Teaching

Specific courses are available through the SIUE Blackboard system

General Chemistry

CHEM 120A : first semester chemistry for future Nurses

CHEM 131 / 135 : chemistry for future Engineers

Analytical Chemistry

Quantitative Analytical Chemistry (CHEM 331 / 335)
This is a version of the classical titration and gravimetry based analytical class. I have taught this from the Daniel Harris textbook and more recently from the David Harvey textbook.

Instrumental Analysis (CHEM 431 / 435)
This is a survey of the basic electrical instrumentation important to chemists broadly covering spectroscopy, separations, and electrochemistry.

Forensic Chemistry (CHEM 432)
I developed this course in 2014 to help build the Forensic Chemistry specialization. The excellent textbook by Suzanne Bell has been the foundation. The course covers topics in the analysis of controlled substance, explosives, fire residue, documents, and trace analysis (fibers, glass, and coatings)

CHEM 439 : multiple versions of this catch-all course number
Chemical Separations
A detailed examination of liquid chromatographic methods. A lot of attention is given to reverse-phase separations. Other topics include size-exclusion chromatography and capillary electrophoresis. If time ever allows, I would like to include field-flow fractionation.

Data Review
The distruptions of the pandemic in 2020 forced a reworking of a planned Lab Skills Workshop. Instead we did a short course on Data Review including statistical perspectives on QA/QC.

Graduate Analytical Chemistry (CHEM 531)
This is one of the core classes for the Masters program. Typically, I pick three topics to examine in depth.

CHEM maybe-I-can-teach-spectroscopy-some-day? Maybe as a treat there will be time to teach spectroscopy as a graduate class one day?

Other Courses

Seeing Lies, Treachery, and Trickery (IS 399)
This Interdisciplinary Studies course was based on the book “Calling Bullshit: the art of skepticism in a data-driven world” by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West. We had some fun calling bullshit on lots of things. The course was offered in Fall 2021 and Fall 2022.