Developing and implementing a reorganized undergraduate chemistry curriculum based on the foundational chemistry topics of structure, reactivity, and quantitation

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 321-328

  Schaller, Chris P ^a   Graham, Kate J ^a   Johnson, Brian J ^a   Fazal, M A ^a   Jones, T Nicholas ^a   McIntee, Edward J ^a   Jakubowski, Henry V ^a  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Curriculum; First Year Undergraduate; Interdisciplinary Multidisciplinary; Second Year Undergraduate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897822479     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: 19381328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed400336d     Document Type: Article

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