Easy class, you'll never actually see Professor Morkowchuk but you will interact with your TAs a ton. Most of the work is super easy and if you go to TA help hours which are held pretty much everyday all day you can get your the answer. Hopefully you get a good group because if you do most times you can leave lab early and not have to do much outside of class.

Also pray you get a good TA because if so you'll have an A, if not you'll have to work a bit more.

Do not miss class because attendance goes towards your grade and from what I've heard it is a hassle to try and make up.

Easy class, don't stress.

Randomly assigned groups of ~4 on the first day. Either have someone in your group carry or be the one to carry. If not, diffusion of responsibility will lead to a bad time.

New students, DO NOT get the lab book from the bookstore. Through the whole course, I would estimate only TWELVE pages are used. Honestly its best if only two people in your group have a lab book. To get one, just ask any upperclassmen student and you can use the countless empty pages in theirs. You do not need a fresh lab book, just empty pages. The bookstore is just trying to take your money.

Grading scheme is confusing, but if you actually miss something, just email with a believable sob story and they will be nice.

I mean it's a pass/fail class so as long as you do the work, you'll get a good grade. The work is sometimes kind of tedious and mind-numbing but it's fine. Designing and performing your own experiments is pretty cool though (there's just too much writing).
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Directions can be a bit vague but if you just ask, then everything falls into place rather easily. Each assignment was graded pass/fail which meant that they were all very fast since you would just have to put forth enough effort for a pass and not an A. A few assignments outside of the lab time, but everything was quick, with a good group you should never spend more than half the allocated time in class.

tCFF23 This lab was very easy although it might depend on who your group is. My group got along and divided the work well. There were a couple of really interesting labs although a lot of them were kind of trivial. It also had a grading style where all the assignments were either mastered or not mastered and to get a specific grade you had to get a certain amount of mastereds in different categories. This made the class even lower stress since your work did not have to be perfect to get a good grade.
The class structure would also alternate every other week of workshop which would only be one hour(groups were assigned either the first or last hour of the 3 hour block) and you would plan for the following week when you would actually conduct the lab which may or may not take the full 3 hours depending on lab and group speed.
Murkowchuk made videos before each lab covering all the material we needed to know. My TAs were also both hopeful and constructive.

This course could be somewhat tedious for just being one credit. Each lab incorporated a variety of assignments. The group you receive for lab will make a difference on how smoothly the labs and the assignments go. Overall, Chem Lab was well organized.

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This is kind of an annoying class, but if you give yourself enough time for the postlabs and other assignments you can get an A. Honestly, this class can depend on which TAs and group partners you get, but nothing you can do about either of those, so...

Just make sure to never miss class for any unexcused reason, because the "specifications grading" used by this class (i.e. you need to pass X amount of assignments to get an A) can make it impossible for your grade to recover from one missed class. Make sure to get very familiar with which assignments you need to pass, or "master", to get the grade you want. Most importantly, read the weekly emails they send out ASAP; it clearly tells you everything you need to do for the week.

There were definitely chemistry concepts that could've been taught better, and the last experiment required us to use software that the TAs were clearly unfamiliar with. Overall, not a great class, but it certainly could've been a lot worse.
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Lab is pretty easy but the work can take a good amount of time. Each week will alternate between either having actual lab, which is a 3 hour block, or workshop, which is a 1 hour block. In lab, you run the actual experiment and write a summary as a group. The summary is usually just a few questions and then some data collection. The lab usually does not take up the whole 3 hours and they let you leave if your lab group finishes early. In workshop your lab group creates a plan of how the next experiment will be run, it is usually a list of materials, safety and disposal, and then procedure. On your own, there is a pre lab and a post lab for every experiment. The pre lab is usually 10 multiple choice which just give you an overview of the upcoming lab. The post lab is all short answer questions about data collection and calculations. Throughout the semester there will be 3 in lab quizzes which are all multiple choice questions and ask about the labs you've done so far. There are also 2 presentations and 2 scientific writings you will have to complete. While it seems like a lot, all the work is pretty reasonable and it is very easy to get help if you need it. Also, all assignments are graded on mastery, meaning that you do not need to get every question right to get credit for an assignment. Each assignment is worth 1 point, and if you hit a certain amount of points on the rubric you get that 1 point. They are very transparent on what they are looking for and it is easy to get mastery if you just do exactly what the rubric asks of you. You also get up to 6 retries if you do not get mastery the first time, but I have found that most people I know did not need to use up all 6 of their retries. I also suggest you get to know your grading TA, mine was my lab TA but I'm not sure if some people's is their workshop TA, so that you are comfortable asking them questions about why or why you did not get mastery on an assignment and you can get feedback on your work. #tCFF23

This course is pretty easy to do well in as long as you do all the work. It is graded on a Mastery scale, meaning you only need to get 80% on an assignment to receive credit for it. But you also have six chances, called "tokens", to redo any assignments you do not master. The assignments themselves are pretty easy, they are just tedious and annoying. It is a lot of work for a 1-credit class, I'd definitely consider this to be more like 2 credits. My best tip is to read ahead on what you will be doing in lab the day before, so you can start formulating a plan ahead of time because the TA doesn't really give you anything during lab -- you are on your own.

This course should be worth more than one credit. It is an excessive amount of work. Luckily everything is graded on a mastery basis, meaning you only need to get about 80% of questions correct on assignments to get an A. Additionally, you can decide wether or not to complete the lab report assignments based on what grade you want in the course. You also have the chance to redo 6 assignments if you don't get the "mastered" grade through the token system. The labs don't seem to correlate with CHEM 1410 material and you have to have a decent understanding of stoichiometry and reactions because they won't teach you how to solve problems. Definitely watch the prelab videos if you don't have a great chemistry background. The quizzes are open notes and also contain a lot of information that Morkowchuk covers in the videos.

Lab sessions alternate each week between a 50 minute planning session and a three hour lab. Come prepared to planning sessions by reading the overview otherwise you won't be able to finish in time to get the TA's signature. My lab group was usually able to finish labs with about an hour to spare.