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Undergraduate Handbook 2025-2026 (archived)
Module CHEM3451: Practical Chemistry 3 - Integrated
Department: Chemistry
CHEM3451: Practical Chemistry 3 - Integrated
| Type | Level | Credits | Availability | Module Cap | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | 3 | 20 | Available in 2025/2026 | None. | Durham |
Pre-requisites
- Core Chemistry 2 (CHEM2021) AND Practical Chemistry 2 – Integrated (CHEM2138).
Corequisites
- Core Chemistry 3 (CHEM3012 ).
Excluded Combinations
- Practical Chemistry 3 – Synthetic (CHEM3447), Practical Chemistry 3 – Measurement (CHEM3467).
Aims
- To expand and promote the knowledge and understanding of chemistry through practical work.
Content
- Practical work in advanced chemistry.
Learning Outcomes
Subject-specific Knowledge
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the advanced chemical principles underpinning the practical work carried out.
Subject-specific Skills
- Perform and discuss advanced laboratory experiments.
- Prepare, purify and identify a range of compounds.
- Use spreadsheets to analyse data in a competent manner.
- Understand the importance of advanced experimental design and safety.
- Perform advanced experimental manipulation.
- Evaluate results in terms of the theory underlying the experiment.
- Write coherent scientific reports on obtained data.
- Demonstrate time management skills and an ability to plan experimental work.
- Interpret spectroscopic data (e.g. NMR, IR, Mass spectrometry).
Key Skills
- Problem solving.
- Verbal and written communication.
- Information retrieval and scientific writing, exercised through accounts of laboratory work.
Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module
- Laboratory classes teach students techniques in various aspects of chemistry.
- At the start of the module, an introductory lecture includes a health and safety briefing. A second lecture takes place in Term 2 to introduce the investigation.
Teaching Methods and Learning Hours
| Activity | Number | Frequency | Duration | Total Hours | Attendance Monitored |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practicals | 44 | 44 sessions across Terms 1 and 2 | 3 hours | 132 | Yes |
| Lectures | 2 | 1 per term in Terms 1 and 2 | 1 hour | 2 | Yes |
| Preparation and Reading | 66 | ||||
| Total | 200 | ||||
Summative Assessment
| Component | Component Weighting | Element | Length/Duration | Element Weighting | Resit Opportunity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Practical Work | 100% | Results of laboratory work | 100% |
Formative Assessment
Formative assessment occurs continuously by means of feedback for pre-lab activities, verbal and written feedback in practical activity sessions, and via written feedback on assessed work.
Students who do not attend monitored activities shown under Teaching Methods
and Learning Hours, or who fail to complete the summative or formative
assessment(s) specified above, may be subject to the Academic Progress
procedures defined in the University's General Regulation V, and may be
required to leave the University.