Sources, control, and modeling of air pollution; effects of air pollutants on human health and the environment; atmospheric chemistry, indoor air quality, and regulatory issues.
Athena Title
Environmental Air Quality
Prerequisite
CHEM 2211 and CHEM 2211L
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to evaluate evidence-based scientific data related to knowledge necessary to understand atmospheric pollutants and their health effects on humans and ecosystems.
Students will be able to evaluate air quality surveillance methodologies for ambient, workplace, and indoor air.
Students will be able to determine appropriate methods for air pollutant data collection to propose data collection and research studies.
Students will be able to compare the past and present regulatory and public policy issues of environmental air quality, especially with respect to environmental racism and environmental justice in the United States and in other nations.
Students will be able to translate policy that regulates air pollutants.
Students will be able to analyze and discuss human routes of exposure and health effects from air toxicants and examine the disparities among exposures to diverse populations at the local, state, country, and global levels.
Students will be able to quantify human exposure to air pollutants.
Students will be able to summarize the conditions prevalent in the majority world from indoor combustion of solid fuels.
Students will be able to communicate exposure reduction issues, scientific developments in air quality, and disease amelioration to diverse stakeholders. Especially to communities with varied education, socioeconomic, race and ethnicities.
Topical Outline
The atmosphere, movement of pollutants
Air Chemistry
The Clean Air Act, regulatory and public policy issues
Ambient air sampling methodologies, air quality surveillance and control
Climate change
Urban air pollution, and exposure disparities
Acid deposition
Global stratospheric ozone reduction
Workplace air pollutants, occupational exposures
Indoor air pollutants (e.g., homes, office buildings)
Air contaminant dispersion models
Institutional Competencies
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
Communication
The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, interpersonal, or visual form.
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
Social Awareness & Responsibility
The capacity to understand the interdependence of people, communities, and self in a global society.
