Undergraduate Course: Environmental Chemistry Level 11 (CHEM11041)
Course Outline
| School | School of Chemistry |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Chemistry |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | A lecture course on the general theme of Environmental Chemistry which covers: the chemical processes occurring naturally in Earth's atmospheric, aquatic and soil environments; the impacts of human perturbations to these processes on historic, contemporary and future timescales; and simple quantification of the partitioning and movement of chemical components through environmental media. The course comprises individual lecture courses on Atmospheric Chemistry, Soil and Aquatic Chemistry, Environmental Radioactivity, and Environmental Modelling.
Either the Level 10 or Level 11 version of this course (as specified in the degree programme tables) is a compulsory requirement for Year 4/5 students on degrees in Chemistry with Environmental & Sustainable Chemistry, but can be taken by Year 4/5 students on any Chemistry degree programme.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Friday |
| King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 11:10 - 12:00 | | | | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | 11:10 - 12:00 | | | | King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | | 11:10 - 12:00 |
| First Class |
Week 1, Tuesday, 11:10 - 12:00, Zone: King's Buildings. t100 |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 3:00 | | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:
- set the context of the evolution of Earth's atmosphere in comparison with other selected planetary bodies
- account qualitatively, and quantitatively, for the physical structure and chemical composition and processes in Earth's atmosphere and to apply this knowledge to rationalise issues of current atmospheric concern (for example stratospheric ozone depletion, ground-level ozone production and urban air pollution)
- describe in detail the nature, properties and evolution of soils and sediments
- predict and rationalise the distribution and behaviour of metal and organic contaminants in soils and sediments
- understand the chemical equilibrium approach to speciation in aquatic systems and interpret speciation diagrams
- account for the distribution of, and exposure to, natural and manmade radionuclides in the environment
- outline the use of radionuclides as tracers of environmental processes
- to integrate environmentally meaningful laboratory data (e.g. octanol-water partition coefficients) into a quantitative treatment of the distribution, reactions and inter-phase transfer of environmental contaminants.
Learning outcomes specific to attainment of a pass at Level 11 include:
- ability to integrate all, or most, of the main areas of the course
- development of original and creative responses to problems and issues within the course
- application of critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to issues at the forefront of the subject area
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Assessment Information
| One degree exam of 3 hours. |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | EnChem11 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Mathew Heal
Tel: (0131 6)50 4764
Email: M.Heal@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sarah Mcneil
Tel: (0131 6)50 4707
Email: Sarah.F.McNeil@ed.ac.uk |
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