Chemistry 420
Course Objective: This course is designed to develop knowledge of chemistry
fundamentals; and the basic principles and concepts of environmental chemistry.
The student will develop knowledge of geochemistry,
atmospheric chemistry, environmental microbiology, water treatment.
Student Learning Outcomes: This course will introduce students to several
problems in Environmental Chemistry, appropriate in the undergraduate
curriculum. Upon completion of this
course students will be able to:
- Recognize environmental
principles, and applications of modern analytical and chemical techniques
for measuring and controlling contaminants.
- Recognize fundamental
chemistry of environmental assessment, and use of this knowledge in every
day situations. (Topics will include equilibrium, oxidation-reduction
reactions, kinetics, solubility, acid-base chemistry, and thermodynamics
to complex environmental processes).
- Discuss the environment and man's impact
upon it.
- Demonstrate analytical chemical methods needed
to monitor, control, and study the environment.
- Illustrate statistical methods for
establishing adequate criteria for the analytical methods.
- Discuss models describing systems of the
environment, and the normal values and trends for environmental contaminants.
- Describe the effect of
contaminants on the environment and its inhabitants, including humans.
- Explain important
environmental constituents.
- Explain Environmental
regulations and their effect on our lives.
- Recognize interrelations
between energy, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere/lithosphere, the
biosphere, and complex environmental processes.