Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Thank you for your interest in this course!

This section of CH151 includes fully on-campus lectures and fully on-campus labs that are both required.  You will also have required online homework, and you may be required to complete some other assignments to help you prepare for some required on-campus exams. The online homework and any other assignments will need to be completed outside of class time, so please plan accordingly. 

In-person lectures at the Southeast Campus:

Four hours per week total (Tuesday and Thursday from 2:30pm to 4:20pm) are scheduled on campus for lecture, practicing course material, working in small groups, and taking on-campus exams.

In-person labs at the Southeast Campus:

Students will need to attend the lab sessions in person (Tuesday 11:00 am – 1:50pm). Labs will reenforce the materials covered in the online lectures through hands on learning and experimentation. There are no remote labs for this course.  You must be able to attend both lecture and laboratory in-person components in order to register for the course. Students not in attendance for the first lab during week 1 will be dropped from the course as a no show. 

You can preview our chemistry lab space using this immersive, virtual model: SCOM 306 Virtual Twin

In-person exams at the Southeast Campus:

Midterm exams and a final exam during finals week) will be given in-person on campus during our regularly scheduled class sessions and during the regularly scheduled finals time for this course. Chemistry is inherently cumulative because many topics build on previous topics. Therefore, all chemistry exams are technically cumulative.  For this course, each subsequent exam will add new material not covered on the previous exam while also including some review questions covering material from earlier in the term. 

Required materials:

Your textbook and online homework system are both free and open source. You will not need to purchase a textbook or access to an online homework system! However, you will need to purchase an inexpensive lab manual at the Southeast campus bookstore. There is no need to purchase the lab manual before the term starts. We will further discuss the required materials during our first meeting, and you will have time to purchase the lab manual on the day you come to campus for the first time. Our lecture room, the lab, and the bookstore are all in the same building. Thus, you will have time to visit the bookstore when you get to campus on the first day. You will also need a scientific calculator. You may use a scientific calculator that you have already purchased for another course, but it must be capable of scientific notation, logs, exponents, etc. I do not recommend the inexpensive scientific calculator sold in PCC Bookstores, but I do have some suggested alternatives that I will discuss during our first meeting. Please do not rush to purchase a fancy graphing calculator or the inexpensive scientific calculator sold in PCC Bookstores until after our first meeting. 

Registered students will receive a welcome email with more details and a syllabus when the term starts. Please reach out to the instructor if you have any questions before then.