• Use problem solving scientific methodologies related to environmental planning

• Ability to critique, through presentations of individual / group work, and the development of arguments.

The course content is divided into two sections:

Section 1

1. Natural and anthropogenic environment.
2. Sustainability – Principles of sustainability / sustainable development
3. Sociology and psychology of the environment, mainstreams.
4. Pollution of soil, water and air – effects on humans.
5. Global environmental problems.

Section 2

6. Environmental policy principles, bodies and instruments.
7. The main international conventions on global environmental problems.
8. National environmental policy: institutional framework, action plans.
9. The policy for the protection of nature and biodiversity.
10. Greenhouse emissions and climate change policies.
11. Climate change: mitigation and adaptation
12. Environmental Management Tools (Environmental Management Systems, Environmental Product Quality).

Specified Evaluation Criteria

Students are assessed by presenting their written assignment and oral presentation and final written examination.

The assignments are intended to demonstrate the student’s ability to research, develop and document a research question. This relates to all the individual learning outcomes of the course such as knowledge, understanding, analysis and synthesis of information.

The oral presentation is related to both the student’s knowledge and understanding. It is also linked to his ability to research international literature, but also to expose his views and substantiate them in public.

In the final written examination, the questions that students are asked to answer fall into three categories: (a) questions aimed at identifying the knowledge they have received, (b) questions aimed at verifying their understanding the various phenomena and their connection to consequences and outcomes, and (c) questions aimed at solving problems through analysis and / or synthesis of information. The categories of questions are related to the learning outcomes requested.

The evaluation system and the criteria are clear, adequate and to the knowledge of the students.

There is no process of evaluating the examination process. Transparency is ensured by the fact that student presentations are public and that students can see their exam paper and received grades from their teachers.

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