SYLLABUS OF STUDY

Spring 2023

UNION COLLEGE, SCHENECTADY, NY

Location and Meeting Time: Wold Center 225;  M,W,F 9:15 AM-10:20 AM
Office hours: Wednesday 2:30PM-4:00PM, Thursday 9:00AM-10:30AM, or by appointment at http://www.calendly.com/profbdcohen

COURSE OBJECTIVES

The goal of this course is to familiarize you with the major topics in modern biochemistry.
Among these are:

1. Protein, lipid, and carbohydrate structure.
2. Enzyme kinetics, which allows us to investigate the rates at which chemical reactions occur in living organisms.
3. Enzyme mechanism, which allows us to understand catalysis by enzymes.
4. How enzymes are involved in the synthesis and degradation of molecules in living organisms (metabolism).
5. The applications of biochemistry to medicine.

• TEXTBOOK (required)
  • “Essential Biochemistry” by Pratt and Cornely, published by John Wiley, Inc. New York. You may choose the 5th ed. (2021) or the 4th ed. (2017).  This textbook is required, as there will be assigned readings (please see lecture schedule) that will either complement or expand upon the material presented during lectures.  However, the lecture period remains the most important and efficient way of learning the material in the course.

• LECTURE PRESENTATIONS
  • Lectures will be given in Wold Center 225 every Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 9:15 AM and 10:20 AM.  I will rely heavily on Nexus to transmit files including supplemental readings and slides presented in class.  If you have any problems please let me know so I can find another way to get you the required files.

• GRADES

• • Questions about grades on assignments must be resolved no later than one week after the assignment is handed back. No changes will be made after that time.

• LATE POLICY
  • All assignments are due by the beginning of the class period on the stated due date unless otherwise stated.  Work handed in later the same day will go down a fraction of a letter grade (i.e. B+ to B).  After that, the penalty for late assignments is one letter grade per day late (i.e. B+ to C+)

• STUDENTS REQUIRING ACCOMMODATIONS
  • Please come to my office with the appropriate documentation to discuss accommodations required such as extended test taking, etc.

Important Dates