7#4%S$$$$$$$$$$ $ $$$$$ %)% % % %5%) %7%;% %?%A%E%I%K%OCHEMISTRY 142 Spring 1996 SYLLABUS INSTRUCTORS: Whitney King Joceline Boucher Office: 208b Keyes 301 Keyes, Phone: x3314 x3311 (H) 873-6154 877-7030 Email: dwking jmbouche Required Materials Text: Chemistry - The Molecular Science, Olmsted and Williams Lab: chemistry 142 Laboratory Packet, Lab book and safety glasses Available at the Colby Bookstore. optional Materials Study Guide and Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Text. topics to be covered We will generally cover the text in order of chapters, as arranged in the text. We will start the Spring Semester with Chapter 12. The expectation is that by end of the Spring Semester we will finish through Chapter 18. Administrative Policies Student Collaboration Students are strongly encouraged to work together in preparing for class and laboratory. Small group discussions are very useful in generating ideas that aid in problem solving and stimulate learning. Approximately 5-10 Suggested Problems will be assigned from each chapter in the text. Problem solving is an important part of chemistry and often it is the best way to learn material in chemistry courses. Thus, you are encouraged to work together in solving suggested problems and related problems from the Study Guide. However, all material you submit for a grade must be the result of your own thoughts and work with your class notes, textbooks or other reference materials. Such graded work includes Exams, Pre-lab Assignments, Laboratory Reports, and Quizzes. Office Hours and the Chemistry Table We strongly encourage you to seek help from any of the laboratory instructors if you have questions about the course material. Office hours will be posted the first week of class. In addition, student tutors will be available from 7:00-9:00 Monday and Wednesday evenings in room 103 Keyes to help you. The students will be happy to answer questions and help with the suggested problems in the text. Discussion and Laboratory Periods You are assigned to a specific laboratory section. This includes a one hour discussion (Keyes 102) and a three hour laboratory period (Keyes 406). Unless excused due to a valid medical excuse (verified by the Health Center) or other accepted (by your lab instructor) prior excuse, you are required to attend all discussion and laboratory periods. Make-up or grade adjustments should be arranged with Mrs. McIntyre as soon as possible. Grades for work missed due to unexcused absences will be zero. The discussion section will be used as a question and problem solving period, and to deal with any specific instructions for the days experiment. Bring any questions you have on course material. The general format will be to deal briefly with specifics of the experiment, then discuss questions you have on course material and finally, deal with assigned problems. Homework Problem Assignments/ Quizzes Each week four problems from the text will be assigned to be completed before your laboratory discussion section. During the lab discussion the problems will be reviewed in detail. At the end of the discussion section a related problem will be the basis for a closed-book quiz. The solutions for all the assigned problems will be placed on the Chemistry WEB Server. Access to the Network will be explained in class. Missed quizzes will receive a grade of zero. We will compute your quiz average by adding all the quiz grades and dividing by 1 less than the number of quizzes taken. This means that if you have all 90s and have missed a quiz (grade of 0) you can still have a 90 average. A person (with the same grades and who has not missed a quiz) will have a slightly better average. Submission of Laboratory Reports Specific due dates will be assigned for laboratory reports. Any lab report not submitted by the due date will be considered late. Late reports submitted before explanations are posted will be accepted and their grades will be reduced by 10% of the earned grade. Reports submitted after explanations are posted will receive a grade 5% lower than the lowest "on-time" grade or 40%, which ever is lower. If no report is submitted, a grade of zero will be assigned even if the experimental work has been completed. Extensions of due dates must be arranged with Mrs. McIntyre prior to the due date, no extensions will be granted after the due date. It is your responsibility to submit work on time. Evaluation of Laboratory Notebooks Twice during the semester your lab notebooks will be collected and graded. The grade will reflect how well your notebook follows the notebook guidelines described in the laboratory manual. The notebook grades will be included in the laboratory grade. Exams There will be three hour exams this semester (Friday, March 1, Monday, April 8, and Friday, May 3) and a final exam given during the final exam period. For the three hour exams there will be an evening Review Session scheduled a day or two before the exam. A Pre-exam will be given to you before each exam for your practice. We will attempt to provide an exam experience; however, be assured that the questions will be different! Students are required to take all exams and there will be no make-up exams. If an exam is missed without a valid medical excuse (verified by the Health Center) or other accepted prior excuse, the grade for that exam will be zero. The grade for an exam missed due to an excused absence will be the average difference of your hour exam grades to the class average grades for the exams you took added to the class average of the exam you missed. Important note: To encourage students to perform to the best of their abilities, all hour exams will be adjusted based on a student's future test score. All hour exam grades will be adjusted upwards by 50% of the difference between a particular exam grade and the subsequent exam grade (the final will be used to adjust the third exam grade). Exams will never be adjusted downwards. As example, you get a 54 on Exam #1. Is it over? No way!! You study hard for the second exam and get a 91. Without any other effort, your Exam #1 grade is automatically changed to 73 [=(91-54)/2 + 54]. Your class average on two exams is now 82 rather than 54! You can also adjust the second exam score with Exam #3 and Exam #3 with the Final. In other words: its not over till its over. evaluation Your grade will be determined based on the following distribution. 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