Below is a list of courses offered for credit. Note: Courses may not be offered every year.
UAPP 225 Crafting Public Policy (3 cr.)
Instructor: Gerald J. Kauffman
Explores how the processes of public policy operate from agenda-setting through formulation and legitimation to implementation and eventual evaluation with examples drawn from several areas of policy (e.g., health, education, environment). Focus primarily on domestic public policy. (1) Students will understand the basic structure and political processes of the US government and its theoretical underpinnings. (2) Students will become familiar with the relationships between different levels of the US government. (3) Students will learn how problems rise to the level of public problems. (4) Students will recognize the roles of key players in the policy process including the executive, judicial and legislative branches, special interest groups/lobbyists, political parties, and the media. (5) Students will have the opportunity to develop critical reading skills as they read several types of public policy documents and readings from a variety of sources. (6) Students will learn how to make analytical and practical policy assessments, utilizing a number of skills including critical thinking, writing, and public presentation.
UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management (3 cr.)
Instructor: Gerald J. Kauffman
This course is designed to review the practical applications of watershed planning and management as a tool to manage land, water, and ecosystem resources. Students will explore the public policies and practices of watershed management by examining case studies in water supply, water quality, drought, floodplain, and stormwater management in the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay basins. The watershed curriculum will utilize a multi-disciplinary approach involving the fields of geography, environmental science, geology, public policy, environmental economics, urban and regional planning, geographic information systems (GIS), and civil/environmental engineering.
- UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management 2025
- UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management 2024
- UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management 2023
- UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management 2022
- UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management 2021
- UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management 2020
- UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management 2019
- UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management 2018
- UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management 2017
- UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management 2016
- UAPP 411/611 Regional Watershed Management 2015
CIEG 443 Watershed Engineering, Planning, and Design (3 cr.)
Instructor: Gerald J. Kauffman
This course reviews the planning, design and engineering of watershed best management practices necessary to protect and restore the quality and quantity of surface and ground waters. Students will design various stormwater and watershed best management practices such as wet detention basins, bioretention wetlands, stream restoration and bioengineering, and soil erosion and sediment control plans. This independent study course is designed to prepare interested students for future careers in water resources engineering and watershed management.
ENEP 420/624: Water Resources Management (3 cr.)
Instructor: Gerald J. Kauffman
Water is likely the most essential resource for human society, as well as for all life on Earth. It is also one of the most contested—and conflicts surrounding water use and resources are likely to grow as we experience the effects of global climate change. Throughout history, human societies have modified existing water resources with dams, reservoirs, irrigation systems, and other strategies, with considerable impacts on human lifestyles, resource distribution and equity, and ecosystems. Our systems for allocating and managing water resources have become complex and variable, and are intricately connected to both science and human values. This course will give an overview of the policies, systems, and challenges associated with water use and management on local, regional/national, and international scales.
CIEG 440 Water Resources Engineering (3 cr.)
Instructor: Gerald J. Kauffman
This course reviews the fundamentals and practices of water resources engineering within the Civil and Environmental Engineering curriculum at the University of Delaware. Students will explore water resources engineering processes in the theoretical and applied realm in the fields of closed conduit (pipe) flow, open channel flow, surface water hydrology, water quality analyses, and groundwater flow. The water resources engineering curriculum is designed to prepare interested students for future careers in water supply, wastewater, floodplain, stormwater, and groundwater management.
GEOG 432/632 Environmental Hydrology (3 cr)
Instructor: Gerald J. Kauffman
This course reviews the fundamentals and practices of environmental hydrology within the Geography, Environmental Studies/Science, and Water Science and Policy curriculum at the University of Delaware. Students will explore theoretical and applied hydrology processes in the hydrologic cycle including precipitation, infiltration, soil moisture, runoff, and stream processes. This course in environmental hydrology is designed to prepare students for careers in the environmental field in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors.
LEAD 201 Introduction to Consumer Policy (3 cr)
Instructor: Gerald J. Kauffman
Explores general models of how consumer policies come into being and examines how the relationships between consumers, government and business impact the formulation of these consumer policies.
CIEG 467/667 Stream Hydropower Seminar (3 cr.)
Instructor: Gerald J. Kauffman
Students will study the fundamentals of low head hydropower as a source of clean energy, fish passage, and river restoration at small mill dams along the Brandywine River, Christina River, Red Clay Creek, and White Clay Creek in and near Newark and Wilmington, Delaware. This course will employ civil/environmental, mechanical, and electrical engineering principles to estimate hydropower hydraulic/energy potential, fish passage viability, and design low head hydro turbines at mill dams along the three streams. This course will employ an interdisciplinary engineering approach based on river hydraulics, energy/power/electricity production, and fisheries/ecological restoration principles in a field that has the potential to provide clean renewable energy while restoring the river environment.
UAPP 467/667 Environmental Resources and Public Policy (3 cr.)
Instructor: Gerald J. Kauffman
Students will explore the public policy implications of environmental planning and management at the international, national, state/provincial, and local levels. Looming environmental challenges such as water scarcity, habitat loss, climate change, aging infrastructure, and mounting pollution will be discussed all in the face of the new 21st century economy. This course will employ an interdisciplinary policy- and science-based approach designed to address the modern governance, economic, social, and legal issues of the day in the air, land, and water environment.
UAPP 652 Introduction to GIS and Public Policy (1 cr.)
Instructor: Andrew Homsey
Hands-on introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and their uses in public policy areas. Content varies. Exercises focus on using geographic data in fields such as environmental analysis, land use planning, and socio-economic analysis. 1 credit.
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UAPP 655 Introduction to GIS and Public Policy (3 cr.)
Instructor: Andrew Homsey
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