CHEM 350 : Topics in Chemistry
Science
2020 Semester One (1203) (15 POINTS)
Course Prescription
Course Overview
- Polymers and 3D Printing (Dr Jianyong Jin)
- X-Ray Crystallography (Associate Professor Tilo Söhnel)
- Chemical Biology (Dr Ivanhoe Leung)
Course Requirements
Capabilities Developed in this Course
| Capability 1: | Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice |
| Capability 2: | Critical Thinking |
| Capability 3: | Solution Seeking |
| Capability 4: | Communication and Engagement |
| Capability 5: | Independence and Integrity |
| Capability 6: | Social and Environmental Responsibilities |
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of the content taught in the individual modules (Capability 1)
- Explain and communicate key concepts of the individual modules (Capability 4 and 5)
- Apply the concepts from the individual modules to solve relevant problems (Capability 2, 3 and 5)
- Demonstrate an understanding of the wider implications of the concepts taught in the individual modules (Capability 6)
Assessments
| Assessment Type | Percentage | Classification |
|---|---|---|
| Assignments | 30% | Group Coursework |
| Tests | 70% | Individual Test |
| 2 types | 100% |
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcome Addressed | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||||||
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Key Topics
- Polymer nomenclature, terms and definitions
- Overview of polymer types, structures, properties and methods of formation
- Polymer molecular weights definitions and measurement
- Step-growth Polymerization mechanism and kinetic analysis
- Free Radical Polymerization mechanism and kinetic analysis
- Introduction and overview of 3D Printers and basic technology
- Understand four typical FDM, SLA, DLP and CLIP printing process
- Polymer materials for 3D printing
- Detailed 3D printing process based on DLP process
- Nature of the X-ray experiment
- Space lattices and crystal unit cells. Crystal symmetry. Bravais lattices
- Miller indices
- Crystal density and the number of molecules in a unit cell
- Point groups and Space groups. Special positions in space groups
- Diffraction of X-rays. Bragg’s law and Friedel’s law
- The structure factor, atomic scattering factor, thermal motion
- Space group determination. Systematic absences from the diffraction pattern
- Heavy-atom methods of overcoming the phase problem
- Structure solving using the Patterson function. Harker lines and planes
- Refinement and the crystallographic R-factor
- Chemistry of biological systems: including amino acids, peptides, proteins, and nucleic acids
- Recombinant protein production and purification
- Solid phase oligonucleotide synthesis
- Enzyme chemistry, including enzyme kinetics, and examples and mechanisms of enzyme catalysis
- Protein sequencing and target identification, including the use of chemical probes to identify the biological targets that are responsible for certain biological functions
- Posttranslational modifications, including chemistry of introducing posttranslational modifications and the effect of PTMs in protein function and recognition
- Introduction to nucleic acids, including the structures of DNA and RNA, and their roles in replication, transcription and translation
- Genetic engineering, including RNAi and CRISPR-Cas technologies
Learning Resources
Special Requirements
Workload Expectations
This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.
For this course, you can expect 36 hours of lectures and tutorial, 84 hours of reading and thinking about the content and on assignments and/or test preparation.
Digital Resources
Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).
Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.
Copyright
The content and delivery of content in this course are protected by copyright. Material belonging to others may have been used in this course and copied by and solely for the educational purposes of the University under license.
You may copy the course content for the purposes of private study or research, but you may not upload onto any third party site, make a further copy or sell, alter or further reproduce or distribute any part of the course content to another person.
Academic Integrity
The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against online source material using computerised detection mechanisms.
Inclusive Learning
All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.
Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website at http://disability.auckland.ac.nz
Special Circumstances
If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.
If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.
This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.
Student Feedback
During the course Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the staff responsible for the course and staff-student consultative committees.
At the end of the course students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback.
Your feedback helps to improve the course and its delivery for all students.
Student Charter and Responsibilities
The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter (https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html).
Disclaimer
Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.
In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.