Water Resources (Minor)
The interdisciplinary, interdepartmental graduate minor in water resources is designed for students majoring in the many disciplines of natural resources, science, engineering, technology, and social sciences that are relevant to water resources. The minor exposes students to water resources courses and faculty members within and outside their major fields of study.
The graduate minor in water resources (WR) requires successful completion (“B-” or better in each individual WR course, GPA of 3.0 or better across all WR courses counted toward the minor) of at least 9 credits of WR courses chosen from the lists below. At least 3 of the 9 credits (for M.S. students) or 6 of the 9 credits (for Ph.D. students) must be from outside the student’s major department. For M.S. students (not Ph.D. students), up to 3 credits at the 400-level may be included if these credits are from outside the student’s major department. For students earning an M.S. before enrolling in a Ph.D. program, courses taken to satisfy a WR minor in the M.S. program can not be counted toward a WR minor in the subsequent Ph.D. program. However, WR courses taken during the M.S. program may count toward a WR minor in the subsequent Ph.D. program if the M.S. program did not include a WR minor.
Plan Requirements
- At least 3 (MS) or 6 (PhD) credit hours must be from outside major
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | 9 | ||
| See "Focus Areas" listed below | |||
| Total Hours | 9 | ||
Minor Focus Areas
Hydrological and Meteorological Aspects of Water Resources
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Select three of the following courses: | 9 | ||
| 502 | Instrumentation for Hydrologic Applications | 3 | |
| 576 | Watershed Monitoring and Assessment | 3 | |
| 577 | Wetlands Design and Restoration | 3 | |
| 581 | Open Channel Hydraulics for Natural Systems | 3 | |
| 583 | Stream Corridor 3 Es: Ecohydraulics, Engineering and Ethics | 3 | |
| 584 | Introduction to Fluvial Geomorphology | 3 | |
| BAE/SSC 771 | Theory Of Drainage--Saturated Flow | 3 | |
| ䷡584 | Hydraulics Of Ground Water | 3 | |
| ䷡586 | Engineering Hydrology | 3 | |
| ䷡607 | Water Resource and Environmental Engineering Seminar | 1 | |
| FOR 420/520/NR 420/520 | Watershed and Wetlands Hydrology | 4 | |
| ѷ455 | Micrometeorology | 3 | |
| ѷ481 | Geomorphology: Earth's Dynamic Surface | 3 | |
| ѷ485 | Introduction to Hydrogeology | 3 | |
| ѷ585 | Physical Hydrogeology | 3 | |
| ѷ715 | Dynamics of Mesoscale Precipitation System | 3 | |
| SSC 470/570 | Wetland Soils | 3 | |
| 511 | Soil Physics | 4 | |
Water Quality Aspects of Water Resources
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Select three of the following courses: | 9 | ||
| 473 | Introduction to Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling | 3 | |
| BAE/SSC 573 | Introduction to Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling | 3 | |
| ѷ760 | Biogeochemistry | 3 | |
| ѷ763 | Isotope Geochemistry | 3 | |
| ѷ785 | Chemical Hydrogeology | 3 | |
| 442 | Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry | 3 | |
| 521 | Soil Chemistry | 3 | |
Biological and Ecological Aspects of Water Resources
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Select three of the following courses: | 9 | ||
| BAE 472/572 | Irrigation and Drainage | 3 | |
| 574 | DRAINMOD: Theory and Application | 3 | |
| 575 | Design of Structural Stormwater Best Management Practices | 3 | |
| 578 | Agricultural Waste Management | 3 | |
| 580 | Introduction to Land and Water Engineering | 3 | |
| ䷡484 | Water Supply and Waste Water Systems | 3 | |
| ䷡571 | Physical Principles of Environmental Engineering | 3 | |
| ䷡574 | Chemical Principles of Environmental Engineering | 3 | |
| ᷡ575 | Advances in Pollution Prevention: Environmental Management for the Future | 3 | |
| CS/HS/SSC/TOX 725 | Pesticide Chemistry | 1 | |
| CS/HS/SSC/TOX 727 | Pesticide Behavior and Fate In the Environment | 2 | |
| 521 | Wetland Science and Management | 3 | |
| 562 | Environmental Applications Of Soil Science | 3 | |
Legal, Institutional, and Economic Aspects of Water Resources
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Select three of the following courses: | 9 | ||
| 515 | Environmental and Resource Policy | 3 | |
| 460 | Practice of Environmental Technology | 3 | |
| 430 | Site Planning | 3 | |
| 460 | Renewable Natural Resource Management and Policy | 3 | |
| 571 | Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy | 3 | |
| 484 | Environmental Impact Assessment | 4 | |
| ʴ550 | Environmental Policy | 3 | |
Director
- Josh Heitman
Professors
- Aziz Amoozegar
- Sankar Arumugam
- Francois Birgand
- Michael Burchell
- JoAnn Burkholder
- Greg Cope
- David Genereux
- William F Hunt
- Detlef Knappe
- Richard McLaughlin
- Deanna Osmond
- Michael Vepraskas
- Mohamed Youssef
Associate Professors
- Karl Wegmann
Assistant Professors
- Celso Castro-Bolinaga
- Chad Poole
Extension
- Barbara Doll
Emeritus Faculty
- Damian Shea