Students in the portfolio program will be required to take:
1) one FEWS-relevant Systems Analysis course
2) one FEWS relevant Science and Technology course
3) one FEWS relevant Policy course
4) (PhD students only) one three (3) credit hour Independent Study effort that requires the student to develop a paper on application of their specialty area to agriculture; this can be based on a literature review, FEWS relevant research, or FEWS relevant experiential learning through, for example, an internship, civic engagement or volunteer effort.
A total of four (4) courses totaling twelve (12) credit hours for the graduate portfolio are required for PhD students and nine (9) credit hours are required for MS students. For all students, two (2) of these courses must be outside the student’s home department.
Category Definitions
Systems Analysis includes any course which examines systems integration or analytical methodologies and techniques to assess and improve decision-making in a variety of complex systems.
Science & Technology includes any course which provides technical or foundational training to ensure that students are prepared to enter STEM fields. A technical course is one that incorporates theory, science and hands-on experience as it relates to a particular discipline.
Policy includes any course that provides training in systematic analysis of issues related to public policy and the decision processes associated with them. This includes training in the role of economic and political factors in public decision-making and policy formulation and interdisciplinary areas such as economics, sociology, anthropology, politics, and regional planning.
The courses that address each of the above categories can vary, as this will allow each student to choose courses that best complement their thesis work, and/or future career goals. Additional courses may also be incorporated into the portfolio according to student needs – please inquire.
Below are approved courses and/or courses previously taken by portfolio students.
Systems Analysis Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CE 385-L | Physical & Chemical Treatment |
| CE 385-L | Water and Wastewater Treatment |
| CE 385D | Water Resources Planning and Management |
| CE 387T | Decision, Risk and Reliability |
| CE 392M | Public Transportation Engineering |
| CE 397 | Control Theory for Smart Infrastructure |
| CE 397 | Equity, Data & Environment |
| CE 397 | Urban Systems Engineering |
| CHE 384T | Mass Transfer and Polymers |
| EE394V | Power Electronics: Modern Topics and Practice |
| MAN 390 | Research Methods in Management |
| ORI 390R-18 | Decision Engineering |
| ORI 390R | Systems Simulation |
| ORI 397 | Systems Modeling |
Science and Technology Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| BCH 385G | Structures & Functions of Proteins & Membranes |
| BCH 394P | Bioinformatics |
| CE 380T | Computational Environmental Fluid Mechanics |
| CE 385L | Biological Treatment |
| CE 385L | Biological Wastewater Treatment and Sludge Processes |
| CE 385S | Stochastic Hydrology |
| CE 390J | Environmental Microbiology |
| CE 392C | Transportation Network Analysis |
| CE 394K | Spatial Hydrology |
| CE 395L | Physical and Chemical Treatment |
| CE 395R | BIM Modeling |
| CE 397 | Experimental Methods in Fluid Dynamics |
| CE 397 | Water-Energy Processes |
| CH 390L | Advanced Analytical Chemistry |
| CH 390L-2 | Advanced Analytical Electrochemistry |
| CHE 381Q | Quantitative Analysis of Cellular & Molecular Biology |
| CHE 385M | Surface Phenomena |
| CRP 386 | Smart Cities |
| ECE 381K-18 | Convex Optimization |
| GEO 386G | GIS & GPS Applications in Earth Sciences |
| GEO 391 | Ecohydrology/Biometeorology |
| GEO 391 | Mathematical Modeling of Earth Systems |
| GEO 391 | Vadose Zone Hydrology |
| GEO 391C | Physical Hydrogeology |
| GEO 391K | Applied Karst Hydrology |
| GEO 392P | Python for Geoscience Research |
| GEO 476K/391C | Groundwater Hydrology and Physical Hydrogeology |
| GEO 491/471T | Introduction to Remote Sensing |
| GEO 494P | Modeling Flow and Transport in Porous Media |
| GEO 376S/382S | Physical Hydrology |
| ME 386Q | Electrochemical Energy Materials |
| ME 387R | Materials Science: Experimental Techniques Electron Microscopy |
| ME 397 | Battery Systems Engineering |
| ORI 397 | Inverse Methods |
| PA 388K | Advanced Topics in Policy: Intro to GIS |
| STA 380 | Mathematical Statistics for Applications |
Policy Courses
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CHE 384T/ME 382Q | Energy Technology and Policy |
| CE 397 | Energy Development and Policy |
| CE 397 | Pandemics and the Environment |
| CE 397/BGS 380/EE 394V/LAW 397 | Energy Development/Policy |
| CE 397/CRP 384 | Transportation Planning & Policy |
| CRP 384 | Planning for Disaster Resilient Cities |
| EE 391 | Technical Entrepreneurship |
| LAW 379M/MNS 393 | Coastal Watersheds |
| LAW 391F | Water Law & Policy for the 21st Century |
| LAW 391F/CE 397/PA 388K | Water Law |
| PA 383C | Legislative Development |
| PA 392C/PA392D | Theory and Philosophy of Public Policy I and II |
| PA 393L | Environmental Economics and Regulation |
| PA 393L | Urban Economics and Policy |
| PA 680PA | Rural Entrepreneurship |