2025-Fall Current Trends in Chemistry (CHEM500-01) The course syllabus

1.Course Information

Course No. CHEM500 Section 01 Credit 3.00
Category Major required Course Type prerequisites
Postechian Core Competence
Hours TUE, THU / 14:00 ~ 15:15 / Chemistry Bldg[310]Seminar Room Grading Scale G

2. Instructor Information

Choi Hee Cheul Name Choi Hee Cheul Department Dept. of Chemistry
Email address choihc@postech.ac.kr Homepage http://choigroup.wix.com/nmrl
Office Office Phone 279-2130
Office Hours

3. Course Objectives

This course is designed as every student gives a 25 min-presentation about his/her own research and the current research trend in the field, by which, as a main goal of this course, one learns how to give a good presentation, and shares the current trend of modern chemistry.
The disciplines to be covered are:
1. Current trend in Organic chemistry
2. Current trend in Inorganic chemistry
3. Current trend in Physical chemistry
4. Current trend in Analytical chemistry
5. Current trend in Materials chemistry
6. Current trend in Polymer chemistry
7. Current trend in Bio/medicinal chemistry
8. Current trend in Theoretical/calculation chemistry/physics (or Science)
or best -fit of any of the above.

4. Prerequisites & require

undergraduate, freshman graduate students (< 2 semester), exchange students are not allowed.

5. Grading

Attendance: 20%
Abstract: 10%
Presentation: 70%
Everyone except the speaker of the day will grade. For this, you need to download and bring the grading sheet from the PLMS site, and hand in it at the end of the class.

6. Course Materials

Title Author Publisher Publication
Year/Edition
ISBN

7. Course References

8. Course Plan

one presentation/class. 1:1 feedback session after the presentation.
The official language of the class is English.

9. Course Operation

Every student is supposed to hand in an abstract to prof. Choi a week before the presentation and upload it to PLMS after being approved by Prof. Choi.

10. How to Teach & Remark

The presentaion format adapts the American chemical society (ACS) National meeting.

11. Supports for Students with a Disability

- Taking Course: interpreting services (for hearing impairment), Mobility and preferential seating assistances (for developmental disability), Note taking(for all kinds of disabilities) and etc.

- Taking Exam: Extended exam period (for all kinds of disabilities, if needed), Magnified exam papers (for sight disability), and etc.

- Please contact Center for Students with Disabilities (279-2434) for additional assistance