Gillan Chemistry Courses
Gillan Chemistry Courses
All of Gillan's chemistry course web pages now reside on the university's password protected ICON web site. If you wish to access these sites, email Professor Gillan to request guest access.
Over the past 27+ years, Professor Gillan has taught and redeveloped a wide range of undergraduate and graduate courses:
Chem:1110 (4:11) - Principles of Chemistry I: First semester undergraduate chemistry course covering atomic properties, molecular structures and bonding, thermochemistry, equilibrium, colligative and solid-state properties.
Chem:1000 (4:29) - First Year Seminar Program: Taught special topics freshman seminar courses with titles: Making Stuff: Stronger, Smaller, Cleaner, Smarter and Looking Under the Hood: Structure and Function of Materials in the Modern World. Both courses were small (~15 students) interactive courses for new undergraduate students.
Chem:3250 (4:125) - Inorganic Chemistry: Introductory undergraduate, sophomore level inorganic course covering basic chemical bonding (valence bond and MO), molecular symmetry, chemical properties and periodic trends, solid-state structures, and transition metal chemistry.
Chem:3530 (4:153) - Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory: An undergraduate course that involves air-sensitive chemical manipulations, coordination chemistry, and solid-state synthesis.
Chem:4270 (4:170) - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: A junior/senior level course for undergraduate Chemistry majors and beginning graduate students that rapidly reviews basic inorganic concepts and covers more in-depth group theory and molecular symmetry, multinuclear MO diagrams, transition-metal chemistry, and solid-state structure and properties.
Chem:5204 (4:204) - Physical Methods in Inorganic Chemistry: A graduate course covering several important characterization methods of interest to the practicing inorganic chemist, including NMR, EPR, magnetic susceptibility, XPS/UPS, and X-ray diffraction. Real-world literature examples with an inorganic focus are used throughout the course.
Chem:5206 (4:206) - Solid-State and Materials Chemistry: A graduate course covering various aspects of materials synthesis and characterization, including a range of synthetic methods, powder X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, electrical and magnetic concepts and measurements. An introduction to nanoscale properties and synthesis is also presented.