2012-13 Yr3 Ms14231241234ci Intro Talk

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3rd Year MSci Chemistry

(2012-13)

Prof. Alan Spivey, Director of Undergraduate [email protected] 834, Chemistry C1
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Format of Presentation

Course Information & Organiser Contact Information

Overview of Course

Changes this year

Scheme for Award of Honours & Credit Allocation

Lectures & Exams

Oral Exams Coursework

Laboratories

Literature report

Academic Integrity & Plagiarism

Research Project

Dates for Your Diary

Academic Prizes!


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Chemistry Teaching Web pages http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teachinghttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching


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Course & Lab Co-ordinators http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/teachingsections
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/teachingsectionshttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/teachingsections


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Changes This Year

A suite of major changes have been made to increase emphasis on CORE chemistry mastery

Lectures:

IIIA compulsory lectures exam schedule: 3 courses to be examined in May (see later); Personal developmentweek at mid point in Autumn term (cf. Reading week)

IIIB elective lectures: 6 courses to be selected

Labs:

New 4 week programmes running in either Autumn or Spring term depending on when your project isscheduled

Fewer, re-designed and longer experiments and new assessment procedurese.g. Pico-spin NMR

Increased credit weighting (5 ECTS/lab)

Coursework:

Deadline/workload planner

Plagiarism awareness workshops beforeChristmas Timing of literature report brought forward in year: titles allocated 9th Nov, reports submitted 18th Feb, and

decreased credit weighting (5 ECTS)

Increased scope and credit weighting to oral exam (3 ECTS)


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Honours Scheme http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials/schemeawar

dofhonours
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials/schemeawardofhonourshttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials/schemeawardofhonourshttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials/schemeawardofhonourshttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials/schemeawardofhonours


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Lectures & Exams


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IIIA Lectures & Exam schedule http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials/timetables
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials/timetableshttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials/timetables


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IIIB Lectures & Exam schedule http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials/timetables
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials/timetableshttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials/timetables


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Lectures & Tutorials - Timetable See:http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materialshttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials


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Support for Lecture Material & Feedback

BLACKBOARD

All handouts etc. for all lecture courses should be posted on Blackboard:

http://learn.imperial.ac.uk

...if in doubt, contact the lecturer for further help with specific problems

SOLE & STAFF STUDENT COMMITTEE

SOLE :The questions have been slimmed down this year.

Staff-Student Committee:Meets once a term to allow rapid responses to constructive student feedback.SOLE results are discussed in this forum.

There is an annual SOLE lecturer prize (Prof Alan Armstrong 2011-12 recipient).

EXAM FEEDBACK

Provisional IIIA exam grades will be posted to Blackboard ASAP.

Markers of all questions will write a paragraph summarising performance on their question. These will be

collated & posted on Blackboard with the results and a histogram showing the overall performance of thecohort on that paper (not individual questions).
http://learn.imperial.ac.uk/http://learn.imperial.ac.uk/


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Oral Exams

Purpose?

To encourage mastery of core concepts the compulsory course to date (i.e. I, II, and IIIA) As practice at thinking synoptically and expressing yourself

As practice to help if called for a degree viva at the end of the year by the external examiners

Scope?

All core chemistry (i.e. NOT ancillaries)

When?

Thurs 30thMay & Fri 31stMay

Format?

10 min Inorganic

10 min Organic

10 min Physical

2 staff for each

Outcome?

Marks out of 10 to the nearest 0.5 will be posted to Blackboard


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Coursework


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Laboratories - Timetable See:http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materialshttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/materials


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Laboratories http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/coursecontent/syllabiyrs1to4
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/coursecontent/syllabiyrs1to4http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/coursecontent/syllabiyrs1to4


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Literature Report


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Literature ReportAssessment & Feedback


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Academic Integrity & Plagiarism http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/plagiarism

Academic Integrity: means conducting all aspects of your academic life in a professional manner, including:

Taking full responsibility for your own work

Fully acknowledging the work of others wherever it has contributed to your own work, thus avoiding plagiarism see belo

Avoiding actions which are intended to give you an unfair advantage over others

Respecting the rights of your fellow students, your teachers and other scholars

Supporting others in their efforts to behave with academic integrity

Plagiarism: this is defined as the theft of another's thoughts or writings and presenting them as the plagiarists

own. Plagiarism also encompasses submitting the same piece of work for more than one unit as assessment

the department has a policy on plagiarism which you can find at the link above. You must read the policy andensure that you understand what constitutes plagiarism, the seriousness with which it is taken by thedepartment and College and the penalties that are attached to instances of plagiarism

Plagiarism Awareness Sessions(Katherine Thompson & Ruth Harrison, Central Library)

Tue 11th DecManaging references and citations using RefWorks

Wed 12th DecPlagiarism workshop

Fri 14th DecPlagiarism awareness in the context of literature and research reports
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/plagiarismhttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/plagiarism


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Dates for Your Diary

Academic Prizes!


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Academic Prizes! http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/other/prizes
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/other/prizeshttp://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemistry/teaching/undergraduateteaching/other/prizes

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