Professor: Rebecca Altman

4.00 credits

• CRN 25292: Tuesday & Thursday, 12:00-1:20pm @ CHA 201

By engaging with the three-dimensional nature of molecules, we will learn why their shapes are crucial to some of the most important parts of our lives, such as food, technology, and our DNA. Beginning with an artistic perspective of molecules, we will use their three-dimensional shapes to form our own art inspired by molecular structures and functions. Our appreciation of molecular shapes will motivate our exploration and questioning of how their structures define the properties of materials that we interact with every day. We will learn how mother nature has become creative in designing and redesigning molecules whose shapes and properties maximize those desired functions- and we will design our own.