Courses

Five courses, fifteen credit hours total, are required for the Hydrologic Sciences Graduate Certificate and PhD sub-plan. The number of required courses is intentionally kept low so that the student is free to design an overall academic program that meets their needs in terms of specialized scholarly interests. The five Hydrologic Sciences courses are included in the minimum semester hours required for all graduate students. The coursework is designed to assure competency in the appropriate subject matter at the graduate level.

Core Requirements: choose two, at least one must be from the List A

List A: Advanced Quantitive Skills​

  • ATOC 5050 (3) Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Dynamics
  • ATOC 5060 (3) Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Oceans
  • CVEN 5313 (3) Environmental Fluid Mechanics
  • CVEN 5353 (3) Groundwater Hydrology
  • CVEN 5464 Environmental Engineering Processes
  • GEOL 5080 (3) Advanced Hydrogeology and Modeling Concepts
  • GEOL 5110 (3) Geomechanics

List B: Introduction to a Hydrologic Science​

  • ​ATOC 5051 (3) Introduction to Physical Oceanography
  • ATOC 5061 (3) Advanced Ocean Dynamics and Air-Sea Coupled ENSO Mechanisms
  • CVEN 5333 (3) Physical Hydrology
  • CVEN 5404 (3) Water Chemistry
  • GEOG 5251 (3-4) River Systems and Landforms 
  • GEOG 5321 (3-4) Snow Hydrology

Elective Courses: choose 3, additional classes from the core list may serve as electives

ATOC 5200 (3) Biogeochemical Oceanography

ATOC 5235 (3) Introduction to Atmospheric Radiative Transfer and Remote Sensing

ATOC 5500 (3) Special Topics in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences: Field Observations and Measurements

ATOC 5550 (3) Mountain Meteorology

ATOC 5600 (3) Physics and Chemistry of Clouds and Aerosols

ATOC 5730 (3) Physical Oceanography and Climate

ATOC 5750 (3) Desert Meteorology and Climate

ATOC 5780 (3) Ice Sheets and Climate

CHEM 5141 (3) Environmental Water and Soil Chemistry

CVEN 5323 (3) Applied Stream Ecology

CVEN 5343 (3) Transport and Dispersion in Surface Water            

CVEN 5363 (3) Modeling of Hydrologic Systems

CVEN 5383 (3) Applied Groundwater Modeling

CVEN 5424 (3) Environmental Organic Chemistry

CVEN 5454 (3) Statistical Methods for Natural and Engineered Systems

CVEN 5537 (3) Numerical Methods in Civil Engineering

CVEN 5833 (3) Special Topics: Hydrosciences topics [including Nonpoint Source Pollution, Surface-Groundwater Exchanges, Analysis of Urban Water Systems, Environmental Transport and Dispersion Processes, Colorado River Water Crisis]

CVEN 6414 (3) Aquatic Surfaces and Particles

EBIO 5030 (3) Limnology

ENVS 5840/GEOL 5305 (3) Global Biogeochemical Cycles

GEOG 5023 (4) Advanced Quantitative Methods for Spatial Data

GEOG 5093/GEOL 5093 (4) Remote Sensing of the Environment

GEOG 5241 (3) Topics in Physical Geography: HydroScience topics [including Watershed Biogeochemistry, Fluvial Geomorphology, Mountain Hydrology, Snow from Space,  Adv in Measuring Mtn Snowpack]

GEOG 5271 (3) The Arctic Climate System       

GEOG 5303 (4) Geographic Information Science: Spatial Programming

GEOG 5463 (3) Earth Analytics Data Science Bootcamp (degree seeking section)

GEOL 5060 (4) Oceanography

GEOL 5093/GEOG 5093 (4) Remote Sensing of the Environment

GEOL 5270 (3) Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry

GEOL 5280 (3) Aqueous and Environmental Geochemistry

GEOL 5305/ENVS 5840 (3) Global Biogeochemical Cycles

GEOL 5430 (3) Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

GEOL 5700 (3-4) Geological Topics Seminar: HydroSciences topics [including Terrestrial Hydrology, Sedimentary Modeling]

GEOL 5721 (2) Classics and Frontiers in Hydrology