SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
DIVISION OF INDIGENOUS, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Course Title: Modern Solid Waste Management System
Code: HIG 312
Credit Points: 15
Contact Hours: Three (3) contact hours per week for 13 weeks equivalent
Prerequisite: HIG 212 Population Studies
HIG 215 – Demographic Techniques
HIG 216 – Basic Research Methods In Geography
Course Description: The main goal of this course - Solid Waste Management - is to enlighten students on the essential principles entailed in the management of society’s waste in a manner that meets public health and environmental concerns as well as taking into consideration, the public’s desire to reuse and recycle waste materials. During the course, the source, composition and properties of solid waste will be discussed. The principles related to evaluate equipment and facilities options, to make operational choices and to develop management systems will also be taught. Advanced principles related to the separation processing, and transformation technologies of solid waste will be discussed. The reuse and/or sale of recovered materials are some of the important topics of this course. This course will have both a classroom component where solid waste management issues and practices will be learned and a non-classroom component where students will apply these practices in real-life situations.
DIVISION OF INDIGENOUS, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Course Title: Modern Solid Waste Management System
Code: HIG 312
Credit Points: 15
Contact Hours: Three (3) contact hours per week for 13 weeks equivalent
Prerequisite: HIG 212 Population Studies
HIG 215 – Demographic Techniques
HIG 216 – Basic Research Methods In Geography
Course Description: The main goal of this course - Solid Waste Management - is to enlighten students on the essential principles entailed in the management of society’s waste in a manner that meets public health and environmental concerns as well as taking into consideration, the public’s desire to reuse and recycle waste materials. During the course, the source, composition and properties of solid waste will be discussed. The principles related to evaluate equipment and facilities options, to make operational choices and to develop management systems will also be taught. Advanced principles related to the separation processing, and transformation technologies of solid waste will be discussed. The reuse and/or sale of recovered materials are some of the important topics of this course. This course will have both a classroom component where solid waste management issues and practices will be learned and a non-classroom component where students will apply these practices in real-life situations.