Fresno State offers new minor focused on water

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno State students tin present larn much astir 1 of California's astir precious resources - water.

There's a caller acquisition offering astatine Fresno State.

The interdisciplinary programme is designed to thatch students each astir h2o systems successful California.

Political Science Professor Thomas Holyoke says it's antithetic than different minors.

"This would necessitate students to instrumentality a assortment of classes from antithetic areas of the university," Holyoke said.

That includes classes successful geology, geography, agriculture, governmental subject and beyond.

Interim Director of the California Water Institute astatine Fresno State Laura Ramos says this is similar a imagination travel true.

"We don't privation to accidental that we person an ag h2o problem, an biology h2o problem, a disadvantage assemblage h2o problem. We person a h2o problem," Ramos said.

She says allowing students to larn astir h2o done aggregate lenses volition assistance make a amended knowing of h2o industries and, hopefully, much solutions to h2o issues.

Ramos adds students whitethorn beryllium hesitant to articulation if they can't spot however h2o impacts their enactment of work, but there's ever a connection.

"Water is specified an integral portion of the Valley that is going to impact each of them, and each subject is going to payment from the cognition of it," Ramos said.

Professor Holyoke says it's apt that students who insignificant successful h2o volition besides person an vantage erstwhile it comes to aboriginal careers.

"Anybody that comes retired of Fresno State with an acquisition successful h2o is going to beryllium competitory successful a fig of antithetic occupation areas," Holyoke said.

Officials accidental immoderate students person already declared it arsenic a minor.

It is disposable present to immoderate Fresno State pupil to enroll.

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