Abstract
The organization, content and rationale behind the ' Experimental Lecture General and Inorganic Chemistry ' as well as its theoretical ' Consolidation Lecture ' companion as the first contact of students in the B. Sc. program in Chemistry and Chemical Education as well as several others, i.e. Pharmacy, Geosciences, Molecular Medicine and Physics is described. To cope with the multifaceted demands on this first semester lecture series by several faculties, the experimental lecture is attended also by students from other fields. The companion lecture that addresses the advanced needs of chemists, consolidates the content of the experimental lecture by going more into detail and extends on the theories/concepts/reactions. An integrated interplay between experiment and theory is realized in our specially equipped lecture hall.
Highlights
Introduction to Physics withExperiments (Lecture)Physics for Natural Scientists (Lab Practical) 2
We typically switch between a lecturer from more molecular chemistry and one from more solid-state/materials chemistry
Content of the AAC-Lectures The lectures address both general chemistry – theory, concepts, methods – as well as an exemplary overview to the chemistry of the elements. The latter mainly focusses on the main group elements and especially addresses industrial processes, and extending to some selected transition metal chemistry in excess to the redox and complex chemistry already included with the general part
Summary
To achieve this goal and to remind the students very early that a university education is different to school, a combined effort between the three major lectures in the 1st semester is undertaken: Already after five weeks, the so-called ‘Shot across the bow’ exam is taken It comprises a single written exam (2 h time) with topics from the two AAC-lectures, the OC I organic chemistry and the calculation methods of physical chemistry lectures. The weighting of the questions between the different subjects follows the number of weekly semester hours, i.e. a ratio of 5:3:3 for the achievable points from AAC:OC I:PC This exam is part of the mandatory qualification for the lab practical/ seminar ‘Introductory Course Chemical Procedures’ that starts straight in the New Year after January 6th (ALU starts the chemistry program only in fall semesters in mid-October). To allow for a regular progress of the degree program of Inorganic Chemistry
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