Chemistry Skills

To facilitate student success, the chemistry Discipline STRONGLY suggests that students have the following skills BEFORE registering for chemistry courses. Please note that suggested skills vary by course.

List of skills students should have prior to registering for chemistry classes:

(CHE 1000) Specific Skill Sets Suggested Prior to Registering

The student is expected to have basic arithmetic skills including:

The ability to set up and solve word problems
Familiarity with exponents.
Familiarity with logs

The student is expected to have the ability and willingness to understand and follow laboratory safety regulations.

(CHE 1320) Specific Skill Sets Suggested Prior to Registering

The student is expected to have the basic chemistry skills obtained from a high school level chemistry course or a college level introductory chemistry course including:

The language of chemistry.
The meaning and use of the mole, atomic theory and structure.
The periodic table.
Chemical bonding, chemical reactions and equations.
Stoichiometry.
Solution chemistry.

The student is expected to have basic laboratory skills including the ability and willingness to understand and follow laboratory safety regulations.

(CHE 1510) Specific Skill Sets Suggested Prior to Registering

The student is expected to have the basic chemistry skills obtained from a high school level chemistry course or a college level introductory chemistry course including:

The language of chemistry.
The meaning and use of the mole, atomic theory and structure.
The periodic table.
Chemical bonding, chemical reactions and equations.
Stoichiometry.
Solution chemistry.

The student is expected to have basic laboratory skills including the ability and willingness to understand and follow laboratory safety regulations.

The student is expected to have basic algebra skills including:

Ability to set up and solve word problems
Familiarity with exponents.
Familiarity with logs

(CHE 1520) Specific Skill Sets Suggested Prior to Registering

The student is expected to have the basic chemistry skills obtained from a college level first semester course of general chemistry including:

The principles of atomic structure
Valence shell electron pair repulsion theory
Chemical bonding
Stoichiometry
Acids and bases
Thermochemistry
Kinetic molecular theory

The student is expected to have basic laboratory skills including the ability and willingness to understand and follow laboratory safety regulations.

The student is expected to have basic algebra skills including

Ability to set up and solve word problems
Ability to work with exponents.
Ability to work with logs
Ability to use the quadratic formula