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20260412890The program emphasizes research, laboratory skills, and the ability to solve scientific problems effectively. It serves as a vital pipeline to supply industrial sectors and scientific institutions within the Kingdom with excellent competencies.
To become a center of excellence in advanced environmental sciences, empowering future leaders and researchers to provide innovative solutions and specialized expertise for national development sectors.
Preparing specialized and proficient cadres in various fields of environmental sciences to meet the community and market needs and development plans as well.
| Course Code | Course | Credits | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| ENS 608 | Advanced Environmental Microbiology | 3 | – |
| Description | The course discusses the environmental microbiology, classification and characterization (algae, mould and yeast, protozoa, bacteria and viruses), soil microbiology, air microbiology, aquatic microbiology, food microbiology, industrial microbiology, agriculture waste microbiology, role of microorganisms in domestic waste and sewage, microbial hazards of medical waste. | ||
| ENS 609 | Energy and Environmental Impacts | 3 | – |
| Description | This course deals with the relationship between environment and energy, as energy production and uses are the cause of the adverse environmental effects. The course deals also with different types of energy such as renewable energy, alternative energy, and so on. The course discusses the concept of economically ideal fuel taking into account environmental considerations. | ||
| ENS 611 | Advanced Atmospheric Chemistry | 3 | – |
| Description | Atmospheric chemistry is a crucial subfield of atmospheric science that focuses on the chemical processes occurring within the Earth's atmosphere. Research in this field is essential to gain an improved understanding of climate forcing, air quality, and the interactions between the atmosphere and biosphere. This course provides students with an overview of the most important concepts of atmospheric chemistry. It covers how atmospheric chemical species interact with other parts of the Earth, and how chemical reactions in the atmosphere control their concentrations. Students will learn how these chemical species and reactions influence both the global climate and environmental conditions. | ||
| ENS 602 | Instrumental Environmental Analysis | 3 | – |
| Description | This course covers the fundamental principles of spectrophotometric analyses and the theories behind spectrophotometric instruments. The topics discussed include electromagnetic radiation and its characteristics, absorption laws, wave interference and techniques to overcome it, colorimetric and turbidimetric methods, and emission spectroscopy. The course also focuses on the different types of instrumental analysis such as atomic absorption spectrophotometer, UV/Visible spectrophotometer, mass spectrophotometer, X-ray spectrophotometer, IR spectrophotometer, GC, HPLC, GC/MS. Furthermore, the course delves into electrochemical methods, which include the various types of electrochemical cells, reference electrodes, ion selective electrodes, glass electrodes, polarography and its applications. | ||
| ENS 607 | Integrated Environmental Management (IEM) | 3 | – |
| Description | The course discusses the approach of creating an IEMS. It covers the costs and benefits of an IEMS. It deals with IEMS developing process, step by step. The steps include laying the groundwork, creating an environmental policy, determining significant environmental aspects and setting objectives, evaluating alternatives, setting targets and measuring success, developing operational controls, implementing IEMS, building organizational support, and establishing continuing improvement. It proposes techniques and tools for every step. | ||
| ENS 694 | Research Methodology and Scientific Writing | 3 | – |
| Description | The course discusses the concept of scientific research, qualitative and quantitative research, the five major scientific research methods (differentiation, identification and limitations, hypotheses, data collection, relationship determinations and interpretations, role of statistics in research methods. It also discusses the types of scientific reports and publications, components of scientific reports, literature review, material and methods, data projection and discussion, reference list, summary and abstracts, conclusion and recommendations. | ||
| ENS 621 | Advanced Drinking Water Treatment | 3 | – |
| Description | This course discusses the advanced technologies required to produce safe drinking water. | ||
| ENS 622 | Groundwater Pollution and Protection | 3 | – |
| Description | The course discusses the environmental problems resulting from groundwater pollution according to its intended use, major sources of groundwater pollution in the Kingdom, and ways to prevent such pollution. The course also provides some examples of local pollution incidents. | ||
| ENS 695 | Seminar | 1 | – |
| Description | The course deals with a seminar in a subject approved by the department. Students will be trained on how to search in different references and how to write a seminar. Students will be evaluated through their performance. | ||
| ENS 604 | Advanced Environmental Impact Assessment | 3 | – |
| Description | No formal course description was found in the attached course report. Based on the reported course learning outcomes, the course addresses assessment of significant environmental effects of projects and development proposals; identification, prediction, and evaluation of biophysical, social, and other relevant effects; development of mitigation strategies; and application of environmental impact assessment steps and procedures through case studies and mini-projects. | ||
| ENS 606 | Environmental Specifications and Laws | 3 | – |
| Description | The course discusses environmental regulations; effects of regulations on economic development and sustainable development; objectives of environmental laws and their executive regulations; the national concerned agencies for environmental protection and their role; obligations of public and concerned agencies, and persons; violations and penalties; environmental protection standards for air and noise pollution, and wastewater; standards of water for use in different purposes; control rules and procedures of solid, medical, and hazardous wastes; the national contingency plan for combating marine pollution by oil and other harmful substances. | ||
| ENS 612 | Methods of Measuring Air Pollutants | 3 | – |
| Description | Methods of Measuring Air Pollutants, sampling techniques and analytical and statistical methods to measure and document environmental contamination in air. This course emphasis on measurements of air pollutants, sampling techniques, instrument selection and data reporting. | ||
| ENS 613 | Climatic Changes and their Environmental Effects | 3 | – |
| Description | The course provides an overview of earth warming and climate characteristics, greenhouse gases effects and global warming, IPCC reports. Discuss the following topics in more details: effect of climatic changes on human health and different ecosystems, and the strategies to prevent climatic changes. | ||
| ENS 614 | Air Pollution Transportation Modeling | 3 | – |
| Description | Describe different mathematical models in air pollution and Recognize mechanisms of air pollutants dispersion. | ||
| ENS 623 | Advanced Municipal Wastewater Treatment | 3 | – |
| Description | The course discusses the management and treatment of municipal wastewater; types, hazardous effects, collection methods, properties, different advance methods of treatment, recycling, reuse, and disposal methods. Assignments on these topics are provided as exercises. | ||
| ENS 624 | Marine Pollution Control | 3 | – |
| Description | This course discusses the assessment and rehabilitation of polluted coasts. | ||
| ENS 626 | Water and Wastewater Chemistry | 3 | – |
| Description | This comprehensive course provides an in-depth exploration of the fundamental chemical principles governing water and wastewater treatment processes. Students will delve into the chemical composition of water, understanding its properties and behavior, and explore the various chemical reactions involved in treating both potable water and wastewater. | ||
| ENS 601 | Advanced Environmental Statistics | 3 | – |
| Description | The course aims at describing Hypothesis testing, t-test for the comparison between two means, Chi-squared test, ANOVA (Analysis of Variance), Non-parametric tests: comparison between two independent samples (Mann-Whitney test) and between more than two independent samples (Kruskal-Wallis test), correlation and regression, use of SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). | ||
| ENS 627 | Management and treatment of industrial wastewater | 3 | – |
| Description | The course discusses the management and treatment of industrial wastewater; types, hazardous effects, collection methods, properties, different advance methods of treatment, recycling, reuse, and disposal methods. Application of nanotechnology in the treatment processes is illustrated. Assignments on these topics are provided as exercises. | ||
| ENS 631 | Advanced Chemical Analysis of Food | 3 | – |
| Description | Focused on the application of qualitative and quantitative techniques used in the physical, chemical, sensory and instrumental examination of food products. The lectures will cover the basic principles of analytical procedures and techniques commonly used to determine the chemical composition, physical properties and sensory characteristics of foods. | ||
| ENS 633 | Food-Borne Diseases | 3 | – |
| Description | The course deals with microorganisms responsible for food-borne diseases including infectious pathogens, toxigenic pathogens, mycotoxins produced by toxigenic fungi, viral diseases transmitted by food, chemical food intoxication, and allergens. The course provides in depth coverage of the factors affecting survival, growth, and control of microorganisms, infectious dose, health and economic impacts of food-borne diseases and the strategies of preventing food-borne diseases. | ||
| ENS 634 | Food Safety and Consumer Protection | 3 | – |
| Description | The course describes the microbial concepts in food safety, food poisoning, food intoxication, food infection, important microorganisms in food safety (Salmonella, Staphylococcus, Clostridium), mycotoxins in food safety, chemical aspects in food safety (nitrosamines, mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls and polybrominated biphenyls, reheated oils), antibiotics and food safety, proper use of food additives, regulations governing consumer protection. | ||
| ENS 635 | Conservation of Food Resources | 3 | – |
| Description | The course deals with the world food production, plant food resources, animal food resources, aquaculture and food production, utilization of modern technology in food conservation (processing, preservation, storage, transportation, handling, and marketing), protection of food production elements (soil, water bodies, animals), sustainable agriculture, modern agriculture practices and food resources. | ||
| ENS 636 | Food Microbial Analysis | 3 | – |
| Description | The course includes modern microbial lab in food analysis, general laboratory precautions, different methods for microbial survey in food, new technology in microbial density determination of food (Quanti-trays, AUP, and enzymatic determination), survey of food spoilage microorganisms, determination of food pathogens, lab applications for different food systems. | ||
| ENS 643 | Advanced Environmental Toxicology | 3 | – |
| Description | This course teaches the students toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics of some selected environmental pollutants, so that they can be familiar with the interaction of different xenobiotics with biological systems. It also explains the different mechanisms of carcinogenicity. Some techniques of biological monitoring of environmental exposure to carcinogens are also demonstrated. | ||
| ENS 651 | Advanced Occupational Health and Safety | 3 | – |
| Description | The course focuses on the analysis of the industrial processes and the assessment of exposure to the different hazards in the workplace. | ||
| ENS 662 | Waste Recycling | 3 | – |
| Description | This course discusses the advanced technologies of waste recycling. | ||
| ENS 663 | Advanced Hazardous Waste Management | 3 | – |
| Description | This course discusses the advanced technologies of Advanced Hazardous Waste Management. | ||
| ENS 691 | Advanced Noise Pollution and Control | 3 | – |
| Description | This master elective course cover specific topics related to noise and its control but n advance level for Master students. This course provides practical knowledge about the effects of noise pollution on the environment and health of the communities, room acoustics, sound and vibration, and how to control it using advanced techniques. | ||
| ENS 697 | Special Topics | 3 | – |
| Description | This course present and discuss the selected topic. | ||
| ENS 615 | Environmental Pollution and Urban Planning | 3 | – |
| Description | This course deals with studying urban planning, and its benefits of near and far-reaching implications for the individual in particular and the environment in general. It also discuss the benefits of planning cities in general and industrial cities in particular in pollution prevention. It also presents the specifications of clean city. | ||
| ENS 625 | Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes (Practical) | 3 | – |
| Description | The course explains the theory and applications of physical, chemical and biological unit processes used in water and waste water treatment. The course also includes practical laboratory for common unit processes using bench scale facilities. The course also helps in understanding and controlling the performance of unit processes when used in treatment of wastewaters, for example, coagulation/flocculation, chemical precipitation, filtration, adsorption, activated sludge, anaerobic digestion, and substrate utilization kinetics | ||
| ENS 652 | Assessment of Human Exposure to Poisons | 3 | – |
| Description | This course examines methods for evaluating human exposure to hazardous substances in the general environment or workplace. Methods of estimation of the total human exposure to chemicals as well as physical factors from all sources: air, water, food, soil are included. Special emphasis is given to body burden evaluation and biological monitoring of exposure and early detection of possible health effects. | ||
| ENS 661 | Advanced Solid Waste Management | 3 | – |
| Description | The course aims to introduce the students to a comprehensive problem- solving approach in the field of municipal solid waste management. It covers laws and regulations, collection, transportation, processing, and disposal techniques. Emphasis will be directed towards the economics of recycling and recovery of material and energy in an integrated fashion. Evolved practices and theories of waste management, such as zero waste concept, extended producer responsibility, life cycle assessment and management from cradle to grave, alternative cover system design are also discussed. | ||
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