1996 Swinburne Higher Education Handbook

SC467 Environmental Health Practice (1)
7.5 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn
Prerequisites: SClOO Environmental Health
This is a second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Environmental Health)
Content
Food establishment evaluation design and construction
standards, hygienic practices, auditing and registration
procedures.
Cleaning and sanitisation procedures for food plant and
equipment.
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Liquid domestic waste management septic systems design,
installation and effluent disposal. Approval procedures.
SC468 Environmental Science
10 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn
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Prerequisites: SC1500, SC252, SP236. Assessment:
Examination/Practical Work
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I This is a first year subject in the Bachelor of Applied Science
(Environmental Health)
Objectives
To study water chemistry in terms of sources and
vollutants and their effects
To study analysis of water for polluting potential
To study swimming pool chemistry
To study chemistry of household products
To study meteorology and related phenomena.
Content
Meteorology atmospheric variables, measurement of
humidity, air pollution, atmospheric stability, inversion,
plume behaviour, local effects.
Water chemistry: Natural waters, pollutants, sources and
environmental effects. Purification methods, standards.
Water analysis. Parameters and their significance.
Swimming pool chemistry: Domestic chemistry Chemistry
in the household (detergents, pesticides, renovating
chemicals, motor chemicals, swimming pool chemicals,
proper handling and disposal of domestic chemicals).
Practical work: 20 hours. Focuses on water analysis, stream
surveys and swimming pool water analysis.
Recommended reading
Selinger, B., Chemistry in the aMarket Place, 4th edn, Harcourt
Brace and Jovan, Brisbane.
SC469 Epidemiology
7.5 credit points 3 hours per week Hawthorn
This is a second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Environmental Health)
Content
Overview, nature and scope of epidemiology. Nature,
transmission and control of various diseases of public health
importance including exotic diseases, sexually transmitted
diseases, myco-bacterial and viral infections, food-borne
diseases, skin contact diseases, parasitic infections and
zoonotic diseases.
Immunology and immunisation procedures with particular
reference to Victorian requirements.
SC470 Chemistry
15 credit points 5 hours per week Hawthorn
This is a second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Applied Chemistry) and (Biochemistry/Chemistry)
Content
Descriptive inorganic chemistry selected compounds of
main group elements - thermodynamics of formation,
chemistry.
Organic chemistry acidity, basicity. Carbanions, application
to synthesis. Aromatic compounds.
Coordination chemistry fundamentals.
SC472 Biochemistry
12.5 credit points 6 hours per week Hawthorn
This is a second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Biochemistry/Chemistry)
Content
Anabolic pathways biosynthetic pathways leading to
glucose, glycogen, lipid, protein, DNA.
Regulation and control of metabolism control mechanisms
operating at the level of the gene and at enzyme level.
Examples will be drawn from fermentation pathways.
Written assignments will form a major part of the subject.
Laboratory exercises include protein purification and
analysis, and experiments in metabolism and metabolic
control.
Techniques used will include thin layer chromatography, gel
filtration, selective precipitation, ion exchange, gel
electrophoresis, spectrophotometric and enzymatic analysis
of metabolites and the use of oxygen electrode.
SC473 Applied Chemistry
12.5 credit points 4 hours per week Hawthorn
This is a second year subject in the Bachelor of Applied
Science (Applied Chemistry)
Content
Organophosphorus/silicon chemistry. Basic NMR.
Preparation, reactions and reaction mechanisms of
or~nophosphorus and silicon compounds, using examples
of industrial importance. An introduction to basic uroton
NMR is also inEluded.
Polymer chemistry
Classification of polymers. Introduction to polymerisation
reactions, including industrial polymerisation processes.
Characteristic properties of polymers and their
measurement, including molecular weight determinations
and crystallinity by X-ray spectroscopy.