Why Should I Get a Master’s Degree in Chemistry?
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There is a lot more you can do with a chemistry degree than you may think.
Minor in Chemistry
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Why Earn Your Minor in Chemistry at Sacred Heart?
Sacred Heart's minor in chemistry gives students the ability to explore general and organic chemistry. Students have access to state-of-the-art facilities including six teaching labs and four research labs.
Required Courses | 20 credits
In addition to the following required courses, students will need to compete 4 credits of chemistry electives from 200 or 300-level courses.
Explores modern theories of atomic and molecular structure, chemical bonding and periodic relations, chemical reactions and stoichiometry, states of matter, and solutions. Three 50-minute lectures and one 50-minute discussion per week. A prerequisite to BI 230 and CH 152.
Prerequisite: Take CH-153
3.0 Credit(s)
Explores chemical thermodynamics; chemical kinetics; chemical, ionic, and acid-base equilibria; electrochemistry; chemistry of the representative elements and transition elements; and nuclear reactions. Three 50-minute lectures and one 50-minute discussion per week.
Prerequisite: Take CH-151 and CH-153
3.0 Credit(s)
Illustrates basic concepts presented in CH 151. Experiments include qualitative analysis of cations and anions, chromatography, synthesis, and FT-IR. One three-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: Take CH-151
1.0 Credit(s)
Illustrates basic concepts presented in CH 152. Experiments include quantitative analysis, equilibria, thermochemistry, spectrophotometry, and GC-MS. One three-hour laboratory per week. A prerequisite to CH 254 and 331.
Prerequisite: Take CH 151 and CH-153
1.0 Credit(s)
Covers hydrocarbons, stereochemistry, arenes, alkyl halides, nucleophilic substitution and elimination reactions, and IR, NMR, MS, and UV spectroscopy in relation to structure determination. Two 75-minute lectures and one 50-minute discussion per week. A prerequisite to CH 222 and 252.
Prerequisite: Take CH-152 and CH-154
3.0 Credit(s)
Covers aromaticity; electrophilic and nucleophilic aromatic substitution reactions; ethers, epoxides, carboxylic acids, and their functional derivatives; aldehydes; ketones; amines; phenols; carbanion reactions; and alpha-beta unsaturated compounds. Emphasizes organic reaction mechanisms organic synthesis and structure determination. Two 75-minute lectures and one 50-minute discussion per week. A prerequisite to CH 341 and 361.
Prerequisite: Take CH-221 and CH-223
3.0 Credit(s)
Covers basic techniques in organic chemistry: extraction, distillation, recrystallization; thin layer chromatography; gas chromatography; and IR spectroscopy. Emphasizes techniques in organic synthesis. One three-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: Take CH-152 and CH-154
1.0 Credit(s)
Covers simple and multistep organic syntheses using a wide variety of organic reagents and some important functional group analyses. Employs spectroscopy and GC-MS for structure determination. One three-hour laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: Take CH-221 and CH-223
1.0 Credit(s)
During my time at Sacred Heart University I was lucky enough to be a part of the Chemistry department. Professor Snetsinger always made class lively and Dr. Alper's lectures instilled his passion for science in his students. I have learned a lot during my time at Sacred Heart and in large part through the caring professors in the department. Learning was always made fun, some of my most memorable moments at SHU was in Professor Slamet's physics class.
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