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2024 - 2025 Catalog Year
Chemistry (Full-time)

Degree: Associate of Science
Division: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

This Sample Program Pathway is designed to provide an example of course selections in a term by term sequence. Please see an Academic Advisor for a plan specific to your academic needs.

Fall Semester (First Year)
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Description: A university-parallel course in chemistry for the science major. The first half of a comprehensive first-year survey of chemistry. Topics include the basics of matter, atoms and molecules, chemical reactions, bonding, molecular geometry and gases. Students registering for this course should have previously taken high school chemistry or equivalent. Four classroom hours, three lab hours per week.

Notes: Student can receive extra assistance in CHE lab, 12312. Please contact CHE department for days/time

Prerequisites: MAT 0300 or MAT 1450 or MAT 1470 or MAT 1570 or MAT 1580 or MAT 2270 or MAT 2280 or MAT 2290

Corequisites: CHE 1251

Corequisites: CHE 1211

Description: Trigonometric functions of angles, solving right and oblique triangles, identities, trigonometric and inverse trigonometric equations, vectors, radian measure, graphs of trigonometric functions and inverse trigonometric functions, conic sections, sequences, and series. Two classroom, two lab hours per week. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.

Prerequisites: MAT 1470 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)

Description: Applied computer tools to solve engineering technology problems, emphasizing the integration of word processing, spreadsheets, presentation software and engineering research skills using the Internet. Applications of an integrated approach to research papers, engineering technology analysis, technical laboratory reports and technical presentations. One-half classroom, one and one-half lab hours per week.

Prerequisites: MAT 0100 or MAT 0600 or MAT 1110

Description: In English Composition I students learn reflective, analytical and argumentative writing strategies, incorporating sources and personal experience. Students will negotiate between public and private rhetorical situations and purposes to achieve academic literacy. They will write multiple drafts using a recursive writing process as they work toward fluency in style and mechanics. Note: Students who have not successfully completed the pre-requisites listed can register for ENG 1101 together with the co-requisite course ENG 0101 - English Composition I Booster.

Prerequisites: DEV 0035 or Other (Placement Test Score)

Description: This course is designed to help new students make a successful transition to Sinclair Community College. Topics include college resources; academic, career and personal services available through Sinclair; learning styles; the learning process; financial responsibility; stress and wellness; and computer literacy through eLearn and library resources.

 

Term hours subtotal:

13

Spring Semester (First Year)
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Description: The second half of a university-parallel course in chemistry for the science or engineering major. Topics include liquids and solids, solutions, chemical reaction kinetics, chemical equilibrium, acid/base chemistry, electrochemistry, representative metals, metalloids and non-metals and organic chemistry. Four classroom hours, three lab hours per week.

Notes: Student can receive extra assistance in CHE lab, 12312. Please contact CHE department for days/time

Prerequisites: CHE 1211

Corequisites: CHE 1261

Notes: Students must wear closed toe shoes in lab.

Corequisites: CHE 1221

Description: The first course of a three-semester sequence of courses. Topics include limits and continuity, the derivative and its applications including related rates and optimization, L'Hopital's rule, antiderivatives, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, integration by substitution. Traditional testing (proctored or in Testing Center) is used in all online sections.

Notes: Tutoring assistance available in the Math Lab, Room 1-315

Prerequisites: MAT 1570 or MAT 1580 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)

Description: Designed to improve speaking and listening skills through the study and application of public speaking structure, content and style. This course requires 5 speeches in front of a live audience. The online course sections require the recordings to be created by the student with at least 8 adults present for each speech. Any questions, please contact the Communication Department at com.dept@sinclair.edu.

Notes: Student may also take COM 2206

Description: University-parallel course covering history and systems of psychology, behavioral research methods, physiology of behavior, sensation, perception, learning, memory, consciousness, cognition, personality, lifespan development, gender, social psychology, motivation, emotion, stress, mental disorders and therapies.

Notes: Any Ohio Transfer Module Social & Behavioral Sciences Elective. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/ Must take two categories of Social & Behavioral Sciences (i.e. not two PSY courses) Per UD Articulation- Select two from different subject areas: SOC 1145, ECO 2160, ECO 2180, PLS 1120, PLS 2200, PSY 1100, SOC 1101, SOC 2205

 

Term hours subtotal:

16

Summer Semester (First Year)
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Description: The second course of a three-semester sequence of courses. Techniques of integration, applications of integration, numerical integration, improper integrals, infinite sequences and series, power series, parametric equations, polar coordinates, conic sections.

Notes: Tutoring assistance available in the Math Lab, Room 1-315

Prerequisites: MAT 2270 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)

Description: English Composition II, building on the skills in English Composition I, develops rhetorical literacy through research, critical reading and multigenre writing tasks. Through major and minor, cumulative and stand-alone assignments, students construct arguments and analyses, ethically incorporating academic sources while developing their own voices as writers and citizens.

Prerequisites: ENG 1101

Description: Fundamentals of mechanics including kinematics, dynamics, work and energy, momentum, oscillations, gravity, fluids, waves and sound, thermodynamics and kinetic theory, using calculus as appropriate. Four classroom, three lab hours per week.

Notes: Not needed for Sinclair degree but additional course per UD articulation

Prerequisites: MAT 2270

Corequisites: PHY 2207

Corequisites: PHY 2201

 

Term hours subtotal:

13

Fall Semester (Second Year)
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Description: The study of alkanes, stereochemistry, alkyl halides, organometallic compounds, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic hydrocarbons and spectroscopic methods of organic analysis. Four classroom, three lab hours per week.

Notes: Student can receive extra assistance in CHE lab, 12312. Please contact CHE department for days/time

Prerequisites: CHE 1221

Corequisites: CHE 2151

Description: Lab for CHE 2111.

Notes: Students must wear closed toe shoes in lab.

Corequisites: CHE 2111

Description: Vectors in the plane and space, dot and cross product of two vectors. Lines, planes and surfaces in space, vector-valued functions, arc length and curvature. Functions of several variables, partial derivatives with applications, multiple integrals with applications, line integrals, surface integrals, vector fields, Green's Theorem, the Divergence Theorem and Stokes' Theorem.

Notes: Tutoring assistance available in the Math Lab, Room 1-315

Prerequisites: MAT 2280 and Other (with a grade of C or better or satisfactory score on math placement test)

Description: Historical inquiry into the major concepts and attitudes of moral and ethical theory in Western society, emphasizing the role of human responsibility and the conditions for making ethical judgments.

Notes: Any OT36 Arts & Humanities Elective View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/ Must come from two categories (i.e. not two HIS courses) Per UD articualtion select PHI 2205 or PHI 2206

 

Term hours subtotal:

13

Spring Semester (Second Year)
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Description: The study of alcohols, ethers, epoxides, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids, derivatives of carboxylic acids, enolates, carbanions, amines, polycyclic and heterocyclic aromatic compounds, pericyclic reactions, and polymers. Four classroom, three lab hours per week.

Notes: Student can receive extra assistance in CHE lab, 12312. Please contact CHE department for days/time

Prerequisites: CHE 2111

Corequisites: CHE 2161

Description: Lab for CHE 2121.

Notes: Students must wear closed toe shoes in lab.

Corequisites: CHE 2121

Description: An examination of what is meant by culture and a review of the various theories and methods in Cultural Anthropology. Includes a comparison of the similarities and differences among world cultures as well as comparative analysis of family organization, religious beliefs, educational systems, economics and governmental systems.

Notes: Any OT36 Social & Behavioral Sciences Elective. View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/ Must take two categories of Social & Behavioral Sciences (i.e. not two PSY courses) Per UD Articulation- Select two from different subject areas: SOC 1145, ECO 2160, ECO 2180, PLS 1120, PLS 2200, PSY 1100, SOC 1101, SOC 2205

Description: Major trends in the development of Western culture, emphasizing political, economic, social and cultural achievements from the seventeenth century to the present.

Notes: Any OT36 Arts & Humanities Elective View electives at: http://www.sinclair.edu/transfer/gened/module/ Must come from two categories (i.e. not two HIS courses) Per UD Articulation - required choice

Description: Introduction to Far Eastern religions and cultural traditions, including beliefs, practices, stories and rituals, and historical context.

Notes: Student can choose any OT36 multicultural elective. Per UD articulation, choices are REL 1111 or REL 1112

 

Term hours subtotal:

14

Summer Semester (Second Year)
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Description: Electrostatics, DC conduction and circuits, magnetism, electromagnetic induction, quantum mechanics, optics and special relativity. Calculus used extensively. Four classroom, three lab hours per week.

Notes: PRe-req is PHY 2201 + lab Not needed for Sinclair degree but additional course per UD articulation

Prerequisites: PHY 2201 and MAT 2280

Corequisites: PHY 2208

Corequisites: PHY 2202

Description: Emphasis on the language of art, exposure to many different art forms, formulative ideas about what is viewed and exploration of specific media.

Notes: Not needed for Sinclair degree but additional course per UD articulation Choice of course from -ART 1110, ART 2230, ART 2231, LIT 2202, MUS 1121, THE 1101 or 1105

 

Term hours subtotal:

8

This information is for planning purposes only. Sinclair College will make every effort to offer curriculum listed above but reserves the right to change, add and cancel curriculum offerings for unforeseen circumstances. View current catalog.