WSPMING - Water, Society and Policy

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Required Coursework:

• The PhD minor in Water, Society and Policy requires 12 units of coursework

• A minimum of one course must be selected from Policy Core course list and one course must be selected from the Science Core course list.

• Additional units must be selected from the Elective Course list or from the Policy Core course list.

• Alternative coursework must be approved by the minor advisor

• Minimum GPA in the minor coursework must be > 3.0

Policy Core- Choose 1 of the following 8 courses (3 units):

• AREC 575 - Economic Evaluation of Water and Environmental Policy, 3 units 

• ENVS 596B - Water Policy in Arizona and Semi-arid Regions, 3 units 

• GEOG 596I - Comparative and International Water Policy, 3 units 

• GEOG 596J - Water Management and Policy, 3 units 

• GEOG 696O - Adaptation & Resilience in Water Resources Systems, 3 units 

• GEOG 696R – International Environmental Policy and Governance, 3 units  

• LAW 669 - Environmental Law, 3-4 units

• LAW 641 – Water Law, 3 units 

• RNR 540 - Climate Change Adaptation, 3 units 

Science Core - Choose 1 of the following 5 courses (3-4 units):

• HWRS 517A – Fundamentals of Water Quality, 3 units 

• HWRS 573 - Hydrology for Water Resources Management, 3 units 

• WSM 552 - Dryland Ecohydrology and Vegetation Dynamics, 4 units 

• WSM 560A - Watershed Hydrology, 4 units 

• WSM 568 - Wildland Water Quality, 3 units 

Elective Courses (Choose 2 of the following courses for 6 units)

(An additional course from the Policy Core list may also be used as an elective)

• ARC 561A – Water Efficiency in Built Environments, 3 units 

• AREC 579 – Economics of Water Management and Policy, 3 units 

• ARL 642 - Use and Management of Arid Lands, 3 units 

• ENVS 554 - Water Harvesting, 3 units 

• ENVS 574 - Aquatic Plants and the Environment, 3 units 

• GEOG 596M - Global Change Research and Decision Making, 3 units 

• LAW 603J - Sustainability and Environmental Policy, 2-3 units 

• LAW 625B - The Colorado River in American History, 2 units 

• LAW 696I - International Environmental Law, 2-3 units 

• PA 503 - Politics, Policy and Public Management, 3 units

• PA 555 – Statistics for Public Policy II, 3 units        

• PA 582 - Managing to Collaborate on Environmental and Natural Resources Conflicts, 3 units 

• PA 584—Environmental Management, 3 units 

• RNR 503—Applications of Geographic Information Systems, 3 units 

• RNR 517 - Geographic Information Systems for Natural and Social Sciences, 3 units 

• RNR 522 - Resource Mapping Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems, 3 units

• RNR 580 - Natural Resources Policy and Law, 3 units  

• RNR 585 – The Economic and Social Connections to Natural Resources, 3 units 

• WFSC 571 - Stream Ecology, 3 units 

• WSM 562 - Watershed Management, 4 units 

Transfer credit must be approved by your committee for use in the minor.

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.