
    Acids and bases
    Oxidations and reductions
    Organic chemistry
  In Section 4 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Chemicals of life
    The chemistry of drugs
    Optimizing food production
    Fresh water resources
  In Section 5 of this course you will cover these topics:
    Air resources
    Material resources
    Energy resources of carbon
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