CHEM 105 - Foundations in Chemistry: Health Perspectives

Credit Hours: 3

Corequisite: CHEM 115

A study of how chemistry affects health and wellness. Humans ingest bugs (sometimes on purpose), pesticides, drugs (both legal and illegal), and of course food and drink. Chemistry is a large part of food production, transportation, storage, and consumption. Drugs can be medicines or toxins and the side effects for one drug can be the wanted effect for another.

This course fulfills the first-year science requirement in the General Education program when taken with the laboratory component.