Natural Resources and Ecology, M.S.

Analytical Skills: (7-8 cr.)

• ENV 522 - Environmental Data Analysis (3 cr.)
• SCI 505 - Graduate Seminar in Natural Science (1 to 2 cr.)
• SCI 510 - Research Methods (3 cr.)

Applied / Spatial Skills: (6-7 cr.)

Select two courses from the following:

• ENV 511 - Water Quality (4 cr.)
• ENV 517 - Environmental Impact Assessment (3 cr.)
• ENV 519 - Advanced Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis (3 cr.)
• ENV 521 - Environmental Law and Policy (3 cr.)
• ENV 581 - Sustainability (3 cr.)
• GEG 532 - Environmental Justice (3 cr.)
• GEG 585 - Sustainable Communities (3 cr.)
• PRE 552 - Public Relations Writing (3 cr.)

Environmental Science-Natural Resources: (9 cr.)

Select at least 9 credits from the following:

• BIO 510 - Plant Diversity and Evolution (4 cr.)
• BIO 545 - Graduate Field Botany (3 cr.)
• ENV 506 - Climate Change Science (3 cr.)
• ENV 530 - Wildlife Ecology and Management (4 cr.)
• ENV 531 - Freshwater Ecology (4 cr.)
• ENV 532 - Forest Ecology and Management (4 cr.)
• ENV 533 - River Ecology (4 cr.)
• ENV 536 - Advanced Population and Community Ecology (3 cr.)
• ENV 539 - Wetland Ecology and Management (4 cr.)
• ENV 542 - Paleobiology and Paleoecology (4 cr.)
• ENV 562 - Ecosystem Ecology (3 cr.)
• ENV 568 - Insect Ecology and Evolution (3 cr.)
• ENV 570 - Soil Science (4 cr.)
• ENV 580 - Advanced Topics in Ecology (1 to 4 cr.)
• ENV 599 - Independent Study (1 to 15 cr.)

Graduate Electives: (6-8 cr.)

Select two courses from either the Applied / Spatial Skills or Environmental Science-Natural Resources categories.

Internship / Thesis: (6 cr.)

Complete either a final written thesis based upon independent research or a final nonthesis internship as approved by the student’s graduate committee.

• ENV 595 - Graduate Research (1 to 9 cr.)
• ENV 598 - Environmental Internship (1 to 15 cr.)