CH113 - History of Chemistry - Home Page

 (Cross-listed as First Year Experience FY123 in Fall 2002, when it will meet the all-college Western Perspectives requirement as well as giving Natural Science credit.)

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Syllabus-Week 3

Syllabus-Week 4

Labs and Projects

Background Texts

Grade Breakdown and Honor Code

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This course provides an overview of some of the events in history that have led to the unifying principles of chemistry and its current view of reality.  It also looks at some of the methods we use for rediscovering this past.  Beginning with the development of ceramics, medicine, metallurgy and other “arts” coaxed from “Nature” from before the bronze age and continuing into the 19th century, the complex interaction of “world views” and ideas about matter and energy in various cultures are explored through art, artifacts and laboratory experiment.

Colorado College uses an Honor System with oversight by an elected council of student peers.  All students monitor each other on tests or any other work submitted for grade.  The most common infractions are usually unintentional, such as taking exams in the wrong place, or longer than is allowed by the time limits, or by misusing work from the web.  It is important that you familiarize yourself with how to avoid plagiarism and be sure to ask me for any rules on time limits and for where you may obtain help with projects and papers in this course.  

Instructor: Nate Bower (contact me via email.)     
Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 8-9 AM and 4-5 PM