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 (鈥淏-鈥� 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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.
Master's Minor Requirement
Course List | Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
| 1 | | |
| Total Hours | 9 | |
Doctoral Minor Requirements
Course List | Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
| 2 | | |
| Total Hours | 12 | |
Minor Focus Areas
Hydrological and Meteorological Aspects of Water Resources
Course List | Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
| 叠础贰听502 | Instrumentation for Hydrologic Applications | 3 | |
| 叠础贰听576 | | 3 | |
| 叠础贰听577 | Wetlands Design and Restoration | 3 | |
| 叠础贰听581 | Open Channel Hydraulics for Natural Systems | 3 | |
| 叠础贰听583 | Stream Corridor 3 Es: Ecohydraulics, Engineering and Ethics | 3 | |
| 叠础贰听584 | Introduction to Fluvial Geomorphology | 3 | |
| BAE/SSC 771 | | 3 | |
| 颁贰听584 | Hydraulics Of Ground Water | 3 | |
| 颁贰听586 | Engineering Hydrology | 3 | |
| 颁贰听607 | Water Resource and Environmental Engineering Seminar | 1 | |
| FOR 420/520/NR聽420/520 | Watershed and Wetlands Hydrology | 4 | |
| 惭贰础听455 | Micrometeorology | 3 | |
| 惭贰础听481 | Geomorphology: Earth's Dynamic Surface | 3 | |
| 惭贰础听485 | Introduction to Hydrogeology | 3 | |
| 惭贰础听585 | Physical Hydrogeology | 3 | |
| 惭贰础听715 | Dynamics of Mesoscale Precipitation System | 3 | |
| SSC 470/570 | Wetland Soils | 3 | |
| 厂厂颁听511 | Soil Physics | 4 | |
Water Quality Aspects of Water Resources
Course List | Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
| 叠础贰听473 | Introduction to Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling | 3 | |
| BAE/SSC 573 | Introduction to Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling | 3 | |
| 颁贰听585 | Principles of Surface Water Quality Modeling | 3 | |
| 惭贰础听760 | Biogeochemistry | 3 | |
| 惭贰础听763 | Isotope Geochemistry | 3 | |
| 惭贰础听785 | Chemical Hydrogeology | 3 | |
| 厂厂颁听442 | Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry | 3 | |
| 厂厂颁听521 | Soil Chemistry | 3 | |
Biological and Ecological Aspects of Water Resources
Course List | Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
| BAE 472/572 | Irrigation and Drainage | 3 | |
| 叠础贰听574 | | 3 | |
| 叠础贰听575 | Design of Structural Stormwater Best Management Practices | 3 | |
| 叠础贰听578 | Circular Approach to Manure Management | 3 | |
| 叠础贰听580 | Introduction to Land and Water Engineering | 3 | |
| 颁贰听484 | Water Supply and Waste Water Systems | 3 | |
| 颁贰听571 | Physical Principles of Environmental Engineering | 3 | |
| 颁贰听574 | Chemical Principles of Environmental Engineering | 3 | |
| 颁贬贰听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 | |
| 狈搁听521 | Wetland Science and Management | 3 | |
| 厂厂颁听562 | Environmental Applications Of Soil Science | 3 | |
Legal, Institutional, and Economic Aspects of Water Resources
Course List | Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
| 贰颁骋听515 | Environmental and Resource Policy | 3 | |
| 贰罢听460 | Practice of Environmental Technology | 3 | |
| 尝础搁听430 | Site Planning | 3 | |
| 狈搁听460 | Renewable Natural Resource Management and Policy | 3 | |
| 狈搁听571 | Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy | 3 | |
| 狈搁听484 | Environmental Impact Assessment | 4 | |
| 笔础听550 | Environmental Policy | 3 | |
