PSU’s graduate certificate in engineering geology provides practicing geologists an opportunity to upgrade their environmental credentials and post-baccalaureate students an accessible way to obtain skills in environmental geology while partially fulfilling requirements towards a professional master’s. The certificate is designed to accommodate professionals and students who are employed full or part-time.
Requirements
Choose one course from each of the following four sections:
Required
- G 561 Environmental Geology
Choose One
- G 650 Research Methods I - Reading
- G 651 Research Methods II - Writing
- G 523 Statistics and Data Analysis in the Geosciences
Choose One
- G 524 Geographical Information Systems for the Natural Sciences
- G 525 Field GIS
- G 543 Ground Water Geology
- G 545 Geochemistry
- G 548 Chemical Hydrogeology
- G 562 Hillslope Materials and Processes
- G 581 Field Geology
- G 619 Topics in Geochemistry
Choose One
- CE 561 Water Resource Systems Analysis
- CE 565/ESM 525 Watershed Hydrology
- CE 566/ESM 566 Environmental Data Analysis
- CE 568 Advanced Methods in Hydrologic System Analysis
- CE 569 Subsurface Hydrology
- CE 571/CE 671 Subsurface Contaminant Transport
- CE 572 Environmental Fluid Mechanical Transport
- CE 573 Numerical Methods in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering
- CE 576 Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- CE 578 Water Quality Modeling
- CE 579/ESM 579 Fate and Transport of Toxics in the Environment
- CE 580 Chemistry of Environmental Toxins
- CE 582 Introduction to Sediment Transport
- CE 583 Estuarine Circulation
- CE 585 Environmental Cleanup and Restoration
- CE 586/Ch 586 Environmental Chemistry
- CE 587/Ch 587 Aquatic Chemistry
- CE 589 Introduction to Advanced Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- CE 590 Soil and Groundwater Restoration
- ESM 516 Ecosystem Restoration
- ESM 517 Applied Watershed Restoration
- ESM 518/Geog 518 Landscape Ecology
- ESM 520 Ecological Toxicology
- ESM 527 Watershed Biogeochemistry
- ESM 529 Environmental Impact Assessment
- ESM 533/Ec 533 Natural Resource Economics
- ESM 535 Natural Resource Policy and Management
- ESM 552 Environmental Regulation and Non-regulatory Approaches
- ESM 563 Water Quality Policy & Management
- ESM 567 Multivariate Analysis of Environmental Data
- Geog 514 Hydrology
- Geog 515 Soils and Land Use
- Geog 546 Water Resource Management
- Geog 547 Urban Streams
- Geog 548 The Urban Forest
- Geog 580 Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
- Geog 588/USP 591 Geographic Information Systems I: Introduction
- Geog 592/USP 592 Geographic Information Systems II: Advanced GIS
- Geog 594 GIS for Water Resources
- Geog 596 Introduction to Spatial Quantitative Analysis
- Geog 597 Advanced Spatial Quantitative Analysis
Note: If G 524 or G 525 is taken toward this certificate, then Geog 588, Geog 592, and Geog 594 may not be taken from this list to count toward these 4 credits.
Total Credit Hours: 16
Courses must be completed within seven years of the award of the Graduate Certificate, and a cumulative GPA of 3.00 must be attained in all courses to be used for the Certificate. At least two thirds of the credits for the Graduate Certificate, or 15 credits, whichever is larger, are required to be taken at Portland State University.