Curriculum

Curriculum

Courses Abstract

• General Chemistry and Lab. Ⅰ
  This is the first course in chemistry for students in the integrated science teacher program. Topics will cover: chemical principles and experiments; gas, liquid, and solid states; chemical reactions and energy relationships; oxidation and reduction; electrochemistry; and chemical bonding.
• General Chemistry and Lab. Ⅱ
  This is the second course in chemistry for students in the integrated science teacher program. Topics will cover reaction kinetics, chemical equilibrium, Kinetic theory of molecules, metals and nonmetals, coord eqtion compounds, organic chemistry, biochemistry basics, instrument operation, and experimental data handling and statistics. The course will offer chemical principles and experiments for students majoring in other sciences such as physics, earth science, and biology. The course General Chemistry and Laboratory 1 is prerequisite.
• Organic Chemical & Inquiry StudyⅠ
  This course covers simple organic compounds with emphasis on structure, bonding and reaction. Its pre-requisite is Fundamental Chemistry and Lab 1,2.
• Organic Chemical & Inquiry LabⅠ
  Basic manipulations of organic chemical experiments such as simple separation, refining, and detection of organic compounds are learned, and basic experimental procedures for manipulating, observing, and verifying the properties, characteristics, and responses of shared compounds are provided. Furthermore, based on the experimental manipulations learned, we learn to synthesize, separate, and refine more complex materials and identify them in spectroscopic ways.
• Physical Chemistry & Inquiry StudyⅠ
  One of the major requirement course in the Department of Chemistry Education, this class studies equilibrium thermody- namics. More specifically, it covers such topics as the laws of thermodynamics, the properties and the structure of gas, liquid, and solid, as well as phase change and equilibrium. This class has pre-requisites of General physics, General Chemistry and Calculus.
• Physical Chemistry & Inquiry LabⅠ
  In parallel with the lecture on physics and chemistry, quantum chemistry, spectroscopy, statistical thermodynamics, thermodynamics, and chemical reactions are experienced in experiments to learn more about the physical chemistry concepts and to analyze and understand the principles.
• Mathematics for Chemistry
  This course deals with the mathematical method required in the study of physical chemistry and quantum chemistry.
• Organic Chemistry Inquiry Study
  The basic properties, characteristics, and reactions of simple organic compounds allow us to understand the basic concepts of organic chemistry.
• Teaching Methods and Study on Teaching Materials in ScienceⅡ
  In this course, the secondary school science textbooks are analyzed in every unit, and discussed to be used properly in the learning of secondary school students.
• Organic Chemical & Inquiry StudyⅡ
  Following Organic Chemistry 1, this course covers simple organic compounds with emphasis on bonding and reaction, structure and various functional groups. Its pre-requisite is Organic Chemistry 1.
• Organic Chemical & Inquiry Lab II
  Basic manipulations of organic chemical experiments such as simple separation, refining, and detection of organic compounds are learned, and basic experimental procedures for manipulating, observing, and verifying the properties, characteristics, and responses of shared compounds are provided. Furthermore, based on the experimental manipulations learned, we learn to synthesize, separate, and refine more complex materials and identify them in spectroscopic ways.
• Physical Chemistry & Inquiry StudyⅡ
  This class discusses the basic concepts of quantum mechanics. It covers such topics as the properties and the structures of atoms and molecules, as well as the fundamentals of chemical spectroscopy and statistical mechanics.
• Physical Chemistry Inquiry Study
  The subject deals with quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and chemical kinetics. This course provides a firm foundation for understanding the physical principles.
• Theories of Science Education
  This course covers learning theories applied to science instruction in secondary schools. It discusses such topics as behavioral, cognitive, and constructivist learning theories. In addition, the course emphasizes the contemporary perspectives of learning theories.
• Inorganic Chemical & Inquiry StudyⅠ
  This course provides an introductory survey of the bonding of inorganic compounds, as well as various reactions of inorganic compounds such as acid-base, oxidation-reduction and substitution reactions.
• Analytical Chemistry & Inquiry study Ⅰ
  This course discusses systematical approaching method to deal with an equilibrium in several kinds of fundamental chemical reaction which is related to all fields of chemical science. It also covers basic topics such as activity, concentration, gravimetric and volumetric analysis, titrations using precipitation formation and acid-base neutralization, and determination of metal ion concentration using chelates complex formation/EDTA titration. Theories and methodology measuring composition, quantity, and concentration of unknown samples will be dealt with based on understanding of funda- mental chemical reactions in this course.
• Physical Chemistry & Inquiry StudyⅢ
  This class discusses the basic concepts of quantum mechanics. It covers such topics as the properties and the structures of atoms and molecules, as well as the fundamentals of chemical spectroscopy and statistical mechanics.
• Biochemistry
  This course covers the characteristics of enzyme reaction in living cells, bio-energy theory, fundamentals of intermediate metabolism, physico-chemical function, and biosynthesis.
• Analytical Chemistry Inquiry Study
  It deals with systematic approaches, quantities, and appropriate methods to a number of basic chemical reaction equilibria related to all areas of chemistry. Based on the understanding of these basic chemical reactions, the principles and methods of measuring the chemical composition, composition, content, and concentration of unknown substances are taught.
• Inorganic Chemical & Inquiry StudyⅡ
  This course covers such topics as coordination chemistry of transition metals, inorganic reaction mechanisms, and organometallic chemistry.
• Inorganic Chemical Chemistry & Inquiry Lab
  This course enables students to acquire skills for synthesis of various inorganic compounds and chromatographic as well as ion exchange separation of inorganic compounds.
• Analytical Chemistry & Inquiry LabⅠ
  The laboratory experiments cover several types of volu- metric analyses using titration such as precipitation reaction, acid-base neutralization, redox reaction, chelate EDTA complex formation reaction in order to detect and quantize a specific component existing in the unknown mixture solution. In addition, spectrophotometric determination of metal ion, iodimetric titration of vitamin C, electrogravimetric analysis of copper ion, analysis of a mixture of carbonate and bicarbonate, and standard addition method will be included in this lab course.
• Logic and Logical Writing in Science
  This course deals with the scientific thinking method, and the teaching-learning of science essay writing in the secondary school.
• Analytical Chemistry & Inquiry LabⅡ
  The principles of chromatography, which uses differences in chemical and physical properties to separate and extract only pure components, countcurrant distribution, proper redox and oxidation, basic electrochemical reactions, electrochemical analysis, quantitative analysis, light intensity or absorbance.
• Chemical Kinetics
  Phenomenological methods, dynamical and statistical approaches to chemical reactions are taught in the course. This includes the conventional theory of chemical kinetics, the scattering theory, the transition state theory and the unimolecular reactions and photochemistry of reactions.
• Physical Organic Chemistry
  This course covers various topics such as the application of molecular orbital theory to organic chemistry, orbital symmetry, thermochemistry, and linear free energy relationship.
• Analytical Chemistry & Inquiry StudyⅡ
  Fundamentals of several types of chromatography and countcurrent distribution for separation and extraction of pure components will be covered using different physical/chemical properties of chemical substances in the mixtures. This course involves oxidation /reduction of materials, fundamental electrochemistry, redox titrations, electrolysis, electrogravimetric and coulometric analyses, voltammetry, fundamentals of spectrophotometry and spectroscopic analyses using light properties.
• Inorganic Chemistry Inquiry Study
  It deals with basic matters concerning the structure and combination of inorganic compounds, stereochemistry, thermodynamics and speed theory of inorganic reactions, and combination theory of metastatic metals.
• Seminar in Chemistry Education
  This seminar is established a field of the following areas by turn: Chemistry Education, Analytical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry. The course suggests new ideas and what discusses about each distinction, utility through analysis the current study of most recent in the chemistry education or a division of chemistry. It makes a schedule with capturing of subjects of the study through discussion and analyses of results, and makes a paper and report.
• Study on Teaching Materials&Teaching Methods in Integrated Chemical Education
  The change of science curriculum is learned with National Curriculum of Korea, and the contents are analyzed in the high school chemistry textbooks and middle school science textbooks. The teaching-leaning method is learned and practiced to be used in secondary school chemistry lesson. In addition, this course deals with the teaching focused on STS (Science-Technology-Society) and science teacher's self-evaluation.
• Instrumental Analysis
  It learns the structure, properties, operating principles, ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry, atomic absorbance photometry, and potential analysis of device components that use light.
• Topics in Chemistry EducationⅠ
  In this lecture, information on the fields that are currently being studied in the field of chemical education is collected and organized, and the ability to effectively apply it to secondary school education is developed.
• Qualitative Analysis of Organic Chemistry
  Confirming structure and characters in organic compound using chemical reaction and analysis tools or machinery.
• Problem Solving in Physical Chemistry
  In this lecture, we understand concepts and principles through solving problems in physical chemistry.
• Environment Chemistry Education
  Environmental problems such as global warming are examined from a physical chemistry perspective and related contents are learned.
• Topics in Chemistry EducationⅡ
  In this lecture, information on the fields that are currently being studied in the field of chemical education is collected and organized, and the ability to effectively apply it to secondary school education is developed.
• Advanced Inorganic Chemistry
  Inorganic chemistry is the subject of athletes, and in-depth lectures on inorganic chemistry, including structure and combination of inorganic compounds, thermodynamics and speed theory of inorganic reactions, structures/reactions and mechanisms of organic metal compounds.
• Molecular Spectroscopy
  In this class, we learn how to study various phenomena related to molecules such as rotation of molecules, vibration states, etc. in a spectroscopic way.
• Development of Scientific Inquiry Experiments for Secondary School
  Students develop the ability of developing scientific inquiry experiments that can be used in middle and high school. They develop the ability of teaching scientific experiments by experiencing various inquiry activities that increase secondary school students’ interest and curiosity of science.