Course Title: Specialised Chemistry
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Specialised Chemistry
Credit Points: 12.00
Important Information:
Please note that this course may have compulsory in-person attendance requirements for some teaching activities.
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Course Coordinator: N/A
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925
Course Coordinator Email: @rmit.edu.au
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Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Assumed Knowledge
To complete this course successfully, you should have completed or be enrolled in the Chemistry Major of the Bachelor of Science Program.
Course Description
Chemistry is often considered as the central science, as the fundamentals in key areas (Physical, Organic, and Inorganic chemistry) can be applied in many specialised areas.
These areas include medicine, biochemistry, environmental science, renewable energy, and advanced materials to name just a few.
In this course you will build upon your knowledge in the key areas of chemistry, by applying fundamentals to specialised topics in chemistry. This will give you an appreciation of the broad scope of chemistry by studying some selected topic areas, and enable you to apply your chemistry knowledge to other cross-disciplinary areas.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Program Learning Outcomes
The course is a program option course, however, will contribute to following program learning outcomes for:
BP350 (Bachelor of Science)
For more information on the program learning outcomes for your program, please see the program guide.
The course will develop your scientific, critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills, and their application to the study and understanding of fundamental chemistry processes.
On completion of this course you should be able to:
- CLO 1: Apply fundamental concepts in inorganic, organic and physical chemistry to complex problems in chemistry;
- CLO 2: Demonstrate the ability to solve problems using systematic approaches examined in specialised chemistry;
- CLO 3: Critically present and justify worked solutions to industry based problems using conventional and specialised chemical and mathematical notation.
Overview of Learning Activities
You will be actively engaged in a range of learning activities such as lectorials/tutorials, including both individual and group activities. Delivery of lectorials and tutorials may be face to face, online or a mix of both.
The learning activities included in this course are lectorials where syllabus material presented online will be discussed and explained, and the subject will be illustrated with demonstrations and examples. Completion of tutorial questions are designed to give further practice in the application of theory into practice, and to give feedback on student progress and understanding. Completion of written assignments consisting of numerical and other problems will promote deeper understanding of the subject matter.
You are encouraged to be proactive and self-directed in your learning, asking questions of your lecturer and/or peers and seeking out information as required, especially from the numerous sources available through the RMIT library, and through links and material specific to this course that is available through myRMIT Studies Course Site.
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through myRMIT Studies Course Site, where lecture notes, online resources, practice questions, and recorded content wil be available for you to access.
There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: Short Answer Quizzes
Weighting 35%
These assessment tasks supports CLOs 1-3
Assessment Task 2: Assignment
Weighting 15%
These assessment tasks supports CLO 2
Assessment Task 3: Timed Problem-Based Assessments
Weighting 50%
These assessment tasks supports CLOs 1-3
If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.