Undergraduate Course: Environmental Chemistry Level 10 (CHEM10048)

Course Outline
School	School of Chemistry	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Availability	Available to all students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	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.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: Chemistry 3A (CHEM09005) AND Chemistry 3B (CHEM09006) AND Chemistry 3P Practical and Transferable Skills (CHEM09007)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations	Students MUST NOT also be taking Environmental Chemistry Level 11 (CHEM11041)	Other requirements	Must include a weighted average of Grade D or higher in Chemistry 3A and Chemistry 3B, at the first attempt; or with the permission of Head of School.

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2014/15, Available to all students (SV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 30, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5, Summative Assessment Hours 2.5, Revision Session Hours 3, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 156 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	One degree exam of 2.5 hours.
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)			2:30

Academic year 2014/15, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 30, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5, Summative Assessment Hours 2.5, Revision Session Hours 3, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 156 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	One degree exam of 2.5 hours.
Feedback	Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)			2:30

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.

Reading List
None

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills	Not entered
Keywords	EnChem10

Contacts
Course organiser	Dr Mathew Heal Tel: (0131 6)50 4764 Email: M.Heal@ed.ac.uk	Course secretary	Ms Anne Brown Tel: (0131 6)50 4754 Email: Anne.Brown@ed.ac.uk