An Advanced, Integrated Laboratory Course in Chemistry

随着化学系和整个霍利奥克山学院校园内学术变化的更大进程，为期一年的以项目为导向的当代实验实验课程正在开发中。本课程向学生介绍仪器和光谱方法在基本量子力学问题中的应用；有机、无机、生物和固态材料；催化方法的发展；还有生物物理化学。在开发新课程的过程中，我们在多个校区进行了课程实验，其中许多实验得到了NSF-ILI项目的支持。这种支持有两种形式：用于集成实验室中使用的特定仪器的资金（例如，FTIR, #8950694; GC/MS, #9451465），或者更罕见的是，用于开发一系列实验以引入现有的集成实验课程（例如，#9650638,#9653007）。在为期三年的开发期间，合作项目负责人将在其他校园学习综合实验课程（例如，在Sweet Briar、Guilford、UMD、UNH的nsf资助课程），并将他们的成功经验和经验结合起来。这门新课程应该成为霍利奥克山大学化学专业的核心课程，并为学生在大四的论文研究奠定坚实的基础。

In concert with a larger process of academic changes within the Chemistry Department and across the Mount Holyoke College campus, development of a year-long, project-oriented laboratory course in contemporary experimentation is underway. This course introduces students to the application of instrumental and spectroscopic methods to questions about fundamental quantum mechanics; organic, inorganic, biological and solid-state materials; the development of catalytic methods; and biophysical chemistry. In developing the new course, we have built upon curricular experiments on a variety of campuses, many of which were supported by the NSF-ILI program. This support took two forms: funds for a particular instrument that would be used in the integrated lab (e.g., FTIR, #8950694 ; GC/MS, #9451465), or, more rarely, for the development of a range of experiments for introduction into an extant integrated lab course (e.g., #9650638, #9653007). During the three-year development period, the co-PIs are studying integrated lab courses on other campuses (e.g., the NSF-funded courses at Sweet Briar, Guilford, UMD, UNH) and incorporating their successes and lessons. The new course should become a centerpiece of Mount Holyoke's chemistry major, and should provide a secure foundation for thesis research in the senior year.