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)

______COMM 442/COMM 542. Bargaining and Negotiation Processes (3)
______COMM 446/COMM 546. Communication in International Conflict and Disputes (3)
______WRP 599. Special Topic: Water Governance and Conflict Management (3)

Capstone Practicum/Internship (3 credits required)

______ WRP 509. Practicum (3)
______ WRP 510. Internship (3)

Water Governance (3 credits required)

______ AREC 432/AREC 532. Environmental Law (4)
______ AREC 453/AREC 553. Public Land and Resource Law (4)
______ AREC 599. Special Topics in Law and Policy (4)
______ COMM 440/COMM 540. Theories of Conflict and Conflict Management (3)
______ FOR 462/FOR 562. Natural Resource Policy and Law (3)
______ FOR 463/FOR 563. Environmental Policy and Law Interactions (3)
______ GEO 424/GEO 524. International Water Resources Management (3)
______ GEO 425/GEO 525. Water Resources Management in the U.S. (3)
______ PS 454/PS 554. International Law and Organizations (4)
______ PS 474/PS 574. Natural Resource Policy and Bureaucratic Politics (4)
______ PS 475/PS 575 *. Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
______ PS 577. International Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
______ WRP 507. Seminar: Oregon Water Law and Policy (3)

Water and Society (3 credits required)

______ ANTH 477/ANTH 577. Ecological Anthropology (4)
______ ANTH 481/ANTH 581. Natural Resources and Community Values (3)
______ CE 548. Water Quality Dynamics (3)
______ ENVE 456/ENVE 556. Sustainable Water Resources Development (3)
______ ENVE 531. Fate and Transport of Chemicals in Environmental Systems (4)
______ ENVE 532. Aquatic Chemistry: Natural and Engineered Systems (4)
______ ENVE 534. Physical and Chemical Processes for Water Quality Control (4)
______ ENVE 554. Groundwater Remediation (4)
______ FE 534. Forest Watershed Management (4)
______ FE 535 Water Quality and Forest Land Use (3)
______ GEO 420/GEO 520. Geography of Resource Use (3)
______ H 427/H 527. Case Studies in International Health (3)
______ H 429/H 529. International Health (3)
______ H 512. Environmental and Occupational Health (3)
______ H 514. Environment, Safety and Health Seminar (1)
______ H 528. Global Health Issues (3)
______ H 540. Environmental Health I: Food Protection and Water/Wastewater (3)
______ H 541. Environmental Health II: Air Quality and Hazardous Waste Management (3)
______ MRM 415/MRM 515. Coastal Resources Management (4)
______ PHL 440/PHL 540 Environmental Ethics (3)
______ PHL 443/PHL 543. World Views and Environmental Values (3)
______ PS 577 *. International Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
______ SOC 481/SOC 581 *. Society and Natural Resources (4)
______ SOC 580 *. Society and Natural Resources (4)
______ SOC 585. Consensus and Natural Resources (3)
______ WRP 507. Seminar: Socio-technical Aspects of Water Resources (3)

Water and Ecosystems (3 credits required)

______ BEE 448/BEE 548. Non-point Source Pollution Assessment and Control (3)
______ BEE 512. Physical Hydrology (3) [The BRE subject code was terminated.]
______ FE 430/FE 530. Watershed Processes (4)
______ FE 532. Forest Hydrology (3)
______ FE 533. Forest Hydrology Laboratory (1)
______ FE 537. Hillslope and Watershed Hydrology (4)
______ FE 538. Field Hydrology (3)
______ FE 630. Special Topics in Forest Hydrology (1-3)
______ FW 426/FW 526. Coastal Ecology and Resource Management (5)
______ FW 479/FW 579*. Wetlands and Riparian Ecology (3)
______ GEO 582. Geomorphology of Forests and Streams (3)
______ GEO 583. Snow Hydrology (3)

Water and Economics (3 credits required)

______ AREC 505. Reading and Conference (3)
______ AREC 507. Seminar (3)
______ AREC 534. Environmental and Resource Economics (3)
______ AREC 543. Applied Trade Analysis (4)
______ AREC 550. Environmental Economics (3)
______ AREC 551. Natural Resource Economics (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. For the most current list of available online courses, see the Ecampus 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.


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