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Compulsory Module 1: General Chemistry A (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this Module understand the fundamental concepts of general chemistry.
Compulsory Module 2: Inorganic Chemistry (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: The graduates of this Module have knowledge of the most important classes of chemical materials and basic concepts of inorganic chemistry and they know the uses of inorganic materials in the environment and technology.
Compulsory Module 3: Subject Didactics A (2.5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this Module have fundamental knowledge of subject-didactical topics. They are able to name fundamental goals and contents of chemistry lessons and link them to subject-didactical concepts with issues from school practice.
Compulsory Module 4: General Chemistry B (10 ECTS-Credits, 9 h)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of Compulsory Module 1
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this Module are able to apply stoichiometric conditions situation-appropriately, have general knowledge of safe working in the chemical laboratory and responsible use with hazardous substances and first practical laboratory skills. They know to elaborate similar contents independently. They are able to discuss about chemical aspects of global challenges and the sustainable use with material and energetic resources.
Compulsory Module 5: Analytical Chemistry (10 ECTS-Credits, 7 h)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of the Compulsory Modules 1 and 2
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this Module have knowledge of the fundamentals of analytical chemistry. They know to elaborate similar contents independently. They are able to apply the most important concept of analytical chemistry situation-appropriately.
Compulsory Module 6: Organic Chemistry A (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of Compulsory Module 1
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this module are able to describe and explain theoretical fundamentals of the structure and reactivity of organic matter. They are able to generalize this fundamental knowledge of organic chemistry, to relate structure and characteristics of molecules, to elaborate similar contents independently as well as to present in terms of their target groups. With the acquisition of fundamental skills of industrial use of chemical products as well as the use of renewable raw materials they are able to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of technical use of chemical products and to create awareness of the sustainable use of material and energetic resources.
Compulsory Module 7: Subject Didactics B (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: none
Learning Outcome: The graduates of this Module are able to plan and prepare teaching unites with regard to concept- and process-related competence development. They can select experiments, reason their use, create relations to the basic concepts of school chemistry and locate trials in the curriculum. They are able to analyse and reflect teaching and learning processes of individual teaching units and develop alternative action possibilities.
The graduates of this module possess a repertoire of media for preparing modern chemistry lessons. The choice of methods is also made against the background of competence development as well as aspects of differentiation and individualization in heterogeneous learning groups. They know common models, plan their targeted use and recognize and convey their limits. They are able to use topic-related specialized media in the classroom.
Compulsory Module 8: Subject Didactics C (10 ECTS-Credits, 9 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of the Compulsory Modules 1, 2, 4 and 5
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this Module are able to select school experiments in terms of their target groups and plan them with regard to current safety standards, implement and evaluate them with pupils or demonstrate in the chemistry lessons. They know methods and developed observation criteria in order to evaluate the quality of chemistry lessons. They know learn-promoting diagnosis and feedback processes and are able to use different forms of performance evaluation and assessment. They know possibilities of interdisciplinary and project-oriented teaching and are able to plan and implement appropriate examples.
Compulsory Module 9: Organic Chemistry B (5 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of Compulsory Module 6
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this Module are able to demonstrate experimentally-oriented working of organic chemistry and are able to independently elaborate, evaluate and record fundamental experiments of classical organic synthesis and characterisation of simple organic compounds. Apart from practical-experimental competences, they possess interdisciplinary key competences in teamwork as well as oral and written communication.
Compulsory Module 10: Physical Chemistry A (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of Compulsory Module 1
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this Module understand the fundamentals of physical chemistry with selected practice- and application-oriented examples as well as tasks with special school didactical focus. They understand the contents of the lecture and are able to reflect them. They are able to independently elaborate similar contents and to apply the most important concepts of physical chemistry in terms of their target groups.
Compulsory Module 11: Biochemistry (7.5 ECTS-Credits, 6 h)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of Compulsory Module 4
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this Module know chemical fundamentals and components of living organisms, metabolism and energy metabolism and have methodical knowledge of protein and nucleic acid biochemistry as well as gene technology and enzymology. They understand the contents of the lecture and are able to reflect them. They are able to independently elaborate similar contents and to apply the most important concepts of biochemistry in terms of their target groups.
Compulsory Module 12: Subject Didactics D (2.5 ECTS-Credits, 2 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of the Compulsory Modules 3 and 7
Learning Outcome: The graduates of this Module know the main functions of formulations in teaching chemistry. They develop competence-related tasks, use them in the lessons and evaluate their effectiveness. The reasonable selection of contents, teaching forms, methods and experiments and their use are documented in addition to the subject Related Practical Course. Chemistry lessons are reflected and documented based on subject-didactical criteria. The graduates are able to develop instruments for data collection for smaller teaching-learning-related research questions, evaluate and interpret the data.
Compulsory Module 13: Practical Course in Chemistry (5 ECTS-Credits, 1 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of the Compulsory Modules 3 and 4 to 7
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this Module are able to plan teaching units according to given objectives and with support of mentors, to implement them in practice and reflect the chemistry lessons. They have tested different teaching methods and social forms with regard to heterogeneity of learning groups and gathered first experience with learn-promoting performance feedbacks, achievements and evaluations. They are able to reflect their teaching and to use different feedback instruments.
Compulsory Module 14: Physical Chemistry B (5 ECTS-Credits, 4 h)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: successful completion of Compulsory Module 10
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this Module are able to demonstrate experimentally oriented working of physical chemistry and to independently perform, evaluate and document fundamental applied experiments. Apart from practical-experimental competences, they possess interdisciplinary key competences in teamwork as well as oral and written communication.
Compulsory Module 15: Bachelor's Thesis (5 ECTS-Credits, 1 h)
(no courses)
Learning Outcome: Students are able to carry out autonomously a practical-experimental work to a subject-related and subject-didactical topic of chemistry, to present the written results and defend them in a scientific presentation. They possess interdisciplinary key competences in oral and written communication, presentation techniques as well as time and project management.
Compulsory Module 16: Interdisciplinary Skills (7.5 ECTS-Credits)
(no courses)
Prerequisites for registration: the prerequisites of the respective Curricula do apply
Learning Outcome: Graduates of this Module acquire additional qualifications from other natural scientific subjects. They are able to independently elaborate similar contents and to form links to the teaching subject Chemistry. They are able to apply the most important concepts appropriate to the situation.
Courses with a total of up to 7.5 ECTS-Credits according to free places from the curricula of the bachelor study programmes set up at the of the Faculty of Biology and/or the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics at the University of Innsbruck, however not from the second teaching subject, can be chosen freely.Notes:
- There may still be changes in the courses offered as well as room allocation and course dates.
- The course descriptions found in the English version of the course catalogue are for informational purposes only. Authoritative information can be found in the "Vorlesungsverzeichnis" (German version of the course catalogue).