Course
code | NC263 |
credit_hours | 3 |
title | Environmental Science and Technology |
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prequisites | None |
credit hours | 3 |
Description/Outcomes | This course is designed to raise the level of environmental awareness of the students, and provide them with the necessary knowledge, capabilities, and attitude. This will enable them to deal more positively with environmental resources and their components, through learning about the diversity and complexity within the environment and the changes and transformations that occur through human activities. |
arabic Description/Outcomes | |
objectives | 1. Define Biosphere, Ecosystem, Pollution, Environmental Resources, Environmental Risk 2. Recognize the human impact on environmental resources 3. Differentiate between developed and developing countries 4. Differentiate between non-renewable and renewable energies 5. Review The disturbance in environmental cycle 6. Understand the interaction between the components of the ecosystem 7. Draw conclusions about the equilibrium of environmental systems |
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ref. books | 1. International Committee for Environment and Development, Our Common future, Translation by Mohamed Kamel Arif and Alam Al Marif. 2. Tolba, KK., Saving Our Planet, Challenges and Hopes, Centre for Arab Unity Studies, Beirut (Arabic). 3. Brown, Lester R, et al., The State of the World, World Watch Inst. |
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textbook | Cheryl Simon and Ruth S. De Fries, ONE EARTH, ONE FUTURE– OUR CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT (in Arabic), International Pub and Dis. House. Translation by Sayed Ramadan |
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