Undergraduate Course: Environmental Chemistry Level 10 (CHEM10048)

Course Outline
School	School of Chemistry	College	College of Science and Engineering
Course type	Standard	Availability	Available to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate)	Credits	20
Home subject area	Chemistry	Other subject area	None
Course website	None	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.

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.
Additional Costs	None

Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites	None
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?	Yes

Course Delivery Information

Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)						WebCT enabled: Yes		Quota: None
Location	Activity	Description	Weeks	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	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	First class information not currently available
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)			2:30

Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Part-year visiting students only (VV1)						WebCT enabled: Yes		Quota: None
Location	Activity	Description	Weeks	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	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	First class information not currently available
Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)			2:30

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.

Assessment Information
One degree exam of 2.5 hours.

Special Arrangements
None