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 and 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 and nuclear chemistry. Organic chemistry - saturated hydrocarbons, unsaturated hydrocarbons, alcohols, phenols and thiols, aldehydes and ketones, carboxylic acids and esters and amines and amides.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

010501 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
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 1				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