This cross-listed undergraduate-graduate course is designed as a follow-up to CHM255Y1 (Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry) with lectures on solid state chemistry basics and CHM355H1 (Polymer and Materials Chemistry), with lectures on synthesis-structure-property-function relations of selected classes of low dimensional polymeric and inorganic materials. In this course we will be concerned with a comprehensive investigation of a wide range of synthetic methods for preparing diverse classes of inorganic materials and nanomaterials with properties and function that are intentionally tailored for a particular use. Several contemporary issues in materials research are critically evaluated to introduce the student to recent highlights in the field of materials chemistry and nanochemistry — now a well-established subdiscipline of chemistry.