Teaching Biologically Relevant Chemistry throughout the Four-Year Chemistry Curriculum
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[1] Willamette University
Willamette University
Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Journal of chemical education, ISSN 0021-9584, Vol. 83, Nº 8, 2006, pág. 1171
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Many of today's undergraduate chemistry students appreciate exposure to topics of interest in the health and life sciences. Our first-year chemistry students learn introductory chemistry using eight case studies, four of which (air pollution, marine chemistry, blood chemistry, and bioenergetics) deal directly with human health issues and biological processes. For second-year students, we recently redesigned our two-semester organic chemistry course sequence so that students may choose between two equivalent versions of the second-semester course: one that stresses synthetic organic chemistry and another that stresses bioorganic chemistry. This latter course is discussed in some detail in this article, along with other novel aspects of our four-year chemistry curriculum.
