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Course Requirements
Graduate Courses in Chemistry
Graduate Courses in Education
Course Requirements
All students in the Ph. D program and the M. S. program in the Department of Chemistry take a minimum of 18 credit hours of course work: 9 hours in an area of concentration and 9 hours in two supporting areas. As their area of concentration, students in chemical education usually take a 9 hour block in one of the traditional areas of chemistry
- analytical chemistry
- biochemistry
- inorganic chemistry
- organic chemistry
- physical chemistry
or in one of the specialty areas, for example in
- physical-organic chemistry
- atmospheric chemistry
- materials chemistry
- environmental chemistry
- nuclear chemistry
- radiochemistry
- physical biochemistry
- chemical physics
Students in chemical education also take courses in education as their supporting areas, but most students need more that 9 hours. Ph. D. students need enough background to write and defend a proposal for
original research in chemical education and a separate dissertation proposal that describes the research intended for the Ph. D. dissertation. Both Ph. D. and M. S. students need enough background to carry out the
research they wish to do for their thesis. In most cases this requires about 5 or 6 courses (15-18 hours) selected from the following areas
- selected readings in chemical education
- educational psychology
- survey of science education
- measurement and evaluation
- multi-cultural education
- educational technology
- qualitative research
- methods of teaching chemistry
- courses from other departments
Graduate Courses in Chemistry
A list of graduate courses that can be used to build an area of concentration is available on the Department of Chemistry web site.
Graduate Courses in Education
Students in chemical education commonly select from the following courses from the School of Education to build their supporting areas:
- EDCI 517 Survey Of Science Education
- EDCI 518 The Nature Of Science In Science Teaching
- EDPS 530 Advanced Educational Psychology
- EDCI 585 Multicultural Education
- EDCI 615/616 Qualitative Research Methods In Education/Advanced Qualitative Research Methods
- EDCI 622 A special topics course in science education
- EDPS 633 A special topics course in advanced educational psychology
For a complete list of graduate courses in Education see the School of Education Web site. Note, this link will take you away from the Department of Chemistry site.
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