Course List

Each graduate student in the Geosciences department is required to take at least four courses under four specific categories. Here are courses students in our lab group have taken and would recommend.

Required Courses

Requirement	Course Number	Course Name	Description
Geosciences Breadth	GEOSC 500	Issues in Geosciences	Class required fall semester for all first years. Learn how to write a proposal, different topics in the geosciences,etc.
Disciplinary Fundamentals	GEOSC 452	Hydrogeology	Recommended course for this requirement. Seems to be offered each semester. Focus on groundwater processes.
Data Gathering & Interpretation	CE 561	Surface Hydrology	Recommended course, but need to petition to grad student head to have count for requirement. Offered in spring. Focus on interactions of precipitation, discharge, water quality, etc. Some practical applications and data gathering.
	note: currently none of the classes in the department fit this requirement well for us
Quantitative Analysis	GEOSC 561	Mathmatical Modeling in Geosciences	Offered in fall. Class uses matlab as an introduction to numerical modeling. Generally seen as a quite difficult class.
	STAT 500	Applied Statistics	Offered in fall. Teaches many statistical techniques. Quite difficult class if haven’t taken advanced statistics before.
	BE 487	Simulation Modeling for Water Resources Management	Need to petition to grad student head to count as requirement. Offered in spring. Intro level to watershed modeling, environmental data sources, SWMM, HEC-HMS, and EPANET. Would recommend.

Research Requirements

GEOSC 600

• thesis research needed for graduate students

• register under Antonia Hadjimichael

GEOSC 610

• thesis research for PhD students

• to do after completing all class requirements (full time research)

• register under Antonia Hadjimichael

Other Useful Classes

Course Number	Course Name	Description
GEOSC 497	Special Topics: Data Visualization	Offered in spring. Antonia’s class teaching theories and best practices for data, presentations, infographics, posters, etc. Utalizes Python and Adobe Illustrator. Highly recommend.
EMSC 460	Environmental Data Analytics	Offered in fall. Class teaching machine learning algorithms and practices including linear algebra, optimization, classification, artificial and deep neural networks, etc.
ABE /CE 597	Special Topics: Applied Ecohydrological Modeling	Offered in fall. Utalizes SWAT model and R to understand how land use change and climate change impact watersheds. Difficult without prior knowledge.
EME 501	Design Under Uncertainty in Energy and Mineral Systems	Offered in fall. Learn evaluation methods, tools for design under uncertainty, optimization, and markets in energy products and technologies.
CE 555	Groundwater Hydrology: Analysis & Modeling	Model design, paremeter estimation, simulation, impact, and assessment for hydrologic systems.
CE 567	River Engineering	Intro river dynamics and fluvial geomorphology. Understand flow and sediment transport in rivers.
GEOG 453	Geospatial Applications in Water Resources & Aquatic Ecosystems	Geospatial analysis applications for water resources including data aquisition, spatial analysis, and data representation.
ENVR 967	Water Law & Policy	US law and policy of water allocation, federal reserved rights, water quality, wastewater, etc.
INTAF 501	Water & Sustainable Development	Scientific theory and considerations to manage water resources internationally.
METEO 570	Climate System Dynamics	Offered in fall. Fundamental processes that control past, present, and future Earth’s climate, and application to anthropogenic change.
METEO 527	Data Assimilation	Finding best estimate of the state and uncertainty by combining all available information and their respective uncertainties.
CE 551	Random Processes in Hydrologic Systems	Hydrologic system analysis, simulation, design, model formulation, parameter estimation, impact, and assessment.
CE 566	Uncertainty & Reliability in Civil Engineering	Offered in fall. Intro to reliability-based methods of analysis using statistics, uncertainty analysis, etc in civil engineering.
CE 587	Computational Ecohydrology	Offered in fall. Mutual interactions between hydrological, biogeochemical, and ecological processes.

note: Each full time student needs 9-12 credits each semester, can include classes and/or research. Most classes are 3 credits (excluding seminars/colloquiums)