FIU Department of Environmental Studies
Graduate Certificate in Water, Environment, and Development Studies
  


The study of water resources spans more disciplines than any other natural resource and to contribute to sustainable management of water resources requires training in the physical, biological, chemical, and socioeconomic aspects of the problem. The Certificate Program acknowledges this need for multi-disciplinary training by drawing courses from eight university departments, Biology, Chemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Earth Sciences, Environmental and Occupational Health, Environmental Studies, International Relations, and Sociology/Anthropology.

Course Requirements

The program require the successful completion of 15 credit hours of graduate course work. Students must maintain an average GPA of 3.0 or above and must earn a C or above in all courses counting toward the Certificate. All students in the program are required to take one foundation course and at least one course from both the natural science and social science lists below. The remaining 6 credits may be satisfied with any combination of approved courses listed below.

Required Foundation Course

EVR 5332 Integrated Solutions for Water in Environment and Development [3]

Approved Natural Science, Engineering, and Public Health Courses
(all students must take at least one)

  • PCB 4301 Freshwater Ecology [3]
  • EVR 5215 Water Resources Assessment [3]
  • *ENV 6435 Design of Drinking Water Treatment Plants [3]
  • EVS 5145 Ecotoxicology [3]
  • GLY 5245 Water-Rock Interaction [3]
  • GLY 5266 Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry [3]
  • PCB 5307 Limnology [3]
  • EVR 5320 Environmental Resources Management [3]
  • GLY 5827 Hydrogeology [3]
  • BOT 5406 Algal Physiology [3]
  • *ENV 5517 Design of Wastewater Treatment Plants [3]
  • *ENV 5666 Water Quality Management [3]
  • GLY 5754 Applied Remote Sensing in the Earth Sciences [3]
  • CHM 5765 Aquatic Chemistry [3]
  • GLY 5826 Hydrogeologic Modeling [3]
  • GLY 5827 Hydrogeology [3]
  • GLY 5828 Chemical Hydrogeology and Solute Transport [3]
  • EVR 5905 Independent Study or any other independent study from other departments
  • EVR 6056 GIS in Water Resources [3]
  • CWR 6125 Groundwater Hydrology [3]
  • *CHM 6340 Organic Geochemistry [3]
  • *ENV 5XXX Ecohydrology [3]
  • ENV 6615 Environmental Impact Assessment [3]
  • GLY 6896 Advanced Topics in Hydrology [3]
  • EVR 7329 Watershed Analysis and Management [3]

* Engineering graduate courses are offered for graduate students with a relevant engineering background or other students meeting needed prerequisites and applicable criteria. Students must confirm their eligibility, in advance to any registration, with either the Civil and Environmental Engineering Graduate Program Director and the responsible instructor.

Approved Social Science and Public Health Courses
(all students must take at least one)

  • CPO 5036 Politics of Development [3]
  • SYD 5045 Population and Society [3]
  • INR 5352 Environment and Security [3]
  • EVR 5355 Environmental Resource Policy [3]
  • ANG 5403 Ecological Anthropology [3]
  • INR 5409 International Law I [3]
  • SYP 5447 Sociology of International Development [3]
  • INR 5507 International Organizations [3]
  • INR 5607 International Relations and Development [3]
  • INR 6056 Environment and Development [3]
  • SYD 6236 International Migration and Refugees [3]
  • PHC 6315 Introduction to Environmental Health [3]
  • EVR 6322 Methods of Sustainable Resource Management [3]
  • PHC 6410 Health Behavior and Public Health [3]
  • PHC 6425 Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Environmental Health [3]
  • PHC 6520 Public Health Aspects of Foodborne Diseases [3]
  • PHC 6990 Global Perspectives of Env Health in the Caribbean and Latin America [3]

Seminar Requirement

Students are expected to attend at least five seminars during each semester that they are enrolled in the Certificate Program. Early in each semester, students will be provided with a schedule of water-related seminars offered in departments across campus. The departments of Biology, Chemistry, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Earth Sciences, Environmental and Occupational Health, Environmental Studies, International Relations, and Sociology/Anthropology each sponsor seminar series that commonly include water-related topics.

Students arel also be required to give a presentation on a water-related theme in a departmental seminar or professional conference.

Certificate Coordinating Committee