This online Environmental Chemistry course will teach you about the effects, reactions and origins of chemicals in the air, water, earth and living environments. Environmental Chemistry focuses specifically on the influence of human activities in chemicals in and around our world.
This Warnborough online course will give you a solid foundation of knowledge and insight into Environmental Chemistry. Over the course of your studies, you will:
- Learn chemistry basics
- Understand the significance of contaminants
- Recognise air pollution and its causes
- Understand how to contain, reduce or eliminate contaminants
- Investigate sampling and testing techniques
- Understand goals of green chemistry
- Link green-engineering to sustainability
- Understand the qualities of water source and recognise water pollution
- Understand the multiple roles of soil
- Manage environmental chemicals for better-quality human health
There is no way we can escape chemistry in our environment but we can learn ways to improve health outcomes, agricultural productivity or reduce risk from the chemicals around us.
COURSE Structure
The duration of this course is 100 hours and consists of 8 in-depth lessons.
- Introduction to Environmental Chemistry and Chemistry Concepts
- Chemistry
- Environmental chemistry through time
- Global warming, greenhouse gases and carbon sequestering
- Basic chemistry concepts
- Charges on Atoms and Bonds
- Compounds
- Organic and Inorganic Compounds and Biochemistry
- Used in Environmental Chemistry
- Ecological concepts in the environment
- Pollutants in the environment
- Degradation of pollutants
- Pricing measures implemented by government policy makers
- Types of pollutants
- Contaminants in the world’s natural environments (biomes)
- Air and Environmental Chemistry
- Composition of the atmosphere
- Vertical structure of the atmosphere
- Purpose of the atmosphere
- Air pollution and its source
- Effects of air pollution
- Climate change
- Reducing carbon and greenhouse gas emissions
- Water and Environmental Chemistry
- Hydrological Cycles
- Marine (Ocean) Environments
- Coastal Environments
- Continental and Inland Water Environments
- Water chemistry – important reactions
- Water categories and classifications
- Water and impurities and pollutants
- Water quality standards
- Water pollution management
- Methods of water treatment
- Soil and Environmental Chemistry
- The nature of soil
- Soil properties
- Important soil chemical reactions
- Soil chemistry and its importance in management
- Soil pollution
- Methods of soil remediation
- Bioremediation
- Environmental Chemistry and Health
- Environmental health as policy
- Specific health risks
- Environmental health levels
- Indoor and Outdoor air pollution
- Water pollutants and health
- Chemicals in households
- Biological controls, pitfalls and positives
- Creating green areas and raising public awareness
- Testing for Environmental Chemistry
- Introduction to sampling and testing
- Sampling design
- Sampling equipment
- Gas/air, soil and water sampling
- Agricultural produce/plant tissue sampling
- Using the correct sample container
- Chain of custody
- Chemical analysis in the field
- Simple colorimetric tests and simple meters
- Chemical analysis in the laboratory
- Applications for Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental assessment and management
- Principles of sustainable environmental management
- Green chemistry in environmental management
- Green chemistry is the future of environmental protection
- Environmental building practices
- Treating contamination or pollution sustainably
- Urban planning concerns and considerations
- Sustainable transport
- Barriers to sustainability and green design
HOW DOES A WARNBOROUGH ONLINE COURSE WORK?
You can start the course whenever is convenient for you. You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
If you have any questions please contact us.
