BIO 205 Chemistry for the Health Sciences

                                                Syllabus and Course Outline

                                                Fall, 2006

Science Department                                                         Southeastern Community College

 

Instructor:    J. Michael Sallee                                            Lecture:       2:00 - 2:55 T, F                                       

                    507 Bowles Hall                                                                           Rm. 511, Bowles Hall

        319 524 - 3221 ext. 1991                                Lab 201:  12:55 - 2:55 M

        jmsallee@scciowa.edu                                     Lab 202:  12:55 - 2:55 W

                                                                                                            Rm. 505, Bowles Hall

 

Office Hrs.: 

8:35-9:30 MTWThF

9:40-10:35 Th

11:50-12:45 MTWF                     

Other Office Hours can be arranged by appointment. 

 

Course Description:        

This class is designed primarily for first-year students in various health-related programs.  Emphasis is placed on practical aspects of inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry.      The class will begin with a brief review of measurement and classification of matter.  Atomic structure will follow with emphasis on electron configuration and chemical properties.  Chemical bonding, formulas and equations, and oxidation and reduction will be followed by the gas laws.  The liquid state and acids, bases, and salts will be included as topics.  The course will conclude with an investigation into the nature of organic compounds, focusing on carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. 

 

Course Value:   3.0 semester credit hours

 

Required Text and Materials:

Chemistry, An Introduction to General, Organic and Biochemistry.  9th Ed. Timberlake.  Benjamin Cummings.            2006. ISBN 0-8053-3015-1

Safety Goggles, Chemical Splash type.

 

Course Objectives:

1.   Provide a basic understanding of Chemistry.

2.   Provide the student with exposure to the scientific method.

3.   Provide the student with experience using laboratory equipment and safety procedures in the laboratory.

4.   Build upon the student’s knowledge of science as related to its application in the medical field.

 

Class Attendance:

            It is expected that each student will be responsible in attending class lecture sessions. Due to the great amount of subject matter normally covered in a given class session, the student who does not attend class faithfully will be at a great disadvantage.

           

            A laboratory session will usually involve the use of normal skills along with visual perception of results obtained from experimentation, the ability to make measurements, and occasional microscopic viewing.  It is therefore expected that the student’s participation be 100%.

 

Evaluation:
Each student will be assigned a letter grade consistent with their combined success on major exams, lecture and laboratory quizzes, and class hand-ins. There will often be points awarded for various activities for which the student must be present. Students who miss class, or are tardy, or leave early will miss those points. The final course grade assigned to each student will be based on the total number of points accumulated during the semester according to the following scale:

A 90 - 100%

B 80 - 89.9%

C 70 - 79.9%

D 55 - 69.9%

F 0 - 54.9%

Each student will be allowed to drop one test score and one hand-in score or quiz score prior to the Final Exam. Class assignments that are late will receive a zero grade. A Final Exam that includes comprehensive questions will be required of all students. The instructor reserves the right to modify evaluation procedures for students who experience extensive medical problems but advance notice is required unless the student is comatose. Students hoping for consideration of make-up work must speak with the instructor in advance or leave their name and excuse on the telephone answering machine in advance at the number listed previously.

SCC Board Policy #523: Code of Academic Conduct.

 

Academic honesty is a fundamental attribute of higher learning.  Evaluation of each student’s level of knowledge and understanding is a vital part of the teaching process, and it requires a variety of methods of assessment.  Any act that interferes with the process of evaluation by misrepresenting the relationship between the work being evaluated and the student’s actual state of knowledge is an act of academic dishonesty.  These acts of dishonesty include, but are not limited to:

 

  1. Fraud:  Acts of dishonesty, which include falsification of documents, fabrication of data and altering solutions to be resubmitted for a grade.
  2. Cheating:  Any deceptive act that involves the submission of academic work purported to be one’s own when in fact the work was obtained from someone else.  These acts may include copying or attempting to copy from another person’s test or assignment, allowing someone else to copy from a test and/or assignment, attempting to use unauthorized aids to complete an assignment, and multiple submission of the same work to be graded as different assignments.
  3. Plagiarism:  Misrepresenting someone else’s words, ideas, or data as one’s own original work.  Students may avoid plagiarism by fully and consistently crediting the person or person’s responsible for the original work, including paraphrasing.
  4. Forgery:  Any attempt to misrepresent another person’s signature, initials, computer login, or other identifying mark.
  5. Facilitating Dishonesty:  Actions that assist another person in committing a dishonest act.

 

SCC Administrative Guideline #101 will be used to deal with violations in the Code of Academic conduct.

 

Tentative Class Assignment Schedule & Course Outline

            There may be adjustments to this schedule, but these will be announced in class.

 

            M/W: 8/21, 8/23 - Measurements Lab  

            T:  8/22 - Ch. 1 Measurements

            F:  8/25 - Finish Ch.1

 

            M/W: 8/28, 8/30 - Specific Heat Capacity Lab

            T:  8/29 - Ch. 2 Energy and Matter

            F:  9/01 - Ch. 2 Specific Heat

 

           M: 9/04 - Labor Day, no class 

           T:  9/05 - Ch. 3 Atoms and Elements

           W: 9/06 - Alloys Lab

           F:  9/08 - Ch. 3 Atomic Number and Mass Number

 

           M/W: 9/11, 9/13 - Atomic Mass Lab, Bn 

           T:  9/12 – The Diagonal Rule

            F:  9/15  - Ch. 1, 2, & 3 Exam

 

           M/W:  9/18, 9/20 - Electrolytes Lab 

           T:  9/19 - Ch. 4 Covalent Compounds

           F:  9/22 – Biology Teachers Conference, IACCBT

 

            M/W: 9/25, 9/27 - Empirical Formula Lab, CuSO4 

            T:  9/26 - Ch. 5 Mole Relationships in Chemical Equations

            F:  9/29 - Ch. 6 Gases

 

            M/W: 10/02, 10/04  - Oxidation-Reduction Lab, (CO2)

            T:  10/03  - Ch. 6 The Combined Gas Law

            F:  10/06  - Ch. 4, 5, & 6 Exam

                       

            M/W: 10/09, 10/11 – Gas Laws, Cartesian Diver Lab

            T: 10/10  - Ch. 7 Solutions

            F: 10/13  - Ch. 7 Molarity and Dilutions

 

            M/W: 10/16, 10/18 – Boiling Point Lab

            T: 10/17  - Ch. 8 Acids and Bases

            F: 10/20  - No Class, Professional Development Day

 

            M/W: 10/23, 10/25  - Single Replacement Lab

            T: 10/24  - Ch. 8 Acid-Base Buffers

            F: 10/27  - Ch. 9 Nuclear Radiation                  

      

            M/W: 10/30, 11/01  - Titration Lab                  

            T: 10/31  - Ch. 9 Medical Applications Using Radioactivity

            F: 11/03  - Ch. 7, 8, & 9 Exam

 

            M/W: 11/06, 11/08  - Organic Compounds Lab

            T: 11/07  - Ch. 10 Introduction to Organic Chemistry

            F: 11/10  - Ch. 14 Carbohydrates

 

            M/W: 11/13, 11/15 - Saponification Lab

            T: 11/14  - Ch. 15 Lipids

            F: 11/17  - Finish Ch. 15

 

            M/W: 11/20, 11/22  - Alloys Lab

            T:  11/21   - Ch. 10, 14, & 15 Exam

            W: 11/23  - Not in Session

            Th: 11/24  - Thanksgiving

            F:  11/25   - Lab: Effects of Football on Digestion

 

            M/W: 11/27, 11/29  - Catalysts Lab   

            T:  11/28   - Ch. 16 Amino Acids, Proteins, and Enzymes

            F:  12/01   - Ch. 16 Enzyme Action

     

            M/W: 12/4, 12/06  - DNA Lab

            T:  12/05  - Ch. 17 Nucleic Acids and Protein Synthesis

            F:  12/08  - Ch. 18 Metabolic Pathways and Energy Production

           

            M: 12/11 - Lab Practical Exam

            T:  12/12 - Ch. 18 Metabolic Pathways and Energy Production

            W: 12/13 - Final Exam

            Th: 12/14 - Final Exam

            F:  12/15 - Final Exam