Syllabus

Course Information

Course

2 lectures per week
1 discussion section per week Fridays
1 three-hour laboratory session certain weeks of the quarter (4 labs total and poster project meetings.)
Daily work in the Achieve online learning environment

Course Meeting Times and Locations: Lecture: Tuesday/Thursday, 12:30-1:50 pm BAG 131

Section	Quiz/Discussion (Fridays)	Location	Laboratory (Mondays)	TA Name
AA	11:30 AM-12:20PM	ARC G070	11:30AM-2:20PM BAG 133L	TJ Caira
AB	12:30-1:20 PM	CDH 125	11:30AM-2:20PM BAG 133R	Chris Kim
AC	2:30-3:20PM	CDH 125	2:30-5:20 PM BAG 133L	TJ Caira
AD	3:30-4:20PM	CDH 128	2:30-5:20 PM BAG 133R	Victor Jonathan
AE	1:30-2:20 PM	GLD 435	5:30-8:20 PM BAG 133L	Jon Ikaika Kim
AF	10:30-11:20 AM	CDH 115	5:30-8:20 PM BAG 133R	Victor Jonathan
AG	9:30-10:20 AM	CDH 115	3:30-4:20 PM** (Tuesday) BAG 133L	Chris Kim

Instructor Contact Information:

Email Address: ingallse@uw.edu Office Hours: TBD

Teaching Assistant information:

Christ Kim, hwanhee@uw.edu, Office Hours: TBD
TJ Caira, tcaira@uw.edu, Office Hours: TBD
Victor Jonathan, vjcity98@uw.edu, Office Hours: TBD
Jon Kim, jikim23@uw.edu, Office Hours: TBD

Inclusivity and Respect:

UW Chemistry is committed to a welcoming and inclusive classroom environment. Diverse backgrounds, embodiments, and experiences are essential to the critical thinking endeavor at the heart of university education. Therefore, I expect you to follow the UW Student Conduct Code in your interactions with your colleagues and me in this course by respecting the many social and cultural differences among us, which may include, but are not limited to: age, cultural background, disability, ethnicity, family status, gender identity and presentation, citizenship and immigration status, national origin, race, religious and political beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and veteran status. Please talk with me right away if you experience disrespect in this class, and I will work to address it in an educational manner.

Course Description:

Welcome back to the GOB series! CHEM 221 is the third quarter of the General, Organic and Biochemistry sequence. This quarter is an introduction to biochemistry. We will be covering the four types of biomolecules, biochemical metabolism cycles, and cellular energetics.

Materials:

General, Organic and Biochemistry by Stoker, 7th Edition, Chapters 18-26, and some previous review.
Laboratory Notebook, See guidelines below
Lab Coat the Safety Googles (must be googles not safety glasses)
Achieve Online HW access -- Course ID: jg6w4n

Course Website: https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1798560

Course material will be uploaded onto Canvas. This will include announcements, copies of lecture notes, links to all assignments and worksheets. Students are encouraged to check Canvas periodically. Lectures will be recorded with Panopto. Videos will be uploaded to Canvas. Since the recording process is entirely automated, there may be unexpected technical difficulties during the quarter.

Discussion/Quiz Sections:

Each student is assigned a quiz section which is run by a TA. It is important that you attend the quiz section that you are registered for. These quiz sections are an opportunity for you to ask questions about any material or homework problems that you are having difficulty with. In quiz sections, your TA will guide you and other students in working through biochemistry problems. To earn your participation credit, you must arrive on time and participate in good faith, not simply be in attendance. Note that these sessions will not be recorded.

Laboratory Sections:

During Laboratory sections, your TA will guide you and other students in exercises related to biochemical topics and methods. There are five labs for this course. Four lab exercises and one poster exercise. The poster lab will be outlined in Week 2. The 4 lab exercises consist of a prelab assignment due on before lab, in-lab exercises designed to be completed and submitted during the lab session, and a post-lab assignment due the following Tuesday (Wednesday if there is an exam on Tuesday).

If you are unable to attend a laboratory session you may first try to reschedule by emailing your professor and then after speaking with your professor submit a request for an excused absence using the absence form found on canvas. Missing more than one lab with an unexcused absence results in a 0.0 grade for the course. Missing two or more labs may result in an incomplete for the course.

Lab notebooks requirements:

A bound notebook with numbered pages and carbonless duplicate sheets is required. Put your name inside the cover, your course number, your section number, and your TAs name.
The first page of the notebook should contain a Table of Contents, which lists the title of the laboratory and the pages associated with each laboratory. Each experiment should be dated and should start on an unused page in the notebook.
Records should always be kept in ball point or archival ink. (No gel pens or roller ball ink!) Never erase an entry. In the event that an error is made in recording an observation or data value, the erroneous words or numbers should not be erased. They should instead be neatly crossed out (but still legible!) and the correct information written nearby.
Your TA will check that data is recorded in your notebook by collecting the duplicate pages.

Grading:

The course grade will be made up of exams, worksheets, homework, and participation.

The breakdown is as follows:

Type of Assignment	# dropped	Course Weight	What happens if you miss it?	When do you need to fill out a google form?
3 exams	1	40%	Grade of “0”	If you miss an exam
Final Exam	0	18%	Grade of “0”	If you miss an exam
Laboratory	0	15%	Reschedule lab	If you miss a laboratory
Quiz section Worksheets	2	8%	Grade of “0”	If you miss more than 1 quiz section for an excused reason
Online Homework	0	15%	Grade of “0”	If you miss more than 1 for an excused reason. You must have been excused from most of when the assignment was available.
Poll EV	10-12	4%	Based on any answer provided and being registered	If you miss many class periods for an excused reason
Total		100%

According to Chemistry department guidelines and based on historical student performance, the average score in Chem 221 will very likely be a 2.6-3.0. While individual exams will not be curved, if necessary, the overall class will be curved at the end of the quarter. Grades will be posted on Canvas.

Exams:

There will be 4 exams. Exams 1-3 will be 75 minutes long and take place in class as given in the schedule. Midterm exams will be non-cumulative (with the caveat that all material in chemistry builds on previous material). The final exam will take place during the final exam timeslot. It will be 110 minutes long. This exam will be cumulative but focus on the last few weeks of material.

Achieve Online Homework:

Chemistry is mastered through practice! The best way to practice your knowledge is to complete homework. Feel free to discuss homework problems with your classmates (it’s even encouraged), but try to attempt it officially on your own.

Poll Everywhere:

There will be several multiple choice questions in each lecture. You will be able to respond by going to the Poll Everywhere website. As a UW student, you access Poll Everywhere using your UW email address. When you enter your UW email on the website or app, you will be prompted to log in via “single-sign on”, the same way you log in to your email or Canvas. If you don’t use your UW email address, you may still be able to respond to polls, but these responses will not receive credit on Canvas. You will be graded only on your participation, not on whether you get the questions correct. Though you will gain valuable information about how you are doing in class by seeing which questions you are struggling with.

Academic Ethics:

Original work performed in good faith is assumed on all assignments and course components. The Student Conduct Code (see http://www.washington.edu/students/handbook/conduct.html Links to an external site.) outlines the following forms of academic misconduct:

Intentional misrepresentation of credentials
Falsification of data
Plagiarism
Posting course materials on external websites
Using course materials that have been posted on external websites

Failure to adhere to this code of ethics will result in referral to the Community Standards and Student Conduct committee for possible disciplinary action as described in the Student Conduct Code. In short, if you have not done something yourself, do not attempt to pass it off as original work. If you have questions about what might cross the line, please do not hesitate to ask your instructor.

Absence Policy:

Life sometimes becomes unexpected, so if you are absent from an exam through sickness or other valid, unavoidable cause, you will be excused from the exam/quiz section/homework/quiz and your performance will be weighted more heavily. Examples of unavoidable causes include: illness; death or serious illness in the immediate family; and – with prior notification – observance of regularly scheduled religious obligations, attendance at academic conferences or field trips, or participation in university-sponsored activities. Absence due to participation in university-sponsored activities require PRIOR approval (please provide the necessary documentation during the first or second week of the quarter).

Washington state law requires that UW develop a policy for accommodation of student absences or significant hardship due to reasons of faith or conscience, or for organized religious activities. The UW’s policy, including more information about how to request an accommodation, is available at Religious Accommodations Policy (https://registrar.washington.edu/staffandfaculty/religious-accommodations-policy/) Links to an external site.. Accommodations must be requested within the first two weeks of this course using the Religious Accommodations Request form available at https://registrar.washington.edu/students/religious-accommodations-request/ Links to an external site..

If you miss an assignment that is dropped, it will be dropped automatically. If you miss more than the number of assignments that are dropped, you should complete the Chemistry department Google form (link provided on Canvas).

Access and Accommodations:

Your experience in this class is important to us, and it is the policy and practice of the University of Washington to create inclusive and accessible learning environments consistent with federal and state law. Disability Resources for Students (DRS) offers resources and coordinates reasonable accommodations for students with disabilities. If you have not yet established services through DRS, but have a temporary or permanent disability that requires accommodations, you are welcome to contact DRS at 206-543-8924 or uwdrs@uw.edu or visit disability.uw.edu. If you have already established accommodations with DRS, the information for the Alternative Testing Contract will be submitted to DRS via their online system. Students with accommodations are solely responsible for scheduling the exams with DRS well in advance of the exam dates. If you require accommodations in the laboratory (including assistants and/or interpreters), please contact the Undergraduate Services Director (Bagley 303D) in person in the first week of the quarter to discuss your accommodations.

Religious Accommodations Policy:

Washington state law requires that UW develop a policy for accommodation of student absences or significant hardship due to reasons of faith or conscience, or for organized religious activities. The UW’s policy, including more information about how to request an accommodation, is available at Religious Accommodations Policy (https://registrar.washington.edu/staffandfaculty/religious-accommodations-policy/ ). Accommodations must be requested within the first two weeks of this course using the Religious Accommodations Request form (https://registrar.washington.edu/students/religious-accommodations-request/ ).

Keys to Success:

Participate in ALL available sessions, pay close attention, and take notes – learning is not a passive process.
Learning chemistry is a sequential process. You must understand today’s material before you can understand tomorrow's. As with all courses at UW, your instructors and TAs will assume that you are studying at least two hours for each hour of lecture and one hour for every hour of lab. Find a place that allows for periods of uninterrupted study. Skim through chapter or sections to be covered in the next class session.
Make daily, weekly, and quarterly learning plans and follow those plans.
Working in shorter, more frequent sessions in ACHIEVE will be more efficient than long, marathon sessions.
Practice! Work on suggested end-of-the-chapter problems as well as topics in ACHIEVE - focus on understanding the concepts and general processes, not just memorizing how to solve a specific problem.
Talk chemistry with fellow Chem 221 students. You will not only learn more, but you will probably also enjoy the course more.