You will be taught by a series of 1h tutorial sessions. You will have 4 x 1h sessions per week for six weeks, four of the sessions being used for class tests. You will be given formative assignments at the end of each of the tutorial sessions and completing these assignments and revising for tests will comprise your independent study time. Teaching of this module will be completed before the start of the module Chemical Principles for Forensic Science, so those of you without a pass in A-level Chemistry or equivalent are better prepared.

Module handbook, well appointed tutorial room and access to library.
Blackboard VLE

Level 1 award in relevant subject

Chemistry - Molecules, Matter and Change (third edition)
P. Atkins & L. Jones
Freeman, 1997

Students will be required to complete 4 pieces of summative assessment.
Short in class tests (100%) addressing outcomes 1-3
Students will be provided with formative assessment and feedback via
Assignments set in tutorials, with answers/solutions in the following tutorial session.

This module is designed to enable those who have a limited chemistry background to study the Chemical Principles for Forensic Science. In this module you begin by studying many of the concepts that are fundamental to a study of chemistry. You will begin with a familiarisation with the periodic table and the atoms and elements of which it is made up. From here you will investigate the structures of atoms and molecules in more detail and look at the trends that exist within the periodic table. You will also study the various types of bonding, such as ionic, covalent, metallic and intermolecular and will be introduced to Valence Shell Electron Pair Repulsion for deducing molecular shape Also, you will look at chemical reactions and how to balance equations. Then you will go on to study some chemical arithmetic, such as calculations of moles, concentrations of solutions and chemical equilibria.