Courses
Undergraduate Courses
| Course levels & periods | Fall | Spring | Summer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 level (every year) | 091, 101 | 102, 150 | 091, 101, 102, 150 |
| 200 level (every year) | 212, 231, 234, 245, 260, 298 | 225, 231, 234, 260, 298 | 260, 298 |
| 300 level (every year) | 324, 337, 347, 361, 362, 363, 364, 398, 399 | 300A, 318, 361, 362, 363, 364, 398, 399 | 398, 399 |
| 400 level (every year) | 498, 499 | 405, 437, 498, 499 | 498, 499 |
| Odd years only | 421, 447, 453, 459 | 451, 458, 477, 478 | - |
| Even years only | 423, 475, 476 | 411, 432, 452 | - |
Example: CHEM 437 will be offered every spring, while CHEM 458 will only be offered in spring semesters during odd years (years where the final digit is an odd number, e.g 2031).
Read all undergraduate course descriptions and prerequisites.
Graduate courses
| Course levels & periods | Fall | Spring |
|---|---|---|
| Level 500 (every year) | 509, 560, 599 | 505, 509, 537, 560, 599 |
| Level 600 (every year) | 699 | 670, 680, 699 |
| Odd years only | 521, 547, 553, 647 | 551, 555, 577, 578 |
| Even years only | 523, 645, 676 | 511, 533, 552 |
Example: CHEM 670 will be offered every spring, while CHEM 551 will only be offered in spring semesters during odd years (years where the final digit is an odd number, e.g 2031).
CHEM 560
CHEM 560 covers a variety of 0.5 unit focused short courses. Different modules are offered by different faculty members, and each will cover the equivalent of roughly 11 hours of course delivery (lectures, discussion, presentations, etc.) and assessment. Modules are graduate-level courses.
Modules are offered depending on student interest and faculty availability. It is best to voice your interest in any modules as early as possible. A total of three 0.5-credit modules are needed to make up a full lecture course's worth of credit. Modules do not need to be completed in the same academic year, as each module will earn the student its own 0.5 credits.
For more information on a course, email aussi7@uvic.ca or contact the module instructor.
List of modules
Instructor(s)
Scott McIndoe
Content
Students will take a mix of 3 compulsory (two on 3D design, one intro to programmable electronics) and 2 optional workshops offered by UVic’s Digital Scholarship Commons. There are an array of choices including makerspace tools, data visualization tools, and research/writing/communication tools. You will have to justify to me your optional workshop choices in terms of how they will help you with your particular project.
Delivery
I will also teach some live classes and will have individual meetings with students to help plan your project. The course is designed to help people build skills in 3D design, prototyping, and 3D visualization. The principal program that will be used is Fusion360 – I use it to make 2D designs for laser cutting, 3D designs for 3D printing, and for rendering high quality images.
Assessment
Assessment will be based on the project you complete and its documentation (50%) and your presentation of it to your classmates (50%). Access will be provided to chemistry’s maker facilities (3D printers and laser cutter) if needed. Anyone interested in taking the module not-for-credit are also welcome. Workshops may be taken at any time in advance of the module.
Availability
This module is offered at all times; the material covered is a mix of Digital Scholarship Commons workshops and online resources. Send Scott (@mcindoe) a message on Teams asking to be added to the Team as an auditor. You may ask to take the module for credit at any time. The material gets evaluated on demand, with the assessment based on a project you complete and a short presentation.
Instructor(s)
Scott McIndoe and Ori Granot
Content
Modern mass spectrometry. Instrumentation, mass analysis, ionisation techniques and applications will be covered, including establishing the kind of technique best applied to a particular sample. Introduction to the various instruments at UVic, the new ESI-MS in particular; hands-on demonstration of sample acquisition, processing and interpretation on a modern instrument.
Delivery
Four 90-minute lectures and two 1-hour practical sessions.
Assessment
A 1-hour written examination and an assessed 15 minute in-class presentation.
Availability
This module is offered at all times; lectures have been pre-recorded and are available through Teams. Send Scott (@mcindoe) a message on Teams asking to be added to the Team. The material gets evaluated approximately yearly, via a 1 hr exam (50%) and a 15 minute presentation to the class (50%), and it will be that term in which the module is formally offered.
Instructor(s)
Dennis Hore
Content
This will be a self-contained hands-on introduction to writing scripts using the python programming language. Immediate applications include parsing data for subsequent analysis (either in python, or using your lab’s proprietary software). After the basics are presented, the majority of the topics will be focused on developing tools for data analysis (numerical integration, curve fitting, interpolation, etc) and visualization (scriptable graphics for data exploration, publication-quality plots).The content will cater to experimentalists who collect data. No previous experience required.
Delivery
Eight 1-hour lectures. Start date and scheduling will be determined by consultation with students who have signed up for this module.
Assessment
Eight problem sets (one per week). This is designed to be hands-on, so the exercises will be the most valuable part.
Availability
Last offered May 2025. Email dkhore@uvic.ca if interested.
Instructor(s)
Matt Moffitt
Availability
Last offered Fall 2021. Email mmoffitt@uvic.ca if interested.
Instructor(s)
Cornelia Bohne
Content
The course will cover basic concepts in photophysics and photochemistry with the aim to provide users of photophysical equipment the required background to interpret data. Focus will be on applications of absorption, steady-state fluorescence, singlet photon counting and laser flash photolysis.
Delivery
Six 1.5 hour lectures and two 1.5 hour discussion on assignment material. The course will be offered over a 3 to 6 week period during February and the first half of March.
Assessment
Written critical analysis of one or two papers from the literature where photophysics is central to an application (e.g. materials characterization, sensing, small molecular binding to supramolecular hosts or biomolecules).
Final grade = 70% x grade of assignment + 30% x grade in oral examination.
Availability
Last offered January 2020. This module will only be offered if four or more students are interested. Please email bohne@uvic.ca to express interest.
Instructor(s)
Fraser Hof
Content
Major topics are:
- Intro to dynamic systems and weak interactions
- Determining stoichiometry and Kassoc by NMR
- Determining thermodynamic parameters by NMR
- Determining assembly kinetics by NMR
- Student presentations on various extensions of these lessons to other techniques. Topics might include:
- UV-Vis and Fluorescence,
- Stopped-flow methods,
- Line shape analysis,
- Isothermal titration calorimetry,
- Potentiometry
- other relevant topics that students want to bring to the class.
Availability
Last offered May 2017. Please email fhof@uvic.ca if interested.
Instructor(s)
Irina Paci
Content
The module will focus on learning how to use molecular dynamics packages for complex systems - proteins, materials and interfaces. An introduction of the method's theoretical background will be presented. The benefits and pitfalls of the method will be discussed, with reference to current literature where MD is used or force fields are developed. On the practical side, students will learn a few unix commands to be able to function in a normal supercomputing environment, and will put together and run an MD research project. No previous experience required.
Delivery
Eight 90-minute meetings. Four lectures including literature debates, and four practical application meetings, focused on completing a final project.
Assessment
A final report on an individual research project.
Availability
Email ipaci@uvic.ca if interested.