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Course Status : Ongoing
Course Type : Core
Language for course content : English
Duration : 12 weeks
Category :
  • Environmental Sciences
Credit Points : 3
Level : Undergraduate
Start Date : 21 Aug 2025
End Date : 24 Oct 2025
Enrollment Ends : 04 Aug 2025
Exam Registration Ends : 22 Aug 2025
Exam Date : 24 Oct 2025 IST
NCrF Level   : 3.0

About the Course

This course focuses on the basic concepts of ecology, ecosystem types and services, concepts of biodiversity, its loss and conservation. This course provides thorough understanding of global environmental problems due to the growing perceptions of threats posed by pollution to human health, ecology, and planetary functioning. This course also provides a comprehensive overview of the main concepts, principles, strategies, and technologies involved in managing environmental pollution. Through a multidisciplinary approach, students will study the causes and consequences of pollution, as well as explore the tools and techniques available for its prevention, control, and abatement. The concept of land, soil and water as a natural resource and their conservation measures has also been included. The course also covers the importance of natural resources, energy resources, and mineral resources for the human kind, besides exploring the sustainable issues related to energy and mineral resource management. 

Course Layout

Week 1: Environment and its multidimensional Nature: Definition Scope and importance

Lecture 0 : Structure of Environmental studies course

Lecture 1 : Environment and its multi-dimensional nature. Definition, scopes and importance

Lecture 2 : Renewable and non-renewable resources: Food and food resources

 

Week 2: Renewable and non-renewable natural resources (Energy, Forest, Land, Mineral, and water resources)

Lecture 3 : Renewable and non-Renewable Energy resources

Lecture 4 : Forest Resources

Lecture 5 : Land resources

Lecture 6 : Mineral Resources

Lecture 7 : Water Resource 

 

Week 3: Biogeochemical cycles (Carbon, Oxygen, Sulphur, Phosphorus and Nitrogen cycle)

Lecture 8 : Biogeochemical cycle: Carbon Cycle

Lecture 9 : Biogeochemical cycle: Oxygen cycle

Lecture 10 : Biogeochemical cycle: Sulphur Cycle 

Lecture 11 : Biogeochemical cycle: Phosphorus cycle

Lecture 12 : Biogeochemical cycle: Nitrogen cycle 

 

Week 4: Ecosystem structure and Types of Ecosystem (forest, grassland, aquatic, desert etc)

Lecture 13 : Concept of Ecosystem and its Characteristics

Lecture 14 : Components of ecosystem- Abiotic 

Lecture 15 : Components of ecosystem- Biotic

Lecture 16 : Food Chain, Food Web, and Ecological Pyramids;

Lecture 17 : Types of Ecosystem (Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems)

 

Week 5: Concepts of Biodiversity, Biodiversity hotspots, Biodiversity conservation (in-situ and ex-situ conservation)

Lecture 18 : Concept of Biodiversity, Levels of Biodiversity

Lecture 19 : Threats to Biodiversity

Lecture 20 : Biodiversity Hotspots 
Lecture 21 : Protected Areas and their network in India (In situ conservation)

Lecture 22 : Ex-situ conservation: strategies, success: An integrated approach to biodiversity conservation.

 

Week 6: Environmental pollution; water, air and land pollution

Lecture 23 : Environmental pollution and air pollution

Lecture 24 : Air pollution

Lecture 25 : Water pollution

Lecture 26 : Soil pollution

 

Week 7: Climate change and global warming, Environmental laws

Lecture 27 : Climate change and global warming, Causes and Consequences

Lecture 28 : Environment Conservation Laws in India-Environment  (Protection) Act

Lecture 29 : Biological Diversity Act 2002

Lecture 30 : Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 part 1

Lecture 31 : Forest (Conservation) Act and Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 

Lecture 32 : Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act and National Environmental Tribunal Act  

 

Week 8: Social issues and the environment; sustainable development

Lecture 33 : Role of NGOs in Environment conservation

Lecture 34 : Social issues and the environment: Sustainable development

Lecture 35 : Sustainable development benefits and UN Sustainable Development Goals

Lecture 36 : Conclusion of Environmental studies course 

Pre-requisite: As this course is designed for Undergraduate students, hence 12th is compulsory to pass/clear

Assignments : 15% Assisnment, 15% MCQs,