Chemistry 201 Syllabus, Spring 2014 TuTh: 11:45 - 13:00 Room: Dabney 222 Instructor: Prof. Stefan Franzen 363E Partners III Centennial Campus 919-515-8915 Office Hours: WF 1:00-2:00 p.m. Office hours can be met by appointment. Please email me with a range of times you are available and I will respond with an appropriate time. Email is an acceptable format for asking questions as well. Experience suggests that this gives a shorter wait time. Text: Chemistry: A Quantitative Science, by Dennis Wertz. I send several help files throughout the semester via email: collectively, these files constitute a course pack of supplementary notes and example problems. By no means are these substitutes for class attendance and in-class notes. You are strongly encouraged to print out these documents. Materials: A scientific calculator capable of exponents and logarithms; graphing and polynomial solving capability are useful, but not necessary. Prerequisites:- Completion of CH 101 with a grade of C– or better AND - Eligibility for MA 121 or higher. - Co-requisite of CH 202 (laboratory). If you already have credit for CH 202, you should not be registered now. Note that some majors require CH 201 but not CH 202. Laboratory: CH 202 is a completely separate course http://courses.ncsu.edu/ch202/lec/001/ . Questions regarding all laboratory work should be directed to your TA and/or laboratory supervisor in that order. There is a lab manual that includes both the procedures and carbonless data collection sheets; thus, there is no separate lab notebook. Please note that historically the laboratory begins to lead the lecture somewhat around mid-term. Although somewhat frustrating, this arrangement may well help one in terms of the lecture material and examinations having first encountered the material in a laboratory setting. Attendance: Students are expected to attend class. Course materials presented in class or sent via email will not be made available a second time save for a legitimate university excuse (see below). Grading: - In-class examinations (3) will count 20% each. - The cumulative final examination will count 30% (exception: see below). - Sapling problems will count 10%. - The policies of North Carolina State University regarding academic integrity and honesty are in force. In particular, submission of an exam for grading verifies your agreement to abide by the Honor Pledge: “I have neither given nor received unauthorized aid on this test or assignment.” Failure to uphold this standard shall, at a minimum, result in a zero being recorded for that examination. More severe penalties, including academic dishonesty proceedings, may be imposed at the discretion of the professor commensurate with the nature of the offense. - There are no make-up examinations. If a single examination is missed for any reason, the score of zero for the missed exam will be replaced by a cumulative final examination score. In other words, should an in-class examination be missed the student will (must) take an alternate cumulative final examination that will account for 60% of the final class average. Failure to sit for the two in-class examinations will result in an incomplete (I) or a failing (F) grade according to the judgment of the professor. - Final Exam replacement policy: Selection of the cumulative final option also allows for the final exam mark (letter grade) to replace any single exam mark (letter grade) that was lower. If one is satisfied with the two in-class exams, then the non-cumulative option is probably best. An in-class sign-up sheet will be given prior to the final exam on which to make one’s choice of final. - An examination may be sat early in the event of a legitimate university activity that conflicts with the examination date. The student must: (1) present official written documentation at least one week in advance and (2) the exam must be taken within a 48-hour window prior to the examination date. Failure to meet these requirements will result in a zero mark and bullet number four shall apply. For information regarding absences, see: http://www.ncsu.edu/policies/academic_affairs/pols_regs/REG205.00.4.php - Failure to sit the final examination shall result in the assignment of a failing grade (F) for the course.- Please note that by remaining registered in the course past the drop deadline, you commit to completing the course, which ends with submission of the final exam. University regulations, http://www.ncsu.edu/policies/academic_affairs/pols_regs/REG205.00.24.php (see III and IV) are very specific. The final examination for a course is to be taken at the time scheduled. Therefore, all students are required to sit the final exam during the scheduled time unless article V applies (the so-called “three exams in 24 hours” exemption). Other policies regarding final examinations may be found at: http://www.ncsu.edu/ncsu/reg_records/sprg_exa.html . - If Article V applies (“three final exams in 24 hours”), please see the instructions given at the link provided above. - Exams are graded according to a distribution particular to that exam and published when examinations are returned. Scores are grouped according to letter grades (e.g. 88-87 = B+) and assigned a letter-grade-equivalent score (e.g. B+ = 3.3 which is similar to, but not quite identical with the system used by NCSU for calculating GPAs). Homework is computed as a simple percentage of total points and given a letter grade based on the ten-point scale. These letter grade values – not the actual exam numerical grades – are averaged to compute the course average, which is then converted back to a letter grade for submission to Registration & Records. - Although individual examinations might receive a D− mark (earning 0.7 grade pts), there are NO D− course grades awarded. The D/F course grade cutoff is typically about 0.95 though I reserve the right to adjust this based on overall class performance. Put another way, to pass the course given the final exam replacement; multiple Sapling submissions; and Sapling bonus pts; one must be near to the D letter grade pt average (~0.95) - Regrade: should you believe an error has been made in the grading of your exam, it must be brought to my attention within two days of the date that the exams are returned to the class as a whole. I shall re-grade the entire exam, making it