Chemistry BS, Chemistry MS (Pharmaceutical Chemistry concentration): combined degree

The department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Physics offers a five-year program that allows qualified students to attain a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and a Master of Science degree in chemistry with a pharmaceutical chemistry concentration.
Degree Plan
NOTE: All students are required to complete the General Education Requirements of their campus in fulfillment of their Bachelor degree requirements.
Semesters 1 and 2
- CHEM1201 General Chemistry I Lecture
- CHEM1203 General Chemistry I Laboratory
- CHEM1202 General Chemistry II Lecture
- CHEM1204 General Chemistry II Laboratory
Semesters 3 and 4
- CHEM2261 Organic Chemistry I Lecture
- CHEM2263 Organic Chemistry I Laboratory
- CHEM2262 Organic Chemistry II Lecture
- CHEM2264 Organic Chemistry II Laboratory
Semesters 5
- CHEM3241 Physical Chemistry I Lecture
- CHEM3243 Physical Chemistry I Laboratory
- CHEM3281 Biochemistry I Lecture
- CHEM3389 Biochemistry I Laboratory
Semester 6
Semester 7
- CHEM2211 Inorganic Chemistry Lecture
- CHEM2221 Analytical Chemistry Lecture
- CHEM2223 Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
- Pharm Chem Requirement
Semester 8
- CHEM2314 Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
- CHEM4215 Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (or)
- CHEM4373 Polymer Chemistry
- CHEM4233 Instrumental Analysis Lecture
- CHEM4234 Instrumental Analysis Laboratory
- CHEM4401 Chemistry Seminar
- Pharm Chem Requirement (6 credits)
9th Semester
- Pharm Chem Requirement (6 credits)
- Pharm Chem Elective (3 credits)
- Graduate Elective (3 credits)
10th semester
- Pharm Chem Requirement (3-4 credits)
- Pharm Chem Elective (3 credits)
- Graduate Elective (6 credits)
Cognate Requirements
Semesters 1 and 2
Semesters 3 and 4
- PHYS2203 / PHYS2201 University Physics I Lecture / Laboratory
- PHYS2204 / PHYS2202 University Physics II Lecture / Laboratory
Major Requirements:
Science Electives: Any upper-level (3000 or 4000) undergraduate or graduate science course or Independent Study
Free Electives: May be chosen from any courses offered at the University after consultation with an advisor. (Student may not take BIOL1101-1102).
Major Electives: Take 1-8 credits of CHEM or BIOL. Please see an advisor for a list of courses
Advance Mathematics Course: select one course, three credits, from the following:
Graduate Courses for BS and MS degree: Students should consult with their advisors for course selections and new course offerings.
Required Courses: The following 12 credits must be taken
- BIOL6758 Advances in Pharmacology
- CHEM6673 Physical Organic Chemistry
- CHEM6781 Biochemistry
- CHEM6754 Drug Delivery Systems
Six/Seven (6-7) credits from the following:
- CHEM6755 Medicinal Chemistry (or)
- CHEM6752 Drug Design & Discovery (and)
- CHEM7737 Chemical Analysis of Pharmaceuticals (or)
- BIOL6845/BIOL6846 Molecular Biology Techniques with Lab
Pharmaceutical Chemistry Electives (6 credits)
- Any 5000 or higher level Marketing (MKTG), Management (MGMT), Pharmaceutical Chem (PHAR), Math (MATH), Biology (BIOL), Chemistry (CHEM), or Cosmetic Science (COSC) course
Graduate Electives (9 credits):
- Any 5000 or higher level CHEM, COSC or BIOL course.
A minimum of 120 credits is required for the BS degree, and a minimum of an additional 24-25 graduate credits is required for the MS degree, for a total of 144-145 credits for the combined degree.
Course Descriptions
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BIOL1101 An introduction to the plant kingdom, physiology, anatomy and evolution. Origins of life, cells and basic genetics. Protists, monera and fungi also covered.
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BIOL6758 Development and approval of new medications in the United States. Current medications used in the management of pathophysiological conditions involving the cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, endocrine and nervous systems. Anti-viral and anti- bacterial agents. Immunotherapy. Orphan drugs.
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BIOL6845 Classic and current biotechniques to include handling numbers, weighing, and solution preparation, experimental design, spectrophotometry, chromatography, enzyme kinetics/inhibition, assays for reactive oxygen species, cell culture, agarose and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, Southern & Western blotting, cloning, eukaryotic cells, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and real time.
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BIOL6846 Experiments illustrate the topics discussed in BIOL 6845 Lecture: Techniques: Theories & Applications
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CHEM1201 The fundamental laws, theories and principles of chemistry, with emphasis on atomic structure, chemical bonding, periodic classification of the elements, solutions, equilibrium, reaction kinetics and the theory and practice of the qualitative chemistry of the common ions.
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CHEM1202 Fundamental principles of chemistry, with emphasis on atomic and molecular structure, physical, chemical and periodic properties, stoichiometry, energetics, kinetics and equilibria of reactions, and descriptive chemistry of elements, including theory of qualitative analysis of common ions.
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CHEM1203 Practical applications of the fundamental laws, theories and principles of chemistry through problem solving and laboratory experiments.
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CHEM1204 Laboratory experiments emphasizing representative physical and chemical properties, synthetic and analytical techniques, and including an introduction to the qualitative analysis of the common ions.
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CHEM2211 Principles of atomic and molecular structure, stereochemistry, periodicity and boding, with emphasis on the main group elements and their descriptive chemistry. Also covers topics such as hydrogen bonding, acid-based chemistry, inorganic polymers, geochemistry and metallic bonding.
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CHEM2221 Principles of modern quantitative methods in chemistry, including the study of chemical equilibria, reaction kinetics, acidity and complex formation. The laboratory work involves practical applications of inorganic and organic biochemical analysis using volumetric, gravimetric, chromatographic and instrumental techniques.
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CHEM2223 Lab: associated with CHEM 2221 - Analytical Chemistry
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CHEM2261 Structure and chemical properties of aliphatic and aromatic compounds of carbon, with emphasis on electronic theory, mechanisms of reaction and principles of synthesis.
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CHEM2262 Structure and chemical properties of aliphatic and aromatic compounds of carbon, with emphasis on electronic theory, mechanisms of reaction and principles of synthesis.
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CHEM2263 A laboratory course taken concurrently with CHEM 2261- Organic Chemistry I, which illustrates important principles of structure and reactivity, synthesis and analysis and structure determination of organic compounds.
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CHEM2264 A laboratory course taken simultaneously with CHEM 2262 Organic Chemistry II that illustrates important principles of structure and reactivity, synthesis and analysis and structure determination of organic compounds.
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CHEM2314 Lab associated with Inorganic Chemistry II
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CHEM3241 The principles of physical chemistry from the molecular and microscopic aspects, kinetic theory, quantum mechanics, spectroscopic studies and statistical concepts, thermodynamics, chemical phase equilibria, electrolytes and electrochemistry.
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CHEM3242 The principles of physical chemistry from the molecular and microscopic aspects; kinetic theory, quantum mechanics, spectroscopic studies and statistical concepts; thermodynamics, chemical phase equilibria, electrolytes and electrochemistry.
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CHEM3243 Laboratory experiments demonstrating fundamental laws, concepts and mathematically derived relationships involving selected physico-chemical properties of matter and energy.
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CHEM3244 Laboratory experiments demonstrating fundamental laws, concepts and mathematically derived relationships involving selected physico-chemical properties of matter and energy.
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CHEM3281 Chemistry of substances of biological significance, with particular emphasis on proteins, enzymes, nucleic acids, sugars, lipids, hormones and vitamins.
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CHEM3389 The preparation, separation and identification of biochemicals using modern extractive, chromato- graphic and spectroscopic techniques. Corequisite: CHEM 3281 - Biochemistry I.
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CHEM4215 Advanced bonding theories, structures, stereochemistry and reaction mechanisms with emphasis on transition metal coordination and sigma and pi bonded organometallic compounds. Also covers topics such as nonaqueous solutions, catalysis, descriptive chemistry of the transitional metals, solid state chemistry and bioinorganic chemistry.
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CHEM4233 Theory and applications of absorption, emission and inter- pretive spectroscopy, electrochemistry and chromatography to problems of chemical analysis. Introduction to interfacing, data acquisition and data manipulations.
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CHEM4234 Practical laboratory experiments in absorption, emission and interpretative spectroscopy electroanalytical methods, chromatography and elementary interfacing.
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CHEM4373 A study of natural and synthetic polymers derived from free radical, cationic and anionic polymerizations.
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CHEM4401 Chemical literature is reviewed through lectures, library assignments and student seminars. Graduating seniors are required to take a non-graded assessment test.
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CHEM6673 Current theories of the structure and reactivity of organic compounds, including dipole moments, stereochemistry and modern mechanisms.
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CHEM6752 Structure and mechanism of drug action, rational drug designing approaches for drug discovery.
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CHEM6754 Theoretical and practical considerations in the development and design of drug delivery systems.
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CHEM6755 Principles of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion (ADME), drug protein interactions, concepts of drug targets, and toxicology.
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CHEM6781 Chemistry of substances of biological significance, structures and mechanisms of hydrolytic and respiratory enzymes, biosystheses of proteins, bio-oxidations and molecular structures of complex molecules.
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CHEM7737 Analytical chemistry, techniques and methods most commonly used in the pharmaceutical industry.
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MATH1201 Slope, equations of lines, slope of a curve, rate of change of a function, derivatives of algebraic and transcendental functions, maxima and minima, the Mean Value Theorem, indeterminate forms,the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, basic techniques of integration.
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MATH2202 Differentiation and integration of transcendental functions, methods of integration, indeterminate forms, infinite series. Taylor series. Conic sections.
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MATH2203 Lines and planes in 3-space. Vectors, functions of several variables, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, line integrals, vector analysis.
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MATH2337 An introductory course covering both probability and statistics, intended primarily for undergraduate biology students. It includes a section on design of experiments as well as the usual tests of hypotheses, estimation, regression, etc. Mathematics and computer science majors receive no credit for this course.
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PHYS2201 Applications of PHYS2101 General Physics I. Experiments from mechanics, heat, sound and fluids. Measurement and data analysis.
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PHYS2202 Applications of PHYS2102 General Physics II. Experiments from electricity, magnetism, circuits, waves, optics, light, modern physics. Measurement and data analysis.
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PHYS2203 The first half of a two-semester calculus based physics course for science and engineering majors. Topics normally covered include: units and dimensions, forces and motion in one and two dimensions, vectors, momentum and center of mass, work, kinetic energy and the work-energy theorem, potential energy and the conservation of energy, rotation and moment of inertia, torque and angular momentum, gravitation, oscillations, elasticity, fluids, heat, kinetic theory of gases, thermodynamics. Co-requisite: Physics Laboratory I and Calculus I. Lecture: 3 credits, 4 hours.
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PHYS2204 The second half of a two-semester, calculus based physics course. Topics normally covered include: waves and sound, geometrical and physical optics, electrical forces and fields, electric potential, current and resistance, circuits, capacitance, magnetic forces and fields, force on a moving charge, magnetic field of a current, electromagnetic induction, electromagnetic oscillations and waves, alternating currents, special relativity, quantization and modern physics. Prerequisite: University Physics I Corequisite: Physics Laboratory II Recommended: Calculus II. Lecture 3 credits, 4 hours.