Water and International Development

 

Courses

Students who complete the WAID program can attain either an MS or PhD degree from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering as well as a certificate in International Development Studies from the Office of International Education. Although students typically do not need to take more courses than what is required for a traditional MS or PhD degree, the courses must be selected to meet the requirements for both the degree and the certificate. When students begin their studies in the WAID program, they should visit the Office of International Programs to enroll in the IDS certificate program. During the last semester of their studies, they also need to submit the graduate student completion and additional requirements forms to the Office of International Programs (click here for the forms).Students who are admitted to the WAID program but do not have an undergraduate degree in engineering are required to take some additional undergraduate courses to bring their engineering background up to the required level.

Students can use engineering-related internships with development and relief agencies as the basis of their technical paper if they are seeking a non-thesis MS degree. Students can also use more extensive international experiences with an engineering component as the basis of an MS thesis.

The final choice of classes is made by the student with the approval of the advisor and thesis committee, but the courses must meet the requirements for both the desired degree and the IDS certificate. Students are required to take all the core classes listed below if they have not already taken an equivalent course. The lists of supporting engineering classes and other supporting classes provide examples of possible electives.

Core Classes
	CIVE 525	Water Engineering: International Development (1st fall semester)
	IE/ANTH 679	Applications of International Development (fall or spring semester as offered)
Supporting Engineering Classes
	CIVE 437	Wastewater Treatment Facility Design
	CIVE 440	Nonpoint Source Pollution
	CIVE 512	Irrigation Systems Design
	CIVE 532	Wells and Pumps
	CIVE 544	Water Resources Planning and Management
	CIVE 549	Drainage and Wetland Engineering
	CIVE 571	Pipeline Engineering and Hydraulics
	CIVE 575	Sustainable Water and Wastewater Management
	CIVE 577	GIS in Civil and Environmental Engineering
	CIVE 578	Infrastructure and Utility Management
Supporting Non-Engineering Classes
	ANTH505	Resilience, Well-Being, and Social Justice
	ANTH 515	Culture and Environment
	ANTH 520	Women, Health, and Culture
	ANTH 535	Globalization and Cultural Change
	ANTH 540	Medical Anthropology
	ANTH 571	Anthropology and Global Heath
	AREC 460	Economics of World Agriculture
	AREC 660	Development of Rural Resource-Based Economies
	IE 470	Women and Development
	IE 471	Children and Youth in Global Context
	IE/PHIL 550	Ethics and International Development
	IE/PSY 517	Perspectives in Global Health
	POLS 433	International Organization
	POLS 444	Comparative African Politics
	POLS 445	Comparative Asian Politics
	POLS 446	Politics of South America
	POLS 447	Politics in Mexico, Central America, Caribbean
	POLS 541	Political Economy of Change and Development
	POLS 670	Politics of Environment and Sustainability
	POLS 739	International Environmental Politics
	POLS 749	Comparative Environmental Politics
	SOC 660	Theories of Development and Social Change
	SOC 663	Sociology and Sustainable Development
	SOC 669	Global Inequality and Change
	SPCM 634	Communication and Cultural Diversity
	WR 510	Watershed Management in Developing Countries