Course Description
General Chemistry, CHEM 1A
Atomic structure; general properties of the elements; covalent, ionic, and metallic bonding; intermolecular forces; mass relationships.
Key Information
Credit: 4 quarter units /
2.67 semester units credit
UC Irvine, Chemistry
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
General Education: QL, SE, SL.
UC Irvine:
General Education: II - Science and Technology, Va - Quantitative Literacy
UC Los Angeles:
General Education: Physical Science non-lab (non-lab)
UC Merced:
Course Equivalence: CHEM 1A+1B = UCM CHEM 002
Units toward degree (see your adviser)
UC Riverside:
Course Equivalence: CHEM 001A
UC San Diego:
General Education: TMC 1 course toward Chemistry or lower division disciplinary breadth if noncontiguous to major; Revelle - Chemistry or one course towards Natural Science; Muir: one course in a Natural Science theme in "Chemistry, Physics, and the Environment"; Sixth - 1 course in Analytic Methodologies; Warren - May be counted depending on major/PofC, Seventh - 1 course towards Alternatives - Natural Sciences and Engineering; ERC - natural science
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
Pending
UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: SI
Prerequisites
Math 2A or Physics 7C or Chem 1P or placement via a score of 600 or higher on the SAT Mathematics Reasoning test, or a score of 27 or higher on the ACT Mathematics test, or a score of 700 or higher on the SAT Chemistry subject exam, or a score of 3 on the AP Chemistry exam, or a score of 3 on the APCalc BC Exam. Chem 1P with a grade of C- or better.
Course Fees
We currently have three packaged deals. For the physical book plus homework it is $233, For loose leaf physical book plus homework it is $152, and for the ebook plus homework it is $152. 1/15 10-10:50 am, 2/5 10-1050, 2/26 10-10:50, Final TBA
More About The Course
Book: Nivaldo J. Tro “Chemistry: Structure and Properties” 1e
(etext or hard copy). Modified Mastering Chemistry Homework System.
Fees vary depending on delivery system.
Course Creator
Amanda Holton
Amanda J. Holton Ph.D. is a faculty lecturer at U.C. Irvine. She received her Ph.D. from UCI in Biophysical Chemistry and now teaches general chemistry and focuses research and scholarly efforts on active learning techniques, flipped classroom implementation and online learning.
Amanda J. Holton Ph.D. is a faculty lecturer at U.C. Irvine. She received her Ph.D. from UCI in Biophysical Chemistry and now teaches general chemistry and focuses research and scholarly efforts on active learning techniques, flipped classroom implementation and online learning.