Return to the UK Chemistry Home PageCHE 230, Introduction to Organic Chemistry (3 credit hours)
This class meets MWF at 8:00–8:50 am in CP-139. Attendance is mandatory.
All exams are cumulative. Any subject covered on an earlier exam may reappear unexpectedly on any later exam.
There will be three in-semester exams and a final exam. ALL EXAMS WILL BE ONLINE. You may use your own laptop or ask (in advance!) for a University computer. We will use ACE@UK to administer the exams. They will be open-book, open-notes, and open-Web.
In general, I do not give partial credit for incorrect responses on online exams. Instead, the testing program gives you an opportunity to correct your response, and your credit is decreased (up to a certain point) if you require more than one try to get it right. However, 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.
If you enter another student's account during an exam, or if someone from outside the exam rooms accesses your account during the exam, you will be prosecuted for committing an academic offense, for which the penalty is at least a zero on the exam. In order to reduce the temptation to enter other students' accounts, I will assign each of you an account to use for the exam when each exam is about to begin. After the exam, your results will be transferred to your regular ACE@UK account.
Each of the exams will contribute 22% to your final grade, and the electronic homework will contribute 12%. 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, 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 the 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 have the option to count the two other hourly exams for 25% of their grade and the final count for 38%. (Remember, all exams are cumulative; if you miss an exam, it doesn't mean that you don't have to learn the material!) Students who miss an exam without an excuse will receive a zero for that exam at my discretion. If you miss an exam for any reason, even an undocumented one, please discuss the circumstances with me.
The Web site for this class is an essential resource. Check it often!
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This page was last updated July 28, 2009