Competence Based Education

 

        This course provides an overview of the key concepts and principles in environmental management, areas of global and national environmental concern, and strategies and tools for effective environmental management.

Attempt to understand the genesis of environmental problems, the concerns that leads to various international and national initiatives to tackle them have been made in this course. Various tools, which can be used to address environmental problems and the role that the professionals can play in managing environment in their respective areas would be discussed.

 

Course Contents:       
  1. Principles of Environmental Management.
  2. Principles of Ecology, Environment & Environmental Management. Policies and Legal Aspect of Environmental Management.
  3. Overview of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
  4. Preparation and Review of Environmental Impact Assessment Report.
  5. Environmental Audit.
  6. Life Cycle Assessment as EM Tool.
  7. Environmental Management Systems Standards: ISO 14000 (EMS).
  8. Related Issues in Environmental Management.
  9. Environmental Design.
  10. Environmental Economics.
  11. Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing in Environmental Management.              

Coordinator:

Prof. T. V. Ramachandra
Centre for Ecological Science, IISc, Bangalore.
E-mail: cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in
Phone: 080 22933099 / 080 23600985
 Fax: 080 23601428 

Course Sponsored By:

THE COMMONWEALTH OF LEARNING
CANADA

Course Schedule:

  • Class Room Briefing and Introductory Sessions at the beginning of the course (2-3 days).

  • Interactive Session through WEB and Email for three months.

  • Midterm Exam after Third Month.

  • In Fourth Month Field Work, Final Contact Sessions for Three Days.

  • Final Exam at end of Fourth Month.

Qualifications & Requirements:

         This Course is open to all Graduates. Participants are expected to take part in all activities that form part of course in addition the participants should work on individual projects. During course, participants should compulsorily attend to interactive chat session for which some grading will be given. Participants should actively participate in the course for best results. A certificate along with grades will be given to all the successful participants.

Evaluation is Done at Two Levels:

        Concept level and Module level: At concept level, after student goes through each concept, he/she is evaluated online by randomly displaying multiple-choice questions. Each question carries some weightage of marks. Based on his/her test performance, system checks the number of questions he/she has got right, and the performance is evaluated. At Module level, after student completes all the concepts, he/she is given final exam, which will be held at CCE. Concept level evaluation marks will also be considered for grading. Completion of a project is a partial requirement for the course.

Duration and Course Fee:

        This course is designed for 4 months (totally 2+1 credits).

        Course Fee: Rs 9000 (for ISTE Members the Course Fee: Rs 6000). Number of registrants are restricted to 50 students. Admission is based on first come, first serve basis.

Applications:
         Applicants must submit a Curriculum Vitae and the application form that includes the following:

  • Description of their current work, if employed or their specialization.
  • An Outline of their individual project: specially skills they gain  in the course
  • how it will be applied in a project that will be helpful in their future career.

        Along with the application the course fee has to be sent in the form of DD only. DD to be drawn in the favour of  ' Registrar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore ', payable at Bangalore.


Send your application forms to:

Centre for Continuing Education,
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560 012, INDIA
Phone: 91 080 2932491, Fax: 91 080 3600911
E-mail: office@cce.iisc.ernet.in