As per the Calendar and the Faculty of Science regulations (3.6 A “Missed Components of Term Work), students are required to notify the laboratory coordinator (Dr Causton) 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.
Depending on the circumstances, students with valid reasons (e.g. those that are appropriately reported in a timely manner to the Laboratory Coordinator) are normally required to make up the laboratory sessions. Valid absences can only be made up during week of the corresponding experiment, and by prior arrangement with the Laboratory Coordinator. No absences can be made up after the experiment has completed for the week. Each student is normally allowed one laboratory make up opportunity per semester (except where prearranged special permission has been granted).
Students without valid reasons to request a make up laboratory session are expected to perform the experiment during their scheduled laboratory time and those that don’t do that will get a zero for that experiment (an “unexcused” absence). If you don’t perform the experiment, then you can’t submit any of the laboratory components that are based on the in laboratory work for grading (e.g. report).
In order to request a make up a missed laboratory section, you must first complete the online "Temporary Change of Laboratory Section (TLS)" survey.
The information on the course website will allow you to find another laboratory section that you can attend. Submit the completed form at least 24hrs in advance of the make up the experiment. (to enable the appropriate information to be provided to you), make up the experiment.
Notes
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 Chem 353 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.