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IS 090 - Integrated Science

Credits: 4

This course is designed for students who have taken inadequate, or no previous high school level science courses. The course will provide the needed background to gain clear understanding of the biological or chemical processes for University level courses. Specific simple science themes to be covered include, Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, the Chemistry of Life (Biochemistry), Cell Organization and Basic Physics. Inorganic chemistry topics to be covered are Atomic structure, chemicals and symbols, atoms and molecules, ionization, liquid mixtures, diffusion and osmosis, and chemistry of nerve cell propagation. Topics to be covered in organic chemistry will include covalent bond, polar and nonpolar covalent bonds, and functional groups in organic compounds, hydrogen bonds, and isomers. Topics in biochemistry would include, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleotides, enzymes, methyl groups, biological oxidation, photosynthesis, and oxygen-carbon dioxide transport in blood. Topics to be covered in basic physics include, introductory mechanics and properties of matter, heat, light, sound waves, electricity, magnetism, atomic and nuclear energy. This course has no Prerequisites and laboratory sessions.

Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.


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