CHEMISTRY 1030 Survey of General Chemistry Spring 2006

CHEMISTRY 1030 Section 002 (37545)

General Chemistry for Allied Health

Spring 2006

Course Information

Instructor: Dr. Stephanie R. Dillon Office: 347 DLC; Phone: 644-0166;

E-mail: dillons@tcc.fl.edu or sdillon@chem.fsu.edu

Office hours: F, 10:00AM- 11:00AM and by appointment

Blackboard Web Site: http://campus.tcc.edu

Lecture: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 9:05AM - 9:55AM, SM 118

Course Materials: 1. Required Text - M. M. Bloomfield and L. J. Stephens, Chemistry and the Living Organism, 6^th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1996.

3. Required - You need a scientific calculator that will perform exponential calculations in addition to standard mathematical calculations. You are expected to know how to use it and bring it to every class meeting.

The Objective for students in nursing, nutrition and fitness, and other allied health areas to become familiar with the general concepts of chemistry. Stress will be placed on those concepts in chemistry that most strongly relate to processes in health related sciences such as drug dosage, fluid dynamics and pressure, radioactivity, etc. For a detailed list of course objectives, please see the Science and Mathematics division page - under Student Resources, Description of Division Courses.

ATTENDANCE

Class attendance is crucial to be successful in this course. I really want you to be here. Chemistry is cumulative; it builds on what has come earlier in the course. If you are absent, you will miss important new material, examples, assignments, quizzes, or even tests. I will not withdraw you from the course if you are absent or late. If you quit attending, do not assume you have been withdrawn. The deadline for you to withdraw yourself from this course and receive a “W” is Tuesday, February 9^th. Withdrawal from a class is not the same as withdrawal from all classes, and they have different deadlines.

Problem Worksheets: Associated with each topic will be a worksheet (10 points each) that will include chapter summaries (written by the student), problems that we will work together in class, and problems which the students will work on their own or in small study groups. These exercises, as well as problems worked in lecture, are indicative of the types of problems appearing on quizzes and examinations. Your worksheets will be collected on assigned days (see calendar) and graded. Worksheets are available on the blackboard website. It is the student’s responsibility to download/print out the worksheet for each chapter. Please understand that doing these exercises is essential to learning the course material. You do not know if you have mastered a topic until you can solve exercises about it on your own.

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS: All students enrolled in CHM 1030 are required to complete written assignments of 1000 words minimum. If submitted work is unsatisfactory in either quality (college level writing) or quantity, the highest grade that can be obtained in the course is a D. The writing requirement will be met using an online writing program, Calibrated Peer Review (CPR), which is described below. The instructor will review students whose text receives a peer review score of less than 5. If the writing is considered below college level, the instructor may require the student to submit a revised copy of the writing assignment.

Calibrated Peer Review

Calibrated Peer Review^TM (CPR) is an Internet-based instructional tool that enables students to learn by writing about important topics in a course. In a CPR assignment, students write short essays on a specific topic. Guiding questions encourage critical thinking and help students organize thoughts for the essay. After electronic submission of essays, students read and assign a score to three “calibration” essays. Once students demonstrate they are competent reviewers, they read and assign a score to three anonymous peer essays, and finally, to their own essay. Regular use of CPR assignments teaches students to articulate ideas coherently and to critically evaluate both their peers’ and their own work.

Writing Assignments _____ _____ _____

Quizzes and Examinations: There will be a total of 6 quizzes given during the span of the course, they may or may not be announced. Because the material covered later in this course builds upon material covered earlier in this course, the hour examinations are cumulative in their coverage of the material. However, each hour examination will primarily focus on the material covered since the previous exam unless otherwise noted in lectures. There will be no make-up quizzes or make-up hour examinations. A quiz missed for any reason will count as one of the low scores to be dropped (see below). An hour examination missed for what will be deemed as a valid excuse will result in the increase of the worth of the final examination by 100 points. If you have what may be deemed a valid excuse for missing a quiz or an hour examination, provide a copy of supporting documentation to the instructor. The final examination is fully cumulative and will cover the entire course.

Grades: The course grade will be based on the percentage of 1000 points earned according to the following distribution:

A = 90 - 100% of the points; B=80 -89%; C = 70 - 79 %; D = 60 - 69%; F =less than 60%. (This scale represents the minimum grade to expect.)

Worksheets, 10 @ 15 each	150 points
Writing Assignments	200 points
Quizzes, best 5 of 6 @ 10 each	50 points
Exams, 4 @ 100 each	400 points
Final Exam	200 points
Total Possible Points	1000 Points

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

All students enrolled in CHM 1030 are required to complete written assignments of 1000 words minimum. If submitted work is unsatisfactory in either quality (college level writing) or quantity, the highest grade that can be obtained in the course is a D. The writing requirement will be met using an online writing program, Calibrated Peer Review (CPR), which is described below. The instructor will review students whose text receives a peer review score of less than 5. If the writing is considered below college level, the instructor may require the student to submit a revised copy of the writing assignment.

Calibrated Peer Review

Writing Assignments _____ _____ _____

Academic Alert

House Bill 1545, passed by the 1997 Florida Legislature, requires that students enrolled in the same college credit course more than two times shall pay non-resident fees for the third time attempted of the course. Florida colleges and universities were required to start "counting" attempts beginning Fall, 1997. An enrollment is considered a valid attempt if the course remains on your schedule past the published college refund date. (A grade of W or AW thus counts as a take.) On the third attempt not only do you pay non-resident fees, but you may not withdraw from the course. Fourth attempts are allowed only through an academic appeals process based on major extenuating circumstances. All grades from the third and subsequent attempts will be calculated into the grade point average.

Disability Student Support

If you require academic accommodation, you need (1) to register with Disability Student Support (DSS) office in the student union (SU172) and provide documentation, and (2) to provide a letter indicating the type of accommodation needed. Please stop by my office during the first week of class so we can work together to ensure the best possible learning environment.