Basic and Environmental Chemistry

Before the student can take part in the compulsory lab teaching, the student must undergo the KJ105F Laboratory safety course. The laboratory safety course is a precondition to participate in the lab exercises.

The teaching activities in the course presuppose that the student is on campus.

Work requirements (AK) 1 Theory exercises:

• Students are encouraged to submit all 10 theory exercises.
• Theory assignments (passed/ not passed), three group assignments, seven individual assignments. One must never have two consecutive unapproved assignments. Otherwise they have to have two new assignments approved next semester or another year.
• Each theory exercise submitted must have all the assignments answered in order to be approved.
• Each individual theory exercise that is submitted must have at least 40% correctly answered. This can be 40% of the tasks, 40% right on each of the tasks or combinations of these, as long as 40% in total is right.
• The first 3 theory exercise is performed in set groups, the last 7 are individual.

Work requirements (AK) 2: Laboratory exercises with subsequent lab reports

• Students are encouraged to participate in all 3 lab exercises and submit all lab reports.
• In order to fulfill the work requirement, the student must have performed all the tasks that belong to the lab exercise. In the event of unforeseen events, lab teachers can grant exemption from individual assignments for the student(s) in question. In this case, this must be clarified before leaving the laboratory.
• There must be at least 2 approved lab reports submitted within the stated deadline.

Compulsory participation:

• Attendance at at least 2 lab exercises.

General requirements for theory exercises and lab reports:

• The theory exercises and lab reports are submitted on paper without a cover / binding, within the stated deadline (date and time) at the specified location.
• The theory exercises and lab reports can be a printout from a data file or handwritten with pen / pencil / marker, or a combination of these.
• The sheets must be stapled together (not paper clips), and any spiral edges must be cut away.
• The student's name must be legible at the top of the first page.
• Theory exercises and lab reports that are not fulfilled in the autumn semester can be completed in the spring semester. For having a theory assignment approved for the second time, the student should request for a new assignment of the same subject if they wish to have it approved in the spring semester. In fall semesters, they can do it together with other students of the course, answering the newly published assignments. Approval of lab reports in the spring semester presupposes that the student has approved compulsory participation for laboratory exercises from the autumn semester. It will not be possible to perform lab exercises in the spring semester.
• Lab report can only be submitted for lab exercises where the student has participated.
• In order to be an acceptable lab report, it must contain everything that is requested in the lab booklet, as well as any calculations needed to arrive at the answers. In addition, the report must contain a short conclusion where the student evaluates the results and comments on any deviations from what was expected.
• Reports that were not approved at the first submission can be resubmitted once, after creation/additions together with the report after the next lab exercise. In this case, the original report must be resubmitted, together with a supplement that corrects what was described in the original report, and/or that contains points that are missing in the original report.