| Week 1 | | Course introduction: Examples of enabling instrumentation in modern chemical research | |
| Week 2 | | Introduction to data handling: types of data and data fitting | Skoog: Chapter 1,Appendix 1 |
| Week 3 | | Instrumental noise: What, where, when, and how to reduce | Skoog: Chapter 5 |
| Week 4 | MatLab/Data fitting/Calibration methods | Instrument calibration methods | |
| Week 5 | | Introduction to optics and optical spectroscopy | Skoog, Chapter 7 |
| Week 6 | |
| Week 7 | | Molecular Fluorescence and Phosphorescence: Spin and Particle-in-a box considerations in optical spectroscopy | Skoog, Chapter 15, and additional reading TBA |
| Week 8 | Fluorescence |
| Week 9 | | UV-visible absorption spectroscopy | Skoog, Chapter 13-14 |
| Week 10 | | Infrared absorbance spectroscopy | Skoog, Chapter 16-17 |
| Week 11 | FT-IR |
| Week 12 | | spectroscopy Nuclear Magnetic Resonance | Skoog, Chapter 19, and additional reading TBA |
| Week 13 | |
| Week 14 | NMR |
| Week 15 | | | |
