The program listed here can have some courses substitutions to the option list and complementary course list by request ahead of time with the advisor.chemistry [at] mcgill.ca (subject: Substitutions%20to%20Liberal%20Degree) (Director of Undergraduate Studies for Chemistry).
Program Requirement:
Program Prerequisites
PRE-PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:
Students entering from the Freshman program must have included CHEM 110 and CHEM 120 or CHEM 115, BIOL 111 or BIOL 112, MATH 133, MATH 140/MATH 141 or MATH 150/MATH 151, PHYS 131/PHYS 142, or their equivalents in their Freshman year. Quebec students must have completed the DEC with appropriate science and mathematics courses. Note that students who have successfully completed MATH 150 and MATH 151 do not have to take MATH 222.
Required Basic Core Courses (26 credits)
The required courses in this program consist of 26 credits in chemistry and mathematics listed below. The courses marked with an asterisk (*) are omitted from the program of students who have successfully completed them at the CEGEP level. Students from outside Quebec or transfer students should consult the Academic Adviser.
See http://www.mcgill.ca/chemistry/current-undergraduate-students/advising/.
The Liberal Program: Core Science Component Chemistry - General Option is not certified by the Ordre des chimistes du Québec. Students interested in pursuing a career in Chemistry in Quebec are advised to take an appropriate B.Sc. program in Chemistry.
A computer science course, either COMP 202 or COMP 208, is strongly recommended during U1 for students who have no previous introduction to computer programming. Students should contact their adviser on this matter. Completion of Mathematics MATH 222 during U1 is strongly recommended.
* Denotes courses with CEGEP equivalents.
** Students who have successfully completed MATH 150 and MATH 151 are not required to take MATH 222.
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CHEM 212 Intro Organic Chemistry 1 4 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: A survey of reactions of aliphatic and aromatic compounds including modern concepts of bonding, mechanisms, conformational analysis, and stereochemistry.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Fall, Winter, Summer
- Prerequisite: CHEM 110 or equivalent.
- Corequisite: CHEM 120 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Not open to students who are taking or have taken CHEM 211 or equivalent
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Note: Some CEGEP programs provide equivalency for this course. For more information, please see the Department of Chemistry's Web page (http://www.chemistry.mcgill.ca/advising/outside/equivalent.htm).
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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CHEM 213 Intrdctry Physcl Chem1: Thermo 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: Thermodynamics. Topics include gas laws, kinetic theory of collisions, heat capacity, enthalpy, thermochemistry, bond energies, the entropy and free energy functions, absolute entropies, Maxwell relations and chemical and thermodynamic equilibrium states, phase rule and phase diagrams, ideal solutions, colligative properties, solubility, electrochemistry, Debye-Hückel Theory.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Corequisite(s): MATH 222
- Prerequisites: CHEM 110, CHEM 120 or equivalent, PHYS 102 or PHYS 142, or permission of the instructor.
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 204.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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CHEM 222 Intro Organic Chemistry 2 4 Credits*
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: Modern spectroscopic techniques for structure determination. The chemistry of alcohols, ethers, carbonyl compounds, and amines, with special attention to mechanistic aspects. Special topics.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Fall, Winter
- Prerequisite: CHEM 212 or equivalent.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken an equivalent Organic 2 at CEGEP (see McGill University Basic Math and Sciences Equivalence Table at www.mcgill.ca/mathscitable) or who have or are taking CHEM 234.
- Symbols:
- *
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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CHEM 267 Introductory Chemical Analysis 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: Qualitative and quantitative analysis. A survey of methods of analysis including theory and practice of semimicro qualitative analysis and representative gravimetric, volumetric and instrumental methods. The laboratory component includes introductory experiments in analytical chemistry emphasizing classical and instrumental methods of quantitative analysis.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Prerequisite(s): CHEM 110 and CHEM 120, or equivalent
- Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken CHEM 287 or CHEM 297
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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CHEM 273 IntroPhysclChem2:Kinetics&Meth 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: Kinetics: Transition State Theory, complex reactions, free-radical reactions, chain reactions, catalysis, reactions at surfaces, ionic effects of reactions in solution, photochemistry. Methods: physical chemistry laboratory, differential equations and linear algebra applied to physical chemistry, computation methods for data analysis and modeling
Offered by: Chemistry
- Prerequisites: CHEM 213 and MATH 222
- Restrictions: Not open to students who have taken or are taking CHEM 253.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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CHEM 281 Inorganic Chemistry 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: Basic concepts of electronic structure and molecular bonding will be developed and applied to the understanding of common materials. Acid-base chemistry. Survey of the chemistry of the main group elements. Introduction to coordination and organometallic chemistry.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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CHEM 381 Inorganic Chemistry 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: Introduction to transition metal chemistry, coordination numbers and geometry, and nomenclature will be followed by a discussion of crystal field theory and its applications to problems in spectroscopy, magnetochemistry, thermodynamics and kinetics. Several aspects related to applications of organometallic compounds in catalysis and bioinorganic systems will be discussed.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Fall
- Prerequisite: CHEM 281.
- Restriction: For Honours and Major Chemistry students
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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MATH 222 Calculus 3 3 Credits**
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): Taylor series, Taylor's theorem in one and several variables. Review of vector geometry. Partial differentiation, directional derivative. Extreme of functions of 2 or 3 variables. Parametric curves and arc length. Polar and spherical coordinates. Multiple integrals.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 141. Familiarity with vector geometry or Corequisite: MATH 133
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken MATH 150, MATH 151 or MATH 262.
- Symbols:
- **
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
General Option Courses (17 credits)
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CHEM 302 Intrdctry Organic Chemistry 3 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: Topics covered may include the following: Aromatic compounds, heterocyclic chemistry, sulfur and phosphorus chemistry, organosulfur and organophosphorus compounds, and biomolecules such as lipids, carbohydrates, amino acids, polypeptides, DNA and RNA.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Fall, Winter
- Prerequisites: CHEM 222, or permission of the instructor.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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CHEM 345 Intro to Quantum Chemistry 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: An introduction to quantum chemistry covering the historical development, wave theory, methods of quantum mechanics, and applications of quantum chemistry.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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CHEM 367 Instrumental Analysis 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: An introduction to modern instrumental analysis emphasizing chromatography, atomic spectroscopy and computational data analysis. Analytical methods to be examined in detail include gas-liquid and high performance liquid chromatography, LC mass spectrometry, and common methods of atomic determinations using flames/furnaces/plasma sources.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Fall
- Prerequisite(s): CHEM 267.
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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CHEM 377 Instrumental Analysis 2 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: Spectroscopic methods of analysis will be studied with respect to fundamentals, operational aspects and instrument design. Topics will range from UV-visible to x-ray spectrometry. Methodologies will be evaluated with respect to their application in spectrometric systems. Laboratory automation will be studied and applied in the laboratory.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Winter
- Prerequisite: CHEM 367
- Each lab section is limited enrolment
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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CHEM 392 Experimental Chemistry 1 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: Experiments related to the theoretical principles, synthetic techniques and instrumental methods used in modern experimental chemistry, including aspects of green chemistry and nanochemistry.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Fall, Winter
- Prerequisite/corequisites: CHEM 381 and CHEM 302. Advanced laboratory for Chemistry Honours and Majors students.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken CHEM 362.
- 2 hours Drop-in lab
- 4 hours laboratory
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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PHYS 242 Electricity & Magnetism 2 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Physics: Properties of electromagnetic fields, dipole and quadropole fields and their interactions, chemical binding of molecules, electromagnetic properties of materials, Maxwell's equations and properties of electromagnetic waves, propagation of waves in media.
Offered by: Physics
- Fall
- 2 hours lectures
- Prerequisites: CEGEP Physics, MATH 222
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
Complementary Course (6 credits)
6 credits from:
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CHEM 355 Applications of Quantum Chem. 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Chemistry: A survey of the principles of electronic, vibrational and rotational spectroscopy. Magnetic resonance and computational methods.
Offered by: Chemistry
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
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MATH 315 Ordinary Differential Eqns 3 Credits
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Offered in the:Mathematics & Statistics (Sci): First order ordinary differential equations including elementary numerical methods. Linear differential equations. Laplace transforms. Series solutions.
Offered by: Mathematics and Statistics
- Prerequisite: MATH 222.
- Corequisite: MATH 133.
- Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking MATH 325.
- Terms
- This course is not scheduled for the 2023-2024 academic year
- Instructors
- There are no professors associated with this course for the 2023-2024 academic year
Chemistry courses at the 300+ level.