This 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 freshmen, second-year work in the chemistry sequence at their institution or to register for 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.

A course for non-science majors that develops the basic concepts of chemistry with discussion of some applications of chemical methods to the study of nature and the modification of the circumstances of human beings. The course will include a quantitative special project to enhance understanding of a particular application of chemistry. Only one of series 100-102 may be taken for credit.