CHEM 4292

Senior Chemistry Seminar

Syllabus Fall 2009

Presentation Order Fall 2009

Presentation Score Card

Example Guiding Questions Example Essay (Excellent) Example Essay (Poor)

Example Case Study

Class Materials

1. Climate Change

IPCC Report on Climate Change .pdf

National Academies of Science Report.pdf

Human impacts on atmospheric chemistry .pdf

Wall Street Journal Article .pdf

Globalwarming.org Site dedicated to alternative explanations for global warming

Assignment .pdf

 

2. Antibiotic Resistance

Resistance to Antibiotics .pdf

Bacterial resistance to antibiotics:degradation & modification.pdf

Center for Disease Control: Know when antibiotics work

Assignment .pdf

 

3. Party Drugs

Ecstasy:pharmacology & neurotoxicity .pdf

Complications of recreational drug use .pdf

Assignment .pdf

 

4. Pollution

Persistent Organic Pollutants

Human Exposure to volatile Organic pollutants

Assignment

 

5. WMD

Mediation of Chemical and Biological Warfare Agents .pdf

Federation of American Scientists - Chemical Weapons Information

Assignment .pdf

 

6. Nobel Prize Winners

 

 

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