This class will aim to develop in students an intuitive understanding for the mechanisms that drive some important organic and biological reactions. We'll start with fundamental concepts in organic chemistry (like electronegativity and resonance) and work our way up to diagramming specific reaction mechanisms (including examples from amino acid synthesis and metabolism).

Have you ever wondered how scientists determine the arrangement of bonds in an organic molecule or how the sequence of primary structure of a protein is determined? Or how biological species are analyzed and purified? If you've ever pondered these questions, or just want to learn more about experimental methods, take this class to survey a number of historical and contemporary analytical methods in chemistry and the biological sciences. Topics will include, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visible light spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, chromatography techniques, gel electrophoresis and more!

This class will cover not only how to take blood pressure, respiratory rate and heart rate readings but also an overview of the biology and physiology that explain the medical significance of these techniques.

Learn about how parts of speech come together to make beautiful sentences! We'll go over some clever computational linguistics tidbits, fun grammar facts and tips for writing.

Students will be introduced to the chemical basis of biological processes, with a focus on protein structure and function. Finally, students will learn how protein structures can be used to design novel therapeutic compounds in the fields of pharmacology and synthetic biology.

Learn about the physical significance of symmetry in chemistry and how different molecules are categorized by their symmetric properties!

Learn about how parts of speech come together to make beautiful sentences! We'll also go over other fun grammar facts + tips for writing.

What does math look like to you? When you think of math, do you consider counting or calculus, fractions or prime factorization? The quadratic formula or the value of a handful of quarters? If you generally think of things like these, where math is grounded in the real numbers, take this class to learn about some of the algebraic structures that can extend the properties we use with the reals to all sorts of objects- like matrices, symmetric pictures and even candy!