| NAME OF THE COURSE |
Chemical Ecology |
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Code |
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Course teacher |
Prof Marija Bralić |
Credits (ECTS) |
6.0 |
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Associate teachers |
Asst Prof Maša Buljac |
Type of instruction (number of hours) |
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Status of the course |
Elective |
Percentage of application of e-learning |
0 % |
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| COURSE DESCRIPTION |
Course objectives |
Understanding of the basic groups of toxic pollutants, their way of dospjevanja into the environment, the transmission of the environment, their deposit and adversely affected.
Risk assessment and the ability to prevent harmful effects during working with chemicals. |
Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course |
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Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes) |
After course students will be able to :
1. definition of basic concepts and history of chemical ecology
2. the origin of the chemical constituents in the ecosystem
3. classification and labelling of hazardous chemicals
4. transport mechanisms in the environment
5. sources of pollution as a result of human activity
6. interactive impact of pollutants
7. how to process the obtained knowledge of the toxicological and ecotoxicological information |
Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus) |
Lecture 1: Introduction. Definition of basic concepts in ecology
Lecture 2: Identification of chemical components in the ecosystems, natural resources.
Lecture 3: Risk assessment of pollutants
Lecture 4: The main disturbances in ecosystems caused by human activities
Lecture 5: Overview of the sources of pollution as a result of human activity
Lecture 6:Distribution of pollutants. Pesticides, metals, fertilizers, mechanisms of toxicity
Lecture 7: The first midterm test
Lecture 8: Physical and chemical properties
Lecture 9:.The transport mechanisms in soil, water and air
Lecture 10: Bioaccumulation and bioconcentration in organisms and ecosystems
Lecture 11:The excretion of toxic substances from the organism
Lecture 12:Mitigation of biodegradation
Lecture 13: Sources and effects of contamination. Determination of risk from an environmental point of view
Lecture 14: The classification and labeling of hazardous chemicals. Legislation and toxicological tests in Croatia and the EU.
Lecture 15: The second midterm test
Seminar: The seminar consists of practical tasks and student seminars. Determining the kind of interaction of different pollutants in a particular case. To determine the classification of adverse effects. Defining the concentration limit harmful substances.
Students independently produced work on a selected topic on the basis of scientific papers in the relevant scientific databases and presenting it.
Lab course: Methods of preparation materials. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the most important pollutants. Ecotoxicity tests. Determination of metal toxicity biomonitoring. Determination of the harmfulness of fluoride ion in the environmental community in an aqueous medium. Analysis of the results obtained toxicity tests, statistical methods. |
Format of instruction: |
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Student responsibilities |
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Screening student work (name the proportion of ECTS credits for eachactivity so that the total number of ECTS credits is equal to the ECTS value of the course): |
Class attendance |
1.0 |
Research |
0.0 |
Practical training |
0.0 |
Experimental work |
1.0 |
Report |
0.0 |
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0.5 |
Essay |
0.0 |
Seminar essay |
0.0 |
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Tests |
1.0 |
Oral exam |
1.5 |
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Written exam |
1.0 |
Project |
0.0 |
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Grading and evaluating student work in class and at the final exam |
During the semester, the two partial test to check if the knowledge of students from courses included material. During the semester students will be selected from the lecture topic to make a seminar that will affect the final grade. After completion of the semester, students take a written exam courses included material from the seminar. If the student meets at one of the partial tests during the semester, material from passing the test does not need to take the written exam. After passing the written part of the exam, the oral exam. Prior to joining the laboratory exercises, students’ knowledge of material from the respective exercise will be verified by tests. All exercises must be passed all preliminary exams and completed. The student has the right to exercise fail one exercise, but you will catch up at the end of the semester. For all aspects of teaching evaluation will be conducted according to the following criteria: <55% inadequate; 55% -65% is sufficient; 66% -75% good; 76% -85% very good;> 86% excellent. The final grade will be the arithmetic average of ratings from exercises, written assessment and oral examination. |
Required literature (available in the library and via other media) |
Title |
Number of copies in the library |
Availability via other media |
C.H. Walker,S.P.Hopkin, R.M. Sibly, D.B. Peakall. Principles of Ekotoxicology, Taylor&Francis,London, 2006. |
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U Zavodu 1 primjerak |
B.L. Carson, H.V.Ellis III, J.L.McCann. Toxicology and biological monitoring of metals in humans, Lewis Publishers, INC.Michigan, 1987. |
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U Zavodu 1 primjerak |
F. Plavšić, I. Žuntar. Uvod u analitičku toksikologiju, Školska knjiga Zagreb, Zagreb, 2006. |
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U Zavodu 1 primjerak |
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Optional literature (at the time of submission of study programme proposal) |
V.Srebočan. Veterinarska toksikologija, Medicinska naklada, Zagreb, 2009.
L. Robinson, I. Thorn. Toxicology and Ecotoxicology in chemical safety assessment, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005.
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Quality assurance methods that ensure the acquisition of exit competences |
Methods Quality assurance will be performed at three levels: (1) University; (2) Faculty Level by Quality Control Committee of teaching; (3) Level. |
Other (as the proposer wishes to add) |
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