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MILJØ200 Pollution and Environment

Credits (ECTS):10

Course responsible:Trine Aulstad Sogn Tomasgaard

Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås

Teaching language:Norsk

Course frequency:Annually

Nominal workload:250 hours in total. Lectures + exercises + presentations: 50 hours. Own effort: 200 hours (preparations, work on case and semester assignment).

Teaching and exam period:This course starts in Autumn parallel. This course has teaching/evaluation in Autumn parallel.

About this course

Lectures: Definitions of pollutants and environmental toxins with reference to radionuclides, metals, organic pollutants/pesticides, atmospheric sulphur and nitrogen compounds and climate gases. Substance characteristics, compound structures and microchemical reactions. Actual transport routes. The importance of hydrolysis, polymerising, ion change and selective binding, chemical absorption, complexes and chelates, precipitation and co-precipitation, colloidal compounds in water and redox reactions in soil, water and sediments for transport and availability of pollutants and environmental toxins.

Learning outcome

The student should understand the important processes relevant to the fate of pollutants and environmental toxins in nature. They should understand how pollutants and environmental toxins are deposited in nature, how they can be transported and how they can be retained in the atmosphere, hydrosphere and the terrestrial environment. The student will be able to do rough estimations related to environmental pollution. The student will obtain a good background to evaluate most pollutants and environmental toxins in an objective way.
  • The subject matter is interdisciplinary which is true for all parts of the course. The lectures are used for communicating facts, but it is important for giving the topic the necessary uniform profile. The practicals are on simple cases and they are an important part in working out simple estimates. The semester assignment should be delivered as a presentation on a topic of choice within the subject. This will give a possibility to focus more on certain parts of the topic and also give exercises in presentation of the chosen topic.
  • MATH100, KJM100.
  • GEO100, JORD100, JORD160, KJM120, BIO130.

  • Portofolio assessment:

    • Term paper in group with digital presentation (10%)

    • Individual assessment - case 3 (20%)

    • Continous test - september (10%)

    • Continous test - october (10%)

    • Overall test - november (50%)

    All parts must be passed to pass the course.

    Grading system: A-E/Not passed.



  • The external examiner will be involved in the planning, execution and revision (evaluation) of the course. The last part exam, (acounting 50%) will be assessed by the external examiner.

  • Work and delivery of the cases within the given deadline.

    Evaluation of cases from other students.

    Submission of a term paper as a presentation. The presentation should be recorded and being available for other students.

  • Lectures: 36 hours. Exercises: 16 hours.
  • B-MILJØ, M-MILJØ, M-LUN, M-KB
  • 10 ECTS against MINA200 (1).
  • Special requirements in Science