GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
GENERAL CHEMISTRY CONCEPTS/1430035
Course Title: GENERAL CHEMISTRY CONCEPTS
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is face to face and argumentation-based instruction.
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  What is the concept? The importance of the concept in chemistry education
2. Week  Teaching concepts and concept development process
3. Week  Relationships between concepts
4. Week  Concept maps and concept framework
5. Week  Integrated and particular nature of matter; Concepts of atom-ion-molecule/element and compound
6. Week  Heat and temperature
7. Week  Midterm exam
8. Week  The concepts related to atomic theories and the periodic system
9. Week  Solutions
10. Week  Chemical reactions
11. Week  Misconceptions: Examples from the chemical equilibrium
12. Week  Acid / base theories, acidity and basicity
13. Week  Conceptual and computational chemistry teaching
14. Week  Greenhouse effect, ozone layer and acid rains
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
20
 Assignment
1
15
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
1
5
 Percent of In-term Studies  
40
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
14
2
28
 Searching in Internet and Library
14
3
42
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
14
2
28
 Preparing a Presentation
7
3
21
 Presentation
4
1
4
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
6
1
6
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
6
1
6
 Other (should be emphasized)
7
2
14
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
191
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.64
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6
7X
8X
9X
10X
11
12
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Assoc.Prof. Halil TÜMAY)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (www.websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/tumay)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (tumay@gazi.edu.tr)