Protecting streams and watersheds is essential for ensuring clean water, reducing flooding, supporting biodiversity, sustaining agricultural and natural resources, and supporting healthy ecosystems and communities. This certificate offers concise yet powerful ways to develop specialized expertise in managing stream and watershed ecosystems. Students gain applied knowledge in the areas of stream and floodplain engineering and science, water quality, and policy and management as it relates to natural water systems. Designed to complement existing graduate programs or serve as a stand-alone credential, this certificate is ideal for students looking to enhance their water-related professional credentials.
The Graduate Certificate in Stream and Watershed Science requires the completion of 12 credit hours and consists of a foundation course and three primary focus areas: Stream and Floodplain Engineering and Science, Water Quality, and Policy and Management. The foundation course provides an overview of stream restoration focusing on the main issues related to coupling the fields of biosystems and agricultural engineering, civil engineering, geography, ecology, and social science. It includes background classes on the basic tools used in stream and watershed assessment and restoration. Students must take the foundation course and at least three credit hours from each of the three main focus areas. At least 6 of the 12 credit hours must be from outside the student’s major area of study. Courses numbered 400G-499G count towards the certificate only for non-majors.
Admission Requirements
To be admitted to the Stream and Watershed Science Certificate Program, a degree-seeking student must be accepted by the Graduate School and the graduate academic program in which the student is or will be enrolled. A post-baccalaureate student must have a Bachelor of Science or Arts degree (or equivalent), a minimum of 2.75 undergraduate GPA, and be accepted by the Graduate School as a post-baccalaureate student.
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