Course Description (3 credits): This course will review and introduce the chemical principles necessary to critically examine the soil environment, describe the soil solid and solution phases, and identify the chemical processes that occur in the soil environment and ultimately impact the fate and behavior of substances in soil and other natural water systems.

Objectives: The objective of this course is to introduce individuals entering the environmental sciences and closely aligned fields to the innate complexity and interconnectedness of the processes that occur in the natural environment.