Consumer Chemistry
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 24 hours face to face + blended
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
2024 teaching periods
| Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Aims and objectives
This unit takes the skills from Introduction to Chemistry or Chemistry 1 and uses them to introduce students to real world examples of the use of chemistry, specifically in a consumer context. Both the practical and theoretical aspects of a selection of consumer products will be studied, in addition to the environmental impact of such activity.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
1. Illustrate some of the scientific bases behind the choice consumers have when obtaining common household products.
2. Demonstrate the capacity to undertake basic laboratory work in a context of chemical applications to consumer products.
3. Argue the benefit of one consumer product over another in terms of the economical, efficacious and chemical principle behind that choice.
4. Describe the impact of consumer products on the environment.
5. Rationalise the ingredients in several consumer products, for example a hand cream.
6. Evaluate analytical results of real world samples in terms of the expected value and variability in that value.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Live Online Lecture | 3 | 12 | 36 |
| On Campus Science Lab | 4 | 6 | 24 |
Online Learning Activities | 3 | 12 | 36 |
Unspecified Activities Independent Learning | 4.5 | 12 | 54 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
|
Types | Individual or Group task |
Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Mid-semester test | Individual | 15-25% | 1,3,4,6 |
| Assignment | Individual/Group | 5-15% | 1,4 |
| Final Examination | Individual | 40-50% | 2,3,4,5,6 |
| Practical Assignment | Individual/Group | 20-35% | 1,3,4,6 |
Hurdle
As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all Unit Learning Outcomes to a minimum standard, a student must achieve:
(i) an aggregate mark of 50% or more, and
(ii) at least 40% in the final exam, and
iii) completion of a specific fraction of non-reportable laboratory work based on the criteria for successful completion as explained in the lab handout(s).
Students who do not successfully achieve hurdle requirements (ii) and (iii) will receive a maximum of 45% as the total mark for the unit.
Content
Content will include the study of chemistry in agriculture, cosmetic and cleaning products, food and food additives, emulsions and a selection of currently relevant technologies.
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required texts will be made available in the Unit Outline.