Courses & Curriculum
As a Chatham chemistry major, you'll develop strong laboratory skills, written and oral communication skills, critical thinking, and information literacy. Explore this page's sample courses and curriculum, and come back soon for a more detailed example degree progression.
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Sample Courses & Curriculum
Integrated Chemistry Laboratory
Experiments are selected to illustrate important principles of advanced experimental chemistry and to familiarize students with important experimental methods. The course is intended to encourage students to think critically about the reliability of their experimental results in the light of their previous chemistry experience.
Environmental Chemistry
This course is an advanced study of the chemical principles underlying common environmental problems. It aims to deepen the student’s knowledge of chemistry and its role in the environment and shows the power of chemistry as a tool to help us comprehend the changing world around us.
Computational Drug Design
Study of computational techniques of importance in contemporary drug design. Topics include molecular docking, ligand binding free energy calculations, de novo drug design, pharmacophore elucidation, quantitative structure-activity relations, and combinatorial library design.
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