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General Chemistry
CH101

YEAR:

2023-2024

CREDIT HOURS:

5.00

PREREQUISITES:

None

COREQUISITES:

None

COURSE NOTES:

Must also enroll in CH101L Lab. Prior completion or concurrent enrollment in MA106, MA108, or MA117 is required.

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Theory, principles and history of chemistry. Lecture and lab.

HutchCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
  2. Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
  3. Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  4. Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
  5. Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

COURSE OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCIES:

  1. Solve problems using dimensional analysis, significant figures, and units of measure.
    1. Convert a measurement from one unit to another using dimensional analysis.
    2. Explain the significance of units for reporting measurements.
    3. Interpret prefixes as they relate to the metric system.
    4. Make conversions between two metric values and/or standard and metric values.
    5. Make accurate measurements in both the metric and standard systems.
    6. Distinguish between accuracy and precision.
    7. Calculate the density of a substance from the mass and volume of a sample.
    8. Convert between exponential and decimal numbers.
    9. Perform calculations with exponential and decimal numbers.
    10. Use a scientific calculator.
    11. Solve algebraic equations for unknown quantities.
    12. Convert a measurement from one unit to another unit using dimensional analysis.
    13. Use the correct number of significant figures when reporting measurements and the results of calculations.
    14. Convert between Kelvin, Celsius, and Fahrenheit temperatures.
  2. Explain the chemical context of topics as they relate to the natural sciences and society.
    1. Write the symbols for the elements, given their names and vice versa.
    2. Differentiate between law, theory, and model.
    3. Describe the nature of fundamental chemical laws and their historical development.
    4. Describe the historical development of a model of the atom.
    5. Describe the modern view of the atom.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of atoms, the periodic table, molecular structure, and bonding.
    1. Systematically name binary ionic compounds, molecular compounds, compounds with common polyatomic ions, acids, hydrates and write the formula from its name.
    2. Differentiate between mass number and atomic number.
    3. Identify the information for each element found on the Periodic Table.
    4. Explain the meaning and the origin of the amu.
    5. Distinguish between molecules and ions.
    6. State the numbers of neutrons, protons, and electrons in an isotope, given its atomic number and mass number, and write the symbol for an isotope.
    7. Predict the anion or cation that a main-group element is likely to form and name ions.
    8. Interpret the chemical formulas in terms of the number of each type of atoms present.
    9. Systematically name binary ionic compounds, molecular compounds, compounds with common polyatomic ions, acids, hydrates and write the formula from its name.
    10. Describe the nature of light as electromagnetic radiation and as a stream of photons.
    11. Differentiate among elements, compounds, mixtures, and types of mixtures.
    12. Identify physical and chemical property and changes.
    13. Describe how mixtures are separated by filtration and distillation.
    14. Name and explain the relation of each of the four quantum numbers to the properties of electrons in orbitals.
    15. Write the ground-state orbital diagram and electron configurations for an atom or ion.
    16. Describe the general characteristics of elements in the s and p blocks.
    17. Write the Lewis structure of an element or ion.
    18. Predict the shape of a molecule or polyatomic ion from its formula.
    19. Predict the polarity of a molecule.
    20. Explain the difference between single, double, and triple covalent bonds and demonstrate molecules which exhibit each.
    21. Define and explain the periodic trends in ionization energy, electronegativity, and atomic radius.
  4. Recognize differences between phases of matter.
    1. Classify the states of matter.
    2. Describe the chemical properties of acids and bases and how these effect pH and pOH.
    3. Recognize common Arrhenius acids and bases from their formulas.
    4. Explain the assumptions of the kinetic theory of gases and show how they can be used to interpret the ideal gas law.
    5. Identify types of components of liquid solutions.
    6. Distinguish between solutions and colloids.
    7. Identify common colloids and how they relate to the Tyndall effect.
  5. Identify and analyze different types of chemical reactions, including energetics and stoichiometry.
    1. Use the Avogadro’s constant to convert between number of moles and number of atoms, molecules, or ions in a sample.
    2. Determine the molar mass of a compound.
    3. Convert between mass and number of moles by using molar mass.
    4. Calculate the percent composition of an element in a compound from the formula or from mass measurements.
    5. Calculate the empirical formula of a compound from its percent composition.
    6. Determine the molecular formula of a compound from its empirical formula and its molecular mass.
    7. Explain the significance of the stoichiometric coefficients in a chemical equation.
    8. Explain the significance of a balanced chemical equation.
    9. Write, balance, and label a chemical equation when given the information in a sentence.
    10. Explain what is meant by a stoichiometric relation and state how it is used.
    11. Perform mole-to-mole, mass-to-mass, and mass-to-mole calculations from two species involved in a chemical reaction.
    12. Calculate the theoretical and actual yields of the products of a reaction, given the mass of the starting material.
    13. Identify the limiting reactant of a reaction and calculate the amount of excess reactant present.
    14. Define oxidation and reduction in terms of oxidation number and electron transfer and determine the oxidation number of an element in an ion or compound.
    15. Predict the products of a reaction based on general reaction types.
    16. Construct the balanced complete ionic and net ionic equations for reactions involving ions.
    17. Use solubility rules to predict the state and solubility of chemical reactions.
    18. Predict the outcome of a neutralization reaction and write the net ionic equation.
  6. Solve problems involving solutions, gases, and acids and bases.
    1. Use the Ideal Gas Law and Dalton’s Law to calculate pressure, volume, temperature, and number of moles for given conditions or after a change in conditions.
    2. Calculate pH, pOH, [H ], and [OH-].
    3. Convert between pressure units.
    4. Use Boyle’s, Charles’, Gay-Lussac, and the Combined Gas Laws to predict and calculate the changes in pressure, temperature, and volume.
    5. Use Avogadro’s Law to predict the change in volume due to a change in the number of moles of a gas.
    6. Use the Ideal Gas Law and Dalton’s Law to calculate pressure, volume, temperature, and number of moles for given conditions or after a change in conditions.
    7. Determine the volume of a solution needed to prepare a dilute solution of a given molarity.
  7. Execute laboratory skills in accordance with proper laboratory and chemical safety practices.
    1. Demonstrate ability to weight and measure volumes with various types of glassware.
    2. Demonstrate understanding of safe chemical disposal and use of laboratory safety equipment.
  8. Collect, evaluate, and interpret qualitative and quantitative data from laboratory procedures in an accurate, responsible, and meaningful manner.
    1. Demonstrate knowledge of lecture material by completing labs and evaluating accuracy and precision of data collected through error analysis.
    2. Interpret bright-line emission spectra.
    3. Describe LeChatelier’s principle by varying factors on a solution in equilibrium.
    4. Distinguish between solutions and colloids.
    5. Identify common colloids and how they relate to the Tyndall effect.

HutchCC course outcomes are equivalent to the Kansas core outcomes.

KRSN:

CHM1030

The learning outcomes and competencies detailed in this course outline or syllabus meet or exceed the learning outcomes and competencies specified by the Kansas Core Outcomes Groups project for this course as approved by the Kansas Board of Regents.

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

1. Homework assignments 2. Quizzes 3. Exams 4.Special assignments 5. Laboratory reports 6. Final exam

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 620-665-3554, or the Student Success Center, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Education requires integrity and respect for HutchCC's institutional values. HutchCC students are required to maintain honesty through a "responsible acquisition, discovery, and application of knowledge" in all academic pursuits. Preserving and upholding academic honesty is the responsibility of Hut chCC students, faculty, administrators and staff.

I. Student Responsibilities

All HutchCC students are required to:

  • Submit all work in all courses without cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, sabotage, or academic dishonesty as defined below.
  • Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of forgery.
  • Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.
  • Use only authorized notes and student aids.
  • Use technology appropriately, including refraining from submitting AI (Artificial Intelligence)-generated work without express written consent from your instructor.
  • Protect the security of passwords/login/privacy/electronic files, and maintain sole individual access for any online course information.

II. Definition of Academic Dishonesty

  • Academic dishonesty is any intentional act, or attempted act, of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, or sabotage in academic work.
  • Cheating includes using unauthorized materials of any kind, whether hard copies, online, or electronic, such as unapproved study aids in any academic work, copying another student's work, using an unauthorized "cheat sheet" or device, or purchasing or acquiring an essay online or from another student.
  • Fabrica tion is the invention or falsification of any information or citation in any academic work, such as making up a source, providing an incorrect citation, or misquoting a source.
  • Plagiarism is the representation of words, ideas and other works that are not the student's own as being original to the student. A no n-inclusive list of examples includes work completed by someone else, work generated by an external entity (such as AI), omitting a citation for work used from another source, or borrowing the sequence of ideas, arrangement of material, and/or pattern of thought of work not produced by the student, even though it may be expressed in the student's own words.
  • Dissimulation is the obscuring of a student's own actions with the intention of deceiving others in any academic work, such as fabricating excuses for absences or missed assignments, or feigning attendance.
  • Forgery of academic documents is the unauthorized altering, falsification, misrepresentation, or construction of any academic document, such as changing transcripts, changing grades on papers or on exams which have been returned, forging signatures, manipulating a digital file of academic work, or plagiarizing a translation.
  • Sabotage is any obstruction or attempted obstruction of the academic work of another student, such as impersonating another student, stealing or ruining another student's academic work.
  • Aiding and abetting academic dishonesty is considered as knowingly facilitating any act defined above.
  • Academic honesty violations can also include the omission or falsification of any information on an application for any HutchCC academic program.

III. Sanctions for Academic Dishonesty

Students who violate the Academic Honesty Policy may be subject to academic or administrative consequences.

Instructor Sanctions for Violation:

Students suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy may be charged in writing by their instructor and any of the following may apply:

  • Assign Avoiding Plagiarism Bridge Module
  • Receiving written warning that could lead to more severe sanction if a second offense occurs
  • Revising the assignment/work in question for partial credit
  • Voiding work in question without opportunity for make-up
  • Reducing the grade for work in question
  • Lowering the final course grade
  • Failing the work in question

Institutional Sanctions for Violation:

Students charged with academic dishonesty, particularly in instances of repeated violations, may further be subjected to an investigation and any of the following may apply:

  • Instructor recommendation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA) to dismiss the student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA to dismiss student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs with a grade of 'F." Student will not be allowed to take a 'W' for the course
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA that the student be suspended and/or dismissed from the program
  • Student barred from course/program for a set period of time or permanently
  • May be recommended by the instructor (after documented repeated offenses) to the VP AA that the student be placed on probation, suspended and/or dismissed from the institution.

IV. Procedure

  • Instructor will communicate in writing via the student's HutchCC email account and/or LearningZone email account to the student suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy.  That communication may include sanction(s). Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • For each violation, the instructor will submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form to the Department Chair. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation form.
  • Should the instructor choose to pursue institutional sanctions, the instruct or shall notify the student in writing via the student's HutchCC email account.  Instructor shall also submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form and all prior completed forms regarding said student to the Department Chair and the office of the VPAA with recommendation to proceed with specific Institutional Sanctions. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • The decision of the VPAA on Institutional Sanction is final. The VPAA will notify the student's academic advisor of any institutional sanctions.

V. Due Process Rights

Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

Academic Honesty Appeal Process

I. Due Process Rights: Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

  • If an instructor has recommended course or program dismissal, the student may continue in coursework (provi ding there are no threatening or security behavioral issues) until appeal processes are concluded. However, if an issue has been documented at a partnership location (e.g., clinical sites, secondary institutions, correctional or military facilities), then the student is no longer eligible to continue participation in internships, apprenticeships, and/or clinical-based practice. For clinical sites, this sanction is immediate.

II. Process

If the student disagrees with the charge of a violation of academic honesty, the student has the right to due process as described in the Academic Honesty Appeal process below:

  • If the matter is not resolved upon communicating with the instructor about the violation, the student shall, within five business days of the issuance of the written notice of violation, submit a completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form and supporting documentation to the appropriate department chairperson to initiate an Academic Honesty Appeal.
  • Within two business days of receiving the student's completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form, the Department Chair and VPAA will review and the VPAA will render a decision.
  • Within two business days, a response will be sent to the student's HutchCC email address. The VPAA's decision is final.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:

  1. The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
  2. The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
  3. The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
  4. A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
  5. If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

HLC ACCREDITATION:

Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The Higher Learning Commission is one of six regional institutional accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Last Revised: 12/14/2023