The growing trend has become for many undergraduate chemistry departments to eliminate the Analytical Chemistry and Instrumental Analysis courses from their curricula.  In these instances, students are now forced to learn critical analytical techniques and instrumentation, on-the-fly, during their upper-level lab courses.   In response to this phenomenon, we have innovated a new type of freshmen chemistry laboratory course.  This course is designed for the honors-level freshmen chemistry students who have already had significant exposure to the theory of chemistry, presumably from high school AP chemistry courses, but who have not yet learned the essential analytical techniques.  In addition to continuing to challenge the students in the lecture portion of the course, we use the topically relevant framework of the traditional general chemistry course to teach freshman the essentials of analytical chemistry, statistics, and instrumental analysis in the lab.

Analytical chemistry as an honors-level alternative to the traditional freshmen chemistry lab

240th National Meeting (2010)

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