Program Overview

Sustainable Water Development, Graduate Certificate

The graduate Certificate in Sustainable Water Development requires 15 semester hours of credit, including at least 9 semester hours earned at the University of Iowa. The courses numbered 5000 and above required for the certificate must be taken at the University of Iowa. Students must maintain a Graduate College major program grade-point average of at least 2.50. The certificate is open to graduate students currently enrolled at the University of Iowa who are completing a degree program.

Requirements

The Certificate in Sustainable Water Development requires the following coursework.

Required Courses

• All of these:
  • CEE:5096: Water, Energy, and Food Nexus Seminar (taken for two semesters) - 0 hours
  • CEE:5350: Watershed Hydrology and Ecosystem Processes - 3 hours
  • CEE:5410: Politics and Economics of the Food, Energy, Water Nexus - 3 hours
  • URP:6209/SDG:6000: Sustainable Communities Lab I - 3 hours

Electives

Students take two elective courses selected from the following list.

• At least two of these for at least 6 semester hours:
  • CEE:4102: Groundwater - 3 hours
  • CEE:4104/SEES:4660: Groundwater Modeling - 3 hours
  • CEE:4107/CBE:4410: Sustainable Systems - 3 hours
  • CEE:4118: Statistical Methods in Water and the Environment - 3 hours
  • CEE:4158/OEH:4920: Solid and Hazardous Wastes - 3 hours
  • CEE:4370: Open Channel Flow and Sediment Transport - 3 hours
  • CEE:4385: Water Scarcity in Rural India - 3 hours
  • CEE:5156: Physical and Chemical Environmental Processes - 3 hours
  • CEE:6253: Environmental Organic Chemistry - 3 hours
  • CEE:6255: Environmental Biotechnology and Bioremediation - 3 hours
  • ABRD:3445: India Winterim - arranged hours
  • ACCT:4300: Accounting Ethics and Law - 3 hours
  • ANTH:3110/CBH:4200/GHS:3110/NAIS:3110: Colonialism and Indigenous Health Equity - 3 hours
  • BIOL:3663: Plant Response to the Environment - 3 hours
  • CBE:5140/CEE:5513/ME:5113: Mathematical Methods in Engineering - 3 hours
  • CBE:5415/IGPI:5415: Satellite Image Processing and Remote Sensing of Atmosphere - 3 hours
  • CBE:5425/CEE:5115: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics - 3 hours
  • CBH:5305: Evaluation: Approaches and Applications - 3 hours
  • CBH:6205: Designing and Implementing Interventions - 3 hours
  • CHEM:4760: Radiochemistry: Energy, Medicine, and the Environment - 3 hours
  • CHEM:4873: Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry - 3 hours
  • CPH:3500/GHS:3500: Global Public Health - 3 hours
  • ECE:5630: Sustainable Energy Conversion - 3 hours
  • ECON:3345: Global Economics and Business - 3 hours
  • ECON:3625/URP:3135: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics - 3 hours
  • ECON:3800: Law and Economics - 3 hours
  • ECON:4090: Natural Resource Economics - 3 hours
  • ECON:4140: Labor Economics - 3 hours
  • LAW:8433: Environmental Law - 2-3 hours
  • LAW:8622: International Environmental Law - 3 hours
  • LAW:8992: Water Law - arranged hours
  • MATH:4740/CS:4740/IGPI:4740/STAT:4740: Large Data Analysis - 3 hours
  • ME:4048: Energy Systems Design - 4 hours
  • OEH:4240: Global Environmental Health - 3 hours
  • OEH:4260/GHS:4260: Global Water and Health - 3 hours
  • OEH:5620: Occupational Health - 3 hours
  • OEH:6460: Quantitative Exposure Assessment: Study Design and Evaluation - 3 hours
  • OEH:6710: Human Toxicology and Risk Assessment - 3 hours
  • PHYS:5811: Classical Electrodynamics I - 3 hours
  • PHYS:5812: Classical Electrodynamics II - 3 hours
  • SEES:3090/GHS:3070: Hungry Planet: Global Geographies of Food - 3 hours
  • SEES:3390: Integrated Watershed Analysis - 3 hours
  • SEES:3780/GHS:3780/HIST:3240/POLI:3431: U.S. Energy Policy in Global Context - 3 hours
  • SEES:4150/GHS:4150/IGPI:4150: Health and Environment: GIS Applications - 3 hours
  • SEES:4500/IGPI:4500: Advanced Remote Sensing - 4 hours
  • SEES:4520/IGPI:4520: GIS for Environmental Studies: Applications - 3 hours
  • SEES:4580/IGPI:4581: Introduction to Geographic Databases - 3 hours
  • SEES:4750/URP:4750: Environmental Impact Analysis - 3 hours
  • URP:6205/PBAF:6205: Economics for Policy Analysis - 1-3 hours
  • URP:6225/PBAF:6225: Applied GIS for Planning and Policy Making - 3 hours
  • URP:6233/PBAF:6233: Public Finance and Budgeting - 3 hours
  • URP:6253/PBAF:6253: Designing Sustainable and Healthy Cities - 1-3 hours
  • URP:6256/PBAF:6256: Environmental Policy - 3 hours
  • URP:6258/PBAF:6258: Systems and Scenario Thinking - 3 hours
  • URP:6273/PBAF:6273: Community Development Through Creative Placemaking - 3 hours
  • URP:6295/PBAF:6295: Economic Development Policy - 3 hours

Admission

Students must:

• be in a relevant science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) field;
• submit their University of Iowa transcript;
• have a graduate grade-point average (GPA) higher than 3.00 if in a doctoral program or a GPA higher than 2.75 if in a master's program;
• submit their résumé or curriculum vitae;
• provide a statement of purpose of 500 words or less about their core research and training program and why the certificate program will benefit their training and goals for career placement; and
• provide a letter of endorsement from their advisor.

Admission to the certificate program is competitive. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis and are reviewed by the Sustainable Water Development Program. Students receive an email after an admission decision has been made.