The Chemistry Department is in the midst of redesigning and reinvigorating its curriculum to accurately reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the subject. Overall content will remain largely the same, but reorganized. This will allow for modern topics such as polymers, chemical biology, chemometrics, computational chemistry to be covered more fully and allow students more choice in upper level electives.
Students entering in the fall of 2018, as members of the Class of 2022, will begin with this new curriculum.
- In the fall semester, students should register for CH130: General Chemistry I (and its associated laboratory) and MA170: Calculus I, as well as HU103: Conversatio I and another core requirement.
- For the spring semester, students should register for CH150: Special Topics: Structure and Reactivity (and its associated laboratory) and MA180: Calculus II, as well as HU104: Conversatio II and a core requirement.
You will discuss your course schedules with your departmental advisors during pre-registration week each semester.
The process of updating the curriculum centered around the learning outcomes the Department developed for the major, as seen here. A student who has completed a degree in Chemistry from Saint Anselm College:
- Communicates chemical and/or biochemical information with enthusiasm, clarity, and coherence through writing and speaking;
- Has a solid foundation in chemical principles and theories;
- Understands the theory behind and effectively utilizes state–of–the–art laboratory equipment and technology;
- Develops research ideas in chemistry or biochemistry, and designs experiments to examine those ideas;
- Recognizes and endeavors to solve challenges facing the discipline;
- Applies chemical principles to phenomena of the natural world.
A program of study in Chemistry which meets the requirements of the State of New Hampshire Department of Education for Teacher Certification in Chemistry.