As per the UofC Calendar and the Faculty of Science regulations (G 2.3 Absence from In-Course Assessments), and the course outline students are required to notify the laboratory coordinator (Dr Hunt) ideally within 48 hrs of missing a laboratory section.
If you know you are going to miss a laboratory session ahead of time, then it is in your best interests to report the absence before the session takes place, ideally before the start of that week of laboratory activities. The laboratory coordinator will determine if the reason is valid or not based on the information provided and determine if it will be treated as an excused absence (EA) or not. Note that as per the course outline (missed work), a maximum of 2 EA are allowed per student per semester. In Fall '25 we don't have the resources to accommodate requests for rescheduling missed laboratory sessions.
Students without valid reasons to miss the laboratory work and don't perform the experiment during their scheduled laboratory time are deemed to be "absent" and will get a zero for all components of that experiment, i.e. a zero for that experiment. TAs will not grade components related to experiments the student did not perform.
In order to report missed laboratory work, you must complete the online "Missed Laboratory work" survey.
In order to obtain a prerequisite pass the course (i.e. C-), a minimum passing mark in the Laboratory (50%) is required.
As per the CHEM351 laboratory manual, students are required to complete a minimum number of experiments (i.e. attend laboratory session and submit
a report, see the appropriate manual for details). Students who fail to do so will be judged to have failed the laboratory
component and therefore will be ineligible for a prerequisite pass (C- or better).Therefore
any student who has concerns about satisfying this requirement should talk to
the laboratory coordinator as soon as possible.