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University of Arizona
Elective CoursesAgricultural and Resource Economics (AREC) AREC 517 Introductory Mathematical Statistics for Economists This course covers the basic mathematical statistics topics necessary for a deep understanding of applied econometrics. Topics include random variables probability theory, probability and density functions, sampling hypothesis testing, and point and interval estimation. Civil Engineering (CE) CE 502 Introduction to Finite Element Methods Theory and formulation procedures: energy and residual. One-dimensional problems: stress analysis in axial structures, steady and transient fluid and heat flow, consolidation, wave-propagation, beam?column. Two-dimensional problems: field and plane/axisymmetric, use of computer codes for solution to typical problems. GEOS 578 Global Change Analysis of the entire Earth system through an examination of how its component parts and their interactions have changed in the past and may be expected to change in the future. HWR 655 Stochastic Methods in Surface Hydrology Modern techniques of time series analysis and synthesis and neural networks applied in the modeling of hydro-climatic sequences. A combination of theory and real-world applications of these techniques to the fields of hydrology, environmental and water resources engineering, climatic modeling and other related natural resources modeling. College of Law (LAW) LAW 641 Water Law The course in Water Law emphasizes state law rules that govern rights to use surface water and groundwater throughout the country. Ample attention is given to the prior appropriation doctrine, riparian water rights, and various systems for regulating groundwater use. The course also emphasizes how federal law may impact water rights. Increasingly, environmentalists and others claim there are public rights to water that may take precedence over rights under the prior appropriation system. Water is said to flow uphill to wealth and power, and we analyze how politics and economics shape water law doctrines. We also draw on the science of hydrology, which sheds light on the important contemporary problem of how groundwater pumping interferes with surface flows and may impact riparian habitats. Also considered are the role of federal reserved water rights claimed by Indian tribes, and the federal government=s long history of attempting to irrigate the West, concluding with analysis of the Central Arizona Project. Finally, we briefly consider how concerns over water quality may impact water quantity allocation decisions and water rights. Renewable Natural Resources (RNR) RNR-WS M 560 Watershed Hydrology (same as HWR 560) Application of fundamental principles to quantifying the basic hydrologic processes occurring on watersheds.
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