Unit name | Practical Work for Chemical Physics |
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Unit code | CHEM10006 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Dr. Chris Adams |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | School of Chemistry |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
This unit introduces safe and organised working practices within a laboratory environment and also some basic laboratory practical skills and data handling techniques.
Unit aims: To develop in students the first fundamental practical and data handling skills.
By the end of the unit students should be able to:
The unit will be continuously assessed throughout; for every experiment postgraduate laboratory demonstrators will assess the student’s practical performance in the laboratory (20%, ILO 1), and mark the post-lab work uploaded by the students (80%, ILOs 2&3). Before leaving the lab, students will also be asked to provide self-assessment on their performance, including identifying any learning outcomes or opportunities for improvement that the experiment has surfaced. The demonstrator will then reply to this in a dialogic manner when marking both components.
Assessment of the first eight of the experiments will be purely formative, and only the final four experiments will count towards the final mark. Moreover, students will be allowed to discard one of these marks, so that ultimately it is the best three from four, each making an equal contribution.
All the necessary teaching materials are delivered online using the VLE.