ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
Areas: Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
Center Faculty of Pharmacy
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
To provide students with knowledge about the environment, its constituents, dynamics, routes of contamination, and to help students understand and establish the relationships between environmental health and human health.
The course is divided into eight themes or units, which are presented in the lectures and interactive sessions.
Unit 1. An introduction to environmental knowledge.
Unit 2. Atmospheric environment. Composition of the atmosphere. Atmospheric dynamics.
Unit 3. Atmospheric pollution. Impact of air pollution on human health.
Unit 4. Water environment. Components of the water cycle.
Unit 5. Water pollution. Environmental and health problems caused by such pollution.
Unit 6. Terrestrial environment. Soil: composition, organization and functions. Soil reactivity. Soil health.
Unit 7. Soil contamination. Environmental and health problems arising from the application of agrochemicals and from contamination by heavy metals.
Unit 8. Waste management. Types of waste and main management systems. Environmental and health aspects.
Baird, C.; Cann, M. Química Ambiental. Editorial Reverté. 5ª Edición. 2014.
Brady, Nyle C. The nature and properties os soils. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, cop. 2008. 965 p.
Henry, J. G; Heinke, G.W. Ingeniería Ambiental. Prentice Hall.2ª Edición. 1996.
Holgate, S.T.; Samet, J.M.; Koren, H.S.; Maynard, R.L. (Editors). Air pollution and health. Academic Press. London. 1999. 1065 pp.
Martin Vide, J. Fundamentos de climatología analítica. Ed. Sintesis S.A. Madrid. 1991. 158 p.
Peirce, J. Jeffrey. Environmental pollution and control. Ed. Butterworth-Heinemann. MA. USA. 4ª edición 1998. 392 pp.
Pérez López y Espigares García, Estudio Sanitario del agua. Servicio de Publicaciones Universidad de Granada.
Porta, Acevedo y Roquero, Edafología para la Agricultura y el Medio Ambiente. Ediciones Mundi-Prensa. 3ª edición 2003. Madrid. 929 pp.
Sanz Sá, J. M. La contaminación atmosférica. Unidades temáticas ambientales. MOPT, Centro de publicaciones. Madrid. 1991.
Tchobanouglous, G., H. Theisen, S.A. Vigil, Gestión integral de residuos sólidos. McGraw Hill. 1996.
VVAA. Manual de contaminación ambiental. Ed Fundación MAFRE. Madrid 1994.
Wark, K.; Warner, F. Contaminación del aire: origen y control. Ed. Limisa. México. 1999.
General competences:
Within the framework of the class curriculum, the following points will be especially reviewed:
9. To participate in health promotion and disease prevention activities, at the individual, household and community level, with a multi-professional and comprehensive vision in the health-disease process.
12. To carry out health and hygiene analysis, especially those associated with the food and the environment.
Specific competences:
Q10. To know the principles and procedures has to be designed for the analytical determination of compounds: analytical techniques applied in the water, food and environmental analysis.
MF14. To know the analytical techniques related to laboratory diagnosis, toxic substances, food and environment.
LS01. To know the foundations of public health and participate in health promotion activities, disease prevention in the areas of individual and public health, and can contribute to the health education, recognizing the health determinants of the population, both genetic and affected by gender and lifestyle, demographic and environmental aspects, social and economic factors, as well as physiological and cultural influences.
Transversal competences:
CI03: basic general knowledge
CS01: capacity to apply knowledge in practice
CS03: capacity to learn
CP01: critical and self-critical ability
Scenario 1 (without restrictions on physical attendance)
Lectures
Face-to-face lectures in the classroom, promoting the intervention of the students.
Interactive lessons
Seminars: Face-to-face in the classroom. Student work under the supervision of the teacher to study in detail important aspects of the subject; resolution of practical cases, problems and questions.
Tutorials: for personalized follow-up of the student, face-to-face in the classroom or online, using the virtual platforms available at the USC and by email.
Scenario 2 (partial restrictions on physical attendance)
The lectures will be carried out synchronously online. The seminars will take place in person in the classroom. The tutorials may be face-to-face in the classroom or synchronous and asynchronous telematics, using the virtual platforms available at the USC and by email.
Scenario 3 (closure of facilities)
Lectures will be synchronous telematics, using Microsoft Teams, and asynchronous through the Moodle platform, which offers pdf presentations or recorded Power Point documents, documents for reading, web links, questionnaires and videos. Interactive teaching (seminars) will be carried out through synchronous sessions in Teams, and the proposal of activities and delivery of tasks in Moodle. The tutorials will be carried out through synchronous meetings through Teams and asynchronous through Moodle forums, as well as by consulting the teachers by email.
The evaluation of the competences acquired in the subject will be:
1. Exam:
- General competences 9 y 12.
- Specific competences Q10, MF14, LS01.
- Transversal competences CI03, CS03.
2. Interactive lessons:
- General competences 9 y 12.
- Specific competences Q10, MF14, LS01.
- Transversal competences CI03, CS01, CS03, CP01.
Evaluation criteria:
- Result of final exam: 60%
- Continuous assessment (regular controls and deliverables of the proposed activities): 30%
At the request of the interested students, the evaluation of criteria 1 and 3 will be saved, only for the following course, when they exceed 50% of the maximum qualification that can be awarded.
1- Theoretical and practical knowledge of the subject: result of the final exam; percentage of the final grade: 60%.
2- Continuous assessment (regular controls and deliverables of the proposed activities); percentage of the final grade: 40%.
For the evaluation of the second opportunity there will be an exam; The final grade will be calculated in the same way as described for the first opportunity (60% criterion 1 + 40% criterion 2).
At the request of interested students, the evaluation of criterion 2 will be saved, only for the next course, when it exceeds 50% of the maximum grade that can be awarded.
In scenarios 2 and 3, the final exam and questionnaires, as well as the contribution of tasks, will be done virtually, using the Moodle platform.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Regulations for the evaluation of student academic performance and review of grades" will apply.
Hours of attendance and self study required to pass the subject:
Attendance:
Lectures: 23 hours
Interactive classes (seminars): 18 hours
Interactive classes (tutorials): 2 hours
Exams and revision: 2 hours
Total hours of attendance:45 hours
Student:
Self-study: 51 hours
Completion of exercises: 12 hours
Orientation and resolution of doubts: 3 hours
Exam review/appeals : 1.5 hours
Total hours of autonomous study: 67.5
Total number of hours: 45 +67,5 = 112.5 hours
Attendance to lectures (face-to-face or virtual) on a regular basis; attendance and participation in interactive classes (face-to-face or virtual); use of resources available on the virtual platform; consultation of the bibliography and realization of the suggested complementary activities; tutorial assistance to address the difficulties being encountered.
Contingency plan
Following the Guidelines for the development of a safe face-to-face teaching, course 2020-2021, all the teaching activities to be developed in the subject are adapted to the different probable scenarios.
Scenario 1 (no restrictions on physical presence)
Teaching of lectures and interactive activities in the classroom; assessment by final face-to-face exam in the classroom; synchronous and asynchronous continuous assessment through questionnaires and tasks, using the Moodle platform.
Scenario 2 (partial restrictions on physical presence)
The lectures and seminar activities will be carried out synchronously, electronically, in the case of the lectures, and in the classroom, in the case of the interactive activities. The completion of the final exam, and the continuous assessment through questionnaires and the submission of tasks, will be done virtually, using the Moodle platform.
Scenario 3 (closure of facilities)
Lectures are given virtually, synchronously using Microsoft Teams, completed with pdf presentations available on the Moodle platform and additional information in the form of documents for reading, web links, tests and videos. Interactive teaching (seminars) is taught through and synchronous Teams sessions, and the proposal of activities and tasks available in Moodle. Tutorials are resolved through synchronous Teams and asynchronous meetings through Moodle forums, as well as by email teacher consultation. The Bibliography is replaced by the online bibliography proposed in the presentations and complementary activities available in Moodle and Teams. Recommendations for the study of the subject include the use of the virtual platform Moodle, participation in Team meetings, consultation of accessible bibliography, carrying out suggested complementary activities and participation in online tutorials to solve difficulties. The completion of the final exam and questionnaires, and tasks delivery, will be done virtually, using the Moodle platform.
Beatriz Loreto Prieto Lamas
- Department
- Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
- Area
- Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
- Phone
- 881814594
- beatriz.prieto [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Maria Teresa Del Carmen Barral Silva
Coordinador/a- Department
- Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
- Area
- Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
- Phone
- 881815041
- mteresa.barral [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
Remigio Paradelo Nuñez
- Department
- Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
- Area
- Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry
- Phone
- 881815042
- remigio.paradelo.nunez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Ministry Post-doctoral Contract
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| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Spanish, Galician | 5035 Soil Science Seminar Room |
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| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_02 | Galician, Spanish | 5035 Soil Science Seminar Room |