The human-induced emissions of pollutants has severe impact on  biodiversity, ecosystems and economy. This course aims to investigate and understand the pollutants cycle and its interaction with different environmental compartment namely hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere and bioshpere . The course will be organised into four themes, each treating a different aspect of pollutants and  explain how it is transport and transform within and accross different Earth's compartments. Students are expected to participate actively in the course, which includes the critical incident analysis and evaluation of the pertinent literature.

Environmental Management System (EMS) and Occupational Health and Safety System (OHS) are two different set of processes and practices that enable an organization to reduce its environmental impacts, continuously identify hazards, control risks in workplace and increase overall organization operating efficiency.  In this course student will learn the clauses mentioned in ISO14001, ISO45001 ,OHSAS 18001 and how these standard works. Students also learned the PDCA approach, ISO auditing assessment process and  the potential benefits of standards to uphold an organization's responsibility in economy, social, and environment.  This course required students to engage in group discussions and assignments in which they have the opportunity to dialogue with industry practitioners to assess organisation key activities related to EMS and OHS. 

This course covers harmful chemicals in the environment and in our bodies and how they impact our health. It addresses characteristic of chemicals, particularly related to how they get into our bodies (exposures), what they do when they get there (toxicology), how we measure them and their impact on the environment as well as public health. The students will learn the chemical exposures pathways, their toxicology impacts on human health and methodology of risk assessment against this harmful chemicals.  

The course provides basic knowledge on modelling, especially in concept, process and application of the models in the environmental research. These models are quantitative tools for describing, understanding, and predicting the way pollutants interact with the environment. The course is important to enable the students apply the water quality models that emphasize on pollutant transport in the natural and anthropogenic contexts.

The course is an introduction to statistical methods and data analysis with emphasis on applications for environmental studies. The course covers methods for the design of experiments, preprocessing and modeling of measured data to extract useful information from possibly large data sets, and use this for supporting decisions. Students will learn the following statistical themes: graphical descriptions of data, correlation and regression, preprocessing (normalization, auto-scaling, convolution, etc), classification testing(principal component analysis, cluster analysis ) and validation of models (use of test sets, cross-validation). 

Environmental problems and global environmental change are complex and transboundary that need to be dealt with at all administrative levels and with an integrated method for the policymaking and implementation to be reconciled with human liberty and economic aspirations. This course considers these issues and provides a tour through existing legal regimes governing pollution, water law, endangered species, toxic substances, environmental impact analyses, and environmental risk in Malaysia. Students will be exposed to the government roles in the implementation of the laws, comparison and elaboration on the effectiveness of the acts application to solve the current issues.

The course aim to give students the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to work as an environmental consultant or as a member of environmental law enforcement agencies.  Environmental consultants are environmental representatives who ensure that industrial activities comply with today’s government standards. In addition, This course will covers the general topics on the analysis of pollutants in environmental matrices including the instrumentations, theory and techniques for their measurements. This course also consists of field sampling and laboratory experiments.  Students will be prepared with knowledge to plan, execute and interpret the case in order to defend their work and finding in a moot court competition as an expert withness.  

This course covers the introduction in research method which involving environmental research, including research design, data collection, data analysis and data presentation. In addition, it also exposes to leaners about the rationale for one's research, the justification for undertaking a given study and states the reason(s) why a researcher chooses to focus on the topic in question, including what the significance is and what gaps the research intends to fill. The main topic in this course focuses on training learners to construct scientific research proposals, which consists of hypothesis, research background, problem statement, objectives, significance study, methodology and related questions in research proposal. Learners will gain the knowledge on the aspects of constructing research objectives, data collection, data analysis and hypothesis testing. At the end of this course, students are required to submit a research proposal of no more than 2500 words (10-15 pages) and present their research proposal orally.

The aim of the course is to give the students an opportunity to perform a research project within the field of environmental forensic under supervision of senior lecturers in UMT or a joint supervision between UMT researcher and industry experts. The students are expected to deliver an individual research proposal, conduct practical work, document result by writing a research report and present and discuss the research results in oral form. This course allows students to apply the techniques and skill  in carrying out scientific projects. Students may either undertake their projects within universities or at the industries.