化学系目标
The 化学系 seeks to maintain a high-quality faculty, 一大批有才华的学生, and the other resources necessary to achieve the following goals for our students.
第一部分:化学教育的目标
A. For all Harvey Mudd students to understand the fundamental principles of chemistry and to have the background necessary to understand the impact of chemistry on our society.
学生学习成果:
- 学生 will demonstrate a basic knowledge of chemistry in the areas of
- 结构
- 动力学
- 能量
- 学生 will demonstrate an understanding of society’s demands upon chemistry as well as the advances in quality of life made possible by chemical science.
B. For all Harvey Mudd students to understand how fundamental chemical principles can be applied to the solution of real problems in a variety of technical fields.
学生学习成果:
- 学生 will demonstrate sufficient background and depth in chemistry to be able to successfully complete any of the majors offered at Harvey Mudd College.
- 学生 will demonstrate that they have appreciated the contributions of chemistry to at least one problem facing society.
C. For all Harvey Mudd students to understand how chemists successfully study and interpret chemical and 物理 phenomena through experimental investigations using high-quality modern instrumentation.
学生学习成果:
- 学生将证明他们可以 keep an adequate record of experimental investigations.
- 学生将证明他们可以 execute an experiment to measure a chemical property using typical instrumentation.
- 学生将证明他们可以 interpret results of experimental measurements via the application chemical theory.
第二部分:化学专业的目标
A. For all Harvey Mudd chemistry graduates to have a broad and intense education in chemistry, 经美国化学会认可, so that they may succeed in any professional career track they choose.
学生学习成果:
- Senior chemistry majors will be able to demonstrate a mastery of factual knowledge comprehensively across the five principal areas of chemistry (organic, 无机, 物理, 分析, 和生化), 并且能够分析和解决问题, 理解的关系, 解释科学事实和数据.
- 学生 completing the chemistry major will meet the certification requirements as set forth by the American Chemical Society Committee on 教授essional Training
- 学生 completing the joint major in chemistry and biology will have the option of earning certified degrees in biochemistry with the addition of one to two courses.
- 化学 graduates will be successful in gaining entrance into high-quality graduate schools in chemistry and allied fields, 专业学校录取, and securing quality careers in the chemical sciences and other fields.
B. For all Harvey Mudd chemistry graduates to have a quality research experience so that they may understand the ways in which new scientific knowledge is created.
学生学习成果:
- 学生将证明他们可以 independently find and use information pertinent to their research efforts.
- 学生 will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship of their project to the current literature.
- 学生 will demonstrate an understanding of the broader impacts of their work on society.
- 学生将证明他们可以 design and execute an experiment to test a hypothesis or answer a specific question.
- 学生将证明他们可以 analyze experimental results, 得出适当的结论, 并提出下一步的建议.
- 学生将证明他们可以 effectively communicate the findings of their work in oral, 视觉, 以及书面形式.
- 学生 will master and apply an experimental or theoretical technique at a level beyond that presented in the core chemistry curriculum.
C. For all Harvey Mudd chemistry graduates to develop the ability to communicate scientific ideas clearly and effectively.
学生学习成果:
- 学生将证明他们可以 produce a thesis describing an open question in the field of chemistry, 它的上下文, a method of addressing that question through experimental work, 研究的结果, 以及相关的结论.
- 学生将证明他们可以 frame an open question in the field of chemistry in the course of a short oral presentation, 利用高质量的视听教具.
- 学生将证明他们可以, through research conducted in the major courses and through Senior Thesis, report on their contributions to an open question in the field of chemistry through an oral presentation of sufficient length and depth, 利用高质量的视听教具.
- 学生将证明他们可以 frame an approach to solving an open question in the field of chemistry and communicate it to an educated layperson in the space of two printed pages.