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CHEM2138: PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY 2 - INTEGRATED

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Type Open
Level 2
Credits 30
Availability Available in 2024/2025
Module Cap
Location Durham
Department Chemistry

Prerequisites

  • Core Chemistry 1 (CHEM1078) AND Practical Chemistry 1A (CHEM1087) AND Practical Chemistry 1B (CHEM1107)

Corequisites

  • Core Chemistry 2 (CHEM2012)

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • Practical Chemistry 2 - Synthetic (CHEM2147), Practical Chemistry 2 - Measurement (CHEM2157), Practical Chemistry 2 - Inorganic (CHEM2107), Practical Chemistry 2 - Physical (CHEM2127) AND Practical Chemistry 2 - Organic (CHEM2117)

Aims

  • To expand and promote the knowledge and understanding of chemistry through practical work.

Content

  • Practical work in intermediate chemistry

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the intermediate chemical principles illustrated by the practical work carried out.

Subject-specific Skills:

  • Perform and discuss more complex laboratory experiments.
  • Prepare, purify and identify a range of compounds.
  • Use spreadsheets to analyse data in a competent manner.
  • Understand the importance of more complex experimental design and safety.
  • Perform more complex experimental manipulation.
  • Evaluate results in terms of the theory underlying the experiment.
  • Write coherent scientific reports on obtained data.
  • Demonstrate time management skills and an ability to plan experimental work.
  • Interpret spectroscopic data (e.g. NMR, IR, Mass spectrometry).

Key Skills:

  • Problem solving.
  • Verbal and written communication.
  • Numerical skills.
  • Group working.
  • Information retrieval.
  • Scientific writing.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Laboratory classes teach students techniques in various aspects of chemistry

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Practicals (in-lab)4848 sessions Terms 1 and 23 hours144Yes
Dry lab skills sessions (out of lab)1212 sessions Terms 1 and 23 hours36Yes
Induction including health and safety briefing1At start of Term 11 hour1Yes
Preparation, reading and completion of post-lab activities119 
Total300 

Summative Assessment

Component: Practical WorkComponent Weighting: 100%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Results of laboratory work 100 

Formative Assessment

Formative assessment occurs continuously by means of feedback for pre-lab activities, verbal and written feedback in practical activity sessions, and via written feedback on assessed work.

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