Graduate Syllabus
Course Code : 0521MES4
Course Title : Environmental Issues and Policies of Bangladesh
Credit: 3
Rationale of the course:
This course explores environmental issues, and different environmental policies through the lens of emerging environmental issues. The course provides an overview of significant government environmental statutes, and introduces students with contemporary issues in environmental policies, law, including public nuisance theories to address environmental harms and their response to climate change.
Course Code : 0521MES(IV)1
Course Title : Air Pollution and Mitigation Technologies
Credit: 3
Rationale of the course:
This course is an introduction to air pollution, with an emphasis on outdoor rather than indoor air pollution. Topics to be covered include sources (emissions) of air pollution, both gaseous and particulate, transport and dispersion of atmospheric pollutants, and methods of measuring, quantifying, and analyzing. A brief introduction of techniques of controlling and mitigating air pollution will also be provided.
Course Code : 0521MES(IV)2
Course Title : Climate Change and Global Warming
Credit: 3
Rationale of the course:
This course is designed to introduce students to the concept of climate change, greenhouse gases, global warming, and sea level rise. This course will deliver students with an understanding of causes, sources, and impacts of climate change, greenhouse gases, global warming, and sea level rise. This course will also discuss the basic ideas on paleoclimatology. Student will also be equipped with the idea of climate regulation and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Course Code : 0521MES(IV)3
Course Title : Environmental Impacts of Natural Resource Exploitation
Credit: 3
Rationale of the course:
The blessings of the environment should be enjoyed by the present generation and succeeded to the future generations. A sustainable society should be created where environmental pressure by human activities is minimized. This course will focus on the environmental impacts of different kinds of natural resources overexploitation. Students will equip with the idea of various kinds of natural resources, and the causes and consequences of their overexploitation.
Course Code : 0521MES(IV)4
Course Title : Oceanography and Marine Environment
Credit: 3
Rationale of the course:
Oceanography and marine environment focuses on the biological, physical, geological, or chemical oceanography. Study can learn marine life, ocean floor, chemicals in sea water, water temperature and density, tides, and currents. Oceanography applies chemistry, geology, meteorology, biology, and other branches of science to the study of the ocean. It is especially important today as climate change, pollution, and other factors are threatening the ocean and its marine life.
Course Code : 0521MES1
Course Title : Fundamentals of Environmental Science
Credit: 3
Rationale of the course:
This course is designed to provide students about the knowledge on environmental degradation, which is related with sustainable development. It is the science that helps students to understand their social responsibility for environmental development, and creating awareness for solving the different environmental problems.
Course Code : 0521MES2
Course Title : Research Methods
Credit: 3
Rationale of the course:
This course focuses on an introduction of basic concept of research methods, sampling technique, data presentation to the student. Students will be taught to design research, develop different research methods, and make presentation on different topic also. This course also covers the different types of survey method; student will learn different types of presentation methods.
Course Code : 0521MES3
Course Title : Physical Environment: Systems and Principles
Credit: 3
Rationale of the course:
The course provides an understanding of the contemporary view of the earth as an integrated system involving dynamic interactions among the atmosphere, oceans, solid earth, and life. Emphasis is placed on how Earth's climate system at the present time, how it evolved in the past, and predictions for the future. The subject matter includes new observations of the global systems from space; the circulation of the oceans and atmosphere, cycles of elements essential for life, the co-evolution of climate and life on earth, current problems, e.g. the greenhouse effect from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, deforestation, and depletion of the ozone layer. In later part, regional and local issues vis-à-vis global system will be treated in some length.
Course Code : 0521MES(IV)5
Course Title : Waste and Pollution Management
Credit: 3
Rationale of the course:
This course introduces students to the causes, sources, and impacts of various types of pollution. It covers water chemistry, wastewater characteristics, primary, secondary, and tertiary treatment processes, sludge disposal, and the design wastewater treatment systems. The course also addresses hazardous waste management and strategies for reducing marine pollution.
Course Code : 0521MES(IV)6
Course Title : Environmental Hazards and Disaster Management
Credit: 3
Rationale of the course:
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the concepts, definition, principle, branches, and scope of environmental hazards and disaster management, such as – flooding: nature and extent of flood hazards, urbanization and flooding, perception of flood, Coastal hazards: tropical cyclones, tsunamis, coastal erosion, perception and adjustment of coastal hazards. The concept of sustainability and sustainable development as a fundamental objective of this course. This course will also explore earthquake and its causes, earthquake hazard reduction, prediction and control, volcanic activity, effects, prediction of volcanic activity, and perception of the volcanic hazards.
Course Code : 0521MES(IV)7
Course Title : GIS and Remote Sensing and their Application
Credit: 3
Rationale of the course:
This course serves as an introduction to the understanding of the Geographical Information System (GIS) and remote sensing. The students will gain a global perception of organizing geographic, descriptive, and image data through the different topics studied related to GIS and remote sensing. It will provide students with knowledge of geo-spatial database structure, spatial data model, and spatial analysis. It will also help students to understand and explain the basics of electromagnetic spectrum and photogrammetry, data acquisition, extraction, analysis and interpretation. Finally, the students will be introduced to the use of GIS in different sectors, such as resource management, transport network management, public protection and security services, mineral resource exploration and evaluation, watershed management, and to address different environmental problems such as environment conservation, environmental management, etc.
Course Code : 0521MES500
Course Title : Thesis/Dissertation
Credit: 10
Rationale of the course:
Research projects in Lab/any study area will help the students to achieve advanced level knowledge and dynamic skills which will benefit them to prepare for future development. Study design, hypothesis and possible outcome is the most crucial part of a research project which will be constructed by the supervisor. Working under a supervisor and team members will also develop his/her communication skill and etiquette. The course will also help them to understand about the critical thinking, troubleshoots and problem solving approaches from the research works.
Course Code : 0521MES501
Course Title : Research Project
Credit: 7
Rationale of the course:
Laboratory works in research Lab/ study area will help the students to achieve professional level knowledge and dynamic skills which will benefit them to prepare for future development. Working under a supervisor and team members will also develop their communication skill and etiquette. The course will also help him/her to understand the management, troubleshoots, and problem solving approaches of an industry or research laboratory.
Course Code : 0521MES502
Course Title : Dissertation
Credit: 34
Rationale of the course:
Research projects in lab/ any study area will help the students to achieve advanced level knowledge and dynamic skills which will benefit them to prepare for future development. Study design, hypothesis and possible outcome is the most crucial part of a research project which will be constructed by the supervisor. Working under a supervisor and team members will also develop his/her communication skill and etiquette. The course will also help them to understand about the critical thinking, troubleshoots and problem solving approaches from the research works.