Course Name
Credit
Type of Course
Frontiers of Chemistry 2-1
2
Designated Elective Course
The main goal of this course is to let students understand the frontier of chemistry, enhance students’ interest in chemistry learning, stimulate the students’ enthusiasm and passion for science. Lectures introduces the frontiers of chemistry, specifically including the frontiers of catalytic chemistry, material chemistry, chemical biology, energy chemistry and environmental chemistry, etc., and use of student teamwork approach to carry out literature search, summary and induction. The students are low grade students in university. By conducting this course, students’ scientific original and criticism consciousness are cultivated and students’ independent thinking, scientific questioning and scientific thinking skills are improved.
Frontiers of Chemistry 2-2
The course of "Frontiers of Chemistry (2-2)" introduces the current situation, development and frontier trends of various branches of chemistry by the academic leaders of various research fields of the college. The whole course include: inorganic chemistry frontier (two lectures), analytical chemistry frontier (one lecture), organic chemistry frontier (four lectures), polymer chemistry (three lectures), Energy Chemistry frontier (two lectures), supramolecular chemistry frontier (one lecture) and chemical biology frontier (one lecture). Through this course, students can realize the importantance and significance of chemistry in social development and national economy, and they can also understand the frontier and development trends of various branches of chemistry. In addition, the course may further cultivate and improve students' interest in chemistry learning, and define their own learning and endeavor direction.
Chemistry Changed the World
This course is designed as a public elective course for students in chemistry college. It aims at popularizing elemetary knowledge of chemistry, so that students can understand the changes of chemistry accompanied with other factors of society. It improves students’ abilities to analyze and solve problems and construct scientific way of thinking.
Instrumental Analysis Experiment
The course covers 18 experiments that are designed to provide the students with hands-on experience in a wide variety of analytical instrumentation. Modern instrumental methods including ICP-AES, AAS, IR, NMR, GC, HPLC and GC-MS will be employed. The students will learn instrument operation, data acquisition, and data analyses from each experiment.
Quantitative Chemical Analysis
Qunatitative Chemical Analysis is one of the four primary courses for students in chemistry major or in other related major. The basic knowledge, theory and typical analysis methods are introduced, which include data treatment, acid-base titration, complex titration, redox titration and gravimetry. The knowledge learned could be applied to solve the problem. The concept of “quantitative” and the quality of research should be trained in the study process and lay a good foundation for the following courses and the scientific research in the future.
Teaching Practice
1
The course is for the fundamental education of chemical industry and production, including the various chemical engineering unit operation and theory of the transition process and reaction engineering. The main contents are as follows:1, Chemical production safety education, labor protection and environment protection in the factory.2 Chemical process flowing, main unit operations and main equipments of the factory studied. Chemical engineering theory.3 Apply the Chemical engineering theory to the chemical production and various unit operations.4 Distillation theory and calaulations of the distillation tower.5 Basis of the chemical reaction engineering theory. The distribution of staying time in the reacter and Measurement of the chemical reaction dynamics.6 Report of Practice Teaching
Fundamental Chemical Engineering
4
D
The course is for the fundamental education of chemical engineering, including the various chemical engineering unit operation and theory of the transition process and reaction engineering. The main contents are as follows: 1, Fluid flowing and transportation, pump calculations. 2 Heat transition and heat exchanger, calculation and unit operation. 3 Mass transition and Fick Laws. 4 Distillation theory and calaulations of the distillation tower. 5 Basis of the chemical reaction engineering theory. 6 The distribution of staying time in the reacter and Measurement of the chemical reaction dynamics.
Specialized English in Chemistry
This course is the further study of English in “chemistry field”. Students should be familiar with a lot of chemistry vocabularies, and the method to express chemistry in English. It is very important for a chemistry learner for good working in the joint venture company when graduate from college. And it is also very helpful for student to read papers in English, if students wan to go on to study for being a master or a doctor.
Advanced Organic Chemistry
3
Through the study of """Advanced Organic Chemistry""" course, the students can master the description and expression of the organic reactions, as well as the determination of the organic reaction mechanisms. The students can utilize what they learned in the course, such as the stereochemistry, conformation analysis, isotope effects, linear free energy relationship and so on, to study the real reactions the encountered in scientific research. That is to say, they can apply the advanced organic chemistry knowledge to solve practical problems.
Fundamental Experiment of Chemical Engineering
The course is for the fundamental experiment education of chemical engineering, including the various chemical engineering unit operation and theory of the transition process and reaction engineering. The main experimentsare as follows: 1, Test of the resistance of the fluid flowing. 2 Test of the heat transition. 3 Test of the distillation with the distillation tower. 4 Measurement of the distribution of staying time in the reacter. 5 Measurement of the chemical reaction dynamics. 6 Test of nano-filtering of water.
Separation Technology in Pharmaceutical Analysis
The separation is a science to study the separation, concentration and purification of substances. The separation science and technology is a key aspect in the analytical chemistry and play an indispensable function in all the chemistry-related areas. The course: Separation Technology in the Pharmaceutical Analysis” will introduce the knowledge of major separation technology in the current pharmaceutical analysis. Combining with the pharmaceutical applications, the separation principles and the technology will be introduced.
Modern Method of Separation and Analysis
This course is an introduction to fundamental theories and basic techniques of modern separation science, enabling undergraduate students to properly select separation modes and the operational conditions,and to apply chromatography to quantitative analysis.
Functional Coordination Chemistry
In this course, the basic knowledge, steric chemistry, theory and electronic configuration of complexes are introduced. Especially, the applications of complexes and relative molecular materials on optics, electrics, magnetism and spin-transition are investigated, as well as the design, synthesis and characterization methods. The latest research reported by corresponding publications is introduced and discussed.This course is toward the undergraduate students of Grade I and II as well as graduate students of coordination chemistry.
Scientific Document and Management-I
This course teaches students to become more effective writers, using practical examples and exercises. Topics include: principles of good writing, tricks for writing, the format of a science article, science proposal, science news, science report, business document and so on. This course emphasizes integrity is the cornerstone of scientific research and writing. Also this course introduces some tools for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references.
Scientific Document and Management-II
This course is a continuation of , and is the second part in the series of . This course provides general guidelines for writing, and introduces some tools for publishing and managing the formatting and accuracy of figures, equations, bibliographies, citations and references in order to comply with the style rules of external publications.
Computational Chemical Biology
Computational chemical biology is a multi-disciplinary field which involves the use of techniques including applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, chemistry and biochemistry to solve biological problems usually on the molecular level. This course provides the theory, method and applications of computational chemical biology in the design of target-focused compounds, the systematic analysis of target-ligand interactions, prediction of enzymatic activity and prediction of drug resistance/ selectivity. This course also includes sequence alignment, protein structure alignment, protein structure prediction, prediction of protein-protein interactions.
Bioanalytical Chemistry
Bioanlytical chemistry covers various instrumental techniques and bioanalytical methods. These include: HPLC, electrophoresis, capillary electrophoresis, MALDI-TOF, ESI-MS, immunoassays, ELISA,biosensors, DNA arrays and pyrosequencing.
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Bioinorganic chemistry is also called inorganic biochemistry or biocoordination chemistry. It is an interdisciplinary field of inorganic chemistry, biochemistry, medicine and other disciplines. It has been gradually formed since the 1960s. The object of study is the metal (and a few non-metal) elements and their compounds in organisms, especially the bio-complexes formed by trace metal elements and macromolecule ligands, such as various metalloenzymes, metalloproteins and so on. Emphasis is laid on the relationship between their structure-property-biological activity and the mechanism of their participation in the reaction in the living environment. In order to facilitate research, metal coordination compounds with certain physiological functions are synthesized by artificial simulation.
Protein Dynamics
This subject intends to provide an introduction of structure-dynamic-function of proteins and the modern techniques in elucidation of protein dynamics. “Protein dynamics” provides a comprehensive treatment of the principles and practice of the dynamics of proteins.
Cheminformatics
Cheminformatics is a relatively new field of information technology that focuses on the collection, storage, analysis, and manipulation of chemical data. This course is intended to provide an introduction to the basic aspects of chemoinformatics, with particular emphasis on the retrieval method of chemical information. The course will mainly discuss the following subjects: (i) basic concept and theory of cheminformatics; (ii) chemical electronic / digital resources provided in Nankai University; (iii) strategy or skill for document retrieval based on database or internet resources for chemical reserach; (iv) softwares for chemical structure drawing, scientific data analysis & graphing, bibliographies management and publishing, etc..
Scientific Document and Management-III
This course is one of the series courses of . This course provides general guidelines for writing, and introduces some tools for publishing and managing bibliographies, citations and references. This course guides students to intensively read some reseach articles and learn how to write a reseach manuscript. The course is geared to students who are planning to write a paper – whether for publication, for thesis, or to present at a conference.
Intellectual Property and Innovation
This course introduces the conception of intellectual property and innovation, and common types of intellectual property rights: copyright, trademarks, patents, industrial design rights, and in some jurisdictions trade secrets. This course also introduces the importance of intellectual property for a critical driver of technological innovation and economic competitivenes.
Structure and Function of Biomacromolecule
1.5
The structure and function of biological macromolecules is an important part of biochemistry research, and it is the basis of chemistry students' understanding of biochemistry. Through this course, students can understand the structure and function of biological macromolecules such as proteins, sugars and nucleic acids, and the experimental techniques commonly used in biomolecule research. At the same time, students can understand the forefront of biochemistry research, stimulate students 'innovative spirit, develop students' ability to acquire knowledge and use the theoretical knowledge to analyze problems and solve problems.
Cell Biology
2.5
The goal of this course is to let students understand the relationship between cell structure and function and the molecular basis of cellular processes. This course is an introduction to cell structure, function, and activities.
Microbiology
Microbiology is an important basic discipline and makes a significant contribution to great basic theories of life science and the formation and development of modern biotechnology. Microbiology is also a subject with strong applicability and closely related to hot issues that human beings are at present faced with, such as food, health, medicine, energy and the environment. Therefore, microbiology is an important basic and core subject in contemporary life sciences. Microbiology is a basic course for undergraduate majoring in chemicobiology. Students are required to firmly grasp the basic theory and basic knowledge of microbial structure and function, growth and development, physiological metabolism, genetic variation, genetic engineering, ecological distribution, classification evolution, infection and immunity, and also firmly grasp the unique purebred isolation and culture-related technical methods in microbiology as well as basic skills in the course of microbiology research work, and understand microbiology advance and development. Through good scientific research and thinking training,students will be cultivated to be innovative talents with biotechnology theory and practice, who can work on teaching, scientific research, technology development and management and so on.
Cell Signal Transduction
This course, as a selective course for the students major in life sciences, is based on the landmark references in cell signal transduction researches taught as special topic seminars. One of the purposes for this course is to extend and deepen the students’ knowledge on biochemistry and cell biology of signal transduction. The contents of this course mainly focus on the basic theories, methods and technologies as well as the latest achievements in this field. This course not only provides a platform for the students to enlarge their knowledge for further learning, understanding and mastering the cut-edge results of signal transduction field. During this course, the student can learn how to apply their knowledge on biochemistry and cell biology into the research of signal transduction which is will be very useful for understanding and digesting in full their knowledge. This course is consists of ten relative separated topics, includes the basic knowledge of cell signal transduction, research methods and technologies, cAMP system, G-protein and GPCR systerms, adrenergic receptors and acetylcholine receptors, calcium ion and signal transduction, PKC pathway, protease activated receptors and recruit type receptors.
Developmental Biology
Developmental Biology introduces the principles and on mechanisms of development, differentiation, and growth in animals at the molecular, cellular, and genetic levels. Areas of particular emphasis include transcriptional control mechanisms, embryonic patterning, cell-cell interactions, growth factors and signal transduction and regulatory hierarchies, as well as current topics and advances in Developmental Biology.
Structural Biology
Protein is the core content of the subject and its compounds, the assembly and the resulting cells of various components of the three-dimensional structure, movement and interaction, and their relationship with the normal biological functions and abnormal pathological phenomena.This course focuses on the basic principle of structural biology and the latest progress. The brief introduction of the structural biology research methods on the basis of mainly from the molecular level in this paper, the structure of proteins and nucleic acids, interaction and the relationship between structure and function, through concrete examples of hemoglobin oxygen, the catalytic mechanism of enzymes, immune recoglization, prion, glycoprotein and the relationship between the structure features of biological membrane, etc., and structural biology application in biology and medicine
Molecular Biology
Molecular biology is a scientific study of investigating basic life science at the molecular level. By studying the structures functions and biological synthesis of macromolecules (nucleic acid, protein), we can illustrate the essence of life. The research contents include all kinds of life processes, such as photosynthesis, the molecular mechanism of development, the mechanism of neural activity and carcinogenesis. The teaching object is mainly three-year students at the university of life sciences professional. They have some basic knowledge of biology. As a basic biological science, molecular biology is very important for students to explore life science. It also plays an important role in the future study of the students.
Applied Computational Chemistry
The course of applied computational chemistry aims to undergraduate students of grade three or grade four who have learned physical chemistry and structural chemistry knowledge. The course of applied computational chemistry will teach the basic principle, the main methodologies including molecular mechanics, ab initio, semiempirical, and density functional theory (DFT), and the various applications of computational chemistry in fields of organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, catalytic chemistry and supramolecular chemistry. The contents of each chapter fall into two classes: to test and reinforce the reader’s understanding, and to encourage deeper thought. All pivotal statements and examples are supported by original literature references that have been updated so far. All calculation examples serve to illustrate and to show the scope of various methods.
Modern Organic Synthesis
As the core of organic chemistry, organic synthetic chemistry is the main means of developing new materials, and provides important technical support for the development of related material and medicine science. The purpose of this course is to teach students the history, influencing factors and application of organic reactions through the study of structures and properties of organic compounds on the basis of basic organic chemistry. Based on the understanding of organic reaction theory, students can use the knowledge they learned to solve organic chemistry problems and guide professional organic studies. The course provides students who are interested in organic chemistry with an opportunity to learn more about the latest advances in organic chemistry. It can enrich their knowledge and bridge the gap between traditional organic synthesis and the current developments in this area. Thus providing more assistance to students in further research direction selection, research career planning and employment choice.
Linear Algebra
Linear Algebra is the one of the fundamental part of the Advanced Engineering Mathematics classes. It includes matrix, determinant, linear transforming and linear maps, eigenvalue and eigenvector, quadratic forms and applications. The class is for sophomore-level or junior/senior-level first course in linear algebra and assumes calculus as a prerequisite.
Software Development in Chemistry
Software has been widely utilized as necessary tool for research in chemistry. This course is designed as a progressive object-oriented programming session using Visual C++ and MFC which provide professional application framework and data flow. It encourages students to create Windows applications with graphics user interface, including molecular structure editing and depicting, spectrum viewing with peak searching and integrating, and invoking other applications.
This course offers an opportunity for students who wants to practice C++ coding, to have a better understanding of thoughts in object-oriented designing and programming, by following the exercises of a series operations on molecular structure input and display, spectrum display and data processing, which will lead to an integrated Windows application eventually.
This course will greatly improve the students of thoughts and skills of object-oriented programming for chemical objects by data processing and depicting functions, connecting chemical theories with experiments and software tools.
Immunology
Immunology is a branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders; the physical, chemical and physiological characteristics of the components of the immune system in vitro, in situ and in vivo. Immunology has applications in several disciplines of science, and as such is further divided. Many components of the immune system are actually cellular in nature and not associated with any specific organ but rather are embedded or circulating in various tissues located throughout the body. The purpose of the courses is to master the basic knowledge of Immunology, to understand the recent progress in the immune study, master some methods and means of immune research, and provide theoretical support for basic research in immunology. The courses have two sections. Section I contains chapters on general aspects of immunology which need to be known and understood well, and Section II contains chapters on new generation and important application of some immune technology.
Mathematical Statistics
This course covers the probability theory and mathematical statistics with applications. Topics including basic probability theory, development of distributions, statistical estimation, hypothesis testing, nonparametric testing, and linear regression will be explored.
Mass Spectrometry
The purpose of Mass Spectrometry course is to make students have free usage of mass spectrometry in resolving the practical problems in learning and scientific researches. The main contents include the basic structure of the mass spectrometer, the commonly-used ion source, the characteristics of the mass spectra from different ionization modes, the elemental compositions calculated from the isotope peak family, the major fragmentation mechanisms of the organic molecules, the interpretation of mass spectra of unknown compounds and the application examples of mass spectrometry. This course is for the senior third grade students major in chemistry. The Mass Spectrometry course allows students to master the relevant expertise in mass spectrometry, at the same time, to develop the students' innovative spirit and practical ability.
Polymer Chemistry
Polymer Chemistry is designed to lay the root for undergraduate students, of synthetic, open thought and macromolecular design, based on the elementary knowledge of polymer chemistry and relationships between disperse chapters. The Lessons is composed of introduction, polycondensation, radical polymerization, operating method of polymerization, ionic polymerization, coordination polymerization, the reactions of polymers, and supplements.
Polymer Physics
Polymer physics is a subject that focuses on the relationship between the structures and properties of polymers. Its heart is to understand such relationship by using the theory of thermal motion of the macromolecules. Therefore, the contents of the polymer structures, polymer properties, and macromolecular motion should be involved throughout this course.The contents of the course includes four main parts, i.e., the chain structures of the polymers, the aggregation structures of the polymers; the properties of polymer solutions and the determination of molecular weights and molecular mass-dispersities in the solutions, the macromolecular motion, and the mechanic properties of the polymers. In addition, the processing and molding of the polymer materials will also be briefly introduced.
Life Science and Modern Medicine
The course “Life Science and Modern Medicine” involves chemistry, life science, modern medicine and pharmacy. The main content can be roughly divided into three parts: modern medicine/nucleic acids, pharmaceutics/proteins, nano-science/molecular machines, and brain science/artificial intelligence. In this course, chemistry is viewed as the foundational knowledge; the medical, pharmaceutical and brain science act as target of practical applications; other also comprise the genomics, bioinformatics, nanotechnology, immunology, nonlinear mathematics, artificial intelligence, etc. We try to widely expound the core concepts and advanced methodology of today science. Moreover, we also argue about some sensitive issues, such as human cloning, transgenic technology, Chinese medicine, homeotherapy, analeptic drug and so on. Each issue acts the common phenomenon of everyday life as a starting point, eventually extends to the deep principles and hypotheses of modern science, and to their development trend in recent years. The content of this course is is largely beyond the scope of the textbook. The so-called “knowledge of knowledge” (i.e. enhancing the ability of learning) is seen as the most important factor and knowledge itself as the secondary factor. The ultimate goal is to get enjoy from the learning process. Multimedia technique is used in the course. The realistic and vivid subject situations are exhibited by linking oral speech and literal expression with images, cartoons and videos. The speaker has taught similar courses and has been highly praised by his students.
Organometallic Chemistry
Organometallic chemistry is an interdisciplinary field of inorganic chemistry and organic chemistry. Its development has broken the boundaries between traditional organic chemistry and inorganic chemistry, and has become a new independent d discipline and frontiers of modern synthetic chemistry. Since the 90s of last century, chemical science is facing new challenges and opportunities that is to develop ideal synthetic chemistry which is harmless to human health and environment. An ideal synthetic chemistry requires the reactions with atomic economy and high selectivity. Organometallic chemistry a very important role in the ideal synthetic chemistry, and has recently become one of the hottest research topics in the world. The course will focus on the concept, the history of development, the basic principles and the research technique of organometallic chemistry, and also its application in the organic synthesis. The course will provide new knowledge of chemistry, make up the gap between traditional organic synthesis and modern organic chemistry, and help students understand the frontier in chemistry. And it will also provide new opportunities and helps to the students when they plan their future researches and jobs.
Innovative Thinking in Chemistry
This course is set for undergraduate students, to improve their understanding of researches on chemical science and the frontiers of various fields of chemistry, learn to find scientific problems and put forward innovative solutions, improve the interest and ability of innovation researches based on the Youth Teachers' Forum, Graduate Academic Forum and the other academic lectures held by the College of Chemistry.