Chemistry 1010/1011- Introductory General Chemistry I

• True Blue Core Knowledge Domain: Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit) (8 hours) 

• For all catalogs 2024-2025 and beyond, this course can be used to satisfy 4 hours (lecture/lab combined) of the True Blue Core curriculum requirement for Discovery in Natural Sciences in Sci Lit. If you have already fulfilled the Discovery requirement for Sci Lit, this course can be used in the Explorations in Sci Lit category. To learn more about TBC requirements: https://truebluecore.mtsu.edu/core 
• For all catalogs prior to 2024-2025, this course may be used to satisfy 4 hours of the general education curriculum requirement for Natural Sciences. To learn more about general education requirements for catalogs prior to 2024-2025: https://w1.mtsu.edu/gen_ed/requirements.php 
• The TBC outcome for Discovery in Natural Sciences (Sci Lit): Students systematically explore issues, problems, objects, and works through the collection and analysis of evidence, identification of informed conclusions, and analysis of complex topics by breaking them down. 

Descriptions:

This course is for students with no prior courses in chemistry. It can be taken before CHEM 1110/CHEM 1111. Fundamental concepts of chemistry covered in the course are measurements, matter, chemical bonds, chemical reactions, nuclear chemistry, states of matter, solutions, and electrolytes. This is three hours of lecture and one three-hour laboratory. The course does not count toward a major or minor in Chemistry.