CHEM 108 Chemistry for Health Science Professionals

A study of the basics of general and organic chemistry at an introductory level, including atomic structure, bonding, acids and bases, organic functional groups and selected organic reactions, with an emphasis on health science professional applications. This course includes an independent hands-on microscale laboratory experience.

For information regarding prerequisites for this course, please refer to the Academic Course Catalog.

This course provides a foundational knowledge of chemistry for students in the health science fields. Its goal is to increase competency in analytical reasoning by developing critical thinking and problem-solving skills and to provide a foundation in chemistry for health science professionals; it also conveys ways knowledge is acquired in natural science, and introduces some laboratory skills.

NOTE: Completion of CHEM 108 with a grade of C or higher is required for graduation from the RN to BSN and RT to BSRT online degree program.

Textbook readings and lecture presentations

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Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Discussions (2)

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student will complete 2 discussions within this course. For each discussion, the student will post a thread that draws research from at least 2 scholarly sources cited in current APA format. After this, the student will post 1 reply in response to a fellow classmate’s thread that draws research from at least 2 scholarly sources in cited in current APA format. Any sources cited must have been published within the last ten years. For each thread and reply, the student’s 2 required sources must include one resource from the Learn material and one web/journal article drawn from his/her own research. Each thread must be at least 250 words, and each reply must be at least 150 words.

Lab Report Assignments (8)

The student is assigned eight (8) lab exercises in this course. Each experiment requires the student to perform a hands-on experiment and, in some cases, lab simulations and/or online activities.  Grades are based on the quality of results, calculations, and interpretations of results. Lab Reports are not eligible for correction and regrading. All experiments require two specific proof pics and reports will earn no credit without them. Canvas cannot read HEIC files, so those file types are not acceptable.

Lab Reports must be submitted using the Lab Report Template document and must be typed. No handwritten work will be accepted, with the lone exception of hand-drawn Lewis structures.  The student who submits handwritten work will be given the opportunity to resubmit a typed version of their handwritten report.

This is a combined lecture/lab course with the lab credit built in. As a result, the student must successfully complete seven (7) of the eight (8) lab experiments in order to be awarded credit for this course. This means collecting and interpreting data and answering questions with no outside help/resources and providing the proof pictures detailed in the lab report template document.  Failure to successfully complete seven experiments will result in an F in the course, no matter the point total of all other assignments.  

Each student must obtain data and answer questions in Lab Report Assignments individually, and the sharing of data or answers between students will be considered as academic misconduct.  Furthermore, all data must be acquired through the process of conducting the experiment.  Any fabricated/falsified data will be written up as academic misconduct and given a zero.  An academic misconduct on a report will result in a zero on that report for the first offense.  A second offense will result in an automatic failure of the course. 

Homework Assignments (8)

The student will complete homework assignments that will be accessed through the McGraw-Hill ALEKS platform. The homework is based on the material in the text, with tasks that correspond to the weekly reading and instructional material. At the end of the assigned module, ALEKS will automatically grade all of the Homework Assignments.

Quizzes (8)

A quiz will be given every Module: Week for the textbook chapters covered. Quizzes will contain 25 – 40 questions that may be in multiple-choice, true/false, and/or fill-in-the-blank format. The student will have 120 minutes to complete each quiz. Quizzes are limited to one attempt.