WATR 120L Water Quality Lab

This lab accompanies the lecture, applying and reinforcing lesson topics through hands on experience and field trips.

Credits

1

Semester Contact Hours Lab

30

General Education Competency

[GE Core type]

WATR 120LWater Quality Lab

Please note: This is not a course syllabus. A course syllabus is unique to a particular section of a course by instructor. This curriculum guide provides general information about a course.

I. General Information

Department

Agriculture

II. Course Specification

Course Type

Program Requirement

General Education Competency

[GE Core type]

Credit Hours Narrative

1

Semester Contact Hours Lab

30

Grading Method

Letter grade

Repeatable

N

III. Catalog Course Description

This lab accompanies the lecture, applying and reinforcing lesson topics through hands on experience and field trips.

IV. Student Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:

• Demonstrate the use and calibration of different types of water quality monitoring instruments including pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, temperature, and turbidity.
• Use portable test kits to perform laboratory procedures for water quality screening and analysis.
• Test for microbiological indicators of water quality.
• Correctly sample, preserve, and ship water samples from both groundwater and surface water sources to laboratories for a variety of analysis.
• Demonstrate safe laboratory practices when analyzing samples.

V. Topical Outline (Course Content)

1. Lab Safety 2. Lab Safety Exam 3. Equipment Familiarization 4. Measuring Nitrogen and Phosphorus 5. Measuring pH and Hardness 6. Measuring Conductivity 7. Measuring Dissolved Oxygen 8. Surface Water Sampling 9. Groundwater Sampling 10. Microbiology 11. Wetlands 12. Introduction to Contamination Modeling

VI. Delivery Methodologies