Environmental Science Calcutta University

I have completed MSc. in Environmental Science and want to take admission in Ph.D. Environmental Science Course at Department of Environmental Science of University of Calcutta so please give me details about this course including Syllabus?

Can you provide me the course structure/syllabus for 3 -year Degree Course (Honours) in Environmental Science offered by University of Calcutta?

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The course structure/syllabus for 3 -year Degree Course (Honours) in Environmental Science offered by University of Calcutta is as follows:

PART I
Paper I (Theoretical)

UNIT I : Fundamentals of Environment (Marks : 25; Lectures 25)
I. Concept of Environment and Ecology: Definition, Types and Components of Environment
(Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithosphere and Biosphere); History and definition of Ecology; Scopes and Objective of Environmental and Ecological science; Man Environment relationships; Growth of environmental and Ecological science in India; Environmental history a brief account; Environmental ethics and awareness; Environmental literacy (formal and non-formal education); Environmentalism; Ecofeminism, Green concept in politics; Environmental Organisations at National and International level.

II. Current Global Environmental Issues: Green House effect, Climate change, North South conflict, Acid deposition, Desertification, Ozone layer depletion, El Nino phenomena, ENSO.

UNIT II : Physico-chemical principles of Environment (Marks : 25; Lectures 25)
I. Basics of General Chemistry: Molecular weight; Equivalent Weight; Molarity; Normality; Valency; Oxidation state and bonding; Oxidation and Reduction Reactions; Introduction to Periodic table.
II. Basics of Chemical Equilibrium and Kinetics: Stoichiometry; Chemical equilibrium; Gibbs energy; Chemical Potential; Acid-base reactions (acidity, alkalinity, buffer and buffer capacity); Solubility product; Complexation of metal ions and organic complexes in natural water.
III. Water Chemistry: Fundamentals of water quality. Concept of BOD, COD, Hardness, Carbonatebicarbonate system, Basic concept of colloid chemistry Principles of sedimentation, coagulation

IV. Air Chemistry: Classification of elements, particles, ions and radicals in the atmosphere; Chemical process for formation of inorganic and organic particulate matters in air. Air pollutants as gaseous and particulates such as CO2, O3 , SOx, NOx, Flyash, PM-10, PM-2.5, VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds), PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons), Peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN) and Photochemical smog. Ozone chemistry

V. Thermodynamics: Concept of System. First and second law of thermodynamics; Entropy; Enthalpy, Free energy; Chemical potential; Heat transfer process; Mass and energy transfer across the various interfaces; Material balance

VI. Meteorology: Concept of atmospheric stability; Mixing height, Ground level concentration, Inversion, Basic knowledge of climatological parameters for environmental study; Classification of Climate, Fundamentals of temperature, pressure, relative humidity, rainfall and wind speed.

VII. Energy Interactions: Energy budget concept: Radiation fluxes, metabolism of latent heat exchange.

VIII. Biogeochemical cycles: Carbon Cycle, Nitrogen Cycle, Phosphorus Cycle, Sulphur cycle.