Water Conflict Management and Transformation Graduate Minor
This program is available at the following location:
- Corvallis
The graduate minor in Water Conflict Management and Transformation is designed to accommodate the needs of professionals and graduate students. It offers an integrative approach that explicitly integrates human and policy dimensions of water resources within the framework of scientific and technological solutions. The graduate minor is a flexible, coherent program that offers critical and underemphasized skills essential to preventing and resolving water conflicts. It helps facilitate dialogue on critical water issues across diverse values and perspectives, and it serves OSU students, citizens and officials in Oregon, the United States and internationally.
The curriculum centers around case-based, interactive course and field work to provide an in-depth look at water conflict, conflict transformation, and prevention issues and strategies across four distinct and overlapping themes: water governance, water and ecosystems, water and society, and water and economics. Each theme incorporates several topics critical to understanding water conflicts. A highlight of the minor is the capstone course coupled with an intersession practicum working with watershed councils, landowners, and agencies in Northeast Oregon; and a guided and critiqued project in which two teams take on, for example, the roles of Jordan and Israel to negotiate a treaty for water resource allocation in a simulated water negotiation. These techniques will hone student skills, understanding and thought development. Students will also take part in fieldwork in a watershed or basin at risk of, or in, water conflict.
Through this minor, students will learn about and practice conflict transformation skills, explore what new institutional networks and relationships are needed, and how these can be achieved through role-playing, in-class exercises, and guest lectures. Students will also be introduced to leadership skills for guiding this type of change.
Contact Information
Contact Lynette de Silva, 541-737-7013 or lynette.desilva@oregonstate.edu for more information.
Minor Code: 1006
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Capstone Coursework | ||
| Select one course from the following: | 3 | |
| BARGAINING AND NEGOTIATION PROCESSES | ||
| COMMUNICATION IN INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT AND DISPUTES | ||
| WATER CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND TRANSFORMATION | ||
| Capstone Practicum/Internship | ||
| Select one course from the following: | 3 | |
| PRACTICUM | ||
| INTERNSHIP | ||
| Water Governance | ||
| Select one course from the following: | 3 | |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LAW | ||
| THEORIES OF CONFLICT AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT | ||
| NATURAL RESOURCE POLICY AND LAW | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND LAW INTERACTIONS | ||
| CONFLICT, COOPERATION, AND CONTROL OF WATER IN THE US | ||
| THE WORLD'S WATER | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY | ||
| INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY | ||
| SPECIAL TOPICS (Oregon Water Law and Policy) | ||
| Water and Society | ||
| Select one course from the following: | 3-4 | |
| NATURAL RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY VALUES | ||
| FATE AND TRANSPORT OF CHEMICALS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS | ||
| AQUATIC CHEMISTRY: NATURAL AND ENGINEERED SYSTEMS | ||
| GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION | ||
| SUSTAINABLE WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT | ||
| CONSENSUS AND NATURAL RESOURCES | ||
| RESILIENCE-BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SCIENCES | ||
| ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY AND HEALTH SEMINAR | ||
| CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF INTERNATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS | ||
| GLOBAL HEALTH ISSUES | ||
| INTERNATIONAL HEALTH | ||
| WATER AND HUMAN HEALTH | ||
| AIR QUALITY AND HUMAN HEALTH | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS | ||
| WORLD VIEWS AND ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES | ||
| INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY | ||
| SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCES | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY | ||
| SOCIETY AND NATURAL RESOURCES | ||
| SOCIOTECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF WATER RESOURCES | ||
| Water and Ecosystems | ||
| Select one course from the following: | 3-4 | |
| PHYSICAL HYDROLOGY | ||
| NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION ASSESSMENT AND CONTROL | ||
| WATERSHED PROCESSES | ||
| FOREST HYDROLOGY | ||
| COASTAL ECOLOGY AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT | ||
| WETLANDS AND RIPARIAN ECOLOGY | ||
| SNOW HYDROLOGY | ||
| INTRODUCTION TO SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCES | ||
| ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCES | ||
| GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | ||
| APPLIED FIELD PROBLEMS | ||
| FUNDAMENTALS OF HYDROLOGY | ||
| Water and Economics | ||
| Select one course from the following: | 3 | |
| READING AND CONFERENCE | ||
or AEC 507 | SEMINAR | |
| ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS | ||
| APPLICATIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS | ||
| ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT | ||
| ENVIRONMENTAL WATER TRANSACTIONS | ||
| BUSINESS OF WATER | ||
| Total Credits | 18-20 | |
Minor Code: 1006