4.00 Credits
An introduction to the fundamental principles of general chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry aimed at students who will pursuing careers in the health professions or those students that need a laboratory component. The fundamental concepts of chemistry will be presented in a format that is understood by non-science majors and will be related specifically to the health professions. Emphasis is placed on basic nomenclature, balancing equations, elemental stoichiometry, energy changes, solutions, concentrations, acids, bases, buffers gas laws, chemical and physical properties, atomic and molecular structure, nuclear chemistry, organic chemistry functional groups and properties, biologically significant types of organic reactions, carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, proteins, nucleic acids and metabolism.