Course Descriptions

BUS 441 - Advanced Business Law

• Demonstrate the ability to critically analyze new reports of current legal proceedings and issues related to material covered in the course.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze the meaning of selected judicial cases including the management implications of legal rules drawn from those cases.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of contemporary legal issues relating to international business negotiable instruments, debtor-creditor relationships and business organizations.

BUS 489 - AACSB Assessment

• Articulate knowledge of the key functional areas of business
• Analyze business data
• Apply problem solving skills to a business situation
• Evaluate the undergraduate business educational experience
• Utilize professional development skills

BUS 490 - Cooperative Education

BUS 492 - Applied Leadership

• Design a developmental program for mentees that applies learning and mentorship theories.
• Measure mentee progress and program effectiveness
• Plan the mentoring of students enrolled in MGT 200 by applying leadership and mentorship theories.
• Formulate feedback techniques based on learning and mentorship theories
• Define effective performance and how it relates to task and context.
• Create performance benchmarks for MGT 200 student development.

BUS 495 - Directed Research

BUS 496 - Individual Study

BUS 497 - Honors

BUS 498 - Special Topics

BUS 499 - Seminar

BME 146 - Basic Accounting

BME 296 - Individual Study

BME 298 - Special Topics

BME 299 - Seminar

BME 316 - Educational Technology for Business and Marketing

• Utilize web and multi-media applications.
• Identify and access resources for resolving technology issues in the classroom and personal workspace.  
• Apply programming languages.
• Articulate how business functions relate to data and information, input, storage, manipulation, and presentation.
• Select and apply information systems across the curriculum.
• Analyze, design, and develop information systems using appropriate tools.
• Identify the technical elements of e-commerce.

BME 346 - Basic Accounting for Business and Marketing Education

• Complete the various steps of the accounting cycle and explain the purpose of each step.
• Determine the value of assets, liabilities, and owner’s equity according to generally accepted accounting principles explaining when and why they are used.
• Prepare, interpret, and analyze financial statements using manual and computerized systems for service, merchandising, and manufacturing businesses.
• Demonstrate leadership and teamwork abilities within a group setting.
• Demonstrate acceptable methods for teaching accounting.
• Develop the ability to monitor student progress.
• Demonstrate the ability to maintain accurate student records.

BME 347 - Marketing Curriculum for Secondary Education

• Construct learning materials related to secondary level marketing education courses.
• Construct frameworks for secondary level marketing education courses.
• Justify the inclusion of a Career and Technical Education Student Organization as part of a secondary marketing education program.
• Outline the sequence and content of a typical secondary level marketing education program.

BME 396 - Individual Study

BME 397 - Honors

BME 398 - Special Topics

BME 399 - Seminar

BME 445 - Technology for Business and Marketing Education

• Examine educational applications that are currently being used to administer secondary business and marketing education. (Examples may include Google Classroom, collaborative applications, communication applications, and online gradebooks.)
• Identify appropriate uses of educational applications for administering secondary business and marketing education programs.
• Design administrative educational applications that can be used professionally.
• Prepare to accomplish industry certifications for administrative educational applications. (Example: Google Certified Educator Levels 1 & 2)
• Examine software and online applications that are currently being taught in secondary business and marketing education curricula. (Examples may include Google Docs and Adobe Creative Cloud.)
• Demonstrate proficient skills in software and online applications that are currently being applied in secondary business and marketing education technology curricula.
• Prepare curricular materials that are appropriate for use in a secondary business and marketing education technology course.

BME 450 - Curriculum Development for Business and Marketing Education

• Develop curriculum based on business/industry standards as approved by local advisory committee
• Design and implement program scope, sequence and assessment which enables students to develop marketable job skills
• Demonstrate ability to write unit and lesson plans incorporating a variety of instructional strategies, and all aspects of career and technical program approval
• Revise curriculum based on occupational changes
• Promote development of students’ self-awareness and aptitudes, confidence and character and how these relate to leadership and career pathways
• Develop student initiative and teamwork skills
• Encourage students to explore nontraditional career roles
• Identify the impact of diversity and equity issues on student learning
• Design or adapt curriculum, technologies, and instructional strategies which address the diverse needs of students including special populations
• Collaborate with business and labor partners to infuse workplace standards and practice’s into curriculum
• Publicize to students the program content and benefits
• Connect school experiences to workplace
• Develop awareness of professional dispositions and employability skills outlined in SCANS
• Identify and describe topics, course content, scope and sequence for business administration courses within a pathway
• Demonstrate knowledge of or experience with related business and marketing organizations and industry certification
• Utilize career resources to develop an information base that includes global occupational opportunities
• Demonstrate ability to apply knowledge gained from individual assessment to a comprehensive set of goals and an individual career plan
• Relate the importance of lifelong learning to career success
• Design and implement program rationale, scope, sequence and assessment which enables students to develop marketable competencies
• Develop student initiative, teamwork skills, and project-based learning ·
• Identify stages of student career development including, but not limited to post-secondary opportunities and a 13th year plan
• Accept and encourage students in nontraditional career roles
• Provide opportunities for students to productively integrate career and academic disciplines
• Adjust curriculum to information received from students and employer evaluations
• Access and use appropriate state agreements and contracts for work-based learning
• Adhere to on-site visitation training and employee evaluation criteria and requirements

BME 451 - Methods and Materials for Teaching Information Technology

• Align CTE student learning activities to state learning goals and the EALRS and GLES
• Implement instructional strategies which focus students’ achievements of benchmarks in related essential academic learning requirements (EALRs), grade level expectations (GLEs) and achievement of Goals 3 & 4
• Align career-technical learning assessment with the state learning goals and the essential academic learning requirements (EALRs) and GLEs
• Use instructional strategies and resources that incorporate current technology of business/industry
• Use instructional strategies that develop students’ skills for making career decisions 
• Use instructional strategies that develop student employability skills
• Use instructional strategies that develop students’ lifelong learning and goal setting related to entry, transition, and continuation in the educational process and in the workplace
• Develop effective assessment methods which may involve student, family, employer, and community
• Use variety of assessment methods including portfolios and business/industry standard assessment tools to measure student learning and development
• Model positive business/industry-appropriate workplace practices
• Demonstrate business/industry appropriate technology skills
• Publicize program content and benefits to family and community
• Determine and implement effective and safe layout of classroom and/or lab facilities that provide learning opportunities for all
• Identify and apply strategies (including individualized instruction) needed to instruct special populations; special needs, disabled, gifted, ethnic, and culturally diverse learners
• Demonstrate ability to assess personal strengths and weaknesses as they relate to career exploration and development
• Relate work ethic, workplace relations, workplace diversity and workplace communication skills to career development and employability skills
• Demonstrate ability to foster  teamwork and project-based learning
• Recognize methods and opportunities for integrating school-based enterprise and/or simulations across the business administration curriculum
• Demonstrate ability to implement school-based enterprise and/or simulations
• Encourage teamwork and project-based learning
• Develop strategies to make an effective transition from school-to-work
• Foster student awareness of self and aptitudes, and development of confidence and character and how these relate to leadership and career pathways
• Provide activities to connect school experiences to workplace and reinforce school-based learning
• Discuss with class and individual students results and comments on employer evaluations
• Work with employers to assess and improve student work-based learning experiences
• Foster appropriate communication between work-based learning stakeholders
• Prepare students to deal with equity and diversity
• Appropriately place students in work based learning according to career interest and aptitude
• Secure training stations for work experience
• Assist state approved student leadership organization members or other state approved student leadership organization members in developing and financing a yearly program of activities

 
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
4/5/18

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:

BME 452 - Methods and Materials for Teaching Basic Business and Marketing

• Align CTE student learning activities to state learning goals and the EALRS and GLES
• Implement instructional strategies which focus students’ achievements of benchmarks in related essential academic learning requirements (EALRs), grade level expectations (GLEs) and achievement of Goals 3 & 4
• Align career-technical learning assessment with the state learning goals and the essential academic learning requirements (EALRs) and GLEs
• Demonstrate ability to write unit and lesson plans incorporating a variety of instructional strategies, and all aspects of career and technical program approval
• Use instructional strategies and resources that incorporate current technology of business/industry
• Use instructional strategies that develop students’ skills for making career decisions  
• Use instructional strategies that develop student employability skills
• Use instructional strategies that develop students’ lifelong learning and goal setting related to entry, transition, and continuation in the educational process and in the workplace
• Develop effective assessment methods which may involve student, family, employer, and community
• Use variety of assessment methods including portfolios and business/industry standard assessment tools to measure student learning and development
• Model positive business/industry-appropriate workplace practices
• Demonstrate business/industry appropriate technology skills
• Identify and apply strategies (including individualized instruction) needed to instruct special populations; special needs, disabled, gifted, ethnic, and culturally diverse learners
• Demonstrate ability to assess personal strengths and weaknesses as they relate to career exploration and development
• Relate work ethic, workplace relations, workplace diversity and workplace communication skills to career development and employability skills
• Demonstrate ability to foster  teamwork and project-based learning
• Recognize methods and opportunities for integrating school-based enterprise and/or simulations across the business administration curriculum
• Demonstrate ability to implement school-based enterprise and/or simulations
• Encourage teamwork and project-based learning
• Develop strategies to make an effective transition from school-to-work
• Foster student awareness of self and aptitudes, and development of confidence and character and how these relate to leadership and career pathways
• Provide activities to connect school experiences to workplace and reinforce school-based learning
• Discuss with class and individual students results and comments on employer evaluations
• Foster appropriate communication between work-based learning stakeholders
• Prepare students to deal with equity and diversity
• Appropriately place students in work based learning according to career interest and aptitude
• Secure training stations for work experience
• Assist state approved student leadership organization members or other state approved student leadership organization members in developing and financing a yearly program of activities
• Demonstrate basic business management concepts and principles
• Explain how activities such as gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation affect business management decisions

BME 492 - Practicum

BME 493A - Undergraduate Research Practicum

BME 496 - Individual Study

BME 497 - Honors

BME 498 - Special Topics

BME 499 - Seminar

CTE 292 - Work-site Learning Practicum

Demonstrate a positive attitude toward work

Demonstrate job growth/skill improvement

Demonstrate the ability to successfully relate to others in the workplace

Demonstrate dependability

Demonstrates a commitment to high quality work
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
4/29/2011

Anticipated Course Offering Terms and Locations:

CTE 298 - Special Topics

CTE 299 - Seminar

CTE 310 - Introduction to Career and Technical Education

• Identify and describe the philosophy of career and technical education and how it contributes to the whole education of a student while also identifying how history has contributed to the current state of CTE
• Describe the requirements to become a CTE certified teacher in Washington state.
• Explore opportunities for the CTE professions and develop a professional growth plan.
• Demonstrate teacher/classroom quality written and oral communication skills.
• Experience the daily environment in a secondary CTE classroom.
• Participate in a student-led organization.
• Explain the role of CTE professional associations and why membership, leadership, and participation in them is important.

CTE 310A - Career and Technical Education Teaching Methods

CTE 310B - Career and Technical Education Occupational Analysis

CTE 310C - Career and Technical Education Course Organization and Curriculum Design

CTE 311A - Career and Technical Education Coordination Techniques of Cooperative Education

CTE 311B - History and Philosophy of Career and Technical Education

CTE 311C - Career and Technical Education Student and Professional Leadership Development

CTE 311D - Career and Technical Education School Law and Issues Related to Abuse

• Demonstrate an understanding of the certified teacher responsibilities under each section of WAC 180-44. Apply knowledge to individual practices.
• Understand the Code of Conduct for teachers in Washington State and analyze and evaluate the impact on teacher behavior and performance.
• Become familiar with and apply the standards and criteria for obtaining a professional teaching certificate and a CTE certificate through the College University route or through the Business Industry route.
• Analyze and evaluate the minimum criteria for the evaluation of a certificated employee.
• Analyze and evaluate the 1^st, 4^th, 5^th and 10^th Amendments to the US Constitution and how they relate to public education and to student, parent and teacher rights and responsibilities.
• Evaluate landmark cases that have impacted schools.
• Interpret the rights of teachers and cite court cases.
• Analyze and become familiar with the Landmark cases referring to education, teachers, schools, parents and students.
• Become familiar with common legal terms that apply to public education.
• Become familiar with the Federal and State Court System.
• Analyze the differences between criminal and civil law.
• Analyze the rules and regulations for students in Special Education or who have Section 504 plans.
• Become familiar with and be able to identify abuse and neglect.
• Evaluate the teachers legal responsibilities under RCW 26-44.
• Learn how and when to report abuse and neglect.
• Distinguish what is considered Harassment and Bullying.
• Analyze the impact of abuse on the behavior and learning of students.

CTE 396 - Individual Study

CTE 397 - Honors

CTE 398 - Special Topics

CTE 399 - Seminar

CTE 410 - Career and Technical Education School to Work Programs

• Demonstrate the ability to apply the guidelines and legal requirements surrounding work-based learning.
• Demonstrate the ability to apply the guidelines and legal requirements surrounding worksite learning.
• Define and describe CTE standards for Washington state.
• Define and describe CTE certification requirements.

CTE 422 - Impact of Education Reform on Career and Technical Education

• Identify the impact of current education reform issues.
• Identify community needs related to education.
• Identify, integrate and apply specific skills, knowledge, and technologies in the classroom.
• Demonstrate their ability to analyze their progress in implementing an education reform project.

CTE 432 - Occupational Analysis (Put on reserve 9/16/19)

CTE 440 - Total Quality Learning in Career and Technical Education (Put on reserve 9/16/18)

CTE 460 - Business and Marketing Education Exit Assessment

CTE 492 - Practicum

• Find a practicum
• Demonstrate ability to manage the physical environment and human dynamics of the classroom
• Demonstrate their ability to design and manage the instructional and the physical environment as well at the human dynamics of the classroom
• Demonstrate their ability to use both formative (on-going) and summative (final) evaluation techniques in order to evaluate and assess programs, students and their own teaching
• Demonstrate their ability to work effectively with students of various backgrounds, handicapping conditions and capabilities, and social and/or ethnic populations
• Demonstrate their ability to integrate education policies with the school, home and community
• Demonstrate the minimum criteria of professional preparation and scholarship for classroom teachers who are certified to teach based on their business and industry experience
• Demonstrate that they have implemented and maintained collaborative partnerships with students, colleagues, community, business, industry and families which maximize resources and promote student self-sufficiency

CTE 496 - Individual Study

CTE 497 - Honors

CTE 498 - Special Topics

CTE 499 - Seminar

CWU 184 - First-Year Experience

• Explore methods of academic inquiry through engaging subject matter.
• Discuss concepts effectively with peers.
• Use writing-to-learn strategies to clarify ideas and understand new concepts.
• Communicate effectively through oral presentation.
• Recognize and apply critical thinking strategies used in a discipline.
• Engage in a library-led information literacy session and apply best practices for evaluating information sources in scholarly research.

CWU 400 - General Education Culminating Experience

• Demonstrate clear communication strategies and techniques in oral, written, or expressive form.
• Apply higher-order critical thinking and/or problem-solving skills.
• Reflect upon, integrate, and apply the knowledge and skills they gleaned from their undergraduate experience, including General Education.
• Synthesize and present a response, propose a solution/answer, or showcase their own creative work.

CHEM 101 - Chemistry and Planet Earth

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Recognize chemical vs physical changes, and describe matter in terms of atoms and molecules.
• Predict formula and describe type of bonding for simple chemical compounds.
• Identify relationships between experimental observations as expressed in tabular or graphic format and make hypotheses concerning cause and effect.
• Solve basic chemistry problems, using mathematical formulas, scientific notation, SI units, and balanced chemical equations.
• Identify several types of chemical processes, including oxidation and reduction, dissolution of electrolytes, and acid-base reactions.
• Describe the chemical make-up of earth’s atmosphere; describe anthropogenic pollutants in our atmosphere, their source(s), and their effect on the natural environment, human society and individuals
• Describe chemistry of energy production from fossil fuels, and discuss potential benefits and risks associated with several forms of energy production. 
• Discuss and analyze benefits vs risks/costs for either specific examples of recycling or use of specific fertilizers, insecticides and herbicides in food production.
• Explain methods for water purification including distillation, reverse osmosis, and sedimentation-filtration-chlorination.
• Make, record, and report experimental observations. Draw conclusions from data. Present and discuss data within a team of peers. 

CHEM 106 - Chemistry Inquiry (Put on reserve 9/16/19)

• Apply appropriate scientific investigative techniques to address questions about relevant chemistry concepts.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret quantitative and qualitative data to address questions about relevant chemistry concepts.
• Apply chemistry concepts and processes to personal and societal issues.
• Articulate how their own ideas and understanding change and develop, and how the structure of the learning environment and curriculum facilitates these changes.
• Find and utilize a variety of resources to learn and communicate about chemistry concepts and processes.

CHEM 110 - Introduction to Scientific Problem Solving Used in Modern Chemistry

• Correctly arrange scientific equations in their scientific calculators and be able to obtain the correct answer to a given problem.
• Graphical analysis:
  • Define the independent and dependent variable given graphical data of scientific measurements.
  • Identify direct and inverse relationships represented in graphical data of scientific measurements.
  • Interpret relations between two physical quantities based on graphical data of scientific measurements.
• Units of Measurement
  • Recognize different measurement units and how to convert from one unit to another. 
  • Identify physical quantities with combined units such as density or velocity.
  • Using quantities with combined units to convert from one unit to another.
• Recognizing the limits of precision in scientific measurements and the use of significant figures to describe experimental precision.
• Students will correctly translate decimal notation to scientific notation. 
• Recognizing differences in the order of magnitude of numbers that are written in scientific notation.

CHEM 111 - Introduction to Chemistry

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Apply chemistry concepts to real-world issues.
• Interpret quantitative and qualitative data to address questions about relevant chemistry topics.
• Apply mathematical methods to the solution of common chemistry problems, including the use of scientific notation, significant figures and the quantitative use of balance chemical equations.
• Read graphical data, including common x,y plots with axes properly labeled.  Students will be able to extract qualitative information about the relationship between quantities and quantitative information from the slope of x,y plots.
• Understand the difference between accuracy and precision, and the difference between random and systematic error.
• Describe the terms in an algebraic expression and qualitatively describe the relationships between various terms.  Students will be able to use an algebraic expression to solve quantitatively for various terms, given appropriate numerical information.

CHEM 111LAB - Introductory Chemistry Laboratory

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Apply chemistry concepts to real-world issues.
• Interpret quantitative and qualitative data to address questions about relevant chemistry topics.
• Apply mathematical methods to the solution of common chemistry problems, including the use of scientific notation, significant figures and the quantitative use of balance chemical equations.
• Read graphical data, including common x,y plots with axes properly labeled.  Students will be able to extract qualitative information about the relationship between quantities and quantitative information from the slope of x,y plots.
• Understand the difference between accuracy and precision, and the difference between random and systematic error.
• Describe the terms in an algebraic expression and qualitatively describe the relationships between various terms.  Students will be able to use an algebraic expression to solve quantitatively for various terms, given appropriate numerical information.

CHEM 112 - Introduction to Organic Chemistry

• Describe fundamental properties of carbon, its compounds, and various functional groups.
• Identify alkanes, alkenes and alkynes. Write correct names and structures and identify reaction products.
• Identify aromatic compounds. Write correct names and structures and identify reaction products.
• Identify alcohols, ethers and thiols. Write correct names and structures and identify reaction products.
• Identify molecules that exist as stereoisomers. Predict the number of isomers and their properties.
• Identify nitrogen-containing organic compounds. Write correct names and structures and identify reaction products.
• Identify aldehydes and ketones. Write correct names and structures and identify reaction products.
• Identify carboxylic acids and their derivatives. Write correct names and structures and identify reaction products.

CHEM 112LAB - Introduction to Organic Chemistry Laboratory

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Know principles of laboratory safety and demonstrate safe techniques
• Demonstrate ability to use common organic lab techniques such as recrystallization, extraction, and determination of melting point.
• Carry out laboratory synthesis and identification of the product by melting point or by chemical reactivity.
• Perform separation techniques such as distillation and thin-layer chromatography.
• Use laboratory data to calculate actual product yield, and calculate results from titration experiments.

CHEM 113 - Introduction to Biochemistry

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Identify the structure, properties, and names of common carbohydrates.
• Identify the structure, properties, and names of common lipids.
• Identify the structure, properties, and names of common amino acids and proteins.
• Describe the properties, structures and functions of enzymes.
• Identify the structures, properties, names, and functions of nucleotides, RNA, and DNA.
• Describe the fundamental characteristics of metabolism, anabolism, and catabolism.
• Identify the major pathways of carbohydrate, lipid, and amino acid metabolism. Describe the regulation, cell location, and energy changes associated with these pathways.

CHEM 113LAB - Introduction to Biochemistry Laboratory

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Know principles of laboratory safety and demonstrate safe techniques.
• Perform common chemical tests of carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, and proteins
• Demonstrate ability to use common biochemical techniques such as spectrophotometry and titration
• Use spreadsheets to analyze data for standard curves and to calculate concentrations of unknown solutions.
• Perform various qualitative tests to identify common biochemical substances and their properties

CHEM 181 - General Chemistry I

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Apply a working knowledge of chemical concepts such as atoms and molecules, stoichiometry, solution chemistry, thermochemistry, electronic structure of the atom and periodicity, and chemical bonding.
• Calculate extensive and intensive properties through basic algebra.
• Display a working knowledge of IUPAC nomenclature.
• Apply a working knowledge of chemical concepts for personal health and safety, the health and safety of others, and impacts on the local environment
• Apply chemistry concepts to real-world issues.
• Interpret quantitative and qualitative data to address questions about relevant chemistry topics.
• Apply mathematical methods to the solution of common chemistry problems, including the use of scientific notation, significant figures and the quantitative use of balance chemical equations.
• Read graphical data, including common x,y plots with axes properly labeled. Students will be able to extract qualitative information about the relationship between quantities and quantitative information from the slope of x,y plots.
• Describe the difference between accuracy and precision, and the difference between random and systematic error.
• Describe the terms in an algebraic expression and qualitatively describe the relationships between various terms.  Students will be able to use an algebraic expression to solve quantitatively for various terms, given appropriate numerical information.

CHEM 181LAB - General Chemistry Laboratory I

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of chemical concepts such as atoms and molecules, stoichiometry, solution chemistry, thermochemistry, electronic structure of the atom and periodicity, and chemical bonding.
• Collect and analyze data, such as calculating extensive and intensive properties of chemicals, in a laboratory setting.
• Demonstrate Proper Laboratory Procedure (PLP), such as performing safe laboratory procedures, handling of chemicals and scientific apparatus, disposing of hazardous waste, and storing chemicals appropriately.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of chemical concepts for personal health and safety, the health and safety of others, and impacts on the local environment.

CHEM 182 - General Chemistry II

• Apply a working knowledge of chemical concepts such as molecular geometry and bonding theories, gas laws, intermolecular forces, solution properties, and chemical kinetics.
• Calculate extensive and intensive properties through basic algebra.
• Display a working knowledge of IUPAC nomenclature.
• Follow mathematical derivations of chemical kinetics that assist in understanding complex chemical interactions.
• Apply a working knowledge of chemical concepts, for personal health and safety, the health and safety of others, and impacts on the local environment.

CHEM 182LAB - General Chemistry Laboratory II

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of chemical concepts, for personal health and safety, the health and safety of others, and impacts on the local environment.
• Collect and analyze data, such as calculating extensive and intensive properties of chemicals, in a laboratory setting.Demonstrate Proper Laboratory Procedure (PLP), such as performing safe laboratory procedures, handling of chemicals and scientific apparatus, disposing of hazardous waste, and storing chemicals appropriately.
• Demonstrate Proper Laboratory Procedure (PLP), such as performing safe laboratory procedures, handling of chemicals and scientific apparatus, disposing of hazardous waste, and storing chemicals appropriately.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of chemical concepts for personal health and safety, the health and safety of others, and impacts on the local environment.

CHEM 183 - General Chemistry III

• Apply a working knowledge of chemical concepts such as chemical equilibria, acid-base chemistry, solubility, entropy, free energy, and electrochemistry.
• Calculate extensive and intensive properties through basic algebra.
• Apply a working knowledge of IUPAC nomenclature.
• Follow mathematical derivations of dynamic chemical equilibrium that assist in understanding complex chemical interactions.
• Apply a working knowledge of chemical concepts for personal health and safety, the health and safety of others, and impacts on the local environment.

CHEM 183LAB - General Chemistry Laboratory III

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of chemical concepts such as chemical equilibria, acid-base chemistry, solubility, entropy, free energy and electrochemistry.
• Collect and analyze data, such as calculating extensive and intensive properties of chemicals, in a laboratory setting.
• Demonstrate Proper Laboratory Procedure (PLP), such as performing safe laboratory procedures, handling of chemicals and scientific apparatus, disposing of hazardous waste, and storing chemicals appropriately.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of chemical concepts for personal health and safety, the health and safety of others, and impacts on the local environment.

CHEM 193LAB - General Chemistry III Honors Laboratory

• Demonstrate expertise in using laboratory equipment and associated techniques to make accurate and precise measurements.
• Collaborate with other students to develop an experimental approach to solving a problem or answering a posed question.
• Collect, analyze, and interpret experimental data to obtain meaningful results.
• Maintain an accurate and usable record of laboratory work, and prepare written lab reports that satisfactorily represent the work accomplished and describe its significance in the context of specified objectives.

CHEM 295 - Research

CHEM 296 - Individual Study

CHEM 298 - Special Topics

CHEM 299 - Seminar

CHEM 332 - Quantitative Analysis

• Compute analytical figures of merit.
• Choose appropriate statistical tools.
• Compute equilibrium concentrations of complex mixtures of species in aqueous solutions (e.g., precipitation, polyprotic acid-base, etc.)
• Compute activities.
• Theoretically reproduce and illustrate titration curves.
• Choose a buffer and describe how to prepare it.

CHEM 332LAB - Quantitative Analysis Laboratory

• Compute analytical figures of merit.
• Evaluate significance of results obtained.
• Demonstrate effective use of tools of the trade in analytical chemistry.
• Follow and organize laboratory procedures meticulously.
• Apply knowledge acquired in lecture part.
• Report results in a meaningful and clear fashion.

CHEM 345 - Environmental Chemistry

• Apply basic chemical concepts, such as equilibrium, oxidation-reduction reactions, kinetics, solubility, and acid-base chemistry to complex environmental processes
• Collaborate with class mates in researching a topic of interest and presenting it.
• Derive aqueous concentration of species in different ambient environments from a pE-pH diagram.
• Collect field samples of waters, air, and soils.
• Perform various chemical analyses of liquid, solid and gaseous environmental samples.
• Interpret results obtained from analyses.
• Coordinate lab work with partners.
• Perform modeling of speciation of metals in the environment.

CHEM 350 - Inorganic Chemistry

• Describe the periodic properties of the elements using the periodic table.
• Describe the properties of the atomic orbitals that are derived from quantum mechanics, be able to sketch atomic orbitals.
• Describe the essential principals of molecular orbital theory, sketch and interpret molecular orbital diagrams for diatomic molecules, interpret molecular orbital diagrams for polyatomic molecules.
• Describe the different types of solids and identify the primary bonding mechanisms of each.
• Identify the basic symmetry elements and the point group of molecules.
• Know the expected geometries of coordination compounds and name simple coordination compounds.

CHEM 361 - Organic Chemistry I

• Recognize applications of organic chemistry in our everyday lives
• Apply the IUPAC nomenclature system for alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, and halo alkanes.
• Draw and interpret structures for organic compounds.
• Predict trends in physical properties for a series of related organic compounds.
• Predict three dimensional conformations for organic molecules.
• Use infrared spectroscopy and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the identification of organic structures.
• Draw a mechanism for a typical electrophilic addition reaction to an alkene and show the structures of intermediate carbocation’s.
• Identify typical reagents used for basic synthetic reactions of alkenes and alkynes.

CHEM 361LAB - Organic Chemistry Laboratory I

• Run IR spectra of liquids and solids. Gain experience interpreting IR and NMR spectra.
• Determine identity and purity of organic solids through melting point determination.
• Purify organic compounds through recrystallization, extraction, distillation.
• Practice working with a team of other scientists in a laboratory setting.
• Practice making hypotheses, collecting and evaluating data.
• Practice technical report writing.
• Practice finding information in the chemical literature, and extracting specific information from the primary chemical literature.

CHEM 362 - Organic Chemistry II

CHEM 363 - Organic Chemistry III

• Recognize applications of organic chemistry in our everyday lives.
• Apply the IUPAC nomenclature system for carboxylic acid derivatives, aromatic compounds, and amines.
• Draw and interpret structures for organic compounds.
• Predict trends in physical properties for a series of related organic compounds.
• Predict the aromatic character of organic molecules.
• Use mass spectrometry and ultraviolet spectroscopy in the identification of organic structures.
• Draw a mechanism for typical nucleophilic acyl substitution and carbonyl alpha-substitution and condensation reactions showing the structures of all intermediates.
• Identify typical reagents used for basic synthetic reactions of carboxylic acid derivatives, aromatic compounds, amines, and carbohydrates

CHEM 363LAB - Organic Chemistry Laboratory II

• Use basic laboratory techniques for isolation and purification of organic compounds, including extraction, recrystallization, distillation, and chromatography.
• Select and use a variety of chemistry laboratory and computational techniques that are appropriate in achieving the desired functional group transformations.
• Draw and interpret structures for organic compounds.
• Draw mechanisms for all the reactions studied, including the structures of all intermediates.
• Use infrared spectroscopy, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the identification of organic structures.
• Formulate and test hypotheses, trouble-shoot laboratory procedures, and draw conclusions from obtained data and observations.

CHEM 381 - Physical Chemistry (Thermodynamics)

• Use equations of state to solve problems in thermodynamics and deepen their insight into the physical world.
• Use the concepts of internal energy, entropy, the Gibbs energy and the Helmholtz energy to solve problems in thermodynamics and deepen their insight into the physical world.
• Use partial derivatives as applied to thermodynamics.
• Interpret and use phase diagrams to solve problems in chemistry and deepen their insight into the physical world.
• Use concepts of phase equilibrium and chemical potential to solve problems in chemistry and deepen their insight into the physical world.

CHEM 382 - Physical Chemistry (Quantum Chemistry)

• Use probability distribution functions to determine average values and event probabilities
• Solve the Schrodinger equation for a series of quantum mechanical systems including the particle-in-a-box, tunneling, the harmonic oscillator, and the rigid rotor.
• Use the quantum mechanical solutions for the hydrogen atom to determine physical quantities such as average distances of electrons from nuclei and orbital energies
• Incorporate the concepts of electron shielding, exchange symmetry, the Pauli Exclusion principle, Hund’s rule, and spin-orbit coupling into their understanding of many electron atoms.

CHEM 382LAB - Integrated Physical/Inorganic Laboratory I

• Name inorganic compounds
• Obtain and interpret data used to characterize inorganic compounds, including UV/Vis absorption spectra, infrared spectra, and nuclear magnetic resonance data.
• Perform basic inorganic synthesis.
• Describe the physical principles that constitute the foundations of thermodynamics.
• Exhibit proficiency with data collection and data manipulation techniques applied to physical phenomena.
• Exhibit proficiency in the presentation of experimental results in a written format.

CHEM 383 - Physical Chemistry (Quantum, Statistical Mechanics) III

• Use the quantum mechanical solutions for the hydrogen atom to determine physical quantities such as average distances of electrons from nuclei and orbital energies.
• Incorporate the concepts of electron shielding, exchange symmetry, the Pauli Exclusion principle, Hund’s rule, and spin-orbit coupling into their understanding of many electron atoms.
• Use the variational method to determine the energies and wave functions for molecular systems.
• Use the Boltzmann distribution to determine how a large ensemble of particles is distributed among the energy states available for electronic, translational, rotational, and vibrational modes of motion.
• Derive the expressions of thermodynamic functions including internal energy, enthalpy, Gibbs energy, Helmholtz energy, entropy, and heat capacity.

 
Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
1/19/17

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CHEM 383LAB - Integrated Physical/Inorganic Laboratory II

• Synthesize inorganic compounds, including air sensitive materials.
• Analyze inorganic compounds using traditional characterization techniques, and be able to interpret the results of the analysis.
• Apply modeling techniques to describe the kinetics of complexation reactions.
• Apply modern computational methods to the characterization of chemical compounds and reactions.

CHEM 395 - Research

CHEM 396 - Individual Study

CHEM 397 - Honors

CHEM 398 - Special Topics

CHEM 399 - Seminar

CHEM 431 - Biochemistry I

• Correctly use biochemical vocabulary.
• Draw structural formulae and name selected molecules within all four classes of biologically important molecules: proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and nucleic acids.
• Describe in text or with structural formulae the chemical structure of macromolecules made from amino acids, nucleotides, or carbohydrates.
• Describe the chemical and physical forces that collectively maintain the structure of macromolecules and the biological membrane.
• Describe the relationship between the physiochemical properties of molecules and their biological function.
• Explain the chemical basis of selected biochemical laboratory techniques and interpret data resulting from those techniques.
• Calculate kinetic constants of enzymes and protein transporters using the Michaelis-Menton equation or tabulated data.

CHEM 431LAB - Biochemistry Laboratory

• Set-up and operate biochemical instrumentation
• Record data in a laboratory notebook
• Calculate data and organize results in tabular or graphical format
• Interpret results from UV-visible, electrophoretic, and other biochemical experiments
• Write laboratory reports with correct nomenclature, vocabulary, and data presentation
• Design experiments to characterize kinetic parameters of an enzyme

CHEM 432 - Biochemistry II

• Correctly use biochemical vocabulary.
• Describe the free energy changes that occur in intermediary metabolism.
• Describe reaction pathways of intermediary metabolism by naming and writing structural formulae of intermediates, naming enzymes, and naming cofactors in glycolysis, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, and beta-oxidation of fatty acids.
• Summarize intermediary metabolic pathways by naming select intermediates, enzymes, and cofactors in cholesterol synthesis, glycogen metabolism, amino acid metabolism, and nucleotide metabolism.
• Describe the cellular structural requirements and chemical steps that form an electrochemical gradient in mitochondria and how the gradient contributes to ATP synthesis (electron transport and oxidative phosphorylation).
• Describe the role of allostery, covalent modification, and hormones in the regulation of select metabolic pathways.
• Describe the chemical components and processes involved in signal transduction.

CHEM 433 - Biochemistry III

• Correctly use biochemical vocabulary.
• Describe in text or with drawings the basis for biochemical experimental techniques.
• Critically analyze data from biochemical experiments.
• Describe in text or with drawings mechanisms of transcriptional and translational regulation.
• Analyze protein and nucleic acid sequences using common online tools.