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 and 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
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
2008	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