To earn a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts and Sciences degree from UIC, students must complete university, college, and department degree requirements. The Department of Chemistry degree requirements are outlined below. Students should consult the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences section for additional degree requirements and college academic policies.
See General Education and Writing-in-the-Discipline in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences section for information on meeting these requirements. Students should consult the course lists below and their advisors to determine which courses are counted toward the General Education and Writing-in-the-Discipline requirements.
This course is approved for the Analyzing the Natural World General Education category.
MATH 180 fulfills the LAS Quantitative Reasoning requirement.
PHYS 141 and PHYS 142 are recommended.
Each of the following pairs will be considered one course in meeting the LAS General Education requirements: PHYS 105/PHYS 106 and PHYS 107/PHYS 108.
General Education credit is given for successful completion of both CHEM 122 and CHEM 123 or CHEM 124 and CHEM 125.
CHEM 116 and CHEM 118 are recommended for chemistry majors.
CHEM 343 fulfills the Writing-in-the-Discipline requirement.
CHEM 116 and CHEM 346 are offered fall semester only.
CHEM 118 and CHEM 342 are offered spring semester only. CHEM 342 requires calculus-based physics (PHYS 141, PHYS 142) as a prerequisite and Calculus III (MATH 210) as a corequisite.
Students who take CHEM 116 and CHEM 118 to fulfill the general chemistry requirement do not need to take CHEM 222.
CHEM 343 satisfies the Writing-in-the-Discipline requirement.