Major Required: 7 units

• CHM 5500 - Advanced Chemical Communication (1) (2 units required; complete 1 unit per semester)
• CHM 5510L - Advanced Instrumental Analysis Laboratory (2)
• CHM 5520 - Advanced Chemical Equilibria and Kinetics (3)

Major Electives: 17 units

A minimum of 17 units selected from 5000-level CHM electives, 4000-level CHM electives (limited to 10 units), CHM 6990  (0 units), and CHM 6910  (limited to 3 units).

• 5000-level and 6000-level CHM electives

• CHM 5000 - Special Study for Graduate Students (1-3)
• CHM 5220 - Quantum Chemistry (3)
• CHM 5230 - Chemical Spectroscopy and Characterization (3)
• CHM 5310 - Chemical Kinetics (3)
• CHM 5390 - Synthetic Organic Chemistry (3)
• CHM 5400 - Physical Organic Chemistry (3)
• CHM 5430 - Current Advances in Organic Chemistry (3)
• CHM 5610 - Advanced Topics in Biochemistry (3)
• CHM 5710 - Advanced Inorganic Chemistry (3)
• CHM 5720 - Current Advances in Inorganic Chemistry (3)
• CHM 5810 - Instrumental Analysis (3)
• CHM 5820 - Water Sampling and Analysis (3)
• CHM 5990 - Special Topics for Graduate Students (1-3)
• CHM 5990A - Special Topics for Graduate Students Activity (1-3)
• CHM 5990L - Special Topics for Graduate Students Laboratory (1-3)
• CHM 6910 - Directed Research (1-3)
• CHM 6990 - Master’s Degree Continuation (0)

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• 4000-level CHM electives (For students who received their Chemistry, B.S. degree from Cal Poly Pomona, chose courses not counted towards undergraduate degree). CHM 4000  can be taken for 1-3 units even if it has been counted towards the undergraduate degree.

• CHM 4000 - Special Study for Upper Division Students (1-3)
• CHM 4010 - Inorganic Chemistry (4)
• CHM 4090 - Polymer Chemistry (2)
• CHM 4110 - Reaction Kinetics (3)
• CHM 4130 - Introduction to Colloid and Surface Chemistry (3)
• CHM 4150 - Chemical Thermodynamics (3)
• CHM 4160 - Macromolecular Modeling (3)
• CHM 4170 - Computational Biochemistry (3)
• CHM 4180 - Methods for Data Acquisition and Analysis (3)
• CHM 4190 - Quantum Chemistry (3)
• CHM 4200 - Computational Chemistry (3)
• CHM 4210 - Solution Equilibria in Analytical Chemistry (2)
• CHM 4220 - Organic Synthesis (2)
• CHM 4220L - Organic Synthesis Laboratory (2)
• CHM 4230 - Physical Organic Chemistry (2)
• CHM 4230L - Physical Organic Chemistry Laboratory (2)
• CHM 4240 - Organic Analysis (2)
• CHM 4240L - Organic Analysis Laboratory (2)
• CHM 4410 - Internship in Chemistry (1-2)
• CHM 4480 - Modern Mass Spectrometry and FT-NMR (3)
• CHM 4490 - Environmental Analysis (2)
• CHM 4490L - Environmental Analysis Laboratory (1)
• CHM 4500 - Bioanalytical Chemistry (3)
• CHM 4510 - Enzymology (3)
• CHM 4510L - Enzymology Laboratory (1)
• CHM 4520 - Advanced Biomolecular Structure (3)
• CHM 4530 - Informational Biomolecules and Recombinant DNA (3)
• CHM 4540 - Advanced Metabolism (3)
• CHM 4590 - Green Chemistry (3)
• CHM 4600 - Air Pollution Problems (2)
• CHM 4990 - Special Topics for Upper Division Students (1-3)
• CHM 4990A - Special Topics for Upper Division Students Activity (1-3)
• CHM 4990L - Special Topics for Upper Division Students Laboratory (1-3)

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• Any 5000- or 6000-level courses (1-3 units) from related disciplines that align with a student’s research or career interests could be taken and counted towards major electives.

Culminating Experience: 6 units

• CHM 6940 - Master’s Thesis Research (1-2) (4 units required)
• CHM 6960 - Master’s Thesis (1-2) (2 units required)

Summer Sponsored Experience: 0 unit

• CPU 5003 - Cal Poly Pomona Graduate Sponsored Summer Experience (0)