Course Policy and Syllabus Chemistry ; General Chemistry I Fall 2016

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1 Course Policy and Syllabus Chemistry ; General Chemistry I Fall 2016 Instructor: Jan Kubelka Office Hours: Office: Physical Sciences (PS) 321 M 2:30 4:00 PM (PS 318 and/or 321) jkubelka@uwyo.edu W 2:30 4:00 PM (PS 318 and/or 321) Required Course Materials 1. Textbook, Principles of Chemistry, A Molecular Approach, by N.J. Tro. THIRD edition. 2. Modified (!) Mastering Chemistry website access (UW Bookstore or WyoCourses) 3. Lab Manual Course Packet: General Chemistry I CHEM 1020, Fall (UW Bookstore) 4. Full coverage safety goggles. Sunglasses or prescription eyeglasses are not acceptable. 5. A nonprogrammable calculator with log, ln, and exponential notation. (You do not need log and ln for chem 1020 but if you plan to take chem 1030 you will need those two keys). An example of a permitted calculator is the TI30XIIS. **You will not be allowed to use a graphing calculator on any exams or quizzes. Course Description. First semester of a one-year introductory series. Provides broad coverage of chemistry principles with inorganic and organic system applications. WyoCourses Web Site Will be used for viewing your grades and accessing supplementary course material as well as the Mastering Chemistry online material that accompanies the textbook. You have four different times listed on your class schedule: 1. Lecture. TR 8:10 9:25 AM. While attendance is not mandatory, your attendance at all lectures is important. You are encouraged to ask questions if a concept is not clear to you. If you miss a class, you are expected to get any important information missed from a classmate. Lecture Preparation. It is imperative that prior to each class the students master the material covered in the previous lectures. It will be assumed that everybody has completed the assigned reading and problems (see Homework below). It is strongly encouraged to read ahead and familiarize yourself with the material that will be covered in the next class. Classroom Decorum. Be courteous to your fellow classmates. While pertinent questions are encouraged, talking and whispering during lecture are disruptive and annoying to nearby students trying to listen to the lecture. Cellphones must be put away. This means absolutely no texting during class. You will asked to leave the class if you text during lecture. 2. Laboratory. This is a 1 hour and 50 minute time period on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Laboratory attendance is mandatory. 3. Discussion. This is a 50 minute time period on Tuesday every week except Thanksgiving week. You will practice problems, ask questions and take quizzes in the discussion section. Attendance is mandatory and you must attend the discussion section you are registered for! If you miss your discussion section, you may attend another to obtain any information you may have missed. However, this will not be considered a make-up and you will still be assigned an absence for that week. If you do attend a different discussion, you must ask that discussion TA for permission. For making up quizzes, see Quizzes below. 4. Exams. This is the time reserved on Wednesdays from 5:10 7:00 pm. You will not need to keep every Wednesday evening free, but you will need it for the lab safety training, your three in-term exams, and your lab final exam. The dates are stated in this syllabus and the lab syllabus.

2 Course Prerequisites. Math ACT score of 23 or above. OR completion or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1400, 1405, or ***These will be checked the first week of class and students NOT meeting them will be administratively dropped from the course. Contact I will send an out after every lecture and at other times with important announcements. Please check your uwyo account once a day for important messages. Final Grades will be based on total points and assigned on the following curve. This curve may be altered depending on the overall class average, but under no circumstances will it be raised. POINT BREAKDOWN: 10 Mastering Chemistry homework sets (à 15 pts, worst dropped) 135 points 10 quizzes (à 15 pts, worst dropped) 135 points 3 exams (à 100 pts) 300 points final exam 230 points laboratory (safety, conduct, lab reports, lab final. Worst lab report is dropped) 200 points Total 1000 points THERE WILL BE NO EXTRA CREDIT GIVEN FOR ANY REASON! GRADE/POINTS: A >930, A , B , B , B , C , C D , F < 600 Homework There will be two types of homework: 1. Graded: Mastering Chemistry online homework. There will be 10 assignments worth 15 points each, approximately one per book chapter, assigned on the date of completion of the chapter. You will have a full week to complete the homework. ABSOLUTELY NO LATE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. 2. Not Graded: Reading and selected end-of-chapter problems. Reading from the textbook and a selected set of problems (found at the end of each chapter) will be assigned at each class period. The students are expected to review the material and make sure they can solve the problems before the next class! The problems sets will not be collected or graded, but will appear on quizzes, in-term exams and the final. Quizzes There will be 10 quizzes given throughout the semester, each worth 15 points. The lowest score will be dropped. The quizzes will be given during your Discussion section, with the exception of the first one. Quiz #1 will be online, (through WyoCourses), to be completed by Wed. Aug. 31. The second quiz will be given in Discussion on Tuesday September 6 th. Please see the schedule below for the dates of the quizzes. If you miss a quiz, a university or medical excuse must be provided in order to make it up. Bring the excuse to your discussion T.A. and if he/she determines your excuse is valid, schedule the make-up. If you join the course late, your lowest one score will be dropped and the grade adjusted accordingly. There will be no makeup quizzes if you join the course late. Exams There will be three hourly exams given during the semester. They will be given on Wednesday evenings Oct. 5 th, Nov. 2 nd and Nov. 30 th from 5:10-7:00 PM. The rooms will be CR 214 if your last name begins with A-K and CR 222 if it begins with L-Z.

3 If you have a university excuse and know in advance that you will miss an exam, you MUST let me know BEFORE you miss the exam. If you do not let me know of your absence until after the exam time NO makeup will be permitted. If it is an unexpected absence, you may let me know when you are able to, but you will still be required to show a university excuse to make up the points. If you are ill or injured and therefore are absent from an exam, you MUST provide a medical excuse (from a doctor) stating clearly that you were too ill or injured to attend the exam. These rules will be strictly enforced and NO exceptions will be made. Final Exam The final exam is on Tuesday December 13 th from 8:00 10:00 am in CR 306 (last names beginning with A-K), CR 310 (L-Z). The final exam will only be rescheduled if I am instructed to do so by the Office of the Registrar. Travel plans will NOT be considered an excuse for taking the final exam early. Return of Exams Exams will be returned during Discussions or you may pick them up during office hours. Re-grading Exam answer keys will be posted on the course web-site. If you find a grading error on an exam you must return the paper the instructor for adjustment within one week of when exam papers were first returned to the class. On the front of the exam, write which problem needs to be re-graded and why. Always check the scoring addition! Laboratory Hands-on laboratory work is an essential part of chemistry. In the lab you will experience directly some of the relationships discussed in the lecture, learn experimental techniques, and solve chemical problems. *** Anyone who is pregnant or who has a history of allergies MUST see the instructor BEFORE entering the lab to do any work. *** Laboratory attendance is mandatory. Three missed labs will result in an F in the entire course, regardless of the lecture grade. A missed lab is one in which a student is physically absent from the lab period or has not submitted a lab report within the allotted time. Laboratory Grading: The details of lab grading are given in the Lab Manual. Laboratory make-ups: Carla Beckett ( , johnson@uwyo.edu) is the coordinator for the laboratory portion of the course and is the only person who can authorize lab make-ups. Safety Goggles You must have your safety goggles with you the first time lab meets in the laboratory. Safety goggles must be worn at ALL times in the lab. Lab Policy for Students Repeating Chem 1020: Students repeating this course are not required to repeat the lab if they did well in the laboratory during the previous semester. See the staff in the Chemistry office (PS 403) immediately to fill out the necessary paperwork before 4 pm September 2 nd. We do ask that you take care of this right away if possible as there are people on the waitlist and if you transfer a lab grade it does open another seat for people on the wait list. Laboratory sections will meet for the first time Wednesday September 7 th from 5:10-7:00 pm in CR 129 for orientation and safety training. Attendance is absolutely MANDATORY. You must attend in order to stay registered in the course. After that, starting the week of Sept. 12, the actual laboratories will take place in ENZI building (also called STEM).

4 Disability Support If you have a physical, learning, or psychological disability that requires accommodations, please let Carla Beckett know as soon as possible. You will need to register with, and provide documentation of your disability to University Disability Support Services in SEO, Room 330 Knight Hall. Academic Dishonesty The University of Wyoming is built upon a strong foundation of integrity, respect, and trust. All members of the university community have a responsibility to be honest and the right to expect honest from others. Any form of academic dishonesty is unacceptable to our community and will not be tolerated. As college students (and adults) you are expected to observe high standards of integrity and honesty. Students caught cheating on exams, quizzes, or in the laboratory are subject to a grade of F for the course and a report being placed in their judicial file. A second offense will result in expulsion from the University. General Comments Probably the most important thing you can do to improve your performance and grade in this course is to keep up with the assigned reading and homework problems. In general: Attend lectures, pay close attention and take clear lecture notes. After lecture re-read the appropriate textbook pages and update/recopy your notes. Work the assigned problems promptly as the material is covered. Seek help if you do not understand the material or are unable to work a problem. Write summaries/make flashcards. Study for the exams by rereading the textbook material, going over the lecture notes/summaries, and reworking the problem assignments many times. Sources for Help If you have difficulty with the problems, get help from the instructor, the TA or: a) Your discussion/lab teaching assistant (TA) or a TA in the tutorial room (third floor of the ENZI building, schedule TBA) b) Free drop-in tutoring, Student Learning Center, Lower level of Washakie, /6189 c) STEP tutoring center. www/uwyo.edu/step d) Private tutor See the website: uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/seo/as You must understand how to work the assigned problems in order to do well in this course. REMEMBER: Exams/quizzes may be made up only under very special circumstances. Be prepared to show the instructor or the T.A. a written excuse from a doctor or written authorization from the University (Dean of Students Office, 128 Knight Hall) and bring a photocopy. If you miss an exam/quiz with an acceptable excuse, you must immediately contact the instructor. If you will miss an exam/quiz due to a university sanctioned event, you must contact the course instructor in advance. FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND THESE RULES WILL NOT BE USED AS AN EXCUSE TO MAKEUP AN EXAM OR QUIZ.

5 TENTATIVE LECTURE SCHEDULE The policies described above and the schedule that follows are subject to change at the instructor s discretion. You will be informed of any changes either in class or by . DATE CHAPTER HOMEWORK/QUIZ/EXAM LABORATORY Aug 29 - Sept 1 1 Quiz #1 (online) due Aug. 31 Sept Sept Sept Sept rev Oct Oct Oct Oct rev Oct 31 - Nov 3 8 Nov 7-10 Nov Homework #1 (online) due Quiz #2 in Discussion. Homework #2 (online) due Quiz #3 in Discussion. Homework #3 (online) due Quiz #4 in Discussion Homework #4 (online) due Quiz #5 in discussion. Exam #1 Oct 5 th at 5:10 pm Homework #5 (online) due Quiz #6 in discussion. Homework #6 (online) due Quiz #7 in discussion. Homework #7 (online) due Quiz #8 in Discussion Exam #2 Nov 2 nd at 5:10 pm Homework #8 (online) due Quiz #9 in Discussion Homework #9 (online) due Quiz #10 in Discussion Sept 7 th safety training at 5:10 pm Check Into Lab Drawers Experiment #1 Experiment #2 Experiment #3 Experiment #4 Experiment #5 Experiment #6 Experiment #7 Experiment #8 Experiment #9 Nov 21 & 22 - Homework #10 (online) due No lab assignments. Nov 28 Dec 1 rev Exam #3 Nov. 30 th 5:10 pm Dec 5 8 review - FINALS WEEK FINAL EXAM Tuesday Dec 13 th at 8:00 am. CR 306 (A-K), CR 310 (L-Z) Experiment #10 Dec 7 th Lab Final Exam at 5:10 pm

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