Overview
This unit will provide you with the fundamental principles of chemistry that underpin the medical sciences and provide a strong foundation on which you can develop an understanding of biochemistry and molecular science. You will gain an appreciation of the nature of matter, classic atomic structure and how energy is involved in bond formation. These concepts will be developed to explain the forces between molecules that govern chemical interaction. You will be introduced to the chemistry of electrolytes, acids, bases and buffers. This study will be supported by simple calculations to assist you in relating to the pH scale. The study of organic chemistry and molecules central to the life sciences will enable you to develop an understanding of the biochemistry and molecular biology relevant to your specific discipline. The naming and classifying of chemical compounds will enable you to be conversant with accepted scientific terms. Tutorials and on-line activities will complement the theoretical knowledge gained in lectures and provide you with the basic mathematical and analytical tools required in the application of chemistry to your specific discipline.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Have your say survey via Moodle
The majority of students indicated that overall they enjoyed the course, the following aspects were highlighted 1. Delivery of content 2. Approachability of staff and their consistent reliable response to queries 3. Quality of face to face interaction with staff 4. Use of online assessment pieces
Continue best practice
The Unit was revamped this offering with a shift to a scenario based introduction of topics. Best practice in delivery was followed with designated daily morning and afternoon sessions for the Q&A forum.
Feedback from Have your say survey via Moodle
Some students studying internally felt there was no (or limited) face to face interaction with staff .
Weekly ISL delivered tutorials were supplied to all campuses offering CHEM11042 internally, which allowed for real time interaction with academic staff, this will continue in the next offering. Additional approaches to increase visibility of staff to students will also be investigated.
Weekly 2 hour workshops were made available to on campus students. All worked solutions for tutorial problems were made available on moodle via pdf documnts but more importantly video recordings using a document camera so that all students were able to benefit from live tutorial instructions.
Feedback from Lecturing Staff & Moodle's EASI CONNECT software
Topic focus notes and Health Check quizzes were under utilised
Statistics were and will continue to be presented to students providing evidence that regular use of the health check quizzes (and other resources) is vital in ensuring adequate preparation for final exam. The quizzes are proven to be a vital learning tool. Students tended to neglect the valuable information provided in the topic focus notes. These summaries of topics will be regularly highlighted to students throughout the term.
The weekkly quizzes were used as an assessment item. Students were allowed 3 attempts at each quiz, with the highest grade being recorded. Questions were randomly selected from a bank of questions. This approach for the quizzes not only ensured student participation but also provided an alternative approach for learning.
- Apply concepts of atomic structure to explain molecular bonding and nuclear reactivity.
- Apply chemical concepts to healthcare situations.
- Identify categories of organic compounds and their potential chemical interactions.
- Perform basic chemical calculations.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 30% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Online Quiz(zes) - 30% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
Additional Textbook Information
You are required to purchase an E-Text:
Blackman et al, Chemistry Core Concepts, 1st edition, 2016 with Wiley Plus Learning Space.
This item can be purchased by accessing the link on the CHEM11042 Moodle site.
The E-book provides animations and short lecture style videos to assist you in your learning and the Wiley Plus Learning Space provides additional quizzes to further reinforce the course material and to assist you to gauge your undertanding of the concepts presented.
In addition to the E- textbook, students are required to have a Scientific calculator (preferred brand Casio FX82 ES) and Periodic table (optional)
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Turabian
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
l.voss@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: How this unit runs; assessment and why we study chemistry.
Lecture 2: Introduction to matter
Lecture 3: Measurement
Chapter
1.1 Why study chemistry?
1.2 Introduction to matter
3.3 Measurement
Events and Submissions/Topic
All weekly quizzes must be completed by the Wednesday of the following week. i.e. the Week 1 quiz must be completed by 11:55 pm on the Wednesday of week 2.
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: Atomic structure
Lecture 2: The Periodic Table and ion formation
Lecture 3: Scientific notation and the metric system.
Chapter
1.4 The structure of the atom
1.5 The Periodic Table of the elements
3.1 Section: Expression of large and small numbers
3.1 Section: Exponents and logarithms
3.2 Section: SI Units
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: Molecular formula and the mole
Lecture 2: Introduction to Lewis dot diagrams
Lecture 3: Ionic bonding
Chapter
2.1 Representations in chemistry
4.4 The mole
6.1 Fundamentals of bonding
6.2 Ionic bonding
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: Covalent Bonding and Lewis dot diagrams
Lecture 2: VSEPR
Lecture 3: Intermolecular forces
Chapter
6.3 Lewis structures
6.4 Valence shell electron pair repulsion theory (VSEPR)
7.2 Intermolecular forces
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: Solutions and concentration terms
Lecture 2: Molarity and stoichiometry
Lecture 3: Dilutions
Chapter
10.1 Introduction to solutions and solubility
10.2 Section: The concentration of soutions
10.2 Section: Diluting a solution
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: Chemical reactions
Lecture 2: Energy in reactions
Lecture 3: Equilibrium
Chapter
4.1 Chemical and physical change
4.2 Chemical equations
4.3 Balancing chemical equations
4.6 Stoichiometry, limiting reagents and percentage yield
8.3 Enthalpy
13.4 Temperature dependence of chemical reactions
13.5 Reaction mechanism and catalysis
9.1 Chemical equilibria
9.2 The equilibrium constant, K, and the reaction quotient, Q
9.4 How systems at equilibrium respond to change
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: Acid base definition and neutralisation reactions
Lecture 2: pH calculations
Lecture 3: Buffers
Chapter
11.1 The Bronsted-Lowry definition of acids and bases
11.5 The molecular basis of acid strength
11.2 Acid-base reactions in water
11.6 Buffer solutions
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: The Ideal Gas equation
Lecture 2: Dalton's Law and Henry's Law
Lecture 3: Nuclear chemistry
Chapter
7.3 Gases
7.4 Gas mixtures
Supplementary material
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: Introduction to organic chemistry and alkanes
Lecture 2: Alkenes and alkynes
Lecture 3: Aromatic compounds
Chapter
2.1 Representations in chemistry
2.2 Section: Naming organic compounds - the nomenclature of alkanes
14.1 Introduction to hydrocarbons
14.2 Alkanes
14.4 Reactions of alkanes
14.3 Alkenes and alkynes
14.5 Reactions of alkenes
14.6 Aromatic compounds
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: Functional groupos, aldehydes, ketones and ethers
Lecture 2: Alcohols
Lecture 3: Oxidation of alcohols
Chapter
2.2 Section: Naming organic compounds - functional groups
15.2 Alcohols
15.3 Reactions of alcohols
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lecture 1: Amines
Lecture 2: Carboxylic acids and derivatives
Lecture 3: Chiral compounds
Chapter
15.4 Amines
15.6 Carboxylic acids
15.7 Nomenclature of carboxylic acids and derivatives
15.1 Chiral compounds
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Review
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Online Quiz(zes)
This assessment is comprised of weekly on-line quizzes which will aid your comprehension of the concepts presented in each topic of this unit. This assessment requires you to study the material in the relevant topics and apply the concepts presented to answer a series of multiple choice questions..
Each quiz is comprised of 10 multiple-choice questions taken from a question bank. All questions in each quiz are of equal value and each of the 10 quizzes will contibute 3%, totalling 30% for this assessment item.
The quiz is not timed and you are allowed three attempts; the highest score of the three attempts will be recorded. Note that questions are generated randomly and you will receive different questions on subsequent attempts.
There is a minimum mark requirement of 40% for this assessment item. Therefore, you must attain 40% in total for this assessment task in order to be eligible to pass the unit overall.
10
Weekly
Each quiz will close at 11:55PM on the Wednesday of the following week. i.e. The week 1 quiz will close on the Wednesday of week 2.
Quiz results will be released after the quiz has closed.
All questions are of equal weighting. One mark will be awarded for each correct response. Incorrect responses will not incur a penalty.
- Apply concepts of atomic structure to explain molecular bonding and nuclear reactivity.
- Identify categories of organic compounds and their potential chemical interactions.
- Perform basic chemical calculations.
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
2 Written Assessment
This assessment requires you to design a professional poster that clearly illustrates the importance of chemistry in a scenario or medical condition that is significant to healthcare, particularly in your chosen field of paramedic or chiropractic science.
The poster should be well presented and include an image or diagram that represents and highlights the significance of the situation chosen.
You are to use your chemical knowledge and conduct research to explain the scenario and also suggest ways of improving, treating or preventing the issue being discussed.
The poster should be designed using PowerPoint application. A template for the poster and a 'how-to' video will be made available on the Moodle site.
Week 8 Friday (5 May 2017) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 11 Friday (26 May 2017)
A marking Rubrik will be provided on the Moodle site for this unit.
Marks will be awarded for
- Introduction to the topic
- The use of an appropriate image
- The chemical explantaion of the topic
- Discussion on the potential of chemical knowledge to help explain/solve the problem presented
- Overall presentaton
- Grammar and spelling
- Referencing
- Apply chemical concepts to healthcare situations.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
Examination
Dictionary - non-electronic, concise, direct translation only (dictionary must not contain any notes or comments).
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Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
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What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
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