Abstract
In 1940, the American Chemical Society published its first list of chemistry undergraduate programs certified to meet certain criteria. Those criteria, last revised in 2008, are once again up for review. ACS’s Committee on Professional Training (CPT) develops the guidelines and reviews programs to determine whether they meet and remain in compliance with requirements related to faculty and staff, infrastructure, curriculum, undergraduate research, and student skill development. The guidelines currently require students to take the equivalent of a one-semester foundation course in each of five chemistry subdisciplines: analytical, biochemistry, inorganic, organic, and physical. In addition, students are required to take at least four in-depth courses, as well as have at least 400 hours of lab experience. The 2008 revisions allowed a more integrated approach to chemical education and introduced a level of flexibility that had not been permitted before. Because those guidelines were such a departure from pre...
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