Honors Chemistry is a fast-paced general chemistry course designed to provide students with the conceptual framework, analytical tools, and research skills necessary for a comprehensive understanding of chemistry. Students engage and explore the fundamental concepts of chemistry, gather and process information in the laboratory setting, and build a robust understanding supported by personal discovery. Students are tasked to document their emerging understanding, infer relationships, make predictions, generate procedures, conduct research, write with authority, and ask the probing questions that lead to a deep understanding of the material and its application. Students will be given the opportunity to design and implement their own chemical research and discover first-hand the properties of matter and the nature of science. The pace will be rapid and students will be expected to actively use math as a tool to arrive at valid conclusions and quantitative answers. This course is designed to prepare students for advanced work in biology and chemistry. 

Departmental approval is required for this course. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors.