Chemistry Task Force Meeting Minutes

August 19, 1998

I. Agenda

The agenda was approved as listed:

1) First Day Handouts

2) Approved Textbooks

3) Topics by Course

4) Lab Guidelines

5) Signature Authority-Budget Authority

6) Meeting Schedule

II. First Day Handouts

See attachment 1 to view the guidelines for the syllabus. The following discussions took place related to the policies in the attachment. It is agreed that the lab component of all lecture courses is 25%. There currently is no Task Force policy related to the requirement of a final exam in the lecture courses. We will address this issue at a later task force meeting.

III. Approved Textbooks

See attachment 1 to view the current Task Force approved textbooks for each of the courses. The organic lab book at the RVS campus is not the approved textbook, the Task Force agreed that the students must still be using the accepted lab book.

Textbook adoption was approved and a subcommittee was assigned to reconfigure the CHM 1614 lab manual. The members of this subcommittee will be Madan Mohan, Debbie Sackett, John Young, Lee Nunn, Lew Barnett and Kathy Nabona.

IV. Topics by Course

See attachment 1 to view the topics for each course. This list will be revisited at a later Task Force Meeting.

V. Lab Guidelines

See attachment 1 to view the guidelines for lab course. It is Task Force policy that all lab courses are to be taught with the students working individually and not as partners. The decision about the policy of requiring the ASA to be due at the beginning of the lab period will be decided at a later task force meeting.

VI. Signature Authority

See attachment 2 to view the document handed out at the meeting. Kathy Nabona is the only signature authority for the purchase of chemistry supplies.

VII. Meeting Schedule

The task force meetings are tentatively scheduled for the first Friday of every month.

Date: 8/18/98

To: All Chemistry Faculty

From: Kathy Nabona, Chemistry Task Force Chair

Re: First Day Handouts

cc: Dean and Assistant Deans

Every instructor, both lecture and lab, is required to complete, discuss to the class and distribute a first day handout. This first day handout will include all policies of the course, the course outline, homework and exam guidelines and grading policy as well as other bits of information. An outline is shown below:

I. First Day Handout (syllabus)

a. Office hours, office location, office phone number and email account where applicable.

b. Course name and number and description (objectives). Prerequisites and corequisites should be checked by you the instructor for each of our courses.

c. Required textbook(s). For lecture and lab courses see the following attachments.

d. Policies

1. Grading Policy: This should clearly explain how the grade is calculated for the course whether lecture or lab class. You should list all graded components of the class and what percentage (points) these count in the overall evaluation of the student's grade. For lecture courses, the laboratory grade is automatically 25% of the lecture grade. Lab instructors should clearly state how this 25% is evaluated in the lab component.

2. Scholastic Dishonesty: Your syllabus should clearly indicate how you handle a case of scholastic dishonesty. Currently, ACC does not have a policy regarding scholastic dishonesty. The penalty is your discretion and may be an F for the assignment, an F in the course, etc. It is also your discretion as to what constitutes scholastic dishonesty.

3. Withdrawal: Your syllabus should clearly state your guidelines on withdrawal from the course. Last school year Dr. Fonte established a policy that stated if a student had not attended a class at all within the first 2 weeks of the semester, it was the instructor's responsibility to withdraw the student immediately. It is your discretion to withdraw a student if they have attended class, but stop coming at a later date. Ultimately it is the student's responsibility to withdraw from the course whether lecture or lab.

e. Course Outline

You must clearly indicate the topics and chapters to be covered in the textbook and the approximate date these will be covered. Attached you will find the Task Force approved topics for each of the courses. I realize that dates are subject to change, but it is the student's right to know what the reading assignments are and deadlines.

f. Exam and Quiz Guidelines: Your syllabus should clearly state all exam and quiz policies including the following.

1. Testing Center Policies: If the Testing Center is used to administer exams, it is the instructor's responsibility to distribute the Testing Center policies to each student in the class. The instructor must also adhere to all Testing Center guidelines or forfeit use of the Testing Center.

2. Dates: The approximate dates of all exams should be listed on your syllabus. These again may be subject to change, but the student should have an idea as to when exams are scheduled.

3. Missed Exam or Quiz Policy: Your syllabus should clearly state your policy on missed exams. This is your discretion and may include an F on the missed exam or quiz, a make-up exam or quiz, etc.

g. Final Exam: The final exam will be given in class on the last scheduled class date of the semester. The final exam will be comprehensive as approved by the Task Force.

h. Homework Guidelines: If you require homework as part of the course grade, you must clearly indicate when the homework is due, penalty for late homework, grading technique, etc.

A first day handout must be completed for each course, lecture or lab, that you teach for the semester. The outline for the lab course will be made available from the lab assistants on each of the campus locations. One copy of this handout must be handed in to your campus Assistant Dean and one copy must be submitted to me, Kathy Nabona (NRG) no later than 12, noon, August 28th.

Bob Quigley CYP

Juan Molina NRG

Saad Eways RGC

Steve Bostic RVS

CHM 1614.1 Introduction to Chemistry Lecture

Introductory Chemistry Flex Text 1st edition Peters and Cracolice Saunders College Publishing

CHM 1614.2 Introduction to Chemistry Lab

The lab book is located at Ginny's where the students my have it copied for locations ask Steve Kirschner. A copy should also be on reserve at each of the campus LRC and can be copied by the student. Gary Rodge has also made it available on the Web. Disks can also be made available to the student from each full time faculty member.

CHM 1634.1 General Chemistry I Lecture

Chemistry the Central Science 7th edition Brown/Lemay/Bursten Prentice Hall

This book can be bought separately or packaged with CD Rom and study manual or packaged with only the study manual.

CHM 1634.2 General Chemistry I Lab

Chemical Principles in the Laboratory 6th edition Slowinski/Wolsey/Masterton Saunders College Publishing

CHM 1644.1 General Chemistry II Lecture

Chemistry the Central Science 7th edition Brown/Lemay/Bursten Prentice Hall

This book can be bought separately or packaged with CD Rom and study manual or packaged with only the study manual.

CHM 1644.2 General Chemistry II Laboratory

Chemical Principles in the Laboratory 6th edition Slowinski/Wolsey/Masterton Saunders College Publishing

CHM 2614.1 Organic Chemistry I Lecture

Organic Chemistry 6th edition Solomons Wiley

CHM 2614.2 Organic Chemistry I Lab

Experimental Organic Chemistry Roberts/Gilbert/Martin Saunders College Publishing

Prelab Exercises Experimental Organic Chemistry Roberts/Gilbert/Martin Saunders

CHM 2624.1 Organic Chemistry II Lecture

Organic Chemistry 6th edition Solomons Wiley

CHM 2624.2 Organic Chemistry II Lab

Experimental Organic Chemistry Roberts/Gilbert/Martin Saunders College Publishing

Prelab Exercises Experimental Organic Chemistry Roberts/Gilbert/Martin Saunders

CHM 1634

1 Matter and Measurement (entire chapter stress significant digits)

2 Atoms, Molecules and Ions (entire chapter)

3 Stoichiometry and Reactions (entire chapter)

4 Aqueous Reactions (entire chapter include section 16.1 and 16.4)

6 Electronic Structure of Atoms (entire chapter including quantum numbers)

7 Periodic Properties (entire chapter)

8 Chemical Bonding (entire chapter including oxidation numbers)

9 Molecular Geometry (entire chapter including molecular orbitals)

10 Gases (entire chapter)

11 Intermolecular Forces, Liquids, Solids (entire chapter may incorporate some of chapter 12)

13 Properties of Solutions (entire chapter)

from chapter 5 calorimetry is included although the other topics are reserved for 1644

CHM 1644

14 Chemical Kinetics (entire chapter including catalysis)

15 Chemical Equilibrium (entire chapter)

16 Acid-Base Equilibria (entire chapter buffers and titrations in Chapter 17)

17 Additional Aspects of Equilibria (entire chapter includes K_sp)

19 Chemical Thermodynamics (entire chapter) include chapter 5 here

20 Electrochemistry (entire chapter including balancing redox reactions)

21 Nuclear Chemistry (entire chapter)

24 Chemistry of Coordination Compounds (entire chapter)

25 Organic Chemistry (selected topics)

For instance, at NRG some chapters are out of order if you want your students prepared for lab.

CHM 2614 Functional groups covered in detail include alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, alkyl halides and aromatics. Other functional groups may be encountered, but are reserved for 2624.

1 This is a complete review and is the student's responsibility.

(chemical bonds, Lewis dot, polarity, molecular orbitals)

2 Representative carbon compounds (emphasis on alkanes, alkenes, alkynes and aromatics i.e. 2.1 to 2.9 and 2.15 to 2.17)

3 Introduction to reactions and mechanisms (this may be incorporated into other chapters i.e. 6, 7, 8 and 9)

4 Alkanes and Cycloalkanes: Conformations of Molecules (entire chapter)

5 Stereochemistry: Chiral Molecules (entire chapter)

6 Nucleophilic Substitution and Elimination Reactions (entire chapter)

7 Alkenes and Alkynes: Properties and Synthesis (entire chapter)

8 Alkenes and Alkynes: Addition Reactions (entire chapter)

Chapter 12 should be included at this point.

9 Radical Reactions (entire chapter)

14 Aromatic Compounds (entire chapter)

15 Reactions of Aromatic Compounds (entire chapter)

Infrared spectroscopy (13.3) is covered in the laboratory component.

CHM 2624

10 Alcohols and Ethers (epoxides should be included here, entire chapter)

11 Alcohols from Carbonyl Compounds, Oxidation-Reduction and Organometallic Compounds (entire chapter)

16 Aldehydes and Ketones: Nucleophilic Additions to Carbonyl Group (entire chapter)

17 Aldehydes and Ketones: Aldol Reactions (entire chapter including special topic H)

18 Carboxylic Acids and their Derivatives: Nucleophilic Substitution at the Acyl Carbon (entire chapter)

19 Synthesis and Reactions of B-Dicarbonyl Compounds: More Enolate Ions (entire chapter)

20 Amines (entire chapter)

21 Phenols and Aryl Halides: Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution (entire chapter)

22, 23, 24 Carbohydrates, Lipids and Amino Acids

Date: 8/18/98

To: All Chemistry Faculty, Chemistry Lab Assistants, Assistant Deans and Dean

From: Kathy Nabona, Chemistry Task Force Leader

Re: Budget Authority

As per the memorandum dated April 21, 1998 from Dr. Frank Friedman, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Student Affairs, relating to the Organizational Structure for 1998-to 1999, page 8 item 10 under description of duties and tasks for the Instructional Task Force Chair, I will serve as the only signature authority for Chemistry. Item 10 states that the Instructional Task Force Chair "Serve as budget authority and oversee program expenditures"

This means any item that is being considered for purchase must first be approved through me as per my signature, initials or on line approval. This includes confirmation received items. If you are ordering an item conformation received it must first be approved through me. Do not order the item and then seek my approval. I must insure moneys are available and that your allotted amount is not overspent. If funds are not available the Task Force will decide if the item is necessary and then transfer moneys or allow the overexpenditure of your allotment if approved.

Last fiscal year was a mess when I did not have sole control over accounts. If there are problems with this system the Task Force leader next fiscal year can decide how to better handle the problem.

In obtaining my approval you can fax me the request, put it in the mail, or email me your request (only for on line purchasing). This will slow down the process slightly, but at least all campuses will receive their allotted share.

Kathy Nabona phone 223-4840 or 223 4790

fax 223-4641

email knabona@austin.cc.tx.us