KJM5700 – Environmental Chemistry
Course description
Schedule, syllabus and examination date
Course content
The course provides an integrated description of the chemical processes and equilibrium systems that determine mobility, transport, turnover, and effects of chemical contaminants in air, soil, and water. It also provides an introduction to natural chemical processes in the environment.?
Learning outcome
The course will provide students with basic knowledge necessary to understand and predict effect of chemical contaminants in the environment. After completing the course, you will learn about:
- pollutants in water and soil
- chemical equilibriums in air, soil and water
- dissolved natural organic matter
- the basics of atmospheric chemistry (tropospheric chemistry, stratospheric chemistry)
- outdoor and indoor air pollution
- the greenhouse effect and global climate change
- the basics of aerosol chemistry and physics
- the sources, transport and fate of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the environment
Admission to the course
Students admitted at UiO must?apply for courses?in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may?apply to take this course as a single course student.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.
Recommended previous knowledge
KJM3070 – Biogeochemistry (continued)
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with KJM9700 – Environmental Chemistry.
Teaching
The course runs over one semester. The teaching consists of:
- 30 hours of lectures.
Examination
- Final oral exam which counts 100 % towards the final grade.
It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: KJM9700 – Environmental Chemistry
Examination support material
No examination support material?is allowed.
Grading scale
Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a?postponed exam?at the beginning of the next semester.
New examinations?are offered at the beginning of the next semester for students who do not successfully complete the exam during the previous semester.
We do not offer a re-scheduled exam for students who withdraw during the exam.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.