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Course Catalog 01/02


Chemical and Metallurgical Eng

KMK054 Environmental Chemistry with Didactics 7.5 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:
Q IV

LANGUAGE:English/Swedish

EXAMINER
Douglas Baxter Univ lekt


PREREQUISITES
General admission



COURSE AIM
The course will provide basic knowledge in chemistry applicable to
proctical environmental analysis and necessary to understand how
anthropogenic activity affects the environment and its' cycles.
The course should also give a general knowledge in didactics for chemistry.



CONTENTS
The course is divided into three main parts:
- The atmosphere
- The hydrosphere
- The biosphere
In the first part, atmospheric chemistry and the effects of anthropogenic
emissions on the global climate and air quality is discussed.
Pollution of the worlds' water resources is treated in the second part, as
well as water chemistry and uses.
The effects of organic compounds and heavy metals are sudied in part three,
together with the application of chemical products in modern society.
Didactics for chemistry


TEACHING
Teaching consists of lectures and compulsory project presentations. Course
participants are expected to actively contribute to discussions during the
lectures, give accounts of home exercises and to present, both in written
and seminar form, a critical study of a current environmental problem.
Attendance at the first lecture is compulsory unless exemption is granted
in advance.The didactics are supervised selfstudies.


EXAMINATION
Approved study questions and project reports gives a grade 3 result. A
written examination with differentiated grades will only be given to
students interested in achieving a better result.


COURSE GRADE SCALE: U, 3, 4, 5

ITEMS/CREDITS

3.00ECTS
3.00ECTS
Didactics 1.50ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
P. Warfvinge, Miljökemi, KFS i Lund AB, 1998

Further information: International Office

Valid for the academic year 01/02.

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