Revision of Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory Curriculum

化学（12）化学专业的实验室课程正在调整，重点是现代化学研究领域的探究性实验。三个主要的教育目标是：（1）通过当代化学问题的项目激发学生对化学的兴趣;（2）为学生提供在实验研究中应用现代仪器的机会;以及（3）促进学生在实验室序列中不同课程之间的协作互动。正在实施三个实验室课程序列，以填补本科课程通常由第二学期的有机，高级无机和物理化学实验室占用。这些课程强调当代化学研究和发展的现代主题，包括纳米技术，组合化学，手性技术和生物物理化学。开发了七个主题模块，强调这些主题和十七个实验的研究和教育文献，现在正在调整和实施的三门课程。因此，这些课程是“综合”的主题，如果不是实验，这是提高学生的兴趣和动机，因为他们从一个课程到另一个序列。现代化，高品质的仪器和设备可供本科生在这些课程中使用。先修课程的学生与该序列高级课程的学生合作。例如，学生在一个模块主要集中在合成化学是提供样品给学生在先进的模块产品表征或执行需要更广泛的理论背景的更多的物理性质的实验。这种跨学科的合作模拟了在化学的不同子学科工作的研究人员之间的互动。

Chemistry (12)The laboratory curriculum for chemistry majors is being restructured with a focus on inquiry-based experiments in the areas of modern chemical research. Three major educational goals are being addressed: (1) stimulating student interest in chemistry through projects in contemporary chemical issues; (2) providing students with the opportunity to apply modern instrumentation in experimental investigations; and (3) fostering collaborative interaction among students across different courses in the laboratory sequence.A sequence of three laboratory courses is being implemented to fill the niche in the undergraduate curriculum normally occupied by second semester organic, advanced inorganic, and physical chemistry laboratories. These courses are emphasizing modern themes from contemporary chemistry research and development and include topics in nanotechnology, combinatorial chemistry, chiral technology, and biophysical chemistry. Seven topic modules were developed that emphasize these themes and seventeen experiments from the research and educational literature are now being adapted and implemented across the three courses. Thus, the courses are "integrated" thematically if not experimentally, and this is enhancing the interest and motivation of students as they proceed from one course to another in the sequence. Modern, high-quality instrumentation and equipment is available for use by undergraduates in these courses. Students in a prerequisite course are collaborating with students enrolled in advanced courses of the sequence. For example, students in a module focussed primarily on synthetic chemistry are providing samples to students in advanced modules for product characterization or to perform experiments of a more physical nature requiring a more extensive theoretical background. Such cross-course collaborations emulate interactions between investigators working in different sub-disciplines of chemistry.