New Name and Number for my two courses

It's already preregistration time for the fall 2021 semester. This course has finally reached its first semester with its new name and course number. Drum roll.... the new name of this course is...

Chemistry in Our World II

The new course number is CH302N. The old name and number have been retired starting in the fall. I know you will be done after this semester. But, you might want to tell a friend to take the course. The first half of this course is Chemistry in Our World I. Here is what the two courses look like in the course schedule.

Spread the word. Tell friends. Note how we will be back to face-to-face teaching. We'll be downstairs in Welch in a classroom (WEL 1.308) that can hold 329 students. Jimmy will be back on board and we will do our best to keep the course like its been but make it better thanks to being in-person and not in a freakin' zoom meeting. I'll make sure that we have demonstrations again. Hopefully, the courses will be more engaging and will actually feel like a real college-level course. Sorry that most of you missed out on the in-class versions of this course. We did our best with Zoom-Class, but things will be so much better in the fall with face-to-face teaching again. I'm so excited about it. Spread the word.

03/02

Please READ about HW03

It seems that canvas auto-submitted HW03 at 12:10am 2/26 for any student that had opened it and hadn't submitted. This lead to lots of zeros or really low scores for attempt 1 for some students. So we have added another attempt (3 total now) to HW03 to cover that canvas glitch. It is still due on Tuesday (3/2). BTW, HW04 is now published and available for perusal. It's due on Tuesday (3/9).

02/26

Planning for Our Class This Week (Thurs, 2/25)

No class or office hours on Tuesday (2/23). Therefore, our first official class after the big TX Freeze is Thursday. Do plan on reading the first 4 sections of Chapter 7 in chembook (Electrochemistry) when you can. They are short and should only take 10-20 minutes*. Those 4 sections will correspond to the first 18 questions on HW03 which has a total of 28 questions. The new adjusted due date for HW03 is Tuesday the 2nd. HW04 will be available before then and is due on Tuesday 3/9. Of course the more you can read and take in the better. Do what you can, but we WILL have an exam still on 3/11 over chapter 7 (however much we get though).

* Reading and Understanding are two very different things. You might have to READ over and over before you understand what is going on. I WILL explain as best I can in class on Thursday.

FYI - I built into the syllabus extra days of coverage for every unit. So truth be told, we still have just enough time to cover all of chapter 7 (barring yet more state-wide catastrophes).

02/16

Thursday's Class is Cancelled

- - all office hours cancelled as well this week - -

The UNIVERSITY is officially CLOSED until Friday morning.

ALL classes are cancelled through Thursday. This includes both on-campus and off-campus (aka: online) courses. So no class for us this week. I know you'll be missing your weekly dose of me and Jimmy so sorry about that. You can always start reading Chapter 3 in chembook though. We will adjust HW due dates accordingly.

stay safe!

02/10

and so is EXAM 1 - be ready

01/14

obligatory first archived item / will it be the last?