Paying for college:
| New course | Undergraduate |
| First term offered : | ||
| Course Prefix&Number | Descriptive Title | Credits/Hours |
| Ch 337 | Organic Chemistry Lab I | 1 - |
|
Abbreviation for Class Schedule(20 spaces) Org Chemistry Lab I |
|
Catalog Description: Students will learn basic laboratory techniques for purifying and identifying organic compounds. The topics covered will be thin layer chromatography, gas chromatography, extraction, recrystallization, simple and fractional distillation, melting points, boiling points, derivatives, spectroscopy an using the chemical literature for obtaining physical property information. |
|
Course Goal and Objectives: - how atoms bond together in organic molecules - to determine the 3-D structures of organic molecules - to compare the structures of organic molecules in terms of their potential energies - locate potentially mobile electrons in molecules - to recognize sites of polarity in organic molecules - to predict physical properties such as boiling point, melting point and solubility based on electronic structure - to draw and name members of the alkane and alkyl halide classification - to predict the mechanism of a nucleophilic substitution reaction |
|
Justification for adding the course (e.g. alignment with other institutions, program revision, etc.): This change will WOU into alignment with other OUS institutions. Will take care of transfer issues. |
|
Faculty and facilities needed: None |
|
Brief Course outline: By the time you have finished the entire organic chemistry sequence, you should be able to look at an organic molecule and predict how it will behave in a given chemical environment. The most important consideration in making such predictions is where the electrons are located in the molecule and where they would like to go. All of organic chemistry can be explained by following the movement of electrons. Also see course goal and objectives. |
| Step | Approver | Decision | Timestamp |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 - Department | Rahim Kazerouni | Approved | November 04 2009 |
| 2 - Division | Steve Taylor | Approved | November 04 2009 |
| 3 - Division Curriculum | Cheryl Beaver | Approved | November 11 2009 |
| 5 - Curriculum Committee | Laurie Burton | Rejected | November 18 2009 |
|
Comments: The Curriculum Committee voted to recommend rejecting the CH 334, 335, 336, 337 and 338 package for two reasons:1) The connection between the CH 334, 335, 336 courses and the CH 337, 338 labs was not clear on the proposals. We recommend, for clarity in the catalog and for student understanding.a) The course description for CH 334, 335, 336 state the co-requisite requirements of CH 337 for CH 335 and CH 338 for CH 336. b) The course description for CH 337 states the co-requisite requirement of CH 335 c) The course description for CH 338 states the co-requisite requirement of CH 336.2) The catalog description for CH 338 was too vague, especially compared to CH 337. For a new course, for both student understanding and transfer of courses to and from WOU, the catalog description needs to be more precise. The language ¿using a range of laboratory techniques¿ was cited by committee members as not being sufficiently clear. Laurie BurtonCC Chair 2009.2010 |
|||
| 6 - Faculty Senate | Katherine Schmidt | Rejected | December 07 2009 |
University Computing Services 503-838-8925 | or e-mail: webmaster@wou.edu
