伊利诺伊大学厄本那-香槟分校的地理系提供研究生课程，可同时获得硕士学位和博士学位。学位，专门研究河流，流域和景观动力学。该计划旨在为学生提供一系列技能，以帮助他们解决社会问题并实现解决自然地理学中与河流，流域和景观动态相关的重要科学问题的解决方案。动力学计划以自然地理学为基础，是一门综合性科学，旨在研究地球自然和人为修饰表面的起源，当代发展和过程。所有参与的教职员工都非常重视其研究和教学的理论基础。该计划的主要研究主题反映了参与教师的专业。每个参与的教职员工与校园中的其他部门和/或课程都有紧密的联系，并且
The Department of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offers a graduate program leading to both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees with a specialization in River, Watershed and Landscape Dynamics. The program is designed to provide students with a set of skills they can use to help solve societal problems and to achieve solutions to important scientific problems in physical geography that relate to the dynamics of rivers, watersheds and landscapes.The Rivers, Watershed, and Landscape Dynamics Program builds upon the foundations of physical geography as an integrating science that examines the origins, contemporary development, and processes of the Earth's natural and human-modified surfaces. All participating faculty place strong emphasis on the theoretical underpinning of their research and teaching. The principal research themes of the program reflect the specialties of the participating faculty. Each of the participating faculty has strong links to other departments and/or programs on campus and a high proportion of the research conducted in the program has a strong interdisciplinary flavor.The doctoral program in the River, Watershed and Landscape Dynamics Program follows the guidelines of the Graduate School and the Department of Geography. Although students in the doctoral program focus upon a specialized topic they are expected to develop a general familiarity with all aspects of contemporary thought related to river, watershed and landscape dynamics. Complementary course work outside the department in the form of a minor (see departmental requirements) is required.