Some Types of Graduate Programs

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Some Types of Graduate Programs

• Research-based PhD
• Research-based MS
• Course-intensive MS with individual project
• Course-only MS or Certificate
• Research-based interdisciplinary PhD or MS
• Interdisciplinary professional MS

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Sample Student Programs
MS in G G (42 cr)
MS in WRM (47 cr)

• Water Chemistry (3)
• Hydrology (3)
• Fluid Mechanics (3)
• Contaminant Hydrogeology (3)
• Groundwater Flow Modeling (3)
• Conducted Field Trip (2)
• Advanced Topics (4)
• Seminars in Hydrogeology (2)
• Hydrogeologic Field Methods (2)
• Research (17)

• Water Chemistry (3)
• Hydrology (3)
• Soil Microbiology Biochem (3)
• Groundwater Flow Modeling (3)
• Seminar in Hydrogeology (1)
• The Quaternary Period (3)
• Glacial Geology (3)
• Hydrogeologic Field Methods (2)
• Algebraic Language Programming (3)
• Intro to GIS (4)
• Applications in GIS (3)
• Environmental Law and Institutions (3)
• Land Use Policy and Planning (3)
• Rural Lakes and Society (3)
• WRM Workshop (7)

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Some Common Elements

• Advanced understanding of processes
• Course work in related areas
• Field and laboratory methods
• Modeling techniques
• Exposure to primary literature
• Communication skills

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Critical Issues for Graduate Education

• How to maintain a critical mass
• How to build and strengthen opportunities for
  interdisciplinary training

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Some Approaches to Maintaining Critical Mass

• Concentrate faculty expertise in a limited number
  of areas
• Endowed faculty positions
• Find additional sources of research funding
• Find additional sources of student funding
  (fellowships, training grants)

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Some Current Constraints on Interdisciplinary
Training

• University structure that concentrates resources
  and rewards for faculty in traditional
  departments
• Assumption that interdisciplinary training can be
  accomplished by simply combining expertise of
  existing faculty
• Insufficient infrastructure to provide students
  with funding or a home within the university