WELCOME TO THE COURSE
Welcome to the course
You have been accepted to the course Organic Chemistry 15 hp (5KE180) which starts on Monday January 17th at 9.00 am in room Nat. D.400 on Campus Course coordinator is Ulrika Westerlind (ulrika.westerlind@umu.se)
The course schedule is available in TimeEdit (search for F5614vt22) with links to The course site is hosted on http://canvas.umu.se and will be available for accepted students soon.
Note that you need to register yourself online through LADOK prior to the start of the course.
If you have decided not to take this course or have any other questions regarding registration, please contact Sanna Bränström (sanna.branstrom@umu.se)
CloseBefore course start you may as repetition watch the video lecture about functional groups. We expect that you are aware of the most common functional groups and how the atoms are linked in those. A quiz is linked to this video lecture, which may give you bonus points for the exam if you answer correct.
Tutorials, exercises, virtual reality sessions and the mandatory workshops and labs will be on Campus. You already now have access to the Canvas course page, which contains detailed course information. Please go to the Canvas course page before the course start in order to get comfortable with the content and to be well prepared for the first days. The course will be given in a ”flipped classroom” format, which means that the lectures are available in a video format online on Canvas. You should have watched the video lectures and other important material for the particular chapter before the scheduled classroom activities start. You find information about the particular chapter that we will work on and that you should be prepared for in the schedule. Connected to the lectures and classroom activities you have the option to answer a quiz. The quiz is open until 9 pm (21.00) the evening before we start to work with the lessons connected to a particular chapter. Based on your results on the quiz you may have the opportunity to get bonus points that you can count in the total score of the final exam.
CloseCourse literature is: Solomons´ Organic Chemistry. Global edition, T W Graham Solomons, Craig B Fryhle, Scott A Snyder, ISBN: 978-1-119-24897-2 (paperback).
It is very important that you take time to also read in the course book (Solomons), it is much more rich in details compared to the video lectures and cover the theory that you are expected to learn. The video lectures are aimed as a support that gives you an overview of the most important sections discussed in the book. We also use selected problems from the book to work with during the classroom lessons.
CloseFor more information about the chemistry department, the course and registration or exams, please visit www.umu.se/en/department-of-chemistry/or the student web, www.umu.se/en/student/A warm welcome to us at Chemistry!
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International students are recommended to arrive at least a few days before the start of the regular semester, preferably prior to the Orientation. If you fail to arrive on time, you have to contact the study counselor as soon as possible, but no later than one week ahead of the course start, or you may not be able to register for the programme or course.
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More about the Orientation this semester.
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