Chem Syllabus 2020 chemistry syllabus PDF

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Syllabus for chemistry for the year 2020. Includes course contents and information about syllabus in the year 2020....

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Dr. Christiane Barnes

Sections 401-416 Sections 417-432

Chemistry 120, General Chemistry I, Fall 2020 Bu 516, phone: 974-3395 email: [email protected] Lecture TR 9:50–11:05 ONLINE TR 9:50–11:05 ONLINE

Discussion R: 8:10–9:25 R: 2:50–4:05

Lab T: 1:10–4:00 T: 4:30–7:20

DISCUSSION and LAB Groups: **IMPORTANT!!** We have split up the class into sections, and those sections into groups for both the Discussion and the Lab. Depending on what group your section belongs to, you will be going to discussion in person one week and have a virtual lab that same week. In the following week you will be in lab in person and go to discussion via zoom. Group A: Sections 401, 403, 405, 407, 409, 411, 413, 415, 417, 419, 421, 423, 425, 427, 429, 431 Group B: Sections 402, 404, 406, 408, 410, 412, 414, 416, 418, 420, 422, 424, 426, 428, 430, 432 SOCIAL DISTANCING & COVID-19 PROCEDURES –Students are required to wear face masks at all times and maintain social distancing (6 feet between individuals in traditional classrooms, or, in instructional laboratories and similar settings, only a few minutes in closer proximity when absolutely necessary to achieve learning objectives). Students who are feeling ill or experiencing symptoms such as sneezing, coughing, or a higher than normal temperature will be excused from class and should stay at home. Instructors have the right to ask those who are not complying with these requirements to leave class in the interest of everyone's health and safety. In the event that a student refuses to comply with these requirements, the instructor has the right to cancel class. Additionally, following other simple practices will promote good health in and out of the classroom, such as frequent and thorough hand washing, wiping down desks and seats with disinfectant wipes whenever possible, not sharing personal items such as pens and cell phones, and avoiding crowded hallways and other enclosed spaces. Learning Environment. This is a hybrid course, which means you must travel to campus to successfully complete the course. You will participate both in-person and online. Lectures are entirely online, while labs and discussions rotate weekly between in-person and online. Your central online resource for this course is Canvas (utk.instructure.com), the University of Tennessee’s Learning Management System. All online meetings (lectures, discussions, and office hours) will be conducted via Zoom. Additional Canvas and Zoom resources are available for students unfamiliar with these environments. Class announcements, lecture notes, and other course documents will be posted here. Instructor Expectations: § Be prepared for all classes § Be respectful of others § Actively contribute to the learning activities § Abide by the UT Honor Code Course Description: A general course in theoretical and descriptive chemistry. Modern atomic theory, chemical bonding, stoichiometry, quantitative treatment of gas laws, quantitative aspects of solution chemistry, kinetics, as well as an introduction to organic chemistry. Textbook: Zumdahl and Zumdahl, Chemistry: An Atom First Approach 2nd Edition, (ISBN 978-1-305-079243). Publisher: Cengage. A package of the digital format of the textbook and online homework materials is provided through the Inclusive Access program. OWLv2 and the e-text are included with your Inclusive Access purchase. There will be an optional loose-leaf textbook available in the VolShopfor $25.00. You do not need to purchase a hard copy unless you wish to.

Laboratory Materials: Lab materials are located on Canvas. All resources are provided through an integration with bluedoorlabs. The first time you access a bluedoorlabs resource in your Canvas account, it will ask you to create an account and enter your bluedoorlabs access code. Your bluedoorlabs access code can be found under the VitalSource Bookshelf section of the Canvas course. You will also receive an email with your bluedoorlabs access code from the UTK (Volbook) Inclusive Access program. You need to register for your bluedoorlabs account BEFORE the first day of lab. If you do not see the code in the VitalSource Bookshelf section or get an access code via email from Volbook before your first lab, please email Ms. Betty Phillips at [email protected]. The bluedoorlabs integration will give you access to the digital lab manual, pre-lab lectures, pre-lab quizzes, assignments, documents, and post-lab reports. The lab schedule, course syllabus, all lab experiments, and other information you will need for the course is available in your bluedoorlabs digital lab manual. You will have a total of 10 labs during the semester; five in-person experiments and five virtual labs. Make sure to check the lab schedule posted on Bluedoorlabs every week. You will NOT be able to sign into bluedoorlabs.com login page. You must always click the links from your Canvas account to access the resources in your bluedoorlabs account. When you first register for your bluedoorlabs account, your [email protected] email will be used automatically. As long as you do not change your email address in your bluedoorlabs account, your integration will work correctly. Lectures: Attendance in the virtual lectures is mandatory if you want points for attendance (worth 5% of your final course grade). Attendance will be checked utilizing the turning point mobile app. The zoom room for lectures is found here: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/94764507471. If you cannot make it to lecture, you may watch it asynchronously. However, you will not be able to earn attendance points to the day. Attendance: Attendance of lectures is worth 5% of your final grade, attendance of discussions is worth 5%. I will check attendance with clickers and/or pop quizzes during lectures and discussions. Attendance will be monitored by the use of the Turningpoint Mobile App from the OIT website (https://oit.utk.edu/teachingtools/clickers/) Workshops: Group learning activities (workshops) will be led by your TA during designated discussion sections. The material covered may be included on exams and quizzes. Quizzes: There will be quizzes or graded workshop activities during selected discussion periods to count for 5% of your final grade. These quizzes will be given on an infrequent and unannounced basis. So be prepared and be there every time! Exams: There will be 4 comprehensive exams that count for 40% of your grade. If you miss one of the four exams for an extenuating circumstance (please see ‘Hilltopics’ for what qualifies as an extenuating circumstance), then the exam has to be made up within a couple of days of the original exam. If the make-up exam cannot be taken on the makeup date, the missing exam grade will be replaced by either the final or the average of the other exam grades, whichever is higher. The re-grading of an exam must be requested within one week of receiving the graded exam. Your instructor reserves the right to re-grade the entire exam. Exam Dates: Exams will be given on the following days: Tuesday evenings from 8:00–9:30 pm, on September 8 and 29, October 20, and November 10. All exams will be online and instructions will be available on Canvas. Last day to drop with ‘W’ is November 10, 2020. Final: The final exam will be comprehensive and will count for 20% of the final grade. The exam will be given on Wednesday, December 2, 2020 from 1:00–3:15 pm. You must take the final exam in order to receive a grade in the class. Calculators: You will be only be allowed to use the calculator supplied on canvas in quizzes for your quizzes and exams. You may bring any calculator to lab or discussion. Online Homework: OWLv2: you will be able to log into the online homework system once you are signed up for the course. You can log in to OWLv2 through your Canvas page in the ‘Getting Started with OWL’ Module.

There are six assignments that are due just after the semester begins, and these are graded assignments: •

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Four short introductory assignments (a) Intro: Working with OWL (b) Intro: Mastery Assignments (c) Intro: Non-Mastery Assignments and Answering Questions (d) Intro: Chem Doodle One Math Review One Quick Prep Assignment o Students will take the test first then a study plan is generated based on the student’s test results.

There are four types of assignments for each chapter. Two are graded and the other two are for practice only. Assignment Grade # of Attempts Description Best Time To Do the Type Given Assignment Mastery Graded 10 Single concept questions, After the concept is comes with group (3 covered in each lecture. questions per group). Need Don’t wait until the chapter to answer 2 out of 3 is finished and too many correctly to get credit concepts are covered EOC (End of Graded 6 Multi-concept questions, After Mastery assignments Chapter) applications and after the chapter is finished. Multimedia Not Short videos, simulations Before lecture, get some Activity Graded ideas what will be covered in lecture Adaptive Not Test and Study plan based After the chapter is Study Plan Graded on your test results finished, prep for exams Office Hours: Dr. Barnes will have virtual office hours via Zoom on M 3:30-5:30 pm and Wednesday 12-2 pm. The zoom meeting is scheduled in my personal zoom room: (https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/4330736401) Supplemental Instruction is offered for this course. It is a service provided free to students and is lead by a student who has already mastered the course material and has been trained to facilitate group sessions. For more information please visit (https://studentsuccess.utk.edu/support/supplemental) Disability Services: If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a documented disability, or if you have emergency information to share, please contact Student Disability Services at 100 Dunford Hall, phone 974-6087 or use http://sds.utk.edu. This will ensure that you are properly registered for services. ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: University of Tennessee Honor Code: “An essential feature of The University of Tennessee is a commitment to maintaining an atmosphere of intellectual integrity and academic honesty. As a student of the University, I pledge that I will neither knowingly give nor receive any inappropriate assistance in academic work, thus affirming my own personal commitment to honor and integrity.” This long, wordy, quotation boils down to two simple words…don’t cheat. Academic dishonesty takes on several forms including: copying or sharing answers on tests or assignments, using someone else’s lab data, changing answers prior to a re-grade, plagiarism, having someone else do your academic work, and letting someone else copy your work. Depending on the act, a student could receive a grade of “0” on the assignment, a grade of “F” for the course, and be suspended or expelled from the University. It is also considered violating the honor code if you upload copyrighted materials (lecture notes, assessment questions) to online platforms such as Chegg, Studyblue, CorseHero etc. Depending on the act, a student could receive a grade of “0” on the

assignment, a grade of “F” for the course, and be suspended or expelled from the University. Please do not make me go through this painful process of reporting academic dishonesty.

Grade Composition 4 Exams (lowest grade dropped) Discussion Quizzes Final Exam Laboratory Online Homework Attendance/Clickers There will be absolutely no rounding!

40% 5% 20% 20% 10% 5%

Grading Scale A,AB+, B, BC+, C, CD F

90-100 79-89 66-78 54-65...