Environmental Sciences
Student must complete 36 credit hours
Speciality Requirements Student must complete 18 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 400511 | Environmental Science | 3 |
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| This course looks at defining the concept of environment, human-environment relationship, and integration and interaction directions and the role of the human being in this. It looks at the study the impacts of industrial and urban development on the environment and the ramifications of the pollution and the exploitation of the natural resources. Other topics include the design and assessment of the environmental policies to solve the environmental problems and risks. | |||
| 400512 | Natural Resources Management | 3 |
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| Topics covered in this course includes water, hydrologic cycle, water balance, groundwater, surface water, water extraction from the different sources, water resources management, soil and aquifer systems, physical and chemical properties of soil, irrigation management, fertilization, protection of environment and natural resources. | |||
| 400513 | Environmental Law | 3 |
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| This course is a study of the regulations and environmental protection laws, legislation regarding the control of environmental pollution, study the administrative laws related to the protection of air, water, food and soil. Additionally, the course studies the laws that concern the noise, light and radiation pollution. | |||
| 400514 | Public Health & Sanitation | 3 |
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| This course looks at general concepts regarding the public health, pollution accumulation in water, air, and soil. Topics look at the exposure to the piousness and pollution that exist in nature, the environmentally sound methods for the disposal of dangerous waste and the general environmental awareness. | |||
| 400515 | Environment Social Impact Assessment | 3 |
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| This course consists of a study and evaluate the impacts of development projects upon the public. It defines and identifies the positive and negative dimensions resulting from the planning and environmental change especially on the life and its quality as well as the influence of environment on the soil and the different life styles. The course demonstrates the role of the social sciences on the understanding of the humanitarian dimension in the environmental planning. | |||
| 400516 | Applied Statistics | 3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include statistical methods, iteration, hypothesis testing, experimental design with environmental application, statistical applications, statistical analysis of the experiments and the use of computer codes and software in the analysis. | |||
| 400591 | Seminar | 0 |
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| This course consists of a presentation or a term project that addresses a problem of environmental nature in his speciality or research. | |||
| 400598 | Comprehensive Examination | 0 |
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| A graduate student must pass a qualifying examination (See Academic Rules and Regulations for Graduate Students). | |||
Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 18 credit hours
| Course Code | Course Name | Credit Hours | Prerequests |
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| 400551 | Environ. Microbiology | 3 |
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| This course examines the role of microorganisms in nature, the characteristics of the different types of microorganisms, relevant environment and the inter-relationship between the different types, transformations occurring within the geo-chemical cycle, microbial poisons and the relationship with environment. | |||
| 400552 | Wildlife Management | 3 |
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| This course looks at the ecology of the wildlife and the fundamentals of the management of its communities and the new technologies followed in this. It studies the management of the environmental nature and the characteristics of the plant communities, designation of the reservation areas and their construction, and the behaviour of the creatures in the wildlife. | |||
| 400553 | Coastal Management | 3 |
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| This course consists of a study of the characteristics of the marine environment, the economic importance of the marine resources, marine resources management, the risks of pollution of marine environment and the preservation laws, the guidelines and the special laws for the preservation of the marine resources. | |||
| 400554 | Fisheries Management & Aquaculture | 3 |
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| This course looks at the relationship between aquaculture and their respective environment, management of the fish farms and the relationship with the environmental distribution of the different species, contribution of the fish farms in solving food problems, the chemical and biological characteristics of water utilised and the relationship with fish health. | |||
| 400555 | Soil, Water & plant Relationship | 3 |
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| This course looks at the relationship between water, soil and plants. It looks at plant water requirements, irrigation scheduling, water transport and distribution, irrigation schemes, wastewater reuse in agriculture and the impacts of irrigation on the environment. | |||
| 400556 | Land Reclamation | 3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include the water and salt balance in soil, salinity sources in the soil and the different methods for the reclamation of saline land, the interaction between the basic elements in soil with water irrigation, boron affected soil, soil acidity, wind and water quality impacts on soil, soil preservation and the legislation regarding the protection of the agricultural areas. | |||
| 400557 | Environ. Pollution & Pesticides | 3 |
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| This course consists of a study the population growth problem and the food production, the downsides of using pesticides and the impact on human health, pesticide classification, assessment of pesticide residuals in plants, identification of the different types of pesticides used in agriculture in Palestine and the assessment of the allowable level of pesticides in the agricultural products. | |||
| 400561 | Environmental Chemistry | 3 |
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| This course looks at the implementation and application of the different chemistry concepts on the environmental problems such as air pollution, organic and inorganic pollutants, explanation of the different purification and disposal methods of pollutants, the methods utilised in the detection of the pollution occurrence and sample analysis. | |||
| 400562 | Instrumental Analysis | 3 |
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| This course includes an explanation of the main concepts of the automatic and instrumental analysis, spectral analysis, methods of electrochemical analysis, methods of separation and the electro-matography analysis. | |||
| 400563 | Corrosion Sc. for Environment | 3 |
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| This course looks at the theories and applications of the corrosion science and the relationship with environmental problems, corrosion in the reinforced material, pipes, energy production plants, methods for the prevention of corrosion and the preservation of the public safety. | |||
| 400564 | Petroleum & Petrochemical Pollution | 3 |
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| This course looks at methods used in the manufacturing and refinement of petroleum, separation methods, polymerization methods, the study the petrochemicals, pollution from petrochemicals and methods of pollution control and environmentally-sound methods of storage of petrochemicals. | |||
| 400565 | Pesticide Chemistry | 3 |
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| This course consists of an introduction to pesticides, health and economic problems resulting from the use of pesticides, impact of pesticides on life, the correct methods for handling and usage of pesticides and the universal accepted methods in this regard. | |||
| 400566 | Biochemistry of Toxins & Pollution | 3 |
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| This course looks at contemporary methods in the bio-chemistry of the pollutants and poisons and biological impacts of poisons on the life cycle of the living creatures. | |||
| 400567 | Mathematical Ecology | 3 |
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| This course studies differential equations, stability of equilibrium solutions, models of individual species, communities, exponential models, logistic models, the stability of logistic models, types and stability of multi-species models, the relationship between host and parasite, competitions, prey and predator, the epidemiological pattern and the policy of vaccination and the spread of pollutants models. | |||
| 400570 | Environmental Engineering | 3 |
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| This course focuses on the environmental elements and water quality, pollution control and water supply, treatment methods, wastewater collection, treatment and purification and reuse, instruments of pollution analysis, solid waste management, collection, sorting, recycling and disposal. | |||
| 400571 | Water Resource Management | 3 |
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| Topics in this course cover the conventional and non-conventional water resources, water demand assessment for municipal, industrial, and agricultural use types, surface and sub-surface water storage, planning, designing, the operation of water basins, management and control of water systems, economic analysis of water resources, the application of computer codes for the management and operation of water resources. | |||
| 400572 | Water Quality Control | 3 |
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| This course covers water quality standards, waste-water characteristics, pollution analysis, ways and problems of marine pollution and propagation in marine and beaches, petrochemical pollution and methods for measuring the biological factors and pollution control and water quality modelling. | |||
| 400573 | Industrial Pollution Control | 3 |
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| This course looks at the characteristics of the industrial waste and the methods for carrying out the field surveys and treatment methods especially for the petrochemicals, food production waste, electrical generation stations, chemical industry, and iron industry. It examines the defining the standards, regulations, and measuring methods for the control of the industrial pollution and corresponding treatment. | |||
| 400574 | Unit Operation & Processes in Env'l Eng'g | 3 |
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| This course looks at the methods and processes for the treatment of water and wastewater, the interaction of physical and chemical processes such as sedimentation, filtration, ion exchange, separation methods, chemical oxidation, gas separation, and biological processes. It also looks at the methods for the selection of treatment processes. | |||
| 400575 | Ground Water Hydrology | 3 |
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| Topics covered in this course include the hydrologic cycle, distribution, movement, storage, exploration on groundwater. Well hydraulics, construction, maintenance, development, sub-surface testing, movement analysis, surface and sub-surface interaction, the status of groundwater in Palestine, groundwater pollution and environmental planning are also examined. | |||
| 400576 | Environ't Planning & Impact Analysis | 3 |
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| This course looks at the basic concepts for environmental planning, relevant computations for the environmental impacts, environmental policies in the assessment of air and water quality, noisiness, energy, vegetation cover, wildlife and the socio-economic ramifications. | |||
| 400577 | Air Pollution Control | 3 |
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| This course consists of sources and characteristics of air pollution and the impact of this pollution. It looks at methods for the measurement and calibrating air quality and the climatic conditions that dictate the pollution. Other topics include the different methods of pollution measurement include adsorption, absorption, gas and vapor technology, water washing, electrolysis, burning, filtration and the efficiency of commercially available instruments for pollution control and treatment. | |||
| 400578 | Urban & Regional Planning | 3 |
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| This course looks into urban planning at city level with a historic background, theory and applications. Topics include the urbanisation and environmental and economic ramifications, explanation of the regional planning and the relationship with transportation, economic, distribution and population development. | |||
| 400579 | Waste Management | 3 |
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| This course looks at the generation and collection of solid waste, storage, and processes used and instruments utilised in the sorting and reuse and disposal. It also looks at high risk solid wastes and the management of solid waste. | |||
| 400580 | S. T. in Environ't Engineering | 3 |
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| This course looks at selected readings and profound discussions regarding an environmental engineering topic. | |||
| 400581 | S T. in Biolog'l & Agricu'l Sciences | 3 |
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| This course looks at selected readings and profound discussions regarding the biological and agricultural sciences with relative to environmental problems. | |||
| 400582 | S. T. in Physical Sciences | 3 |
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| This course looks at the selected readings and profound discussions regarding the natural sciences with relative to environmental problems. | |||