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SCIE13013 - Environmental Analytics

General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit will enable you to assess the functioning of the environment as a chemical system. Legacy and emerging contaminants and their environmental fate will be studied in air, land and water. In addition, the chemical principles you have learned in earlier units will be scaffolded into controlling parameters that influence the speciation and fate (accumulation, persistence and mobility) of chemicals. You will also undertake detailed examination of the relevant scientific literature on environmental case studies to contextualise and support your learning.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Completion of 72 credit points.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

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Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 40%
2. Presentation 20%
3. Written Assessment 40%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

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Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Describe the mechanisms of interactions of various contaminants of emerging concern in the environment
  2. Discuss the role of environmental controls of thermodynamics, pH and redox conditions on contaminant emission, mobility pathways, transformation, accumulation and environmental persistence
  3. Apply chemistry knowledge towards the environmental fate of contaminants, including accumulation, transformation and persistence
  4. Demonstrate a sound understanding of analytical knowledge for contaminant measurement, monitoring and remediation
  5. Communicate findings from analytical measurements in a scientific manner, using peer-reviewed literature to support interpretations and arguments
  6. Identify appropriate chemical analyses suited for environmental case studies.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
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7 - Cross Cultural Competence •
8 - Ethical practice • •
9 - Social Innovation • •
10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures •
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