ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: NTSS10170o11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: Ecology and Environment
Major: Food Technology and Nutrition
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 7
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 12 / 12 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Lesław Szymański
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: After completing the course student will know the relationships between abiotic and biotic factors of the environment and their influence on the human’s health. He will know the sources of contamination the air, water, soil and forests as well as types of contamination produced by agriculture - food industry, agricultural and breeding production as well as different ways of its prevention. Student will know what the monitoring of the environment is. Also he will know the regulations of law and environmental protection as well as the international conventions concerning the environment protection and cooperation in this range.
Competences: After completing the course student will know the permissible contaminant level of the environment, methods of its protection, excluding the food industry.
Prerequisites: chemistry, biochemistry, overall and food microbiology, waste-water and energetic economics
Course content: Bases of ecology and environmental protection. Human’s environment. Natural resources. Atmosphere protection including: dangers, dust pollution and ways of its rendering. Water protection. Eutrophication and self-clining. The influence of water contamination on the food quality. Sources of soil pollution. The influence of soil contamination on the food quality and human health. Methods of soil protection, industry land reclamation and polluted soil disposal. Wastes disposal. Environment hazard connecting the wastes storage. Biospheric contamination with radioactive isotopes. Sources of radioactive contaminations and their influence on human’s health. Methods of prevention the radioactive food contamination.
Recommended literature: 1. Ekologia z elementami ochrony środowiska, Nawirska A., Wyd. WSH Wrocław 2006; 2. Podstawy ochrony środowiska, Głowiak B., i in., PWN 1991; 3. Wybrane zagadnienia z ochrony środowiska, Kluczek J., P., Wyd. ATR Bydgoszcz 1999; 4. Zagrożenia, ochrona i kształtowanie środowiska przyrodniczo-rolniczego, Red. Bieszczad S., Wyd. AR Wrocław 1999; 5. Natural and technological problems of protection and development of agricultural and forest evironment, Cieszkowski A., Wyd. AR Poznań 1999.
Assessment methods: Classes, written exam, percentage to pass - minimum 60%
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