Curriculum

The Curriculum for the Certificate in Water Conflict Management and Transformation

Students are required to take a total of 18 graduate-level credits from the courses provided below. Upon successful completion of this program, students will have a certificate. Furthermore, with approval these courses may be applied to other graduate degree programs at Oregon State University.

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Capstone Course work (3 credits required)

Capstone Practicum/Internship (3 credits required)

Water Governance (3 credits required)

  • AEC 532. Environmental Law (4)
  • COMM 540. Theories of Conflict and Conflict Management (3)
  • FOR 562. Natural Resource Policy and Law (3)
  • FOR 563. Environmental Policy and Law Interactions (3)
  • GEOG 540*. Water Resources Management in the U.S. (3)
  • GEOG 541*. International Water Resources Management (3)
  • PS 575 . Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
  • PS 577*. International Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
  • WRP 599. Seminar [Oregon Water Law and Policy] (3)

Water and Society (3 credits required)

  • ANTH 581*. Natural Resources and Community Values (3)
  • ENVE 531. Fate and Transport of Chemicals in Environmental Systems (4)
  • ENVE 532/OC 532. Aquatic Chemistry: Natural and Engineered Systems (4)
  • ENVE 554. Groundwater Remediation (4)
  • ENVE 556. Sustainable Water Resources Development (3)
  • FES/FW/SOC 585. Consensus and Natural Resources (3)
  • GEOG 530. Resilience-based Natural Resource Management (3)
  • H 512. Introduction to Environmental and Occupational Health (3)
  • H 514. Environment, Safety and Health Seminar (1)
  • H 527. Critical Assessment of International Health Programs (3)
  • H 528. Global Health Issues (3)
  • H 529. International Health (3)
  • H 540. Water and Human Health (3)
  • H 541. Air Quality and Human Health (3)
  • PHL 540. Environmental Ethics (3)
  • PHL 543/REL 543. World Views and Environmental Values (3)
  • PS 577*. International Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
  • SNR 520*. Social Aspects of Sustainable Natural Resources (3)
  • SOC 580*. Environmental Sociology (4)
  • SOC 581*. Society and Natural Resources (4)
  • WRP 524. Sociotechnological Aspects of Water Resources (3)

Water and Ecosystems (3 credits required)

  • BEE 512. Physical Hydrology (3)
  • BEE 558. Non-point Source Pollution Assessment and Control (3)
  • FE 530. Watershed Processes (4)
  • FE 532. Forest Hydrology (4)
  • FW 526. Coastal Ecology and Resource Management (5)
  • FW 579*. Wetlands and Riparian Ecology (3)
  • GEOG 523. Snow Hydrology (3)
  • MNR 511*. Introduction to Sustainable Natural Resources (3)
  • SNR 530*. Ecological Principles of Sustainable Natural Resources (3)
  • SNR 540*. Global Environmental Change (3)
  • WRS 532. Applied Field Problems (3)
  • WRS 536. Fundamentals of Hydrology (3)

Water and Economics (3 credits required)

  • AEC 505. Reading and Conference (3) OR AEC 507. Seminar (3)
  • AEC 534*. Environmental and Resource Economics (3)
  • AEC 550. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (4)
  • AEC 551. Application of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (4)
  • SNR 521*. Economics of Sustainable Natural Resource Management (3)
  • WRP 523*. Environmental Water Transactions (3)
  • WRP 599. Special Topics [The Business of Water] (3)

Total=18 credits


Descriptions of these courses and when they are taught can be accessed at Oregon State University Online Catalog.

Note that courses with an asterisk (*) are also offered online. Please note some courses may not be offered every term. For the next offerings, please see the Online Schedule of Classes.

Advisor guidance and approval is required for each student's certificate program of study.

All students seeking a certificate or graduate minor are subject to all general policies governing the courses for the master's degree. As such, these students will be required to take a minimum of 50% graduate stand-alone courses. The remaining credits may be the 500 component of 400/500 slash courses.

Pursuant to the OSU Curricular Procedures Handbook, the certificate program must be completed by the time the associated post-graduate degree is conferred. If a student is admitted to the university and admitted solely in the certificate program, the student has two years to complete the program.