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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2025/2026

Assessment Methods: below the oceans. Some of these
Continuous assessment: 40% processes act on geologic time scales,
Examination : 60% affecting mountain belts and their shapes,
forming ore deposits, changing Earth’s
SII2010 GIS APPLICATIONS IN climate, and depositing rock units that we
GEOSCIENCES use as aquifer or that trap hydrocarbons.
Other processes act more quickly, causing
Fundamentals of GIS theory and data earthquakes and tsunamis, or possibly
formats. Importance of map projection, affecting Earth’s climate on the timescale of
scale, resolution, accuracy, and precision. a human lifespan.
Techniques in preparing, locating,
acquiring, inputting, and translating Assessment Methods:
geological data into a GIS system. Web Continuous assessment: 40%
resources for acquiring GIS data and tools. Examination : 60%
Visualization, query, and analysis of
geospatial data. SII2014 KARST GEOMORPHOLOGY
AND CONSERVATIONS
Assessment Methods:
Continuous assessment: 100% Karst characteristics from scientific and
management perspective. Karst
SII2011 GEOLOGY LABORATORY geomorphology and lithological control that
ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES gives karst landscape its specific
characteristics including the global
This is a practical course teaching chemical distribution. Issues pertaining karst area
analysis technique which are widely used such as sinkholes and rockfalls, and
to solve problems in geology and engineering problems associated with
hydrogeology. Students will use up-to-date karst are emphasized. Geochemistry of
scientific instruments and techniques such karst waters are studied in conjunction with
as X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), X-Ray environmental issues. Karst landscape and
Fluorescence (XRF), Inductively Coupled deposit are used to examine for the
Plasma (ICP) and Gas Chromatography- evidence of environmental and climatic
Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) to conduct change. Case studies are used throughout
analyses on a range of samples often the course and emphasis is placed on the
encountered in geochemistry, challenges faced by people living in karst
hydrogeology, and organic geochemistry. areas and conservation value of karst
landscapes.
Assessment Methods:
Continuous assessment: 100% Assessment Methods:
Continuous assessment: 40%
SII2012 GEOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS Examination : 60%

In this course, student will learn how to use SII2015 CLIMATE CHANGE AND
the different method of data analysis, and ADAPTATION
how to use ICT, graphics software and
programming software to analyze This course provides a fundamental insight
geological and geoscience data. on our global climate systems. The concept
of climate models and the role of Earth’s
Assessment Methods: carbon cycle on climate will be introduce.
Continuous assessment: 40% This course also explores why climate
Examination : 60% change adaptation is important to human
development, case study of Bangladesh,
SII2013 MARINE GEOLOGY Europe US and Africa will be discussed.
The course ends with discussing the
Many of the processes that impact the consequences of climate change to our
Earth system occur completely or partly society, and relates the linkage between

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