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Concept, theories, objectives and historical overview of air quality. Composition of air. Air pollution, sources, types, causes and effects. Industrial and municipal air pollution, environmental problems arising from air pollution-global warming, ozone layer depletion, acid rain, photochemical smog, corrosion of artefacts, abrasion of surfaces & other bodies, inhibition of photosynthesis and many others. indoor air pollution like environmental tobacco smoke, biomass fuel, asbestos, carbon monoxide, sick building syndrome (SBS) and many others; health and environmental effects of air pollution. Equipment and tools in air quality assessment. Introduction to air quality models. Risk assessment such as health risk assessment and risk management, hazard and identification in the field and human exposure assessment, health risk characterization, health impact assessment and epidemiological methods. Air quality sampling, monitoring and analysis. Air quality standards and guidelines (national and international) air pollution prevention and control Meteorology. Institutional roles in air quality management.

Introduction to basic instrumentation in environmental health principles. use and maintenance of laboratory and field instruments in environmental health:- Centrifuge, Refrigerator, Deep freezer, Hot Air Oven, Spectrophotometer (VIS & UV), Colorimeter, Water distiller, Incubator, Semi Auto- Analyser, Hot plate, heater, Water bath, Fume chamber, Electrophoretic tanks (Shandon model), Electronic weighing balance (Top load), Hematological Analyser, Thermostat oven, Fume cupboard, Magnetic hot plate, Temperature control oven, Heating mantle, Microscopes(camera, teaching and many others); Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Machine, Colorimeter (Hand held), Autoclave, Dessicators, Rotators, De-ionizer, Distiller machine, Hood fume cabinet, Laminar flow hoods, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer (AAS), Light meters and Luminance meters, Anemometers, Manometers, Magnifying Lens, Food probes Thermometer, Refractometer, Dust detector, Ozone monitor, Radiation monitors, Flame Ionization detector (FID), Global Position Systems (GPS) and remote sensing, Gas chromatographty, Toxic gas meters, Combustible gas and Oxygen meters, Infrared Analyzers, Isocyanate monitors, Heat stress monitor, Volatile organic compounds Monitors (VOCs), Smoke generators, Spirometer, Audiometer, Blood gas meter, Gas analyser -CO, CO2, NO4, SO4, H2S, Methane, Particulate meter 2.5 & 10, Gel electrophoresis apparatus, magnetic stirrer, vortex mixer and many others; Documentation, preservation and transportation; calibration, maintenance of basic instruments; standard operating procedures in the use of basic instruments; safety management; documentation and reporting.

Definition, types of data, classification and types of samples, sampling techniques data distribution descriptive and inferential statistics. Vital and health statistics. Use of computer based statistical packages – such as statistical package for social sciences (SPSS), epi-Info, epidata, strata, R, stacia, and many others. and many others Calculate rates: Attack rate, infection rate, contamination rate, Death rate, Crude Death Rate and many others.

Sound patterns in English Language (vowels and consonants, phonetics and phonology). English word classes (lexical and grammatical words, definitions, forms, functions, usages, collocations). Sentence in English (types: structural and functional, simple and complex). Grammar and Usage (tense, mood, modality and concord, aspects of language use in everyday life). Logical and Critical Thinking and REASONING Methods (Logic and Syllogism, Inductive and Deductive Argument and Reasoning Methods, Analogy, Generalisation and Explanations). Ethical considerations, Copyright Rules and Infringements. Writing activities: (Pre-writing , Writing, Post writing, Editing and Proofreading; Brainstorming, outlining, Paragraphing, Types of writing, Summary, Essays, Letter, Curriculum Vitae, Report writing, Note making and many others. Mechanics of writing). Comprehension Strategies: (Reading and types of Reading, Comprehension Skills, 3RsQ). Information and Communication Technology in modern Language Learning. Language skills for effective communication. Major word formation processes. Writing and reading comprehension strategies. Logical and critical reasoning for meaningful presentations. Art of public speaking and listening.

Content (theory): concept and scope of information technology, Computers for information storage, information seeking, and information processing and information transmission. Elements of computer system, computer hardware and software. Numeric data, alpha numeric data. Contents of a program and processing. Computer organisation, block diagram of a computer, CPU, memory. Input devices. Keyboard, mouse and many others. output devices, VDU and Printer, Scanner and Plotter. Electrical requirements, inter-connections between units, connectors and cables. Secondary storage: magnetic disks – tracks and sectors, optical disk (CD and DVD Memory), primary and secondary memory: RAM, ROM, PROM and many others. Capacity; device controllers, serial port, parallel port, system bus. Exercises on file opening and closing. Memory management. Device management and input – output (I/O) management with respect of windows. Installation concept and precautions to be observed while installing the system and software. Introduction about Operating Systems such as MS-DOS and Windows. Special features, various commands of MS word and MS-Excel. About the internet – server types, connectivity (TCP/IP, shell). Applications of internet like: e-mail and browsing. Various Browsers like WWW (World Wide Web). Hyperlinks; HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). FTP (File Transfer Protocol). Basics of Networking – LAN, WAN and Topologies. Practical: Given a PC, name its various components and list their functions. Identification of various parts of a computer and peripherals. Practice in installing a computer system by giving connection and loading the system software and application software. Installation of DOS and simple exercises on TYPE, REN, DEL, CD, MD, COPY, TREE, BACKUP commands. Exercises on entering text and data (Typing Practice). Installation of Windows 98 or 2000 and many others. Features of Windows as an operating system: Start, Shutdown and restore, Creating and operating on the icons, Opening closing and sizing the windows, Using elementary job commands like – creating, saving, modifying, renaming, finding and deleting a file, Creating and operating on a folder, Changing setting like, date, time color (back ground and fore ground), Using short cuts, Using on line help. MS-WORD: File Management: Opening, creating and saving a document, locating files, copying contents in some different file(s), protecting files, Giving password protection for a file, Page Set up: Setting margins, tab setting, ruler, indenting, Editing a document: Entering text, Cut, copy, paste using tool-bars, Formatting a document: Using different fonts, changing font size and colour, changing the appearance through bold/ italic/ underlined, highlighting a text, changing case, using subscript and superscript, using different underline methods: Aligning of text in a document, justification of document, Inserting bullets and numbering, Formatting paragraph, inserting page breaks and column breaks. Use of headers, footers: Inserting footnote, end note, use of comments, Inserting date, time, special symbols, importing graphic images, drawing tools, Tables and Borders. Creating a table, formatting cells, use of different border styles, shading in tables, merging of cells, and partition of cells, inserting and deleting a row in a table. Print preview, zoom, page set up, printing options, Using Find, Replace options, Using Tools like: Spell checker, help, use of macros, mail merge, thesaurus word content and statistics, printing envelops and labels. Using shapes and drawing toolbar, Working with more than one window in MS Word, How to change the version of the document from one window OS to another.

Introduction to ecology and environmental management, nature of our environment: the earth. Atmosphere, biosphere, stratosphere and many others. Chemical, physical and biological factors in the environment. Biogeochemical cycles: carbon cycle, Nitrogen cycle, Hydrological cycle. Basic environmental concepts and theories. Global environmental health issues. Microbial and parasite ecology. Population ecology; -, food chain and web. Energy flow through the biosphere. Biotic communities and ecological succession. Relationships and interdependence of organisms. Human ecology. Introduction to environmental pollution and many others. Environmental Management Systems. Environmental Management Plan.

Elementary set theory. Subsets. Union. Intersection. Complements. Venn diagrams. Real numbers. Integers. Rational and irrational numbers. Mathematical induction. Real sequences and series. Theory of quadratic equations. Binomial theorem. Complex numbers. Algebra of complex numbers. The Argand diagram. De-Moiré’s theorem. Nth roots of unity. Circular measure. Trigonometric functions of angles of any magnitude. Addition and factor formulae. 200 Level

This course is designed to be the student’ second encounter with the ECSA Programme and business/enterprise creation is expected to form its focus of attention. At the end of this course, every student is expected to have conceived and registered a business enterprise or an organisation to be used as the vehicle for the actualization of the dream product (idea) approved at the end of the first semester course GNS 203. The students are to be taken through: Definition and Conceptual Clarification of Entrepreneurship, The Characteristics of Entrepreneurship and Success Secrets, Theories and Psychology of Entrepreneurship, Definition of Business (the Enterprise, the Activity), Business: Its Characteristics and Objectives, Business Classification and Ownership Forms, The Scale of Business Operations and Locations, The Theory of the Business, The process of establishing a business and practical registration of a business enterprise.

Definitions, concepts. General introduction to Epidemiology, Environmental epidemiology and domain of environmental epidemiology. Exposure Assessment. Descriptive Analysis, methods of investigation including the use of Time –Trend and Spatial pattern analysis. Poisson Regression. Surveillance, Risk Assessment and management. Pollution of air, water and soil, ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. Investigation of disease clusters, potential environmental hazards to health. Rudiments of environmental epidemiology, use of statistical packages (SPSS, EPI – INFO, Epidata) and vital statistic and many others. Environmental contamination, environmental remediation, exposure quantification, dose response analysis, healthy worker effect principles, measures of association, causality & attribution.

Introduction to Environmental Health laboratory. Importance and functions of Environmental Health laboratory (EHL). Construction and organisation of EHL. General laboratory, specific EHLs, environmental health biology, Environmental Health chemistry, environmental health physics, arbovirus laboratory. Safety precautions in the laboratory – safety manuals. Instrumentation: Microscopes, autoclaves, incubators, sterilizers, fridge/ freezers, hot air oven, lasers, gas chromatography, High-powered liquid chromatography, Atomic Absorption spectrophotometer (AAS) UV-visible spectrophotometer and many others, colorimeter, audiometer, dosimeter, cryostat, Polymerase Chain Reaction and many others. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in field and laboratory practice. Preparation of standard solutions and reagents. Documentation and storage of laboratory equipment and reagents. Laboratory assessment and chemical hygiene. Sample collection, preservation, transportation and analysis for water, air, food, soil, objects, fomites and body fluids and body fluids. Application of EHLs in forensics. Sample collection and analysis from crime scene. Quality assurance and quality control. Concept of laboratory log book, record keeping and reporting. Field trip to various environmental facilities such as water treatment plant, waste water treatment plant, solid waste management facilities, public health laboratories, markets, selected industries, and many others. professional accreditations of EHL. Role of EHLs in disease control. Accident and emergency management: -chemical spills, swallow, fire, falls, exhaustion and many others.