• 'Pushing Electrons’ (Weeks, 3rd Edition, Harcourt College Publishers, 1998).
• 'Organic Chemistry’ (Bruice, 5th Edition, Pearson Education, 2007)
• 'Organic Chemistry’ (Clayden, Greeves, Warren and Wothers, Oxford University Press, 2001)
• 'Inorganic Chemistry’ (Shriver & Atkins, 5th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2010)
• 'Physical Chemistry’ (Atkins, 8th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2006)
• 'A Guide to Lasers in Chemistry’ (Van Hecke & Karukstis, Jones & Bartlett, 1998)
• 'Spectrometric Identification of Organic Compounds' (Silverstein, 7th Edition, Wiley Press, 2005)
• 'SI Chemical Data' (Aylward, 6th Edition, Wiley Press, 2007)
• 'Modern Physical Organic Chemistry’ (Ansyln and Dougherty, University Science Books)
• 'Molecular Spectroscopy’ (Banwell, 4th Ed., McGraw Hill, 1994) out of print

MyUni: Teaching materials and course documentation will be posted on the MyUni website (http://myuni.adelaide.edu.au/)

• Lectures: 5 x 2-hour sessions with one session per week (including 2 presentation sessions)
• Practicals: 10 x 6-hour sessions with one session per week (lab placement component)
• Tutorials: 2 x 50-minute sessions with one session per week

A student enrolled in a 3 unit course, such as this, should expect to spend, on average 12 hours per week on the studies required. This includes both the formal contact time required to the course (e.g., lectures and practicals), as well as non-contact time (e.g., reading and revision).

The course content includes the following:

Lectures
Lecture material will be focused on topics relating to the conduct of research. Depending on availability of lecturers, this may include advanced topics in current research strengths of the discipline, material relevant to doing research (i.e. library skills, presentation skills, use of specialised software relevant to the discipline) as well as critical discussion of current literature.

Research Placements
All practical work will be conducted by lab placements in Research labs of the Chemistry academics. Two cycles of 30 hours will be conducted during the semester during the practicals. Each placement will be followed by either an assessed 2000 word essay-style report on the research project or a 10 minute verbal presentation of the research topic. The report will be submitted in week 7 at the end of cycle 1 and the presentation will be presented in weeks 12 and 13 at the end of cycle 2 (students will present once but will be required to attend both presentation sessions).

Practical work is compulsory – This includes attendance, conduct of required experimental work, attendance at demonstrator interviews (as required) and submission of laboratory reports.

Library skills
The library skills component involves a summative quiz which will comprise 10% of the overall mark.

Laboratory Placement Report
Each student will complete two cycles of laboratory placements. After Cycle 1, students will submit an essay-style report based upon their Cycle 1 Lab Placement. The report will be 2,000 words (maximum) and worth 40% of the overall mark.

Abstract and Presentation
Students will give a 10 minute (plus 3 minutes for questions) verbal presentation based upon their Cycle 2 Lab Placement. In addition there will be a 200 word abstract submitted prior to the presentation. The presentation is worth 40% and the abstract 10% of the overall mark

Submission of Assigned Work
Coversheets must be completed and attached to all submitted work. Coversheets can be obtained from the School Office (room G33 Physics) or from MyUNI. Work should be submitted via the assignment drop box at the School Office.

Extensions for Assessment Tasks
Extensions of deadlines for assessment tasks may be allowed for reasonable causes. Such situations would include compassionate and medical grounds of the severity that would justify the awarding of a supplementary examination. Evidence for the grounds must be provided when an extension is requested. Students are required to apply for an extension to the Course Coordinator before the assessment task is due. Extensions will not be provided on the grounds of poor prioritising of time. The assessment extension application form can be obtained from: http://www.sciences.adelaide.edu.au/current/ 

Late submission of assessments
If an extension is not applied for, or not granted then a penalty for late submission will apply. A penalty of 10% of the value of the assignment for each calendar day that is late (i.e. weekends count as 2 days), up to a maximum of 50% of the available marks will be applied. This means that an assignment that is 5 days or more late without an approved extension can only receive a maximum of 50% of the mark.