COURSE TITLE AP CHEMISTRY

COMPUTER TITLE AP*CHEMISTRY

COMPUTER CODE SCC612

GRADE LEVEL 11-12

LENGTH OF COURSE 36 weeks

The AP Chemistry course is designed to be the equivalent of the general chemistry course usually taken during the first college year. For some students, this course enables them to undertake, as a college freshman, second-year work in the chemistry sequence at their institution or to register in courses in other fields where general chemistry is a prerequisite. For other students, the AP Chemistry course fulfills the laboratory science requirement and frees time for other courses.

AP Chemistry should meet the objectives of a good general chemistry course. Students in such a course should attain a depth of understanding of fundamentals and a reasonable competence in dealing with chemical problems. The course should contribute to the development of the students' abilities to think clearly and to express their ideas, orally and in writing, with clarity and logic. The college course in general chemistry differs qualitatively from the usual first secondary school course in chemistry with respect to the kind of textbooks used, the topics covered, the emphasis on chemical calculations and the mathematical formulation of principals, and the kind of laboratory work done by the students. Quantitative differences appear in the number of topics treated, the time spent on the course by students, and the nature and the variety of experiments done in the laboratory. The laboratory experience in AP Chemistry must be equivalent to that of a typical college course.