First-Year Chinese I
This course, along with CHIN 102 in the spring semester, is an elementary introduction to Mandarin Chinese offered for students who have no Chinese-speaking backgrounds. The class takes an integrated approach to basic language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and it emphasizes pronunciation and the tones, Chinese character handwriting, and the most basic structure and patterns of Chinese grammar. The class meets five times per week (lectures on MWF and drill sessions on TTh).
Limited to 30 students. Fall semester. Senior Lecturer Li.
First-Year Chinese I
This course, along with CHIN 102 in the spring semester, is an elementary introduction to Mandarin Chinese offered for students who have no Chinese-speaking backgrounds. The class takes an integrated approach to basic language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and it emphasizes pronunciation and the tones, Chinese character handwriting, and the most basic structure and patterns of Chinese grammar. The class meets five times per week (lectures on MWF and drill sessions on TTh).
Limited to 30 students. Fall semester. Senior Lecturer Li.
Special Topics
A full course.
Admission with consent of the instructor. Fall and spring semesters. The Department.
Medicinal Chemistry
This course will focus on the fundamentals of medicinal chemistry, an organic-chemistry-based discipline that interfaces strongly with the biological and pharmaceutical sciences. Broadly, the field of medicinal chemistry is concerned with the discovery and preparation of biologically active compounds; the study of their metabolism; the interpretation of their mode of action at the molecular level; and the construction of structure-activity relationships. We will center our attention on the science of drug design, with an emphasis on the organic synthesis of viable drug candidates.
Special Topics
A full course.
Admission with consent of the instructor. Fall and spring semesters. The Department.
Inorganic Chemistry
The structure, bonding, and symmetry of transition metal-containing molecules and inorganic solids are discussed. Structure and bonding in transition metal complexes are examined through molecular orbital and ligand field theories, with an emphasis on the magnetic, spectral, and thermodynamic properties of transition metal complexes. Reactions of transition metal complexes, including the unique chemistry of organometallic compounds, will be examined. The laboratory experiments complement lecture material and include a final independent project.