Department of Geography

Sustainable Watershed Management

• Credits: 3
• Level: Undergraduate, Year 3
• Semester: 2
• Status: Core course
• Pre-requisites: ENRM 1001.

Course description

The Sustainable Watershed Management (SWM) course is designed to equip students with the principles of managing human impacts on watersheds and water resources. It is also aimed at providing students with an understanding of the interrelationships among key elements within a watershed; land-use, soil, water and people including social justice issues. The course adopts an interdisciplinary approach intended to prepare students for problem solving at the watershed scale with the relevant knowledge of engineering, biology, hydrology, physics and chemistry. This course will be delivered through lectures and discussion of case studies. The concepts will be explained and relevant problems related to the concepts solved in class. Students are encouraged to participate in class work by contributing to in-class discussions and by asking and answering questions. The course will be examined by a field trip report, a group project report and a final exam.