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Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Catalog

ENV 320 - Chemistry for Environmental Scientists


Course designed to provide a firm understanding of the chemical principals and reactions of importance in environmental degradation of natural environments or built environments, remediation and abatement processes, energy production. In addition, the course reviews the chemical processes that control the transport, fate, and bioavailability of common organic pollutants, metals, and metalloids. The course expands on concepts from general chemistry, and introduces concepts from physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, photochemistry, and geochemistry. Not for credit in addition to CHE 310 .

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): CHE 132  or CHE 152 

DEC: H

SBC: STAS