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List of classes by water cluster area

Subsurface & Surface Hydrology

  • CE 351 Water Resources Engineering*
  • CE 402 Applied Meteorology*
  • CE 460 Advanced Hydrology*
  • CE/GEOLOGY 475 Groundwater*
  • SOE 250 Introduction to Earth System Science*
  • SOE 463 Water in the Environment
  • SOE 315 Water and the Earth*
  • SOE 303 Environmental Geology*
  • SOIL_SCI 414 Environmental Biophysics

Water Chemistry/Ecology/Biology

  • AGTM 315 Irrigation Systems & Water Management
  • BIOLOGY 390 Stream Monitoring*
  • BIOLOGY 465 Field Stream Ecology*
  • BIOLOGY 469 Ecosystem Ecology and Global Change
  • BSYSE 554 Aquatic System Restoration*
  • CE 341 Intro to Environmental Engineering*
  • CE 418 Hazardous Waste Engineering I*
  • SOE 275 Rivers: Form, Function & Management
  • SOE 300 Natural Resource Ecology
  • SOE 411 Limnology and Aquatic Ecosystem Management
  • SOE 412 Global Biogeochemistry
  • SOE 417 Fisheries Science*
  • SOE 454 Restoration Ecology*
  • SOE 463 Water in the Environment
  • SOE 464 Landscape Ecology*
  • SOE 465 Aquatic Microbial Ecology*
  • SOE 492 Stream Ecology

Water Methods & Analysis

  • CE 315 Fluid Mechanics*
  • CE 341 Intro to Environmental Engineering*
  • CE 351 Water Resources Engineering*
  • CE 415 Environmental Measurements*
  • CE 416 Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory*
  • CE 418 Hazardous Waste Engineering I*
  • CE 419 Hazardous Waste Engineering II*
  • CE 442 Water and Wastewater Treatment & Design*
  • CE 451 Open Channel Flow*
  • CE 450 Water Resource Engineering Design*
  • SOE 310 System Dynamics Models of Environmental Systems
  • SOIL_SCI 486 GIS Spatial Analysis*

Water Policy & Management

  • CE 405 Sustainability: The Green Environment
  • CE 456 Sustainable Development in Water Resources
  • CROP_SCI 360 World Agricultural Systems*
  • ECONS 330 Natural Resource Economics*
  • ECONS 430 Managing the Global Environment
  • ECONS 431 Economic Analysis of Environmental and Natural Resource Policies*
  • HISTORY 422 History of the Pacific Northwest
  • SOE 438 Natural Resource and Environmental Policy and Law*
  • SOE 444 Environmental Assessment
  • SOE 460 Watershed Management
  • SOC 331 Population, Resources and the Future
  • SOC 332 Society and Environment

Note: Many of these are upper-level courses and will have associated prerequisites (demarcated below with an *)- please verify your eligibility with the WSU course catalogue.

Students may also petition the Committee to include classes they believe are relevant and appropriate towards their required certificate credit hours.  Petitions will be reviewed and approved by the Committee on a per-request basis.