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Environmental Science Major
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Pre-professional Requirements
Core Requirements for B.S./B.A.
Electives for B.S. Environmental Science Track
Electives for B.A. Environmental Policy Track
Electives for B.A. Environmental Policy and Business Track
Electives for B.A. Environmental Education Track
Electives for B.S. Natural Resource Management Track
The freshmen/sophomore years lay a foundation of course work for building later expertise. Students need to know the natural sciences of physics, chemistry and biology, with laboratory experience. Study of microeconomics and macroeconomics are required to understand the human economy. Introductory statistics empowers students to independently evaluate sets of numbers. College algebra and an introduction to calculus enable students to work with rates of change, the heart of ecological science.
The pre-professional courses for the B.S. tracks in environmental science and natural resource management prepare students for the science-oriented versions of the major. The requirements for the B.A. track in environmental policy include less physics and mathematics, preparing students for a major that combines science and policy.
Course work in the core of the major provides a base of common knowledge and experience in subjects essential to environmental science. Then students diverge into electives chosen according to individual interest. Senior-year students return to a common course that develops critical thinking skills by confronting conflicts of ecological and economic paradigms, synthesizing across physical, biological and social systems, and engaging diverse knowledge and views to resolve key environmental problems.
Summary of Course Work Requirements
In semester hours |
B.S. |
B.A. |
Pre-professional Requirements* |
43 |
34 |
General Education Requirements (total) |
36 |
36 |
Major |
|
|
Core Requirements for Major |
32 |
31 |
Electives Required for Major** |
21 |
27 |
Other University Requirements and Free Electives*** |
12 |
16 |
Total for Degree |
120 |
120* |
* Typical number of hours; actual number depends on course selections
** 31 hours for the toxicology concentration
*** 2 hours for the toxicology concentration
Each student in the school must fulfill pre-professional requirements that differ only slightly for the B.S. and B.A. degrees. These consist of courses in chemistry, physics, biology, calculus, statistics and economics, totaling 39-46 (typically 43) credit hours for the B.S. and 31-39 (typically 34) hours for the B.A.
In addition to the pre-professional requirements, all students are responsible for completing the university’s general education and the Writing and Math Requirement.
Certain pre-professional requirements simultaneously satisfy 18-21 credit hours (depending on courses selected) of the general education mathematics, physics, biology, and social and behavioral science. Remaining general education requirements include 15-18 credit hours (depending on school pre-professional courses taken) in composition, humanities, and social and behavioral science.
The 12 credit hours of writing requirements include 3-12 hours taken for general education and school pre-professional requirements, depending on selections. The six credit hours of math requirements are satisfied by school pre-professional requirements.
For efficiency, freshmen planning their course work should seek to maximize overlap of school pre-professional requirements with general education and the Writing and Math Requirement, as outlined below.
- The school science pre-professional requirements satisfy up to 12 hours of the physical and biological sciences general education requirement (the basic 9-hour requirement plus the variable three hours from a category). Students should allocate the variable three hours to physical and biological sciences to reduce the humanities requirement from nine to six hours.
- The economics pre-professional requirements satisfy up to six hours of the 9-hour social and behavioral science requirement (six if satisfied with ECO 2013 and 2023, four if satisfied with AEB 3103).
- The policy pre-professional requirement (POS 2041) for B.A. students satisfies the remaining three hours of the 9-hour social and behavioral science requirement. B.S. students may satisfy the remaining three hours of the 9-hour social and behavioral science requirement with certain courses available in the core requirements of the major, under ethics (AEB 4126) and policy (PUP 3204, PUP 4021).
- The school mathematics and statistics pre-professional requirements satisfy the 6-hour mathematics general education requirement and the 6-hour computation requirement.
- Satisfying the preceding requirements leaves the following 18 hours: six hours of humanities, three hours of composition and nine hours of writing.
- Students should seek to take humanities, composition and writing courses that also satisfy the 6-hour international studies and diversity overlap, such as LIT 2110 and 2120 or 2000-level foreign language humanities courses.
Core Requirements for B.S./B.A.
Students seeking a B.S. or B.A. take a core of courses, including a general course in environmental science and courses in ethics, ecology, organic chemistry, earth science, global science, hydrologic systems, policy and natural resource management.
The core provides 31-32 credit hours of course work in physical, biological and social sciences. The B.S. and B.A. tracks are similar. The B.S. includes one course in policy and one in organic chemistry; the B.A. includes two policy courses and no organic chemistry. Beyond the core requirement, each student selects 21-27 additional credits from electives for the major. During the fourth year, all students take a capstone course where critical thinking skills are developed.
Letters in parentheses following the credit hours denote general education categories: composition (C), humanities (H), social and behavioral science (S), mathematical sciences (M) and physical (P) and biological (B) sciences. A +, c, or p following the credit hours denote prerequisites, co-requisites or permission of instructor required, respectively.
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B.S./B.A. |
Credits |
|
Core Requirements for the Major |
32/31 |
|
|
(28-34)/(29-34) |
|
Foundation course (required) |
4/4 |
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EES 3000 and EES 3000L Environmental Science & Humanity and Laboratory |
4 |
|
Environmental Ethics (take one) 3/3 |
|
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AEB 4126 Agricultural and Natural Resource Ethics |
3(H,S) |
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PHM 3032 Ethics & Ecology |
3(H) |
|
POT 3503 Environmental Ethics & Politics |
3 |
|
REL 3492 Religion, Ethics & Nature |
3(H) |
|
Ecology (take one) 2-4/2-4 |
|
|
ALS 3153 Agricultural Ecology |
3 |
|
PCB 3601C Plant Ecology |
3 |
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EES 4103 Applied Ecology |
2(B) |
|
PCB 3034C Introduction to Ecology |
4(B) |
|
**FOR 3153C Forest Ecology |
3(B) |
|
PCB 4044C General Ecology |
4(B) |
Organic Chemistry (take one for B.S.; none for B.A.; for toxicology concentration, see other requirements) 2-3/0
|
BCH 3023 Elementary Organic & Biological Chemistry |
3 |
|
CHM 2200 Organic Chemistry |
3 |
|
EES 4200 Environmental Chemistry of Carbon Compounds |
2 |
Global Sciences (take one from each group) 9-9
Earth/Soil Science (select one)
|
GEO 2200 and GEO 2200L Physical Geography and Laboratory |
4(P) |
|
*GLY 1000 Exploring the Geological Sciences |
3(P) |
|
**GLY 2010C Physical Geology |
4(P) |
|
**GLY 2026C Geology for Engineers |
3(P) |
|
GLY 2030C Environmental & Engineering Geology |
4(P) |
|
**GLY 2100C Historical Geology |
4(P) |
|
SOS 3022 and 3022L Introduction to Soils in the Environment and Laboratory |
4(P) |
|
***SOS 4231C Soil, Water & Land Use |
3(P) |
Global Systems/Oceanographic & Atmospheric Sciences (select one)
|
EES 4370 Environmental Meteorology & Oceanography |
3 |
|
GEO 3250 Climatology |
3(P) |
|
*GLY 1073 Introduction to Global Change |
3 |
|
GLY 3074 The Oceans & Global Climate Change |
3 |
|
MET 1010 Introduction to Weather & Climate |
3 |
|
OCE 1005 Introductory Oceanography |
3(P) |
Hydrologic Systems (select one)
|
AOM 4643 Principles & Issues in Environmental Hydrology |
3 |
|
GEO 3280 Principles of Geographic |
|
|
Hydrology |
3(P) |
|
GLY 3882C Hydrogeology & Human Affairs |
3 |
|
SOS 4244 Wetlands |
3 |
Policy (take one for B.S., two for B.A.) 3-6
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AEB 4123 Agricultural Law |
3 |
|
AEB 3450 Introduction to Natural Resource & Environmental Economics |
3 + |
|
AEB 4274 Natural Resource & Environmental Policy |
3 |
|
ECP 3302 Environmental Economics & Resource Policy |
4 |
|
FNR 4660C Natural Resource Policy & Administration |
3 |
|
INR 3034 Politics in the World Economy |
3 |
|
INR 3502 International Institutions |
3(I, S) |
|
PUP 3204 Politics & Ecology |
3(S) |
|
PUP 4021 Law, Politics & Regulation |
3(S) |
Natural Resource Management
|
(take one course) |
3/3 |
|
*ALS 4932 Food and the Environment |
3 |
|
AGR 3001 Environment, Food & Society |
3 |
|
AGR 3005 Principles of Crop Science |
3 |
|
AOM 3732 Agricultural Water Management |
3 |
|
EES 3008 Energy & Environment |
3 |
|
FAS 4305C Introduction to Fishery Science |
3 |
|
FOR 3004 Forests, Conservation & People |
3 |
|
FOR 4621 Forest Management |
3(P) |
|
GLY 1801 Mineral Resources of the World |
3 |
|
LAA 3530 Landscape Management |
3 |
|
LEI 3546 Park Management |
3 |
|
***SOS 4231C Soil, Water & Land Use |
3(P) |
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WIS 3401 Wildlife Ecology & |
|
|
Management |
3 (B) |
|
Capstone Course (required) |
3 |
|
EVS 4000 Critical Thinking in Environmental Science (students with a schedule conflict may substitute AEB 4454) |
3 |
* Approved for the B.A. track only.
** Approved for the B.S. track only.
*** If taken from one group, this course does not satisfy the requirement for a course from the other group.
Electives for B.S. Environmental Science Track
The environmental science track emphasizes the applied sciences and the basic sciences from which they derive. The track is designed by the student to prepare for a particular employment goal or for graduate or professional school.
Elective courses required beyond the core requirements are distributed among four categories: physical sciences, biological sciences, human dimensions and additional skills and concepts. For advice on choice of electives see the adviser in the School office in 103 Black Hall. Bachelor of Science students desiring more environmental policy electives may substitute them for environmental science track Human Dimensions courses.
Courses taken to fulfill the core requirements cannot fulfill elective requirements. Students may substitute graduate courses for electives, with approval of the school and permission of the instructor. To substitute a 6000-level course, the student must have senior standing and a junior-senior level GPA of at least 3.0.
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Electives for Environmental Science Track B.S. (take seven courses) |
* 21 |
* 9 courses and 31 hours for toxicology concentration.
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1. Environmental Science major, No concentration |
total 21 |
|
Physical Sciences (take one to five courses) |
3-15 |
|
Biological Sciences (take one to five courses) |
3-15 |
|
Human Dimensions (take one to three courses) |
3-9 |
|
Additional Skills and Concepts (take one to four courses) |
3-12 |
|
2. Environmental Science major, Toxicology concentration |
total 30-32 |
|
Physical Sciences |
none |
|
Biological Sciences (take MCB 3020 and 3020L, PCB 3063, BCH 4024, BSC 3096 or PCB 4723C, VME 4611, and VME 4612) |
22-24 |
|
Human Dimensions |
none |
|
Additional Skills and Concepts (take CHM 2210, CHM 2211, CHM 2211L) |
8 |
Courses for B.S. Environmental Science Track
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EVS 4949 Environmental Science Internship |
1-3 |
Physical Sciences
|
*EES 4370 Introduction to Environmental Meteorology & Oceanography |
3 |
|
ENV 4101 Elements of Atmospheric Pollution |
3 |
|
*GEO 3250 Climatology |
3 |
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EMA 3010 Materials 1 |
3 |
|
*GLY 2100C Historical Geology |
4 |
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GLY 3200C Principles of Mineralogy |
4 |
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GLY 3074 The Oceans & Global Climate Change |
3 |
|
GLY 4155 Geology of Florida |
3 |
|
GLY 4552C Sedimentary Geology |
4 |
|
GLY 4610 Invertebrate Paleontology |
3 |
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*SOS 3022 and SOS 3022L Introduction to Soils |
|
|
in the Environment and Laboratory |
4 |
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SOS 4213C Soils and Environmental Quality |
3 |
|
SOS 4231C Soil, Water & Land Use |
3 |
|
SOS 4715C Environmental Pedology |
4 |
|
ALS 3133 Agriculture & Environmental |
|
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Quality |
3 |
|
*AOM 3732 Agricultural Water Management |
3 |
|
AOM 4643 Principles & Issues in Environmental Hydrology |
3 |
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CWR 4111 Engineering Hydrology |
3 |
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*GEO 3280 Principles of Geographic |
|
|
Hydrology |
3 |
|
GLY 5827 Groundwater Geology |
3 |
|
SOS 4602 Soil Physics |
3 |
|
GEO 4201C Advanced Physical Geography |
3 |
|
GEO 4221 Coastal Morphology and Processes |
3 |
|
GEO 4281 Fluvial Morphology & Processes |
3 |
|
OCE 3016 Introduction to Coastal & Oceanographic Engineering |
3 |
Biological Sciences
|
ENY 3005C Principles of Entomology |
3 |
|
ENY 3030C Insect Field Biology |
3 |
|
ENY 4161 Insect Classification |
3 |
|
NEM 3002 Principles of Nematology |
3 |
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WIS 4443C Wetland Wildlife Resources |
3 |
|
WIS 4541C Terrestrial Wildlife Resources |
3 |
|
WIS 4545 Ecology & Management of Wildlife Invasions |
3 |
|
ZOO 2203C Invertebrate Zoology |
4 |
|
ZOO 2303C Vertebrate Zoology |
4 |
|
ZOO 4473C Avian Biology |
4 |
|
ALS 3153 Agricultural Ecology |
3 |
|
FOR 3153C Forest Ecology |
3 |
|
EES 4103 Applied Ecology |
2 |
|
EES 3008 Energy & Environment |
3 |
|
ENV 4612 Green Engineering Design & Sustainability |
3 |
|
*FAS 4305C Introduction to Fishery Science |
3 |
|
FNR 4623 Integrated Natural Resource Management |
3 |
|
PLP 3002C Fundamentals of Plant Pathology |
4 |
|
WIS 3401 Wildlife Ecology & Management |
3 |
|
WIS 4554 Conservation Biology |
3 |
|
WIS 4774 Biogeography: Ecological & Evolutionary Perspectives |
3 |
|
ZOO 4403C Field Problems in Marine Biology, (counts as one or two courses) |
4 or 6 |
|
ZOO 4404C Integrated Marine Biology, (counts as two courses) |
6 |
|
EES 4102 Wastewater Microbiology |
2 |
|
EES 4401 Public Health Engineering |
3 |
|
ENV 4351 Solid and Hazardous Waste Management |
4 |
|
FOS 3042 Introductory Food Science |
3 |
|
FOS 4204 Food Safety & Sanitation |
3 |
|
VME 4611 Environmental Toxicology & Public Health |
3 |
|
VME 4612 Principles of Environmental/Human Toxicology 2 |
3 |
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MCB 2000 & MCB 2000L Microbiology & Laboratory |
4 |
|
EES 4102 Wastewater Microbiology |
2 |
|
MCB 3020 Basic Biology of Microorganisms |
3 |
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MCB 3020L Lab for Basic Biological Microorganisms |
2 |
|
SOS 4303C Soil Microbial Ecology |
3 |
|
AGR 3005 Principles of Crop Science |
3 |
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AGR 4231 Forage Science & Range |
|
|
Management |
4 |
|
BOT 2710 Practical Plant Taxonomy |
3 |
|
BOT 3143C Local Flora |
3 |
|
FNR 3131C Dendrology/Forest Plants |
4 |
|
FNR 3342 Tree Biology |
3 |
|
ORH 3513C Environmental Plant |
|
|
Identification I |
3 |
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ORH 3514C, Ornamental Plant |
|
|
Identification II |
3 |
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PLS 4343C Identification & Ecology of Aquatic Plants |
3 |
Human Dimensions
|
AEB 4123 Agricultural Law |
3 |
|
AEB 3450 Introduction to Natural Resource & Environmental Economics |
3 |
|
AEB 4274 Natural Resource & Environmental Policy |
3 |
|
AEB 4125 Risk Management & the Law |
2 |
|
AML 4453 Eco-criticism & American Nature Writing |
3 |
|
ANT 3514C Biological Anthropology |
4 |
|
ANT 4255 Rural People in the Modern World |
3 |
|
ANT 4403 Environment & Cultural Behavior |
3 |
|
BSC2425 Biotechnology & Human Affairs |
3 |
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ECP 3113 Population Economics |
4 |
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ECP 3302 Environmental Economics & |
|
|
Resource Policy |
4 |
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ENV 4612 Green Engineering Design & Sustainability |
3 |
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FNR 4545 Forests, Plants and Pollution |
3 |
|
FOR 4664 Sustainable Ecotourism Development |
3 |
|
FOS 4731 Government Regulations & the Food Industry |
2 |
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FYC 3401 Introduction to Social & Economic Perspectives on the Community |
3 |
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GEO 2500 Global/Regional Economies |
3 |
|
GEO 3370 Conservation of Resources |
3 |
|
GEO 3430 Population Geography |
3 |
|
GEO 4554 Regional Development |
3 |
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INR 4035 Rich & Poor Nations in the International System |
3 |
|
INR 4350 International Environmental Relations |
3 |
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LAA 3530 Landscape Management |
3 |
|
LEI 3250 Introduction to Outdoor Recreation & Parks |
3 |
|
LEI 3546 Park Management |
3 |
|
MAN 3025 Principles of Management |
4 |
|
PAD 4604 Administrative Law & Regulatory Policy |
3 |
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PLP 2000 Plants, Plagues & People |
3 |
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POS 4931 Comparative Environmental Politics |
3 |
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POT 3503 Environmental Ethics & Politics |
3 |
|
PUP 3204 Politics & Ecology |
3 |
|
PUP 4021 Law, Politics & Regulation |
3 |
|
SYD 4140 Population Policy |
3 |
|
URP 4000 Preview to Urban & Regional Planning |
3 |
|
WIS 4523 Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Conservation |
3 |
Additional Skills and Concepts
Biology
|
PCB 2050 Genetics & Society |
3 |
|
AGR 3303 Genetics |
3 |
|
BCH 4411 Mammalian Molecular Biology & Genetics |
3 |
|
BSC 3096 Human Physiology |
3 |
|
PCB 3063 Genetics |
4 |
|
PCB 4674 Evolution |
4 |
|
PCB 4723C Animal Physiology |
5 |
Business Administration
|
ACG 2021C Introduction to Financial Accounting |
4 |
|
AEB 3133 Principles of Agribusiness Management |
3 |
|
AEB 3144 Introduction to Agricultural Finance |
3 |
|
AEB 3300 Agricultural & Food Marketing |
3 |
|
AEB 4343 International Agribusiness Marketing |
3 |
|
FIN 3403 Business Finance |
4 |
|
MAN 3025 Principles of Management |
4 |
|
MAR 3023 Principles of Marketing |
4 |
Chemistry
|
BCH 3025 Fundamentals of Biochemistry |
4 |
|
BCH 4024 Introduction to Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
4 |
|
CHM 3120 Introduction to Analytical Chemistry |
3 |
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CHM 2200L Organic Chemistry Laboratory |
1 |
|
CHM 2210 Organic Chemistry |
3 |
|
CHM 2211 Organic Chemistry |
3 |
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CHM 2211L Organic Chemistry Laboratory |
2 |
|
CHM 3400 Physical Chemistry |
3 |
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EES 4201 Water Chemistry |
3 |
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EES 4241C Water Analysis |
3 |
Communication
|
AEE 3030C Effective Oral Communication |
3 |
|
AEE 3033C Writing for Agricultural & Natural Resources |
3 |
|
FNR 4040C Natural Resource Communication |
3 |
Mathematics
|
EGM 3311 Introduction to Engineering |
|
|
Analysis |
3 |
|
MAC 2313 Analytic Geometry and Calculus 3 |
4 |
|
MAP 2302 Elementary Differential Equations |
3 |
|
MAS 3114 Computational Linear Algebra |
3 |
|
MAS 4105 Linear Algebra 1 |
4 |
Pest Management
|
AOM 3333 Pesticide Application |
3 |
|
FOR 4624C Forest Health Management |
4 |
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PMA 3010 Fundamentals of Pest Management |
3 |
Social Sciences
|
AEB 3103 Principles of Food & Resource Economics |
4 |
Spatial Analysis
|
ENV 4932 Spatial Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems |
3 |
|
GEO 3151 Foundations of Geographic Information Systems |
4 |
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GEO 3162C Introduction to Quantitative Analysis for Geographers |
4 |
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GEO 4124C Air Photo Interpretation |
4 |
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SOS 4942 GIS in Soil and Water Science |
3 |
|
SUR 3101 Basic Surveying & Mapping |
3 |
|
SUR 4381 Remote Sensing |
3 |
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URP 4273 Survey of Spatial Information Systems for Urban Planning & Environmental Sciences |
3 |
* If this course was taken to fulfill the core requirement, it cannot fulfill the elective requirement.
Electives for B.A. Environmental Policy Track
The environmental policy track focuses on the social sciences that connect the natural sciences and engineering to society. Electives in the areas of policy, law, public administration and resource economics make this the preferred track for students interested in advancing to law school or in policy aspects of environmental consulting or public agency work.
Bachelor of Arts students desiring more environmental science electives may substitute them for environmental policy track
Major Electives.
Students may substitute appropriate graduate courses for listed electives, with approval of the school and permission of the instructor. To substitute a 6000-level course, the student must have senior standing and a junior-/senior-level GPA of at least 3.0
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Electives for Environmental Policy Track B.A. (take nine courses) |
27 |
|
EVS 4949 Environmental Science Internship |
1-3 |
Environmental Law (take one)
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AEB 4123 Agricultural Law |
3 |
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AEB 4125 Risk Management & the Law |
2 |
|
*PUP 4021 Law, Politics & Regulation |
3 |
Environmental Policy (take one) 3
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*AEB 4274 Natural Resource & Environmental Policy |
3 |
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*AEB 4283 International Development Policy |
3 |
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*PUP 3204 Politics & Ecology |
3 |
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*PUP 4021 Law, Politics & Regulation |
3 |
Public Administration (take one) 3
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PAD 3003 Introduction to Public Administration |
3 |
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PAD 4034 Problems in Public Administration |
3 |
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*PAD 4604 Administrative Law & Regulatory Policy |
3 |
Resource Economics (take one) 3
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*AEB 3450 Introduction to Natural Resource & Environmental Economics |
3 |
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*ECP 3302 Environmental Economics & Resource Policy |
4 |
Major Electives (take five) 15
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AEB 4123 Agricultural Law |
3 |
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AEB 4242 International Trade Policy in Agriculture |
3 |
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AEB 4283 International Development Policy |
3 |
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AEB 4452 Advanced Natural Resource & Environmental Economics |
3 |
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AEE 3030C Effective Oral Communication |
3 |
|
AEE 3033C Writing for Agricultural & Natural Resources |
3 |
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AEB 4125 Risk Management & the Law |
3 |
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AML 4453 Eco-criticism & American Nature Writing |
3 |
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ANT 4255 Rural People in the Modern World |
3 |
|
ANT 4403 Environment & Cultural Behavior |
3 |
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ECO 3101 Intermediate Microeconomics |
4(S) |
|
ECO 3203 Intermediate Macroeconomics |
4(S) |
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ECO 3530 Public Choice |
4 |
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ECP 3113 Population Economics |
4 |
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EVS 4949 Environmental Science Internship |
1-3 |
|
FNR 4623 Integrated Natural Resource Management |
3 |
|
FNR 4040C Natural Resource Communication |
2 |
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FYC 3401 Introduction to Social & Economic Perspectives on the Community |
3 |
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FOR 4664 Sustainable Ecotourism Development |
3 |
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FOS 4731 Government Regulation & the Food Industry |
2 |
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INR 4035 Rich & Poor Nations in the International System |
3 |
|
INR 4350 International Environmental Relations |
3 |
|
LEI 4833 Ecotourism |
3 |
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MAN 3025 Principles of Management |
4 |
|
PAD 4034 Problems in Public Administration |
3 |
|
PAD 4604 Administrative Law & Regulatory Policy |
3 |
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POS 2112 American State & Local Government |
3 |
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POS 4674 Political Change & Legal Development |
3 |
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POS 4931 Comparative Environmental Politics |
3 |
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POT 3503 Environmental Ethics & Politics |
3 |
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*PUP 3204 Politics & Ecology |
3 |
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*PUP 4021 Law, Politics & Regulation |
3 |
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SYD 3410 Urban Sociology |
3 |
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SYD 3600 Community Growth & Change |
3 |
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SYD 4020 Population |
3 |
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SYD 4140 Population Policy |
3 |
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URP 4000 Preview to Urban & Regional Planning |
3 |
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URP 4273 Survey of Spatial Information Systems for Urban Planning & Environmental Sciences |
3 |
* If this course was taken to fulfill the core requirement, it cannot fulfill this elective requirement and the student must select a substitution from the major elective category.
Electives for B.A. Environmental Policy and Business Track
The environmental policy and business track combines a general overview of business (courses in the major functional areas of business administration) with courses in environmental policy.
Along with the prerequisite ECO 2013 Microeconomics, the listed courses in the Warrington College of Business Administration would make students eligible for a minor in business administration. Similarly, combining the prerequisite AEB 3103, ACG 2021C and three of the listed AEB courses would make students eligible for a minor in food and resource economics. This track benefits employment in environmental consulting, corporate/agency environmental management or environmental law.
Students may substitute appropriate graduate courses for electives, with approval of the School and permission of the instructor. To substitute a 6000-level course, the student must have senior standing and a junior-/senior-level GPA of at least 3.0.
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Electives for Environmental Policy and B.A. Business Track (take nine courses) |
27 |
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Required Electives (take four) including ACG 2021C, AEB 3144 or FIN 3403, AEB 3133 or MAN 3025, and MAR 3023 or (either) AEB 3300 or AEB 4343 |
13-16 |
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ACG 2021C Introduction to Financial |
|
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Accounting |
4 |
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AEB 3133 Principles of Agribusiness |
3 |
|
Management AEB 3144 Introduction to Agricultural Finance |
3 |
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AEB 3300 Agricultural & Food Marketing |
3 |
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AEB 4343 International Agribusiness Marketing |
3 |
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FIN 3403 Business Finance |
4 |
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MAN 3025 Principles of Management |
4 |
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MAR 3023 Principles of Marketing |
4 |
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Major Electives (take four-five courses from the Environmental Policy track electives) |
11-14 |
Electives for B.A. Environmental Education Track
The environmental education track prepares students for work in nature education centers, environmental organizations, public agency environmental interpretation programs or as a nature tour guide in the private sector.
It is a suitable degree for entry into graduate school in education, but it does not lead directly to public school teacher certification or toward efficient completion of the five-year professional teacher education program in the College of Education.
Students may substitute appropriate graduate courses for listed electives, with approval of the school and permission of the instructor. To substitute a 6000-level course, the student must have senior standing and a junior-senior level GPA of at least 3.0.
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Electives for Environmental |
.B.A. |
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Education Track (take nine courses) |
27 |
Learning (take one)
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EDF 3214 Learning & Cognition in Education |
2 |
Measurement and Evaluation (take one)
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EDF 4430 Measurement & Evaluation in Education |
3 |
Environmental Education (take two)
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SCE 4342 Environmental Education Methods & Materials |
3 |
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FOR 4640C Environmental Education Program Development |
3 |
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WIS 4523 Human Dimensions on Natural Resource Conservation |
3 |
Leadership Development (take one)
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AEE 3414 Leadership Development in Agriculture & Natural Resources |
3 |
Major Electives (take four-five)
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EVS 4949 Environmental Science Internship 1 |
3 |
Biology
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BOT 2011C Plant Diversity |
4 |
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BOT 3143C Local Flora |
3 |
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ENY 3030C Insect Field Biology |
3 |
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FNR 3131C Dendrology/Forest Plants |
4 |
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ZOO 2203C Invertebrate Zoology |
4 |
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ZOO 2303C Vertebrate Zoology |
4 |
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ZOO 4473C Avian Biology |
4 |
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ZOO 4403C Field Problems in Marine Biology (counts as one or two courses) |
4 or 6 |
Communication Skills
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AEE 3030C Effective Oral Communication |
3 |
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AEE 3033C Writing for Agricultural & Natural Resources |
3 |
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AEE 3073 Intercultural Communications |
3 |
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AEE 3939 Agriculture & Natural Resources Communication Seminar |
1 |
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ENC 3250 Professional Communication |
3 |
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ENC 3310 Advanced Exposition |
3 |
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ENC 3312 Advanced Argumentative Writing |
3 |
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FNR 4040C Natural Resource Communication |
2 |
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JOU 3101 Reporting |
3 |
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JOU 4300 Magazine and Feature Writing |
3 |
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MMC 2100 Writing for Mass Communication |
3 |
Education
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AEE 4034 Campaign Strategies for Agriculture & Natural Resources |
3 |
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AEE 4500 Program Development & Evaluation in Human Resource Programs |
3 |
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DEP 3053 Developmental Psychology |
3 |
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EDF 3110 Human Growth & Development |
3 |
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EDF 4542 Philosophy of Education |
3 |
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FNR 4040C Natural Resource Communication |
2 |
Human Dimensions
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AEB 4283 International Development Policy |
2 |
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AML 4453 Eco-criticism & American Nature Writing |
3 |
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ANT 4403 Environment & Cultural Behavior |
3 |
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FOR 4664 Sustainable Ecotourism |
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Development |
3 |
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FYC 3401 Introduction to Social & Economic Perspectives on the Community |
3 |
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INR 4035, Rich & Poor Nations in the International System |
3 |
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LEI 3250 Introduction to Outdoor Recreation & Parks |
3 |
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LEI 4833 Ecotourism |
3 |
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POS 4674 Political Change & Legal Development |
3 |
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URP 4000 Preview to Urban & Regional Planning |
3 |
Policy
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AEB 3450 Introduction to Natural Resource & Environmental Economics |
3 |
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AEB 4274 Natural Resource & Environmental Policy |
3 |
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ECP 3302 Environmental Economics & Resource Policy |
4 |
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FNR 4660C Natural Resource Policy & Administration |
3 |
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INR 4035 Rich & Poor Nations in the International System |
3 |
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INR 4350 International Environmental |
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Relations |
3 |
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PAD 4034 Problems in Public Administration |
3 |
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PAD 4604 Administrative Law & Regulatory Policy |
3 |
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POS 4931 Comparative Environmental Politics |
3 |
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PUP 3204 Politics & Ecology |
3 |
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PUP 4021 Law, Politics & Regulation |
3 |
Electives for B.S. Natural Resource Management Track
This track focuses on the applied sciences enabling sustainable use of natural resources
Students may substitute appropriate graduate courses for electives, with approval of the school and permission of the instructor. To substitute a 6000-level course, the student must have senior standing and a junior-senior level GPA of at least 3.0.
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EVS 4949 Environmental Science Internship |
1-3 |
American Federal Government (required)
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POS 2041 American Federal Government |
3 |
*Environmental Policy (take one)
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AEB 4242 International Trade Policy in Agriculture |
3 |
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**AEB 4274 Natural Resource & Environmental Policy |
3 |
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AEB 4125 Risk Management & the Law |
3 |
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**INR 4035 Rich & Poor Nations in the International System |
3 |
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**INR 4350 International Environmental Relations |
3 |
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**PUP 3204Policy & Ecology |
3 |
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**PUP 4021 Law, Politics, & Regulation |
3 |
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POS 4931 Comparative Environmental Politics |
3 |
Resource Economics (take one)
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**AEB 3450 Introduction to Natural Resource & Environmental Economics |
3 |
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**ECP 3302 Environmental Economics & Resource Policy |
4 |
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GEO 2500 Geography of World Economics |
3 |
Human Effects on the Environment (take one)
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ALS 3133 Agriculture & Environmental Quality |
3 |
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AML 4453 Eco-criticism & American Nature Writing |
3 |
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ANT 4255 Rural People in the Modern World |
3 |
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ANT 4403 Environment & Cultural Behavior |
3 |
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FNR 4545 Forests, Plants and Pollution |
3 |
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**FOR 3004 Forests, Conservation & People |
3 |
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GEO 3370 Conservation of Resources |
3 |
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LEI 3250 Introduction to Outdoor Recreation & Parks |
3 |
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WIS 2040 Wildlife Issues in a Changing World |
3 |
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WIS 4523 Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Conservation |
3 |
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URP 4000 Preview to Urban & Regional Planning |
3 |
Resource Management (take two) 6
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AEB 4283 International Development Policy |
3 |
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AEB 4452 Advanced Natural Resource & Environmental Economics |
3 |
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ALS 3133 Agriculture & Environmental Quality |
3 |
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ALS 3153 Agricultural Ecology |
3 |
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AGR 3005 Principles of Crop Science |
3 |
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AGR 4231 Forage Science & Range |
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Management |
4 |
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**EES 3008 Energy & Environment |
3 |
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EES 4103 Applied Ecology |
2 |
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EES 4050Environmental Planning & Design |
3 |
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ENV 4612 Green Engineering Design & Sustainability |
3 |
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**FAS 4305C Introduction to Fishery Science |
3 |
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FNR 4623 Integrated Natural Resource Management |
3 |
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FOR 3153C Forest Ecology |
3 |
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**FOR 4621 Quantitative Forest Management |
3 |
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FOR 4664 Sustainable Ecotourism |
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Development |
3 |
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**LAA 3530 Landscape Management |
3 |
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LEI 4833 Ecotourism |
3 |
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MAN 3025 Principles of Management |
4 |
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**SOS 4231C Soil, Water & Land Use |
3 |
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**WIS 3401 Wildlife Ecology & Management |
3 |
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WIS 4443C Wetland Wildlife Resources |
3 |
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WIS 4541C Terrestrial Wildlife Resources |
3 |
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WIS 4545 Ecology & Management of Wildlife Invasions |
3 |
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WIS 4554 Conservation Biology |
3 |
Skills for Resource Management (take one)
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AEE 3030C Effective Oral Communication |
3 |
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AEE 3033C Writing for Agricultural & Natural Resources |
3 |
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EES 4021 Modeling Environmental System Dynamics |
3 |
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EES 5307 Ecological Engineering |
3 |
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ENV 3040 Computational Methods in Environmental Engineering Sciences |
3 |
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ENV 4601 Environmental Resources Management |
2 |
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ENV 4932 Spatial Analysis Using Geographic Information Systems |
3 |
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FNR 3131C Dendrology/Forest Plants |
4 |
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FNR 3410C Natural Resource Sampling |
4 |
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FNR 4040C Natural Resource Communication |
2 |
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FYC 3401 Introduction to Social & Economic Perspectives on the Community |
3 |
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**GEO 3280 Principles of Geographic Hydrology |
3 |
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GEO 4124C Air Photo Interpretation |
4 |
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SUR 2101C Geomatics |
3 |
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SUR 3620 Geographic Information Systems |
2 |
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SUR 3620L Geographic Information Systems Laboratory |
1 |
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SUR 4381 Remote Sensing |
3 |
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URP 4273 Survey of Spatial Information Systems for Urban Planning & Environmental Sciences |
3 |
* Note: POS 2041 is a prerequisite for all courses in the environmental policy category.
** If this course was taken to fulfill the core requirement, it cannot fulfill this elective requirement, and the student must select a substitution from the categories of human effects, resource management, or quantitative methods.
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