myStudy - Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Dates

weekly | Tuesday | 08:15 - 11:45 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 7.320 Seminarraum

Curriculum context

Module

53898000 Fundamentals of Natural Sustainability Science

Assessment

[28255] Distribution, degradation and effects of chemicals in the environment

Form of assessment

Combined academic performance

Examiner

Oliver Olsson (responsible), Morten Suk

Elements of assessment:

Home assignments (70%)
Presentation and participation in student-led discussions (30%)

Dates

Date of assessment: Friday, 10.07.2026
Resit date: No resit date will be offered to this assessment, because it is didactically inseparably connected with one of the associated courses. A resit will only be possible, if the module is available again.

Notices

Home assignments: For each exercise and have to be submitted until the 2nd date of each exercise. Scientific presentation: Oral presentation of results and discussion of one exercise, max 20 min and discussion. | Important note! The elective courses are bundled into 7 modules. Please note, that you can only select each module once. However, you can take a second course from a module as "voluntary additional credits" in a following semester. | Anzeige von Anmeldebeginn und -ende systembedingt. Selbständige Anmeldung nur zum Prüfungstermin und nicht zum Wiederholungstermin möglich.

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Organizational information

Type of course

Exercise

planned way of execution

Vollständig Präsenz

Hours per week per semester

Registration process

central procedure for assignment of remaining places (with participant limit)

Maximum number of participants

Registration

Lottery procedure

central procedure for assignment of remaining places (with participant limit)

Time period

Registration ends 07.4.2026 at 23:59 h

Persons

Teaching staff

Oliver Olsson

Morten Suk

Content

Language of instruction

Englisch

Native Title

Distribution, degradation and effects of chemicals in the environment

Tags

Sustainability-oriented

Content and concept

After their input into the environment, chemical substances are subject to distribution and are either not degraded at all, partially degraded or completely degraded. If they are not completely degraded, they can have effects on humans and organisms in the environment. Different standard methods for the investigation of environmentally relevant processes along the life cycle of chemical substances will be deepened in practical exercises. In addition, data on the degradation behaviour of substances will be collected from databases in computer exercises or predicted using computer models (QSAR) and compared with experimentally collected data.

Objective

Students will be able to identify underlying concepts of the fate and transformation of organic substances in the environment and their relation to sustainable chemistry.

The students learn important standard methods for the description of environmentally relevant material properties. This enables them to better assess the origin of environmental parameters and their suitability for the evaluation of substances.

The students are able to independently evaluate data collected by themselves and present the results appropriately in the form of scientific reports and lectures.

Other

Important note! The elective courses are bundled into 7 modules. Please note, that you can only select each module once. However, you can take a second course from a module as "voluntary additional credits" in a following semester.

Based on current planning, this course will be offered regularly in the winter semester in this elective.

Evaluation

This course has not been registered for teaching evaluation yet.

Further information on teaching evaluation: https://www.leuphana.de/en/teaching/quality-management/evaluation/course-evaluation.html