Return to the UK Chemistry Home PageCHE 232, Introduction to Organic Chemistry II (3 credit hours)
The required textbook for this course is Organic Chemistry, 2nd ed., by Janice Smith.
This class meets TTh at 9:30–10:45 am in CP-139. Attendance is mandatory.
Right now, I am planning to give online exams at the following times:
However, these plans may change. If they do, the exams will be given in class on the following day (except the final). I will keep you informed well in advance. A makeup exam will be offered for students who have academic commitments during evening exam times.
You may bring neither your molecular model kit nor a calculator to the exams. (This is partly for your own benefit, since model-making is time-consuming. Any math that you need to do will be simple arithmetic.) All exams are cumulative. Any subject covered on an earlier exam or in CHE 230 may reappear unexpectedly on any later exam.
Each of the in-class exams will contribute 20% to your final grade, the final will contribute 30%, and the electronic homework will contribute 10%. The final assignment of letter grades will be based on the following schedule: A= 85+, B= 65–85, C= 50–65, D= 40–50. I may lower these divisions slightly depending on the difficulty of exams and where breaks in the distribution occur. Grades are assigned on the basis of student performance, not proportions; in other words, students are not competing against each other for grades, and I am quite happy to give most of the class A's and B's if the class has earned them. The exams are acknowledged to be difficult — a 60 in this class is not the same as a 60 in General Chemistry — so don't be disappointed by generally lower scores.
Students may miss an exam if they have a documented, excused absence that conforms to the University Senate Rules. (See course bulletin board outside CP-139 in Rose Street corridor.) The documents must be presented within a week of the missed exam. The student who misses an exam for a legitimate reason will be given a choice of a makeup exam or of having the other two hourly exams each count for 25% of their grade and the final count for 40%. (Remember, all exams are cumulative; if you miss one exam, it doesn't mean that you don't have to learn the material!) If you miss an exam for any reason, even an undocumented one, please discuss the circumstances with me.
The following paragraph refers to paper exams only. All exams will be returned to you after they have been graded. Please check them over for addition mistakes. If you were marked down for an answer that you think was correct, submit it to me with a brief written argument. Oral requests for regrading will not be entertained. Requests for regrading must be received within one week of the return date. A student who has changed an answer and presented it for regrading has cheated. He or she will receive at least a zero on the exam and lowering the final grade by one level. In order to remove any temptation to do this, some exams will be photocopied before they are returned.
The following paragraph refers to online exams only. If you were marked down on an online exam for an answer that you think was correct, submit it to me with a brief written argument. Oral requests for regrading will not be entertained. Requests for regrading must be received within one week of the exam date.
The Web site for this class is an essential resource. Check it often!
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This page was last updated January 12, 2009