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ESC-30056 - Module Specification
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment
Faculty of Natural Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 21 November 2024

ESC-30056 - Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment
Coordinator: Ian Oliver Tel: +44 1782 7 34956
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 6
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733615

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

none

Barred Combinations

none

Description for 2024/25

Ecotoxicology and Risk Assessment provides in-depth knowledge and understanding of principles and practises that crucially underpin many environmental monitoring, regulation and assessment regimes. Upon successful completion of this module students will have the skills to conduct ecotoxicology protocols, construct and interpret dose response curves, source and evaluate ecotoxicology data and generate risk assessment reports.

Aims
To provide a detailed understanding of ecotoxicology principles and practises and the science that underpins the discipline. To provide an in-depth understanding of how ecotoxicology data, once generated, is used to carry out environmental risk assessments and to generate environmental quality standards (EQS) that are critically important in environmental monitoring and assessment regimes.

Intended Learning Outcomes

critically assess and explain in detail a variety of ecotoxicology protocols and the scientific principles that underpin them: 2
understand, construct and interpret dose response curves depicting biological responses to an applied stress: 1,2
describe and comment on the ethical principles that guide ecotoxicology practises: 2
source, compile and critically evaluate ecotoxicity data: 1
use compiled ecotox data to conduct an environmental risk assessment and communicate the outcomes via a risk assessment report: 1

Study hours

8h lectures
8h computer based practical sessions
9h laboratory based practical sessions
4h discussion workshops
121h directed and private study, including set reading and assessment preparation.

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Report weighted 70%
2500 word Risk Assessment Report


2: Group Report weighted 30%
Research plan


The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 21 November 2024