Computers in Chemistry

COURSE CURRICULUM 

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Course title

APPLICATION OF COMPUTERS IN CHEMISTRY

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Code

HM-209

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Study curriculum

All chemistry study programs

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Organizer of the curriculum (institute, department)

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics,
Institute of Chemistry

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Degree (BSc, MSc, PhD)

BSc

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Academic year/semester

I/II

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ECTS points

4

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Lecturer

Goran Stojkovikj, Full professor

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Prerequisites

None

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Course objectives (competences):
Students to expand their knowledge of programs for writing and editing texts with chemical content, electronic tables, presentations as well as some application computer programs and the possibilities of the Internet in function of the structure.

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Course content:
Efficient internet searching. Writing and drawing structural chemical formulas in Word and ChemWindow. Use of HyperChem for presenting three-dimensional models. Use of electronic spreadsheets for graphical representation of experimental data, mathematical functions, use of conditional expressions, calculation of roots of functions of nth degree, descriptive statistics, linear regression analysis. Preparation of presentations.

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Teaching methods: computer work

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Total available time

120

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Time distribution

2+2+0 hours per week
Lectures 30 hours
Theoretical exercises 30 hours

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Teaching methods distribution

15.1.

Teaching - lectures

30

15.2.

Practicals (laboratory, problem solving), seminars, team work

30

16.

Other activities

16.1.

Projects

20

16.2.

Independent work

20

16.3.

Homework

20

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Grading methods: Assessment will be done through monitoring the overall activity in each class, completion of seminar work, and a final computer-based exam.

17.1.

Exam - practical (computer-based)

70

17.2.

Individual work/project/seminar

20

17.3.

Attendance

10

18.

Grading scale (points/mark)

< 50 points

5 (five) (F)

51 to 60 points

6 (six) (E)

61 to 70 points

7 (seven) (D)

71 to 80 points

8 (eight) (C)

81 to 90 points

9 (nine) (B)

91 to 100 points

10 (ten) (A)

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Criteria for taking the final exam

Attendance at lectures and completed exercises

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Course language

Macedonian

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Teaching quality control

22.

Literature

22.1.

Compulsory

No.

Author

Title

Publisher

Year

1.

Zoran Zdravkovski

Excel низ примери од хемијата и сродните науки

Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Skopje

2008

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On-line Instructions from the application programs