ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: RIPS10074f14Semester: 2014/2015 summer
Name: Threats of civilization and sustainable development
Major: Production Engineering and Management
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 4
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 30 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: Dr inż. Katarzyna Szopka
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: The course is giving students knowledge of the most important global hazards and their impact to environment. Students during the course recognized rules of sustainable development and get to know with sustainable use of natural resources.
Competences: Students have got a theoretical knowledge about global environmental problems, international law connected with these global problems. Passing the course permits to estimate the environmental hazards connected with human faktor.
Prerequisites: none
Course content: Global environmental problems (desertification, deforestation, global warm effect, ozon depletion decrease of biodifference). Global problem as: dynamics of human population, urbanization and food distribution and their impact to the environment. Sustainable development – definition, main rules, history. International and polish law connected with sustainable development.
Recommended literature: 1. Botkin D., Kelner E. „ Environmental Science” Jon Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2007 2. Bogda A., Kabała C., Karczewska A., Szopka K. „Zasoby naturalne i zrównoważony rozwój”, Wyd Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego we Wrocławiu, 2010
Assessment methods: Knowledge: Tests on exercises, written, minimum 60% of knowledge to pass Ability: Evaluation of tasks on the test, evaluation of performed projects, Social competence: Evaluation of effects of the teamwork
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