At the end of this course the student will have acquired knowledge, skills and competences to define what soil is and explain its relevance as an interface. The student will be able to integrate the pedosphere in the Earth system, realizing its complexity and continuous interaction with the atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, analyzing and evaluating the interdisciplinary involved in its study and in the global environmental problems it is implicated. The student will have acquired knowledge related with soil pollution and its remediation, in the scope of an environmental engineer. Skills on how to deal with contaminated soils and available rehabilitation techniques. Students will develop further skills of transmission and display of acquired knowledge.