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.
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 |
| BAE 502 | Instrumentation for Hydrologic Applications | 3 | |
| BAE 576 | Watershed Monitoring and Assessment | 3 | |
| BAE 577 | Wetlands Design and Restoration | 3 | |
| BAE 581 | Open Channel Hydraulics for Natural Systems | 3 | |
| BAE 583 | Stream Corridor 3 Es: Ecohydraulics, Engineering and Ethics | 3 | |
| BAE 584 | Introduction to Fluvial Geomorphology | 3 | |
| BAE/SSC 771 | Theory Of Drainage--Saturated Flow | 3 | |
| CE 584 | Hydraulics Of Ground Water | 3 | |
| CE 586 | Engineering Hydrology | 3 | |
| CE 607 | Water Resource and Environmental Engineering Seminar | 1 | |
| FOR 420/520/NR 420/520 | Watershed and Wetlands Hydrology | 4 | |
| MEA 455 | Micrometeorology | 3 | |
| MEA 481 | Geomorphology: Earth's Dynamic Surface | 3 | |
| MEA 485 | Introduction to Hydrogeology | 3 | |
| MEA 585 | Physical Hydrogeology | 3 | |
| MEA 715 | Dynamics of Mesoscale Precipitation System | 3 | |
| SSC 470/570 | Wetland Soils | 3 | |
| SSC 511 | Soil Physics | 4 | |
Water Quality Aspects of Water Resources
Course List | Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
| BAE 473 | Introduction to Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling | 3 | |
| BAE/SSC 573 | Introduction to Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling | 3 | |
| CE 585 | Principles of Surface Water Quality Modeling | 3 | |
| MEA 760 | Biogeochemistry | 3 | |
| MEA 763 | Isotope Geochemistry | 3 | |
| MEA 785 | Chemical Hydrogeology | 3 | |
| SSC 442 | Soil and Environmental Biogeochemistry | 3 | |
| SSC 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 | |
| BAE 574 | DRAINMOD: Theory and Application | 3 | |
| BAE 575 | Design of Structural Stormwater Best Management Practices | 3 | |
| BAE 578 | Circular Approach to Manure Management | 3 | |
| BAE 580 | Introduction to Land and Water Engineering | 3 | |
| CE 484 | Water Supply and Waste Water Systems | 3 | |
| CE 571 | Physical Principles of Environmental Engineering | 3 | |
| CE 574 | Chemical Principles of Environmental Engineering | 3 | |
| CHE 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 | |
| NR 521 | Wetland Science and Management | 3 | |
| SSC 562 | Environmental Applications Of Soil Science | 3 | |
Legal, Institutional, and Economic Aspects of Water Resources
Course List | Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
| ECG 515 | Environmental and Resource Policy | 3 | |
| ET 460 | Practice of Environmental Technology | 3 | |
| LAR 430 | Site Planning | 3 | |
| NR 460 | Renewable Natural Resource Management and Policy | 3 | |
| NR 571 | Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy | 3 | |
| NR 484 | Environmental Impact Assessment | 4 | |
| PA 550 | Environmental Policy | 3 | |