302409 (v.2) Chemistry For Life Sciences 101


Area: School of Biomedical Sciences
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 10.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 
Individual Study: 1 x 10 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 302040 (v.3) BIO15 Chemistry For Life Sciences or any previous version
Anti Requisite(s): 7230 (v.5) Chemistry 117 or any previous version
 
Syllabus: Why do we need to understand chemistry? Concepts of matter, measurement in chemistry. Atomic structure 1 - introduction, atomic structure, electronic configuration. Chemical bonds 1 - ionic bonds. Chemical bonds 2 - covalent bonds, chemical calculations,formulae, masses, and moles. Gases and intermolecular forces in liquids, solutions, acids, bases and buffers, chemical reactions, nuclear chemistry. Organic chemistry - saturated hydrocarbons, organic chemistry - unsaturated hydrocarbons, organic chemistry - alcohols, phenols and thiols, organic chemistry - aldehydes and ketones, organic chemistry - carboxylic acids and esters, organic chemistry - amines and amides.
 
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Field of Education: 10501 Organic Chemistry
Funding Cluster: 08 - Engineering, Science, Surveying
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Essential
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 Bentley Campus Special Term 1       Y  
2005 Bentley Campus Special Term 3       Y  
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External