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Water Resources Minor

The Minor in Water Resources offers broad training in hydrologic, hydrosocial, biogeophysical, and political dimensions of water resource issues at local, regional, national, and international scales. Water resource sustainability is an increasingly urgent social and environmental issue. This Minor is designed to broaden and deepen knowledge and experience in complex water resource issues using interdisciplinary perspectives. To earn a Minor in Water Resources, a student must take 28 credits as specified below.

The minor may be earned simultaneously with a B.A. or B.S. degree, or post baccalaureate in any major.

Requirements

Courses (28 credits)

Students must take 28 credits from these course offerings:
Geog 310U/Sci 333UClimate and Water Resources

4
Geog 320Geomorphology

4
Geog 340UGlobal Water Issues and Sustainability

4
Geog 414Hydrology

4
Geog 444Political Ecologies of the Western US

4
Geog 446Water Resource Management

4
Geog 447Urban Streams

4
Geog 494GIS for Water Resources

4
ESM 335Introduction to Environmental Management

4
ESM 417Applied Watershed Restoration

4
ESM 424Wetland Ecology

4
ESM 425Watershed Hydrology

4
ESM 426Ecology of Streams and Rivers

4
ESM 427Watershed Biogeochemistry

4
ESM 435Natural Resource Policy and Management

4
ESM 463Water Quality Policy & Management

4
ESM 475Limnology and Aquatic Ecology

4
ESM 487Environmental Justice

4
G 318Processes in the Surface Environment

3
G 435Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

5
G 443Ground Water Geology

4
G 448Chemical Hydrogeology

4
G 462Hillslope Materials and Processes

4
Sci 335UWater in the Environment I

4
NAS 348Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability

4
CE 364Water Resources Engineering

4
CE 481The Columbia River as a System

2
CE 487/Ch 487Aquatic Chemistry

4
CE 490Soil and Groundwater Restoration

4

For students pursuing both the Geography major and the Water Resources Minor OR both the Environmental Science major and the Water Resources minor OR both the Environmental Studies major and the Water Resources minor, courses presented for the minor must differ from the major by at least 12 credits.