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Courses

Caltech offers a wide variety of courses related to chemistry. Classes are available at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and cover all areas of modern chemistry and chemical engineering. In addition, a number of interdisciplinary courses are available, including geochemistry, environmental chemistry, and various flavors of biological chemistry. For details please click on links below and visit the Caltech Course Catalog.

Visit our up-to-date course grid for a listing of course information in Chemistry for the current Academic Year 2007-2008 Courses. See Registrar's Office List for course times and locations.

Chemistry 1-91 Ch 1 ab	General Chemistry
Ch/APh 2	Introduction to Energy Sciences
Ch 3 a	Fundamental Techniques of Experimental Chemistry
Ch 3 b	Experimental Procedures of Synthetic Chemistry
Ch 4 ab	Synthesis and Analysis of Organic and Inorganic Compounds
Ch 5 ab	Advanced Techniques of Synthesis and Analysis
Ch 6 ab	Application of Physical Methods to Chemical Problems
Ch 7	Advanced Experimental Methods in Bioorganic Chemistry
Ch 10 abc	Frontiers in Chemistry
Ch 14	Chemical Equilibrium and Analysis
Ch 15	Chemical Equilibrium and Analysis Laboratory
Ch 21 abc	The Physical Description of Chemical Systems
Ch 24 ab	Introduction to Biophysical Chemistry
Ch 41 abc	Organic Chemistry
Ch 80	Chemical Research
Ch 81	Independent Reading in Chemistry
Ch 90	Oral Presentation
Ch 91	Scientific Writing

Chemistry 102-180 Ch 102	go to top of page Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry
Bi/Ch 110	Introduction to Biochemistry
Bi/Ch 111	Biochemistry of Gene Expression
Ch 112	Inorganic Chemistry
Bi/Ch 113	Biochemistry of the Cell
Ch 117	Introduction to Electrochemistry
Ch 120 abc	Nature of the Chemical Bond
Ch 121 ab	Atomic Level Simulations of Materials and Molecules
Ch 122 abc	Methods for the Determination of the Structure of Molecules
Ch 125 abc	The Elements of Quantum Chemistry
Ch 126	Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure
Ge/Ch 127	Nuclear Chemistry
Ge/Ch 128	Cosmochemistry
Ch 130	Spectroscopy
Bi/Ch 132	Biophysics of Macromolecules
Ch 135 ab	Chemical Dynamics
Ch/ChE 140 ab	Principles and Applications of Semiconductor Photoelectrochemistry
Ch 142	Frontiers in Chemical Biology
Ch 143	Basic FT NMR Spectroscopy
Ch 144 ab	Advanced Organic Chemistry
Ch 145	Bioorganic Chemistry of Proteins
Ch 146	Bioorganic Chemistry of Nucleic Acids
Ch/ChE 147	Polymer Chemistry
Ch 153	Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
Ch 154	Organometallic Chemistry
Ch 163	Lectures-Seminars in Physical Chemistry
Ch 166	Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics
BMB/Bi/Ch 170	Principles of Three-Dimensional Protein Structure
ESE/Ge/Ch 171	Atmospheric Chemistry I
ESE/Ge/Ch 172	Atmospheric Chemistry II
ESE/Ch/Ge 175 ab	Environmental Organic Chemistry
Ch 180	Chemical Research
Chemistry 202-280 Bi/Ch 202 abc	go to top of page Biochemistry Seminar
Ch 212	Bioinorganic Chemistry
Ch 213 abc	Advanced Ligand Field Theory
Ch 221	Electron Transfer Reactions in Chemistry and Biology
Ch 224	Advanced Topics in Magnetic Resonance
Ch 227 ab	Advanced Topics in Chemical Physics
Ch 228	Dynamics and Complexity in Physical and Life Sciences
Ch/Bi 231	Advanced Topics in Biochemistry
Ch 242 ab	Chemical Synthesis
Ch 244 a	Topics in Chemical Biology
Ch 247 a	Organic Reaction Mechanisms
Ch 250	Advanced Topics in Chemistry
Ch 280	Chemical Research
Chemical Engineering ChE 10	go to top of page Introduction to Chemical Engineering Systems
ChE 63 ab	Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
ChE 64	Principles of Chemical Engineering
ChE 80	Undergraduate Research
ChE 90 ab	Senior Thesis
ChE 101	Chemical Reaction Engineering
ChE 103 abc	Transport Phenomena
ChE 105	Process Control
ChE 110 ab	Optimal Design of Chemical Systems
ChE 126 ab	Chemical Engineering Laboratory
ChE 130	Biomolecular Engineering Laboratory
ChE/Ch 148	Polymer Physics
ChE 151 ab	Physical and Chemical Rate Processes
ChE 152	Heterogeneous Kinetics and Reaction Engineering
ChE/Ch 155	Chemistry of Catalysis
ChE/Env 157	Sources and Control of Air Pollution
ChE/ESE 158	Aerosol Physics and Chemistry
ChE/Env 159	Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics of Air Pollution
ChE/BE 163	Introduction to the Design of Biological Molecules and Systems
ChE/Ch 164	Introduction to Statistical Thermodynamics
ChE/Ch 165	Chemical Thermodynamics
ChE/BE 169	Biomolecular Cell Engineering
ChE 174	Special Topics in Transport Phenomena
ChE 189	Special Topics in Materials Processing
ChE 280	Chemical Engineering Research
Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	go to top of page
BMB 278	Fundamentals of Molecular Genetics

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