Long hours with a test tube is the notable setback of concentration in Chemistry, but the Department does attempt to lighten lab requirements for honors candidates. A "B" average will get a student a degree with honors--there are no theses, no generals, and no divisionals.

Candidates for honors must take a total of eight courses in chemistry and related fields with five of these full courses in chemistry. Chem consentrators must also take either Physics 1 and 10 or 11 and Mathematics 1. Related courses include Biology (except for 1 and 40), Physics, Geology, Mineralogy, Applied Science and Engineering. There is no tutorial.

The old B.A. degree (without honors) has a slightly modified concentration schedule. A student must wrestle with three and a half courses in chemistry, a full Physics course, and one course in either physics or chemistry.

Under a new set-up in the Chemistry Department, the lab work for Chemistry 20 has been cut down, and the Department intends to have all lab hours conform to those stated in the catalogue. A new course, introduction to Research, has been added for senior honors students who can take it with special permission, Chemistry 3, a former half course, has been merged with a full course, Chemistry 40, to produce two half course, Chemistry 40a, Gravimetric and Volumetric Analysis, and Chemistry 40b, Systematic Analysis.