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I'm not too sure I am following here. How does a professor teach the wrong course? My guess is disgruntled student. I've had some terrible professors, so bad that I think I would deserve a grade dispute.. but at the end of the day it is the student's responsibility.
The teacher admitted it, and told the class her mistake. She was supposed to be teaching Intro to Chemistry but instead taught a more advanced chemistry course. Students must have thought Intro was just harder than they expected it to be! If they've never had chemistry, how would students know what a beginning course was supposed to consist of? After admitting the mistake, the teacher gave students extra credit so no one failed the course, but the 4.0 students still had their perfect GPA ruined.
I can sort of understand how a 4.0 student can fail a chemistry class that's meant for science majors. There is a reason why colleges have separate science courses for majors and non-majors. There are people who excel in business, the humanities, and/or the social sciences, but have trouble in science courses.
I can sort of understand how a 4.0 student can fail a chemistry class that's meant for science majors. There is a reason why colleges have separate science courses for majors and non-majors. There are people who excel in business, the humanities, and/or the social sciences, but have trouble in science courses.
From my experience at a few colleges, the standard Chemistry course is called General Chemistry I and General Chemistry II and if it is called Introduction to Chemistry it is quite possibly lower than a 101, such as CHEM-100.. which would make it a remedial course.
Either way, since the professor admitted it.. I think it is fairly ridiculous that this could happen. I think the students should be allowed to retake the course for free and get their grade 100% replaced.
There are way too many professors and people in academia who have their heads so far up their asses and think they walk on water. It's rather annoying.
From my experience at a few colleges, the standard Chemistry course is called General Chemistry I and General Chemistry II and if it is called Introduction to Chemistry it is quite possibly lower than a 101, such as CHEM-100.. which would make it a remedial course.
Either way, since the professor admitted it.. I think it is fairly ridiculous that this could happen. I think the students should be allowed to retake the course for free and get their grade 100% replaced.
There are way too many professors and people in academia who have their heads so far up their asses and think they walk on water. It's rather annoying.
Lone Star Community College is in Texas, obviously, and Texas community colleges use a common coding system. Intro to Chemistry is for non-majors while General Chemistry is for majors. Intro to Chemistry is not remedial. Remedial courses at Texas CCs are less than 100-level. It's easier for me to navigate the San Antonio College website since I was once a student there, so I'll use that as an example.
Introductory Chemistry is CHEM-1305.
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Introduction to elementary inorganic chemistry and is suitable for non-science majors and students pursuing degrees in allied health and nursing.
Fundamental principles of chemistry for majors in the sciences, health sciences, and engineering; topics include measurements, fundamental properties of matter, states of matter, chemical reactions, chemical stoichiometry, periodicity of elemental properties, atomic structure, chemical bonding, molecular structure, solutions, properties of gases, and an introduction to thermodynamics and descriptive chemistry.
General Chemistry requires a higher math prerequisite.
There is a higher level of General Chemistry coded as CHEM-1411, but I'd have to figure out how to post a direct link to it.
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This course covers the fundamental principles of inorganic chemistry: general chemical principles, fundamental laws and theories, including but not limited to modern atomic theory, chemical bonding, states of matter, solutions, stoichiometry, thermochemistry and gas laws. The course content provides a foundation for work in advanced chemistry and related sciences, and as such is aimed at science majors. This course is math-intensive (MI). The prospective student needs to have a good working knowledge of the use of scientific notation, including use of calculator, exponential and logarithmic functions, significant figures, dimensional analysis, and solving simple linear equations.
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