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| Course ID: | CHEM 1211-1211D. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | General Chemistry I | Course
Description: | The chemical principles involved in stoichiometry, structure, bonding, and reactivity. | | Oasis Title: | General Chemistry I | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in CHEM 1311H, CHEM 1411 | | Pre or Corequisite: | MATH 1113 or MATH 1113E | | Corequisite: | CHEM 1211L | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | Course Objectives
CHEM 1211
A. Understand that the natural world has an atomic and molecular basis which
successfully explains its physical phenomena
B. Understand the importance of chemistry in our everyday lives and the financial
realities of a global economy
C. Understand the important scientific discoveries that lead to the development of
modern chemistry
D. Understand the impact of chemical phenomena on the fields of medicine, pharmacy,
dentistry, biology, and physics
E. Understand the fundamental principles that apply to basic inorganic and aqueous
solution chemistry
F. Understand chemical language and symbolism
G. Understand the fundamental principles of molecular structure and shape
H. Understand the fundamentals of acid-base chemistry | | Topical Outline: | First semester of an in-depth study of chemical principles:
I. Units and Unit Conversions
II. Stoichiometry
III.Reaction types
IV. Atomic structure
a. chemical periodicity
b. chemical bonding
c. molecular structure
V. Acid-base chemistry
VI. Properties of gases, liquids, and solids | |
| Course ID: | CHEM 1211L. 1 hour. 3 hours lab per week. |
| Course Title: | General Chemistry Laboratory I |
Course
Description: | Students will perform experiments to illustrate the reactions, principles, and techniques presented in Freshman Chemistry I. |
| Oasis Title: | General Chem Lab I |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in CHEM 1311L, CHEM 1411L |
| Pre or Corequisite: | MATH 1113 |
| Corequisite: | CHEM 1211 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | Course Objectives
CHEM 1211L
A. Understand how to collect, analyze, and assimilate experimental laboratory data
using traditional wet chemical techniques
B. Understand how to collect, analyze, and assimilate experimental laboratory data
using electronic analytical devices such as pH meters, thermistors, spectrometers,
and colorimeters
C. Use spreadsheet software to graph and analyze electronically accumulated data
D. Use e-mail and web resources to evaluate collected data
E. Write at least two formal lab procedures
F. Write at least two formal lab reports
G. Devise two laboratory experiments based upon the techniques and procedures presented
during the course of the semester
H. Perform one end of semester lab practical |
| Topical Outline: | EXPERIMENTS:
1. Separation of Components of Mixtures
2. Identifying metals by determining their specific heat.
3. Indirect gravimetric determination of the composition of a mixture.
4. Determining the formula weight of a compound.
5. Application of Hess’s Law
6. Identifying Inorganic Compounds by their inter-chemical reactions.
7. Identifying metals via flame emission analysis.
8. Acid-base titrations.
9. Self Directed-Skills Analysis Experiments (Student write procedures to
solve a complex problem). |
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