KE6031 - Environmental Pollution and Health

In this module, you will learn through lectures, seminars, fieldwork and IT workshops. In addition to timetabled sessions, your independent study will be guided and supported through your engagement with a range of interactive learning resources accessible on-line via the module eLP site, including electronic reading lists.

Lectures will be used to overview key issues and concepts across the range of topics covered on the module, and participation in seminars, IT workshops and local fieldwork will enable you to consolidate the links between theory, practice and application.

Throughout the module you will engage in small group activities during which you will benefit from peer interaction and support from the teaching staff. In the workshops, for example, you will interact closely with teaching staff who will provide formative support and feedback on activities leading up to the assessment tasks.

Each topic will be further supported by on-line resources available via the module eLP site. These resources include an interactive reading list with on-line access to a number of key cutting-edge journal articles and aligned with your lecture programme.
Teaching staff operate an ‘open door’ policy for students meaning you can approach them anytime during normal office hours, or via email, to answer questions, receive feedback and support your learning on the module.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. Online reading lists (provided after enrolment) give you access to your reading material for your modules. The Library works in partnership with your module tutors to ensure you have access to the material that you need.

Knowledge & Understanding:
• MLO 1: From a holistic perspective, critically analyse issues surrounding air, soil and water quality and appreciate both the temporal and spatial nature of such pollution and the health impacts of selected air, soil and/or water pollutants.
• MLO 2: Review and evaluate the regulatory systems that exist for air, water and/or soil pollution control at global, European, national and/or local levels and how different types of interventions can be used to alleviate the effects/impact of these pollutants.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
• MLO 3: Select and evaluate appropriate interventions in relation to pollution management.
• MLO 4: Demonstrate effective report writing skills oral communication skills, critical thinking and an ability to synthesise a range of literature sources.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
• MLO 5: Develop and demonstrate an informed concern about human health, wellbeing and environmental justice.

The summative assessment for this module comprises two tasks:
1. An individual oral report (50% weighting);
2. An individual written report (50% weighting; 1500 words).

The project/enquiry-based nature of these assessments will enable you to integrate theoretical and applied aspects of air/water/soil pollution.

Both assessments will test MLOs 1 – 5.

Formative assessments form part of the workshop activities as well as the opportunity to undertake a formative group oral report

Written feedback, together with the mark awarded, will enable you to feed forward key aspects into assessments in other modules at both levels 6 and 7.

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On this module, you will engage with a range of contemporary issues across air quality management, water pollution and contaminated land, informed by/grounded in staff research; analyse and interpret environmental data using a range of modelling techniques; evaluate different types of interventions; and develop a good working knowledge of the regulatory systems that exist for air, water and soil pollution. Practical-based IT workshop elements of the module focus learning on how to evaluate data by actively modelling. Assessment on the module will be through project/enquiry-based tasks, which will enable you to integrate theoretical and applied aspects of air/water/soil pollution. On completion of the module, your ability to link theory and application, with an informed concern about human health, wellbeing and environmental justice will serve to enhance your future employment prospects.