Fundamentals of Macroscopic Chemical Analysis is a newly developed foundation-level course that integrates concepts from traditional physical and analytical chemistry courses. The course was designed to serve majors in chemistry, biochemistry, and biology as well as pre-health professional students. The main goal of this course is to develop the ideas of energy, stability, and direction of changes for chemical systems. Students develop the idea of free energy through thermodynamic laws and apply the concept of free energy to develop the quantitative picture of selected physical and chemical equilibrium systems.