Organic Chemistry

Code:

CN11004

Acronym:

QORG

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Health Sciences
OFICIAL	Physical Sciences

Instance: 2012/2013 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://bioquimica.med.up.pt/ensino/index.html
Course/CS Responsible:	Nutrition Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CNUP	89	Plano oficial	1	-	5,5	56	148,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The contributions that each will receive for their scientific, professional and human formation are not in any way confined to school walls. The main agent of that training is always each of us asking questions and finding answers that will form part of personal knowledge collected from multiple sources. The variety of these sources is increasingly wide in a world that, with recent advances in information technology, increasingly resembles a large village. In old times the school could play the role of privileged and unquestioned source of knowledge, at present this role no longer makes sense.
The role of schools and teachers, in our view, is to encourage and assist students in pursuit of their own training and to facilitate this process by proposing topics for study which act as stages of its formation. The choice of these themes and the depth with which they are developed is not an abstract exercise, impartial and thorough, but rather the result of a series of questionable choices and continually reshaped by new challenges that the science is proposing and also by personal experience of teachers, either as teachers or as researchers.
Being part of a series of topics proposed for the reflection of the students during their degree in Nutritional Sciences, this discipline of organic chemistry is closer to the disciplines of Biochemistry I (also taught in the first year of the course) and Biochemistry II and Biochemistry III (bought taught in second year). The same teaching staff are responsible for the four disciplines the discipline of organic chemistry is understood by this team as a sub-step (in fact the first) of the process of the language acquisition needed for Biochemistry, knowledge of their methods of study and its fundamental laws.
In this sub-step we put particular emphasis on (1) to study the chemical structures of living organisms and (2) to study of general aspects of chemistry and organic chemistry with particular interest for understanding the chemical transformation of living organisms.

Program

Chemical components of organisms: water, carbohydrates, lipids and proteins. Inorganic compounds.
Structure of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins.
General aspects of chemistry and organic chemistry with particular interest for understanding the chemical transformation occurring in living organisms: chemical structures and reactions, chemical equilibrium, acid-base reactions, oxidation-reduction reaction and isomerism.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Weekly, 2 lectures of 1 hour each and 1 practical session of 2h, during 12 weeks.

keywords

Physical sciences > Chemistry > Biochemistry
Physical sciences > Chemistry > Organic chemistry

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	52,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

To be evaluated in the exam the student have to be present in, at least, 2/3 practical lessons that have been teached.

Calculation formula of final grade

Written test - consisting of a series of multiple choice questions, a small number of open-response questions and a theme for development.
The written test score is then adjusted, taking into account the marks obtained in continuous assessment (from the participation in practical classes and other activities). If the mark of continuous assessment (Very Good, Good, Sufficient or Poor) is the same level or lower-level of the one obtained in the test (17 or more values corresponding to very good, 14 to 16 is equivalent to good and 10 to 13 equivalent to Sufficient, less than 10 equivalent to Poor), does not change the grade of the test (final note equal to the written test). If the mark of continuous assessment is of a level immediately above the test score, the final score is a value higher than the note of the written test (eg 10 in the test and Good in continuous assessment = 11 points). If the mark of continuous assessment is two or more levels above the grade of the test, the final grade will have two values more than the note of the written test (eg 10 in the test and very good for continuous assessment = 12 points).

Observations

Teaching language: Portuguese