CHE 303L

Summer 2008

Instructors: Ephrem Asfaw

E-Mail Address:    easfaw@elcamino.edu

Office Hours: TBA

Required Text and Materials:

1. Laboratory Manual

2. Laboratory Text: Pavia, Introduction to Organic Laboratory Techniques

3. Laboratory Notebook, Quadrille-Ruled, Also available at the bookstore

4. Laboratory Safety Glasses. Bring your own or buy them at the Bookstore.

5. Shoes that cover the tops and bottoms of your feet.

Keep a pair in your locker, if you plan on wearing open toed shoes or sandals.

Grading:

Letter Grade	Percentages	Letter Grade	Percentages
A	91 – 100	A-	89 - 90
B+	87 – 88	B	81 - 86
B-	79 – 80	C+	77 - 78
C	71 – 76	C-	69 - 70
D+	67 – 68	D	60 - 66

Grades based on lab score - 400 points possible, distributed as follows:

Written Quiz	100 points
Laboratory Reports	100 points
Laboratory Technique	100 points
Laboratory Practicum	100 points

Laboratory Reports

Laboratory report sheets are to be used for the laboratory reports, and are due the following lab period after completion of the experiment, at 1:00 P.M.. Reports may be turned in the next scheduled laboratory period - for a 5-point penalty.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Academic Integrity: Its Place in the University Community

The University Community

A university is a community of learners bonded together by the search for knowledge; the pursuit of personal, social, cultural, physical, and intellectual development; and the desire for the liberating effects of an advanced education. California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) has a culture‑‑the academic culture‑‑shared with other universities and colleges across the nation. Integral to that culture is a set of values such as academic freedom, dedication to teaching and learning, diversity, civility toward others, and academic integrity.

Academic Integrity

Academic integrity is of central importance in the university community and involves committed allegiance to the values, the principles, and the code of behavior held to be central in that community. Integrity concerns honesty and implies being truthful, fair, and free from lies, fraud, and deceit.

The core of a university's integrity is its scholastic honesty. Honesty is valued across all cultures and is a fundamental value in the academic culture. There are, however, cultural differences with regard to the ownership of ideas and the importance of individual efforts. Nonetheless, the university expects all students and other campus members to document the intellectual contributions of others and to ensure that the work they submit is their own.

Education provides students with the resources to master content, learn skills, and develop processes to maximize self potential and the potential of others. Students must demonstrate mastery of each step of learning by tangible products such as test performance, papers, and presentations. This process enables the student and the instructor to assess the student's readiness for the next steps and gives the student the confidence to undertake future steps. Students who cheat may not have mastered the necessary steps nor gained the necessary knowledge; they miss the opportunity to gain an accurate picture of what they know and what they do not know.

Cheating harms others and the institution in addition to limiting one's own potential. Other students are rightfully angry when dishonest students use inappropriate methods to get grades for which honest students work hard. The fairness of the grading process is compromised when a student falsely obtains a grade. Academic dishonesty may result in loss of confidence in the system and devaluation of the quality of the university degree.

The Nature of Academic Dishonesty

A standard definition of academic dishonesty has been provided by Kibler, Nuss, Paterson, and Pavela (1988):

Academic dishonesty usually refers to forms of cheating and plagiarism which result in students giving or receiving unauthorized assistance in an academic exercise or receiving credit for work which is not their own.

They further define the following specific forms of academic dishonesty:

Cheating‑‑intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise. The term academic exercise includes all forms of work submitted for credit or hours.

Cheating also includes: unauthorized multiple submissions, altering or interfering with grading, lying to improve a grade, altering graded work, unauthorized removal of tests from classroom or office, and forging signatures on academic documents.

Fabrication‑‑intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.

Facilitating academic dishonesty‑‑intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to violate a provision of the institutional code of academic integrity.

Plagiarism‑‑the deliberate adoption or reproduction of ideas or words or statements of another person as one's own without acknowledgment.

At the heart of any university are its efforts to encourage critical reading skills, effective communication and, above all, intellectual honesty among its students. Thus, all academic work submitted by a student as his or her own should be in his or her own unique style, words and form. When a student submits work that purports to be his/her original work, but actually is not, the student has committed plagiarism.

Plagiarism is considered a gross violation of the University's academic and disciplinary standards. Plagiarism includes the following: copying of one person's work by another and claiming it as his or her own, false presentation of one's self as the author or creator of a work, falsely taking credit for another person's unique method of treatment or expression, falsely representing one's self as the source of ideas or expression, or the presentation of someone else's language, ideas or works without giving that person due credit. It is not limited to written works. For example, one could plagiarize music compositions, photographs, works of art, choreography, computer programs or any other unique creative effort.

Further information about the various forms of academic dishonesty can be obtained from the office of any Instructional Dean or the Student Development office. Individual departments and faculty may also provide specific examples.

Points for Lab Reports, Quizzes and Practicum

Experiment	Points
EAS Nitration Exercises Report Sheet	10
TLC Report Sheet	10
Arene Oxidation Exercises Report Sheet	10
MW Determination	5
Reduction of Benzophenone Exercises Report Sheet	10
Alcohol Classification Tests Report Sheet	5
Oxidation of Cyclohexanol Exercises Report Sheet	10
Carbonyl Classification Tests Report Sheet	5
Esterification Report Sheet	10
Grignard Exercises Report Sheet	25
Practicum Exercises Report Sheet	100
Laboratory Technique	100
Written Final	100
Total	400

Day	Date	Lab	Lab Report DUE**
T	7/8	EAS Nitration/TLC
Th	7/10	Arene Oxidation/MW
T	7/15	Carbonyl Reduction/Alcohol Tests	“EAS Nitration” and “TLC”
Th	7/17	Cyclohexanol Oxidation/Carbonyl Tests	“Arene Oxidation” and “MW Determination”
T	7/22	Methyl Benzoate	“Carbonyl Reduction” and “Alcohol Tests”
Th	7/24	Grignard	“Methyl Benzoate"
T	7/29	Grignard Cont’d
Th	7/31	Practicum
T	8/5	Practicum Cont’d	“Grignard”; Practicum Report DUE: 1:00PM
Th	8/7	Written Quiz and Check-Out

** Short answers to the "Exercises" should be included with your report.

© Dr. Noel Sturm 2008