Fields of Graduate Instruction - Water Resources (Minor)

Water Resources (Minor Program)

J. D. Gregory, Chair
NCSU Box 8008
919.515;7567
E-mail: jim_gregory@ncsu.edu

WATER RESOURCES COMMITTEE

D. J. Phaneuf (Agricultural and Resource Economics),  J. M. Burkholder (Botany), M. R. Overcash (Chemical Engineering), R. C. Borden (Civil Engineering), J. B. Weber (Crop Science), R. B. Palmquist (Economics), F. P. Hain (Entomology), W. G. Cope (Environmental and Molecular Toxicology), K. M. Keener (Food Science), A. B. Stein (Landscape Architecture), D. Genereux (Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), J. W. Gilliam (Soil Science), C. B. Smith (Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science), J. F. Gilliam (Zoology)

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 outside their major fields of study.

A graduate student may enroll in the water resources minor by including it on the plan of graduate work and sending that plan of work to J. D. Gregory for review. A graduate faculty member from outside the student's major department or program must be appointed to serve as the minor representative on his/her advisory committee. The minor representative may be a member of the Water Resources Committee or another faculty member from a department represented on the Water Resources Committee who is active in teaching/research related to water resources.

Master's Degree: Minimum course requirements for the minor are three courses (minimum of eight credit hours) from water resources areas outside the student's major field of study approved by the student's minor representative. 

Doctor of Philosophy Degree: Minimum course requirements for the minor are three courses (minimum of eight credit hours) from water resources areas outside the student's major field of study approved by the student's minor representative. These courses shall be in addition to those previously taken at the Master's level when that degree included a Water Resources Minor. 

A course in the legal, institutional, or economic aspects of water resources is recommended for each minor program. Suggested courses are listed below; other appropriate courses may be included in the minor. Contact J. D. Gregory for additional information.

WATER RESOURCES COURSES

Legal, Institutional and Economic Aspects of Water Resources
EC(ARE) 436  Environmental Economics
ECG 515  Environmental and Resource Policy
ET 450  Environmental Regulation                    
FOR 460  Renewable Resource Policy and Management
NR 571  Current Issues in Natural Resource Policy
PA 550  Environmental Policy 

Planning of Water Resources and Related Systems
ET 460 Practice of Environmental Technology    
NR 484 Environmental Impact Assessment.
LAR 430  Site Planning
LAR 512  Landscape Resource Management

Municipal and Industrial Water Management
CE 484  Water Supply and Waste Water Systems     
CE 571  Physical Principles of Environmental Engineering
CE 574  Chemical Principles of Environmental Engineering   
CHE 575  Advances in Pollution Prevention:  Environmental Management
TAM(PCC) 401  Environmental Aspects of the Textile Industry           
WPS 725  Pollution Abatement in Forest Products Industries
WPS 750  Wastewater Treatment in the Paper Industry 

Agricultural and Forest Water Management
BAE 471  Land Resources Enviromental Engineering
BAE 472/572  Irrigation and Drainage
BAE(CE) 578 Agricultural Waste Management               
CS(HS,SSC,TOX) 725  Pesticide Chemistry
CS(HS,SSC,TOX) 727 Pesticide Behavior and Fate in the Environment     
SSC 461  Soil Physical Properties and Plant Growth
SSC 511  Soil Physics                                   
SSC 562  Environmental Applications of Soil Science

Biological and Ecological Aspects of Water Resources
 BO(ZO) 760  Principles of Ecology                   
BO(MB) 774  Phycology
FW(ZO) 420  Fishery Science                              
FW(ZO) 586 Aquaculture I
FW(ZO) 587 Aquaculture I Laboratory                  
MEA(ZO) 549 Principles of Biological Oceanography
ZO 441  Biology of Fishes                          
ZO 519  Limnology
ZO 789  Advanced Limnology

Hydrologic, Meteorologic, Oceanographic, and Water Quality Aspects of Water Resources
BAE 473 Introduction to Surface/Water Quality Modeling
BAE 502 Instrumentation for Hydrologic Applications
BAE 570 Soil Water Movement
BAE(SSC) 573 Hydrologic and Water Quality Modeling.     
BAE 575 Design of Structural Stormwater Best Management Practices.
BAE 576 Watershed Monitoring and Assessment.
BAE 577 Introduction to the Total Maximum Daily Load Program.    
BAE 579 Stream Channel Assessment and Rstoration
BAE(SSC)771 Theory of Drainage-Saturated Flow
BAE(SSC) 774 Theory of Drainage-Unsaturated Flow  
CE  583  Engineering Aspects of Coastal Processes
CE  584  Hydraulics of Ground Water              
CE  586  Engineering Hydrology
CE 607  Water Resource and Environmental Engineering Seminar     
FOR(NR) 420/520 Watershed and Wetlands Hydrology
MEA 455  Micrometeorology
MEA 481  Principles of Geomorphology                 
MEA 540  Principles of Physical Oceanography
MEA 560  Chemical Oceanography
MEA 585  Hydrogeology                                
MEA 706  Meteorology of the Biosphere        
MEA 760  Biogeochemistry     
MEA 785 Chemical Hydrogeology                           
SSC(BAE) 780  Transport and Fate of Chemicals in Soils and Natural Waters

Wetlands
NR 521 Wetland Assessment, Delineation, and Regulation      
SSC 570  Wetland Soils