General Chemistry II is the second half of the majors general chemistry sequence, and it is where the subject turns from structure to behaviour: what reactions do, how fast, how far, and why. The statewide record is explicit that it is the last course in the sequence begun in General Chemistry I.
Carried by 20 Florida public institutions, every one of them at 3 credits, with a separate 1-credit laboratory.
⚠ This is the course that decides a lot of careers, and not because it is the hardest. Equilibrium, kinetics and thermodynamics are the foundation of organic chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering and every health-professions prerequisite chain in the state — so a weak pass here is felt for three more years.
This course sits on the Chemical Engineer career path in this repository, and it is a prerequisite far beyond it. General chemistry II gates organic chemistry, and organic chemistry gates medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, biochemistry, chemistry and chemical engineering. In Florida it also feeds environmental and water-quality work, pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing, the phosphate and fertiliser industry, and forensic and clinical laboratory science.
This is the single most useful thing on this page for a student who is transferring, dual-enrolled, or simply looking their own course up.
| Family | Institutions | Who uses it |
|---|---|---|
CHM1045 / CHM1046(or CHM1045C / CHM1046C) | 19 | Broward, Daytona State, Eastern Florida State, Florida A&M, Florida Gulf Coast, Florida Keys, Florida State, FIU, Gulf Coast, Indian River State, Miami Dade, North Florida, Northwest Florida State, Palm Beach State, Pensacola State, Polk State, St. Johns River State, Tallahassee State and Valencia |
CHM2045 / CHM2046(or CHM2045C / CHM2046C) | 20 | College of Central Florida, FAU, Florida Gateway, Florida Polytechnic, FSCJ, Florida SouthWestern, Hillsborough, Lake-Sumter, New College, Pasco-Hernando, State College of Florida, Santa Fe, South Florida State, St. Petersburg, Seminole State, UCF, UF, UNF, USF and UWF |
⚠⚠ Zero institutions carry both. Same course, same lower-division level, same content, and the credit articulates either way — but the other number simply does not exist at your school, so a student searching a catalogue or a degree audit for the wrong one finds nothing and concludes something is wrong.
⚠ Look up which family your institution uses before you go looking for the course. The one anomaly worth knowing: Santa Fe College uses CHM2045 for the first course and carries both CHM1046 and CHM2046 for the second.
Within each family the course is sold two ways. The bare number is a 3-credit lecture and needs a separate 1-credit L laboratory — two registrations, two grades, 4 credits. The C form is the integrated lecture-plus-lab at 4 credits — one registration, one grade. Daytona State, FSCJ, Lake-Sumter, Northwest Florida State, Polk State, Seminole State and Valencia use the C form. Both are complete and both transfer; they are packaged differently, and packaging is not divergence. What matters is that if your institution uses the bare number and you register for the lecture alone, you have not taken the laboratory, and every programme that requires this course requires the laboratory with it.
The statewide record carries the usual line — “guaranteed transfer to institution offering same course” — and then, in the course description itself, this:
“WARNING: THIS IS THE (2) PART OF A SEQUENCE OF (2) COURSES. A ‘sequence’ once started should be taken entirely at one institution. The order of topics may vary from school to school. Only the completed sequence at one institution is equivalent to a completed sequence at another institution. Individual courses within a sequence are not necessarily equivalent, and must be evaluated by a receiving institution on an individual basis.”
⚠⚠ Read that as what it is: the state telling you the guarantee is weaker here than it looks. It appears on eleven CHM numbers, every one of them the later half of a sequence, so it is a deliberate SCNS convention rather than a note about this course in particular.
The practical rule is short: finish the sequence where you started it. Where that is genuinely impossible — a mid-year transfer, a move — take the syllabus and the topic list to the receiving department before registering and get the equivalence in writing. The reason the state hedges is real: the order of topics varies, so half a sequence at one school is not necessarily the same half at another, and the gap does not show up until the second course assumes something you were never taught.
SCNS records what a dual-enrolled high-school student earns, and it is not the same across the sequence:
General Chemistry I (CHM2045 / CHM1045) | ⚠ ELECTIVE |
General Chemistry II (CHM2046 / CHM1046) | SCIENCE |
| Organic Chemistry I and II | SCIENCE |
⚠ The college credit is unaffected either way. What differs is the high-school requirement it fills — so a student taking general chemistry I expecting to clear a high-school science requirement may receive elective credit instead. This is not a quirk of the prefix: across the 41 active lower-division CHM numbers the field splits 22 elective to 19 science, so it genuinely discriminates and is worth checking rather than assuming. Confirm with your counsellor and your district’s articulation agreement before you enrol, not after.
The statewide title of CHM2045 ends “(GE CORE)”, identifying it as a Florida General Education Core course under s. 1007.25, F.S. — which means it satisfies its general-education subject area at every Florida public college and university, a materially stronger protection than the ordinary transfer line. The statewide title of this course does not carry that marker; it reads “General Chem II (last course in sequence)”.
⚠ Do not read that as a warning, but do check it rather than assume. Twelve of the twenty carriers record a natural-science general-education designation on this course. What the marker’s absence means is that the guarantee attaching to the first course is not automatically inherited by the second, and a programme requiring a “science with laboratory” is applying its own rule, not a state one.
Twelve institutions call it General Chemistry II. UCF calls it Chemistry Fundamentals II, Santa Fe College Chemistry 2, Florida Polytechnic Chemistry 2, and Pasco-Hernando General Chemistry and Qualitative Analysis II. Several institutions also run an Honors section under the same number. ⚠ That is branding, not divergence — on a high-carrier general-education-adjacent number, many titles mean the same required course named twenty different ways. Register by the number.
A designation is recorded for this course at some Florida institutions and not others, and the flags in the state file reliably say that a designation exists without reliably saying which. Read your own institution’s general-education list. And where a Gordon Rule designation does apply, remember the condition that catches people: a grade of C or higher is required for it to count, and a C− does not satisfy it at most institutions — stricter than the ordinary passing standard.
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