Course code:
519P2		 Course name:
Environmental Chemistry

Academic year:

2024/2025.

Attendance requirements:

101A2 + 102A2

ECTS:

6

Study level:

integrated basic and graduate academic studies

Study program:

Chemical Education: 4. year, winter semester, compulsory course

Teacher:

Aleksandar R. Popoviæ, Ph.D.
full professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Assistant:

Dubravka J. Reliæ, Ph.D.
associate professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Hours of instruction:

Weekly: two hours of lectures + three hours of labwork (2+0+3)

Goals:

Major goal of the course is to familiarize students with basic processes in the environment and their chemical foundations, characteristics and causes of the processes occurring in atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and biosphere, most important pollutants and fundamental chemical reactions responsible for their transformation in the environment.

Outcome:

Most important outcome of this course is to develop in student minds clear connection between theoretical physical and chemical laws and conditions and processes in the environment.

Teaching methods:

Lectures and lab work.

Extracurricular activities:

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Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

  1. P. Pfendt: Environmental Chemistry - part 1. Textbook Publishing Co., Belgrad, 2009.
  2. D. Veselinovic, I. Grzetic, S. Djarmati, D. Markovic: Physicochemical foundations of environmental protection - book 1: Conditions and processes in the environment (in Serbian), Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, 2005.
  3. D. Markovic, S. Djarmati, I. Grzetic, D. Veselinovic: Physicochemical foundations of environmental protection - book 2: Sources of pollution, consequences and protection (in Serbian), University of Belgrade, 2005.

Supplementary coursebooks:

  1. R. Wayne: Chemistry of Atmosphere, Oxford University Press, 2002.
  2. G. W. van Loon, C. J. Duffy: Environmental Chemistry - A Global Perspective, Oxford University Press, 2005.
  3. C. Baird, M. Cann: Environmental Chemistry, W. H. Freeman and Co., 2005.

Additional material:

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  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

0 points (2 hours a week)

Labwork:

10 points (3 hours a week)

Colloquia:

30 points

Written exam:

60 points