Improving Undergraduate Learning Across the Chemistry Curriculum through Integration of GC-MS

通过整合先进的气相色谱与质谱（GC-MS）检测整个化学课程，并进入生物和地球科学课程，学生对复杂的环境问题的理解正在扩大。从普通化学开始，并在整个课程中继续指导探究，基于项目的实验室体验的螺旋式方法正在使用这种强大的连字符技术来解决重要问题，从而发展学生的专业知识。这些主题和实验正在根据化学和研究文献进行调整和实施，包括GC-MS的多种用途。GC-MS还用于跨学科（生态学和地球科学），以加强现有的合作，鼓励更多的合作，并说明科学探究的跨学科性质。

Through integration of advanced gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) detection across the chemistry curriculum and into the biology and geoscience curriculum, student understanding of complex environmental issues is being expanded. A spiraled approach starting in General Chemistry and continuing with guided-inquiry, project-based laboratory experiences throughout the curriculum is developing student expertise using this powerful hyphenated technology toward solving important issues. The topics and the experiments are being adapted and implemented from the chemical and research literature and include multiple uses for the GC-MS. The GC-MS is also being used across discipline lines (ecology and geoscience) to strengthen existing collaborations and to encourage additional ones and to illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of scientific inquiry.