Last modified: 12 Sep 2024 11:46
Chemistry Access is a flexible, online course. The course is 100% online, so you can enrol whenever you like and study at your own pace. The course is designed to help you access university and college courses, when you don’t have the Advanced Higher Chemistry qualifications you need.
The Chemistry Access Course will cover a wide range of themes in line with the Advanced Higher Chemistry syllabus. The course encompasses subject areas such as Inorganic, Physical, Organic Chemistry and instrumental analysis.
You will expand your current knowledge and develop data analysis and numeracy skills.
The course will help you develop your interest in chemistry, as well as prepare you to study independently at University level. Learning outcomes and skills will be embedded in the materials and activities. Teaching and learning will be solely online and involve engaging lectures and practice tests and a self-check test on each topic.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 1 |
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| Term | Full Year | Credit Points | 15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Chemistry Access is a flexible, online course. The course is 100% online, so you can enrol whenever you like and study at your own pace. The course is designed to help you access university and college courses, when you don’t have the Advanced Higher Chemistry qualifications you need.
What you’ll study
Access Chemistry course will cover a wide range of themes, in line with the Advanced Higher Chemistry syllabus, with subject based material such as the periodic table and transition metals, reaction feasibility, chemical equilibrium and electromagnetic radiation. There is also a module called chemistry in practice, where the focus is on scientific principles and processes.
Skills and learning outcomes will be embedded in the materials and activities, and will include critical thinking, note-taking, familiarity with scientific literature and problem solving.
Access Chemistry aims to:
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Unit 4 Organic Chemistry - Test of interpretive questions (e.g approx. Thirty questions from large bank resulting in individualised exam). Single attempt for each. One resit available for each. Timed. Automated marking and pre-set feedback. To allow for flexibility and individual progression the class test will become available under release criteria once the module content is complete. Automated feedback and grade release. Exit points are weeks 3, 12, 23, 39, 47 |
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Unit 1 Introduction to chemistry - Test of interpretive questions (e.g approx. Thirty questions from large bank resulting in individualised exam). Single attempt for each. One resit available for each. Timed. Automated marking and pre-set feedback. To allow for flexibility and individual progression the class test will become available under release criteria once the module content is complete. Automated feedback and grade release. Exit points are weeks 3, 12, 23, 39, 47 |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Apply | Understand and apply scientific knowledge to new situations, to interpret and analyse information to solve problems and draw valid conclusions supported by evidence |
| Factual | Remember | Draw on knowledge and understanding of chemistry to make accurate statements, describe complex information, provide detailed explanations and integrate knowledge |
| Procedural | Apply | Express ideas clearly and logically in writing |
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Unit 5 Chemistry in practice - Test of interpretive questions (e.g approx. Thirty questions from large bank resulting in individualised exam). Single attempt for each. One resit available for each. Timed. Automated marking and pre-set feedback. To allow for flexibility and individual progression the class test will become available under release criteria once the module content is complete. Automated feedback and grade release. Exit points are weeks 3, 12, 23, 39, 47 |
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| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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Unit 2 Inorganic Chemistry - Test of interpretive questions (e.g approx. Thirty questions from large bank resulting in individualised exam). Single attempt for each. One resit available for each. Timed. Automated marking and pre-set feedback. To allow for flexibility and individual progression the class test will become available under release criteria once the module content is complete. Automated feedback and grade release. Exit points are weeks 3, 12, 23, 39, 47 |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Apply | Understand and apply scientific knowledge to new situations, to interpret and analyse information to solve problems and draw valid conclusions supported by evidence |
| Factual | Remember | Draw on knowledge and understanding of chemistry to make accurate statements, describe complex information, provide detailed explanations and integrate knowledge |
| Procedural | Apply | Express ideas clearly and logically in writing |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Feedback |
Unit 3 Physical Chemistry - Test of interpretive questions (e.g approx. Thirty questions from large bank resulting in individualised exam). Single attempt for each. One resit available for each. Timed. Automated marking and pre-set feedback. To allow for flexibility and individual progression the class test will become available under release criteria once the module content is complete. Automated feedback and grade release. Exit points are weeks 3, 12, 23, 39, 47 |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Apply | Understand and apply scientific knowledge to new situations, to interpret and analyse information to solve problems and draw valid conclusions supported by evidence |
| Factual | Remember | Draw on knowledge and understanding of chemistry to make accurate statements, describe complex information, provide detailed explanations and integrate knowledge |
| Procedural | Apply | Express ideas clearly and logically in writing |
There are no assessments for this course.
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The student will be contacted to arrange resit test(s) at the exit point following their initial attempt. Exit points are weeks 3, 12, 23, 39, 47. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Factual | Remember | Draw on knowledge and understanding of chemistry to make accurate statements, describe complex information, provide detailed explanations and integrate knowledge |
| Procedural | Apply | Express ideas clearly and logically in writing |
| Conceptual | Apply | Understand and apply scientific knowledge to new situations, to interpret and analyse information to solve problems and draw valid conclusions supported by evidence |
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