Undergraduate Bulletin - Loyola Marymount University

352 / CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY
CHEM 360
Quantitative Analysis
4 Semester Hours
Theory and practice of chemical analyses.
Lecture, 2 hours.
Prerequisites: CHEM 112 and 113.
Corequisite: CHEM 361.
CHEM 361
Quantitative Analysis Lab
0 Semester Hours
Calibration of glassware, analysis of selected unknown
samples by volumetric, gravimetric, and electrochemical
methods.
Laboratory, 6 hours.
Corequisite: CHEM 360.
CHEM 370
Introduction to Biochemistry
3 Semester Hours
Fundamentals of macromolecular structure, function, and
central metabolic pathways as well as nucleic acid
metabolism.
Chemistry majors and non-majors. Not available for credit
with CHEM 470 or CHEM 472.
Lecture, 3 hours.
Prerequisites: CHEM 222 and 223.
CHEM 390
Chemistry Seminar
1 Semester Hour
Regular attendance at Departmental Seminar Program.
CR/NC grading only.
CHEM 391
Chemistry Seminar
1 Semester Hour
Regular attendance at Departmental Seminar Program
and presentation of a seminar.
CHEM 393
Chemistry/Biochemistry Internship
1-3 Semester Hours
Research/Development work conducted in a professional
chemical setting in a local government or industrial
laboratory. Work includes both theory and laboratory
practice on a project designed cooperatively by the
laboratory’s supervisory staff and LMU faculty. The
project is jointly supervised by on-site staff and LMU
faculty.
May be repeated for credit up to 6 seminar hours.
CHEM 398
Special Studies: Chemistry Topics
1-3 Semester Hours
CHEM 399
Independent Studies
1-3 Semester Hours
CHEM 430
Advanced Inorganic Chemistry I
3 Semester Hours
Chemical bonding treated from the viewpoints of valence
bond, ligand field, and molecular orbital theories. Applied
thermodynamics, kinetics, and acid-base concepts.
Lecture, 3 hours.
Prerequisites: CHEM 342 and 343.
CHEM 431
Advanced Inorganic Chemistry I Lab
1 Semester Hour
Inorganic synthesis using special methods such as
furnace, dry box, high vacuum, and electric discharge.
Resolution of stereoisomers, and determination of
magnetic susceptibility.
Lecture and laboratory, 4 hours.
Prerequisites: CHEM 360, CHEM 430 or concurrent
enrollment, CHEM 360.
CHEM 460
Instrumental Analysis
3 Semester Hours
Analytical methods using instrumental techniques,
including gas and liquid chromatography, atomic,
molecular, nuclear magnetic resonance, and mass
spectroscopy.
Lecture, 3 hours.
Prerequisites: CHEM 340 and 341 or concurrent
enrollment.