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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

312494 (v.1) Environmental Chemistry 352

Note

Tutition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.

Area: Department of Chemistry
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 13.0
Lecture: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Fortnightly
Laboratory: 4 x 4 Hours Quarterly
Fieldwork: 3 x 7 Hours Quarterly
Prerequisite(s): 312489 (v.1) Chemical Structure and Spectroscopy 201
AND
312490 (v.1) Analytical Chemistry 202
Syllabus: The unit is an advanced chemistry unit which builds upon and expands the knowledge gained in successful completion of Chemistry 201, Chemistry 211, Chemistry 202 and Chemistry 212. Topics to be addressed in this unit include: Aquatic Chemistry: chemistry of natural water systems, including oceans, lakes, rivers, groundwater; physical, chemical and aesthetic indicators of water quality and their analytical methods; water systems as resources and implications on water quality (8 lectures) Atmospheric Chemistry: stratospheric ozone chemistry and tropospheric chemical phenomena, including photochemical smog and acid rain; the mechanism of the Greenhouse Effect and global warming (8 lectures) Biogeochemistry: chemistry of sediments and soils, including molecular markers of organic matter; acidification of soil systems; acid-mine drainage; formation of petroleum and its molecular composition (8 lectures)
Field of Education: 010500 Chemical Sciences (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External