No academic catalog is going to define an undergraduate class as a “weed-out” or “gatekeeper” course. But these courses can come to define individual career paths, pushing some students out of STEM ...

Chemistry of Renewable Energy invites nonscience majors to engage in a topic that profoundly impacts our society. In this course, renewable (and non-renewable) energy sources are investigated from a ...

At the start of the semester, chemistry professor Keith Kostecka surveys his class at Columbia College Chicago, a liberal arts school where a quarter of the 12,000 undergraduate students major in film ...