In the broadest sense, it should be understood that reactions in Organic Chemistry can be divided into the great rubrics of oxidation and reduction, addition and elimination as well as substitutionU> and rearrangement. These are the same reactions that occur in biological systems.
So, the two major goals of this course (one at each end of the field, as it were)
are to (1) provide evidence for the observations carried out over generations that
the products of primary and secondary metabolism are not made up of a haphazard
arrangement of bonds and atoms so that all possible arrangements can be expected
and (2) provide evidence, where it is available, to show that the same reactions
organic chemists know so well are apparently only mimics of what occurs naturally.
It is anticipated that the entire text will be covered in the fifteen weeks of the course and that all of the problems at the end of each chapter will be done, at the blackboard (or whiteboard) by the students in the course.
There will be a midterm examination and a final examination.
Temple University believes strongly in academic honesty and integrity.
Plagiarism and academic cheating are, therefore, prohibited.
The development of independent thought and a respect for the thoughts of others is essential to intellectual growth. So, the prohibition against plagiarism and cheating is intended to foster this independence and respect.
Plagiarism is the unacknowledged use of another person's labor, another person's ideas, another person's words, another person's assistance. Normally, all work done for courses -- papers, examinations, homework exercises, laboratory reports, oral presentations -- is expected to be the individual effort of the student presenting the work. Any assistance must be reported to the instructor. If the work has entailed consulting other resources -- journals, books, or other media --, these resources must be cited appropriately. Everything used from other sources -- suggestions for organization of ideas, ideas themselves, or actual language -- must be cited. Failure to cite borrowed material constitutes plagiarism. Undocumented use of materials from the World Wide Web is also plagiarism.
Academic cheating is, generally, the thwarting or breaking of the general rules of academic work or the specific rules of the individual courses. It includes falsifying data; submitting, without the instructor's approval, work in one course which was done for another; helping others to plagiarize or cheat from one's own or another's work; or actually doing the work of another person. The penalty for academic dishonesty can vary from receiving a reprimand and a failing grade for a particular assignment, to a failing grade in the course, to suspension or expulsion from the University. The penalty varies with the nature of the offense, the individual instructor, the department, and the school or college. Students who believe that they have been unfairly accused may appeal through the School or College's academic grievance procedure.