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
Expository classes
Face-to-face master classes in the classroom, encouraging student intervention.
Interactive classes
Seminars: Face-to-face in the classroom. Student work under the tutelage of the teacher to study in detail important aspects of the subject; resolution of case studies, problems and issues.
Tutorials: for the personalized follow-up of the student, face-to-face in the classroom or telematics, using the virtual platforms available at USC and e-mail.
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 and instruments
1- Theoretical and practical knowledge of the subject: result of the final exam; percentage of final grade: 60%.
2- Follow-up and use of the subject: results of the periodic controls and of the proposed activities; percentage of final grade: 40%.
For the evaluation of the second opportunity a new final examination will be carried out; 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 year when it exceeds 50% of the maximum grade that can be awarded.
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, academic year 2021-2022, all the teaching activities to be developed in the subject are adapted to the different probable scenarios.
Teaching methodology
Scenario 2 (partial restrictions on physical presence)
The exhibition and seminar activities will be carried out synchronously, electronically, in the case of the exhibition activities, and in the classroom, in the case of the interactive ones. Tutorials will be resolved through synchronous Teams and asynchronous meetings through Moodle forums, as well as by consulting teachers by email. The final examination will be carried out in person / online depending on the health situation. Continuous assessment will be done virtually by conducting questionnaires and assigning tasks, using the Moodle platform.
Scenario 3 (closure of facilities)
The expository teaching will be given virtually, synchronously, using Microsoft Teams, complete with presentations available on the Moodle platform and additional information, in the form of documents for reading, web links, tests and videos. Interactive teaching (seminars) will be given through synchronous Teams sessions, and the proposal of activities and tasks in Moodle. Tutorials will be resolved through synchronous Teams and asynchronous meetings through Moodle forums, as well as by consulting teachers by email. The recommended Bibliography will be replaced by the online bibliography proposed in the presentations, and in the 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 final exam will be conducted electronically. Continuous assessment will be done virtually by conducting questionnaires and assigning tasks, using the Moodle platform.
Learning assessment system
The same criteria will be followed as in scenario 1:
1- Theoretical and practical knowledge of the subject: result of the final exam; percentage of final grade: 60%.
2- Follow-up and use of the subject: results of the periodic controls and of the proposed activities; percentage of final grade: 40%.
For the evaluation of the second opportunity a new final examination will be carried out; 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 year when it exceeds 50% of the maximum grade that can be awarded.
For cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of students' academic performance and the review of qualifications will apply.
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 (A- L) /CLE_01 | Spanish, Galician | 5035 Classroom 6 Faculty of Law |
| 15:30-16:30 | Grupo (M-Z)/CLE_02 | Galician, Spanish | 5035 Classroom 7 Faculty of Law |
| Wednesday | |||
| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo (A- L) /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | 5035 Classroom 6 Faculty of Law |
| 15:30-16:30 | Grupo (M-Z)/CLE_02 | Galician, Spanish | 5035 Classroom 7 Faculty of Law |
| Thursday | |||
| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo (A- L) /CLE_01 | Galician, Spanish | 5035 Classroom 6 Faculty of Law |
| 15:30-16:30 | Grupo (M-Z)/CLE_02 | Galician, Spanish | 5035 Classroom 7 Faculty of Law |