Environmental chemistryLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You enhance your understanding of the most important chemical processes in the environment.

You learn to apply the chemical knowledge to understand how chemicals behave in the environment.

You deepen your skills in laboratory practices in the field of chemical analytics. You know the commonly used methods and equipment of environmental measurements.

You are able to report and interpret the results of environmental analysis. You are able to assess the reliability of the results.

Content

What are the chemical factors affecting the behavior of chemicals in the environment?

What kind of methods are commonly used to pretreat and analyze environmental samples?

What are the most common measuring instruments in environmental analysis and how to use them?

What factors affect the analysis results and how to interpret the reliability of the results?

How are the analysis results interpreted and reported?

Qualifications

Completing the course requires basic knowledge of chemical theory, safe laboratory practices and common laboratory techniques.

Accomplishment methods

Students can

a. use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.

b. assess information sources critically.

c. work as team members in work-related expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.

d. assess operations in customer/client, user and target group situations.

e. choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.

f. promote teams’ goal-oriented operation.

g. apply critically the ethical principles of the professional field in different situations.