- Department: Environment and Geography
- Module co-ordinator: Prof. Mark Hodson
- Credit value: 20 credits
- Credit level: I
- Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
- See module specification for other years: 2021-22
Occurrence | Teaching period |
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A | Autumn Term 2022-23 to Spring Term 2022-23 |
This module aims to provide the student with an understanding of and ability to predict key chemical processes that occur in contaminated and natural environments.
By the end of the module, within the context of reactions occurring in the environment you should be able to:
Generic / Employability Skills:
Students will develop the skills necessary to predict and model reactions in the environment from both a theoretical and practical perspective. This will involve experience of chemical calculations, modelling and wet chemistry. The practicals will also lead to the development of data handling and reporting skills.
Key generic skills will include:
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Essay/coursework Web based Short Answer Questions throughout term |
N/A | 5 |
Essay/coursework Web based Short Answer Questions throughout term |
N/A | 5 |
Online Exam -less than 24hrs (Centrally scheduled) Environmental Geochemistry Open Exam |
3 hours | 70 |
Practical Practical Exam |
N/A | 20 |
None
Formative work is embedded through out the module via wet chemistry practicals which allow for the development of skills assessed in the practical exam and paper-based practicals which allow for practice of the types of work examined in the Open book exam and the web-based short questions.
Task | Length | % of module mark |
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Online Exam -less than 24hrs (Centrally scheduled) Environmental Geochemistry Open book exam |
3 hours | 100 |
Students will receive feedback informally throughout the course during the practicals that are designed to enhance understanding of the lecture material and develop practical skills.
Answers with feedback on the short answer questions will be released on the VLE after the deadline for each set of questions.
Feedback on the written and practical exams will be via a class session where students can access their scripts in Term 3.
Principles of Environmental Geochemistry Nelson Eby
Principles and applications of inorganic geochemistry Gunter Faure