Program Overview
The Environment and Natural Resources at Oklahoma State University is a MSc programme in Humanities, delivered On-campus. This programme equips graduates with advanced knowledge and practical skills for professional and academic careers in the field.
Students gain a rigorous grounding in both the theoretical foundations and applied dimensions of humanities. The programme combines coursework, research components, and practical projects that develop critical thinking, problem-solving, and specialist expertise relevant to industry and research needs.
Graduates of the Environment and Natural Resources programme are well-prepared for careers in academia, industry, government, and the private sector across United States and internationally. The programme provides an internationally recognised qualification within the Bologna higher education framework.
Key Program Features
- Language of instruction: English
- Study mode: On-campus
- English requirement: IELTS 6.5
- Location: Stillwater, United States, United States
Career Opportunities
Graduates of the Environment and Natural Resources programme are prepared for diverse careers in humanities:
- Researcher / Academic
- Cultural Programme Manager
- Editor / Writer
- Translator / Interpreter
- Museum Curator
- Communications Specialist
Program Curriculum
Course Structure
- Applying risk analysis to water resource design.
- Improving parameter estimation for hydrologic models.
- Characterizing model and parameter uncertainties.
- Applying microcomputer techniques to water resources studies.
- Analyzing water resources using stochastic and statistical variables.
- Testing and modifying ground water models.
- Analyzing the transport processes of ground water contaminants.
- Interfacing ground water and soil-water models.
- Assessing field variability and macropore effects in solute transport.
- Assessing the variability and impact of soil properties within mapping units.
- Analyzing the transport and fate of agricultural chemicals.
- Developing new ground water instrumentation.
- Analyzing detachment forces on bed materials.
- Analyzing the drainage network of rills.
- Characterizing rill movement due to headcutting.
- Modeling spatial uncertainties in surface flow parameters.
- Developing flow parameters for surface water quality.
- Incorporating GIS into water quality models.
- Designing decision support systems for manager of agricultural chemicals.
- Determining the impact of irrigation on water quality.
- Determining the impact of irrigation on the transport and fate of agrichemicals.
- MATH 3013 Linear Algebra
- AGRON 4293 Plant Response to Env. Stress
- STAT 4113 Intro. to Probability Theory
- STAT 5133 Stochastic Processes
- STAT 5053 Time Series
- MATH 4013 Engineering. Math of Several Variables
- MAE 5093 Numerical Engineering Analysis
- CIVEN 6010 Seminar in Groundwater Pollution
- CIVEN 6713 Seepage Groundwater Flow
- CIVEN 5913 Groundwater Hydrology
- BAE 6333 Fluvial Hydraulics
- BAE 6313 Stochastic Hydrology
- BAE 5501 Seminar
- BAE 6000 Research Thesis
- BAE 6313: Stochastic Methods in Hydrology. Stochastic and statistical analyses of surface and ground water systems. Topics include frequency analysis, simulation of random events, stochastic models and risk analysis. Prerequisites: BAE 4313 or CIVEN 5843 and STAT 4053.
- BAE 6333: Fluvial Hydraulics. Principles of detachment, entrainment and transport of sediment in surface flows. Topics include drainage network development, turbulence, suspended transport, bed processes and design of stable channels. Prerequisites: ENGSC 3233 or equivalent.
- BAE 6343: Ground Water Contaminant Transport. Principles of solute transport in porous media including multiphase flows. Topics include analytical solutions, experimental measurement techniques, saturated and unsaturated flow principles. Prerequisites: AGRON 5583 or CIVEN 5913.
- BAE 6520: Watershed Modeling and Water Quality. Emphasis on physical processes governing nutrient transport in surface runoff from agricultural watersheds. Application of state-of-the-art watershed scale hydrologic/water quality models. Other topics include parameter estimation, model validation and development of data bases used in watershed models. Prerequisites: CHEM 1515, BAE 4313 or equivalent.
Admission Requirements
Academic Requirements
English Proficiency: IELTS 6.5 or equivalent.
Tuition & Financial Information
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Application Deadline
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About Oklahoma State University
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Stillwater, United States
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