Popular courses taken by MS students:
Note 1: at most 6 credits of remedial courses at the 4000 level can be
counted towards the M.S. degree.
Note 2: at least 15 credits need to be at the 5000 level. (Not
5000 level or above. 5000- and 6000- level courses are designed for
different purposes.)
Note 3: at most 6 credits of CHEM6905 for non-thesis option, 12
credits for thesis option can be counted towards the MS degree.
Note 4: 3 credits of CHEM6897 are required but no more than 3
credits can be counted towards the degree.
CHEM2622 Organic Chemistry II (Remedial course. Can
be used to satisfy the proficiency requirements but cannot be counted
towards the degree.)
(Usually offered in Fall, Spring, and
Summer)
CHEM4212 Instrumental Analysis (Remedial course)
(Usually offered in Fall)
CHEM4302 Survey of Physical Chemistry with Application to the
Life Sciences (Remedial course)
(Usually offered in Spring)
CHEM5412 Advanced Graduate Inorganic Chemistry (Remedial
course)
(Usually offered in Fall)
CHEM5652 Spectroscopic Identification of Organic Compounds
(Usually offered every other
Fall)
CHEM4712 Biochemistry (Remedial course)
BIOL4712 (Offered in Fall by the Chemistry department and
in Spring by the Biology department.
May also be offered in Summer by
the Chemistry Department)
CHEM5722 Advanced Graduate Biochemistry
(Usually offered in Spring)
CHEM5772 Advanced Physical Biochemistry
(Usually offered in Fall)
CHEM5422 Coordination Chemistry
(Usually offered every other
Spring)
CHEM5462 Organometallic Chemistry of the Transition Elements
CHEM5494 Special Topics in Inorganic Chemistry (can be
taken more than once on different topics)
CHEM5602 Advanced Organic Chemistry I
(Usually offered every other
Fall)
CHEM5612 Advanced Organic Chemistry II
(Usually offered every other
Spring)
CHEM5694 Special Topics in Organic Chemistry (can be
taken more than once on different topics)
(Usually offered in Spring)
CHEM5774 Bioinformatics
(Usually offered every other year)
CHEM5794 Special Topics in Biochemistry (can be taken
more than once on different topics)
(Usually offered in Fall and
Spring when CHEM5774 is not offered. Recent topics have included
Biological NMR, Proteins as
Polymers, Bioinorganic Chemistry, and Biological Mass Spectrometry.
Bioinformatics now has
its own course number.)
CHEM6897 Chemistry Colloquium
(Usually offered in the Fall and
Spring semesters on Mondays 4-5 pm and Fridays 1-2 pm. Outside
speakers give
most of the talks in the Monday series. Friday seminars are mainly
talks delivered by faculty members and
students in our department. Most instructors do not require part-time MS
students to attend the Friday seminars.)
CHEM6905 Graduate Research
(Every semester. Needs to obtain
permission from a sponsoring faculty member to perform research in his/her
laboratory.)