For each unit of credit, a minimum of three hours per week with one of the hours for class and two hours for studying/preparation outside of class is expected.
The Science Program at Seward County Community College provides opportunities to improve and enhance each student's understanding and comprehension of the natural world through a variety of courses and experience to develop a scientifically literate citizen.
Outcome #1: Read with comprehension, be critical of what they read, and apply knowledge gained from their reading to broader issues of the day.
Outcome #2: Communicate ideas clearly and proficiently in writing, appropriately adjusting content and arrangement for varying audiences, purposes, and situations.
Outcome #3: Communicate their ideas clearly and proficiently in speaking, appropriately adjusting content and arrangement for varying audiences, purposes, and situations
Outcome #4: Demonstrate mathematical skills by using a variety of techniques and technologies.
Outcome #5: Demonstrate the ability to think critically by gathering facts, generating insights, analyzing data, and evaluating information.
Outcome #7: Understand each other, moving beyond simple acceptance to embracing and celebrating the rich dimensions of diversity by working as a team to learn, engaging with community, exhibiting cultural awareness, and creating equity
Class: Students taking the general chemistry course will:
Laboratory: Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Grasp the importance of Chemistry as it applies to everyday events.
- Learn the kinds of problems that confront chemists and the various methods used to solve particular problems.
- Expand basic knowledge of chemical laws and theories.
- Perform chemical calculations.
- Improve laboratory techniques while maintaining accepted safe laboratory procedures.
- Analyze chemical reactions.
- Enlarge chemical vocabulary.
- Examine a variety of applications of chemistry in the fields of agriculture, pharmacy, ecology, etc. in the US and around the world. Students will then be assessed through their contributions of viewpoints and observations to class discussion on the topics.
- Be able to apply the scientific method to problems both in and out of the classroom
- Explain the reasoning and analyze the experiments that led to the adoption of the modern atomic theory.
- Be able to perform basic unit conversions.
- Relate atomic mass to composition in terms of the composition of subatomic particles.
- Draw Lewis dot structures for atoms, simple ionic and molecular compounds.
- Be able to determine empirical and molecular formula from appropriate data.
- Recognize varying types of reactions and write a balanced chemical equation for the reaction.
- Perform stoichiometric calculations.
- Determine oxidation numbers
- Analyze chemical reactions and predict possible products between two or more reactants.
- Name chemical compounds and ions
- Be able to recognize the general classification of a named ionic, hydrate, or acid molecule.
- Apply the gas laws to general problems.
- Have an understanding of the heat exchanged in a reaction.
- Be able to distinguish between ionic and covalent bonding
- Have a knowledge of valence shell electrons.
- Have a working knowledge of periodicity.
- Have an understanding of chemical states and transitions between them.
- Have a basic understanding of acids and bases.
- Have an appreciation for the effect chemistry has on societies around the world.
- Gather and record qualitative and quantitative data accurately.
- Handle and evaluate data in logical, productive, and meaningful ways.
- Formulate his/her own concept of chemistry
- Have a basic understanding of the law of conservation of mass, physical states of matter, physical measurements and dimensional analysis.
- Learn the parts of the periodic table and be able to make general conclusions on electronegativity, ionization energy, and atomic size of an element.
- Examine the steps scientists use to solve problems.
- Examine the history of atomic theory, formulas and names, chemical reactions including equation writing, ions and the types of chemical reactions.
- Distinguish between mass and moles of substances, determine a chemical formula, and calculate the empirical formula and molecular formulas from percentage composition of molecular mass.
- Know the gas laws, and the kinetic-molecular theory of gases.
- Have an understanding of thermochemistry, including enthalpy, entropy, and Hess'�s Law.
- Learn about quantum theory
- Write and understand electron and orbital configurations, and relate the electronic structure of an atom to the periodic table.
- Distinguish between ionic, covalent, coordinate covalent, polar and non-polar bonds.
- Identify the difference between gases, liquids, and solids
- Distinguish between different types of solutions
- Understand colligative properties, colloid formation and the laws of solubility.
- Lecture
- Discussion
- Laboratory experiments and exercises
- Problem solving assignments
- Film and video cassettes
- Overhead projections
- Demonstrations related to concepts
- Computer Programs
- Internet
- Chemicals
- Laboratory equipment
- Overhead projections
- Audio and video cassettes
- Films
- Available instrumentation
- Internet
problems, short quizzes, tests, class discussion, and PLTL workshops.
- SCCC Outcome 1 will be assessed and measured by comprehension of text reading assignments, a semester research project, participation in class discussion and through Calibrated Peer Review(CPR) assignments.
- SCCC Outcome 2 will be assessed through the student'�s written CPR essays and semester research paper.
- SCCC Outcome 3 will be assessed by the student'�s expression of ideas through class discussion, PLTL workshops, and oral presentation of a semester research project.
- SCCC Outcome 4 will be assessed and measured by homework
- SCCC Outcome 5 will be assessed and measured by lab experiments, a semester research paper, the chemical product hunt assessment, PLTL workshops, CPR assignments and writing of a laboratory procedure.
- SCCC Outcome 7 will be assessed through class discussion, written reports on short research topics throughout the semester and CPR assignments. An example is the use of chemicals in the agriculture industry both in America and in that of developing countries.
- SCCC Outcome 8 will be assessed through class discussion and written reports on the effect of chemicals on ecological systems and how individuals affect the international, federal, state, and local government controls and regulations.
- SCCC Outcome 9 will be assessed through class attendance, group participation, and individual ethics used in data collection and research reporting.
Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, Seward County Community College will make reasonable accommodations for students with documented disabilities. If you need support or assistance because of a disability, you may be eligible for academic accommodations. Students should identify themselves to the Mental Health Counselor at 620-417-1106 or go to the Student Success Center in the Hobble Academic building, room A149.