Class Schedule Description Credits, Hours, and Workload Text and Materials Technology
Requirements If
you hand-in homework, it must be hand written and scanned, so scanner
access is needed for homework. Submit all homework as scanned jpeg
or gif files in CE6 using the Assignments Tool.
DVD and QuickTime Access to a DVD player is required. You will need to download a the version of QuickTime that is supplied with the textbook DVD that you will use, Conceptual Chemistry Alive! . Security Issues Course Readiness General Teaching Methods 1. Video presentations by the author of the text for each chapter.
The access to these are in a CD-ROM that comes with the textbook. Each
week begins at 5:00 am PST and each week ends on Sunday at 11:59
PST. Discussion boards, online quizzes, and self-assessments are
turned off for posts or entry at the end of each week on Sunday
at 11:59 pm PST. Course Readiness Survey – a self-evaluation It is important for the learner to determine whether they are indeed prepared for an online course prior to registering for the course. Usually the learner needs to determine both their technical and emotional preparation for online courses. Click on the following link to the Oregon Institute of Technology Student Self-Evaluation for Online Course Work (it takes a few seconds to load, be patient) and take this brief evaluation. You will need to answer all of the questions, but this should take only a couple of minutes. Please, take their feedback advice for the questionaire. If you answer sometimes to any of the questions, these will be areas of concern that you might need to improve on to successfully complete this course. Course Expectations and Outcomes § Develop analytical and conceptual thinking skills as well as writing and oral expression skills in evaluating chemical discoveries and theories. § Using critical thinking, recognize patterns that integrate ideas and reduce the need to learn many individual facts. § Apply the principles of chemistry and make more informed choices about the uses of compounds in their work and domestic lives § Compare and contrast environmental aspects of chemistry in the local, state, regional, national and international realms. § Analyze current science problems and potential problems of the future. § Describe/apply the process by which chemistry investigates the world around us and adds to our body of knowledge. § Prepare you to participate in our technological society through exposure to reading and writing about science and chemistry topics § Expose you to concepts of chemistry such as atomic theory, radioactivity, chemical bonding, chemical nomenclature, polarity, states of matter, acids and bases, and nomenclature. § Demonstrate a knowledge of chemical principles through problem solving. Evaluation Methods Evaluation of students will be based on: exams, quizzes on simulations and coursework, homework assignments of problem-solving review questions and exercises, class discussion participation. Written assignments may include synopsis and/or critique of online material, newspapers, magazine projects, text articles, explanation of chemical principles, qualitative, and quantitative problem solving. Each week begins at 5:00 am PST and each week ends on Sunday at 12:59 PST. Discussion boards, online quizzes, and self-assessments are turned off for posts or entry at the end of each week on Sunday at 11:59 pm PST. Examinations are usually available from Thursday or Saturday until the following Monday and are taken online in CE. Grading Policy * Each online quiz is worth 10 points. The online quizzes are available in The Chemistry Place and the each quiz along with the score should be emailed to me from the companion website as a text attachment. Details are found in the course management system, CE6 in the Learning Modules Assignments and Instructions. Send a copy of the score and quiz to a secure email of your own (just in case there is an email failure of some sort). * You are required to complete homework assignments which are end-of-chapter review, that are scanned and submitted in CEor you can take the Exercises and Problems at the companion website. The Exercises and Problems are required to submit via email from the companion website (not CE) and details are found in the course management system, CE6 in the Learning Modules Assignments and Instructions. Either the homework assignment or Problems & Exercises must be submitted by the due date for each exam. Either the homework problems or the Problems & Exercises for each chapter are worth 10 points. * Each Discussion topic is worth a total of 10 points. Your initial post is worth 4 points and each reply to three separate students in the posted topic replies are worth 2 points for a maximum of 10 points. The replies should be meaningful and focus on the content in the course and on the specific forum topic. All discussions are posted in the course management system, CE. * Each exam is worth 100 points. I drop your lowest exam score. * The final is comprehensive and worth 200 points. The final examination covers all of the textbook readings, quizzes, and any other material discussed online. Chemistry 103 is graded on a percentage basis. You are assigned points for each section, but each assessment below is acts as a percentage of the score. I use an online grading tool that permits me to enter your scores as points and then the assignments are adjusted to the relative weights below. You will be given access to this grading tool so you can see any graded material online at any time. However, remember that your grade at any time during the semester is just a snapshot of how you are doing at that time based on what I have graded and may not reflect your overall score at the end of the course. The breakdown of percentages and points is as follows:
Letter Grades Letter grades are based on percentage scores. Grades are assigned only at the end of the semester when all items have been graded; the percentage on a portion of the course is not a meaningful measure of your total performance. However, please note that at the discretion of the instructor, if you fail a portion of this course you will not pass the entire course. A failing grade is considered receiving less than 55% of the score in the final, examination total, or discussion board total. In this event, you will have to take all components of this course again in order to receive credit for the entire course. Grades will be assigned based on the following straight percentages:
Late Policy Really, since this is an eighteen week semester squeezed into 5 weeks, you cannot fall behind in this course or it will be difficult to catch up. This course goes by very quickly and it is important to read the textbook thoroughly and watch the videos made by the author, Chemistry Comes Alive! Note: Each week begins at 5:00 am PST and each week ends on Sunday at 11:59 PST. Discussion boards, online quizzes, and self-assessments are turned off for posts or enExaminations are usually available from Thursday or Saturday until the following Monday and are taken online in CE. Anything handed in late is only worth 50% of the points. Participation Policy Adds/Withdrawal Policy
for this Course This course is limited to 30 students, but I will consider add
authorization depending of need of the student. You can add the course
at WebStar which is located on the The official college withdrawal policy will be adhered to for
this class. Ultimately, it is the RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STUDENT to
withdraw from the class on time. The INSTRUCTOR WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE
FOR DROPPING A STUDENT from the course based on attendance or participation.
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DROPPING THE COURSE ON TIME! The url to drop,
WebStar, is located on the For the Chemistry 103, Summer 2009 Course CRN 30626: Last day to drop for refund in WebStar is June 23. The last day to add in WebStar is June 25; The last day to drop without “W” in WebStar is June 25 The last day to drop with “W” in WebStar is July 15 Accommodations for Disabled Students Cheating, Plagiarism, Dishonesty All cases of cheating, plagiarism, or dishonesty will be reported to the appropriate authorities and will result in an F in the work as the very least form of penalty. An act in cheating, plagiarism, or dishonesty, may result in an F in the course or dissmissal from this college. You must complete and turn in your own work. Any work that is not your own that is submitted for grading constitutes plagiarism. Plagiarism is defined as stealing or passing off as one's own ideas or words of another or using a creative production without crediting the source. Plagiarism consists of: 1. Copying homework, lab reports, research reports, and any quizzes or tests not made available to all students in the course. Any collaboration on laboratory experiments or research reports is not allowed unless announced by the instructor. In other words, don't copy from other students. 2. Paraphrasing published material without acknowledging the source. 3. Making significant use of an idea or arrangement of ideas, e.g., outlines. 4. Writing a paper after consulting persons who provide suitable ideas and incorporating these ideas into the paper without acknowledgement. 5. Submitting under one's own name term papers, or other reports which have been prepared partially or fully by others. Cheating is defined as 1. Using notes, aids or the help of other students on tests or exams in ways other than those expressly permitted by the instructor. 2. Misreporting, dry-lab, or altering the data in laboratory or research projects involving the collection of data. Papers or projects used for another course cannot be used in this course. Any material previously submitted for this course will not be accepted in this course. To aid as a prevention in cheating, primary sources for assessment
in this course will be the textbook, videos, online quizzes, and
discussion forums. It is important that you complete all of the
work and that you do not use the work of others in this course. |
