Introductory-level educational experience in internship/cooperative position approved by department.

Special Topics

Individual study and research upon selected environmental and social problems.

Directed Readings

Individual reading research on selected environmental and societal readings.

Undergraduate Research

Individual or team research. Prerequisites: Advisor approval

Undergraduate Seminar

Intended to bring upperclassmen up-to-date on environmental and societal topics.

Environmental and Natural Resource Professionalism Seminar

Introduces concepts of professionalism in natural resources; ethical issues in science and management, organizational culture, workplace expectations. Analysis of current issues with practicing professionals. Reinforces leadership and team-building skills. Prerequisites: EnvS 1990, 3000.

Collaborative Problem-Solving for Environment and Natural Resources

Project-based capstone course for EnvS majors. Students work in teams to develop plans and alternative solutions relevant to actual issues or land areas, integrating knowledge from a range of environmental and natural resource disciplines. Prerequisites: senior standing; EnvS 3000, 4000.

Environmental Education

Covers teaching about the environment, and using the environment and the natural world to teach other subjects, with a strong emphasis on participation and on practicing teaching techniques.

 Natural Resource Law and Policy

 Legal and administrative regulation of forests and associated resources (water, air, fish, wildlife, and scenery). Emphasis on agency organizational culture, federal legislation, court cases, administrative procedures, and federal natural resources agencies’ interactions with tribal, state, and local governments.

 Water Law and Policy in the United States

 Introduction to policies, laws, institutions, and practices guiding western water allocation, emphasizing how to efficiently and equitably allocate increasingly scarce supplies. Explores reserved water rights, water markets, stream adjudication, public trust doctrine, basin-wide management, and riparian management.

 Environment, Resources, and Development Policy

 Environment, natural resources, and development policy in Third World, emphasizing sustainable development, farming systems, agro-pastoralism, desertification, and land use.

 Conflict Management in Natural Resources

 Introduction to conflict management tecchniques for those involved in natural resource management.  Also taught as SOC 5640/6640.

 Field Studies in Collaborative Natural Resource Stewardship

 Two-week field course introduces students to methods and philosophical approaches incorporated in Tehabi, a summer-long internship program focusing on collaborative stewardship of natural resources. Open only to students accepted into the Tehabi program.

 Internship in Collaborative Natural Resource Stewardship

 Mentored internship involving participation in the Tehabi program, which teaches collaborative stewardship of natural resources within a federal, state, or non-profit agency. Open only to students accepted into the Tehabi program.

 Theoretical Foundations in Human of Ecosystem Science and Management

 Overview of interdisciplinary theories and frameworks concerning how human societies affect, and are affected by, ecosystem processes at local, regional, and global scales. Focus on systems theory, social and environmental sustainability, and scientific integration for ecosystem planning, policy and management.

 Fisheries and Wildlife Policy and Administration

Examination of policy issues and administrative approaches in fish and wildlife management, with particular emphasis on non-biological issues facing wildlife managers and administrators.

 Policy Aspects of Wildland Recreation

 Political, legal, and economic bases for wildland recreation management. Relationship between outdoor recreation and tourism. Lectures concurrent with EnvS 4130. Also includes weekly discussion session focusing on relevant scientific research and policy and analyses.

Graduate Internship/Co-op

 Graduate-level educational experience in internship/cooperative education position approved by department.

 Wildlife Damage Management Policy

Review and analysis of state and national policies associated with wildlife damage management issues. While often extremely controversial, these issues have significant impacts on food and fiber production, public health and safety, and wildlife conservation. Includes investigation of policies and techniques, and outlining of decision-making processes. Emphasizes issue identification and human dimension factors.

Ecological Aspects of Wildland Recreation

Assessment of current knowledge and knowledge gaps concerning impacts of wildland recreation on wildlife, plants, soil and water resources, and processes. Strategies for coexistence of recreation visitors and nonhuman ecosystem elements.

Advanced Forest Management

Advanced study of forest-level planning on public and private lands using mathematical programming techniques.

Behavioral Aspects of Wildland Recreation

Social and psychological analysis of visitor behavior in outdoor recreation settings. Sources of recreation management problems and practical and theoretical basis for management practices. Lectures concurrent with EnvS 4500. Separate discussion sessions focus on research concerning recreation behavior.

Natural Resource Administration

Organizational structures and processes common in natural resources administration on federal and state levels, and how they impact career development and land management.

Land Use and Resource Assessment

Provides understanding of land use, land capability, techniques and methods of resource assessment, and their role in development planning.

Environment, Resources, and Development Policy

Environment, natural resources, and development policy in Third World, emphasizing sustainable development, farming systems, agro-pastoralism, desertification, and land use.

Advanced Natural Resource Interpretation

Planning processes, techniques, and evaluation procedures for using information and education to influence human behavior and increase benefits to visitors in natural settings. Leadership of teams involved in producing interpretive plans and materials.

Research Approaches in Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Science and Management

Experience conceptualizing and prioritizing research problems involving human societies and ecosystems. Review approaches for creating and testing interdisciplinary hypotheses that pertain to human-ecosystem interactions. Methods for integrating social and biophysical data are reviewed.

Environment and Society Departmental Seminar

Research Techniques in Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Science and Management

Experience using various quantitative and qualitative techniques and tools to collect and analyze data in research projects focused on human-ecosystem interactions. Topics range from survey sampling to use of simulation models and spatial statistics involving Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Natural Resources Research Integrity

Given as a seminar, and including invited speakers, course covers responsible professional behavior in natural resources research and management, with topics ranging from regulations for laboratory animal welfare to performance of honest research and management in the natural resources professions, where studies are seldom replicated and planning horizons can be decades away, and checks for ultimate validity not performed. As a term project, each student devises and defines his or her code of natural resources professional integrity. Recommended prerequisite: EnvS 6810.

Graduate Introductory Seminar for Environment and Society

Each faculty member will meet with first-year graduate students in a seminar format to review and discuss the faculty member’s area of academic specialization in depth.

 Ecology Seminar

The Ecology Center schedules regular seminars throughout the school year with ecological scientists from other institutions participating. Ecology majors are required to attend a minimum of 10 such lectures. Students should register for fall semester, but attend through spring semester. Also taught as AWER 6870, Biol 6870, and FRWS 6870.

Graduate Special Topics

Offers credit for special assignments, reading, and seminars beyond regularly scheduled courses.

Directed Study

Thesis Design. Identification of thesis topics

Design, writing, and presentation of thesis.

Thesis Research

Continuing Graduate Advisement

Theoretical Foundations in Human of Ecosystem Science and Management

Overview of interdisciplinary theories and frameworks concerning how human societies affect, and are affected by, ecosystem processes at local, regional, and global scales. Focus on systems theory, social and environmental sustainability, and scientific integration for ecosystem planning, policy and management.

Wildlife Damage Management Policy

Review and analysis of state and national policies associated with wildlife damage management issues. While often extremely controversial, these issues have significant impacts on food and fiber production, public health and safety, and wildlife conservation. Includes investigation of policies and techniques, and outlining of decision-making processes. Emphasizes issue identification and human dimension factors.

Research Approaches in Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Science and Management

Experience conceptualizing and prioritizing research problems involving human societies and ecosystems. Review approaches for creating and testing interdisciplinary hypotheses that pertain to human-ecosystem interactions. Methods for integrating social and biophysical data are reviewed.

Environment and Society Departmental Seminar

Research Techniques in Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Science and Management

Experience using various quantitative and qualitative techniques and tools to collect and analyze data in research projects focused on human-ecosystem interactions. Topics range from survey sampling to use of simulation models and spatial statistics involving Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Graduate Introductory Seminar for Environment and Society

Each faculty member will meet with first-year graduate students in a seminar format to review and discuss the faculty member’s area of academic specialization in depth.

Graduate Special Topics

Offers credit for special assignments, reading, and seminars beyond regularly schedules courses.

Directed Study

Offers credit for special assignments, reading, and seminars beyond regularly scheduled courses.

Dissertation Research

Continuing Graduate Advisement

Course Title

Description and Prerequisites

Semester Taught

Credits

Geographic analysis of physical processes and spacial distribution of natural elements (i.e., the atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere).

Physical Geography Lab

Laboratory exercises in natural physical geography. Provides initial field and laboratory experiences in the earth system. Required for all geography majors. Prerequisite: Geog 1130 (may be taken concurrently). (1 cr) (F, Sp).

Fall, Spring

1

World Regional Geography

Survey of world cultural regions, with an analysis of political, economic, and resource patterns in their physical setting.

Fall,Spring 

 3

Human Geography.

Spatial study within selected socio-cultural settings, including cultural landscapes, rural-urban linkages, languages, religions, politics, and economic activities.

Fall         

 3

 Population Geography

 Spatial analysis of demographic data emphasizing global distribution, population growth, measures of density, migration, settlement, and economic development.

Spring

3 

Political Geography

 Study of relationship between Earth, people, and the state. Global phenomena studied from a geographic perspective. Explores impact of natural resources territorial seas and the nature of the state. Also taught as

PolS 3430.

Spring

 3

Geography of Rural/Urban Planning

 Analysis of the organization and interrelationships of urban-city and rural space. Emphasizes spatial planning of natural-urban environments to improve quality of life, internal structure of cities, and applied principles and practices of community planning. Field trips and applied class projects integrated into lectures and demonstrations.

Fall 

3 

Map, Air Photo, and GIS Interpretation

 Introduces students to theoretical and practical nature of maps, basic mapping processes, issues of scale, basic photogrammetry, interpretation of remotely sensed imagery, geographic referencing strategies, and geographic information systems. Includes weekly laboratory sessions.

Fall 

 4

Regional Geography

Analysis of physical and cultural geography for a variety of regions. Can be repeated for each different region as offered (e.g., Pacific Rim, Africa, Middle East, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and North America).

Fall, Spring, Summer 

 3

Geography Education Classroom Practicum

 Allows geography education students to participate in actual geography classroom teaching with experienced geography teachers. Students observe, work with individuals and groups of students, team-teach lesson(s) with the teacher, and self-teach individual lesson(s).

Fall, Spring, Summer 

 1-3

Teaching Geography

Designed specifically for geography education/social studies education students preparing to teach grades K-12. Exploration of national and state standards and core curriculum, as well as state-of-art geography education technology and teaching resources. Students develop teaching lessons, and gain classroom teaching experience with local geography teachers.

Spring 

 3

Cartographic Design

 Techniques used in design and construction of maps, charts and map projections.

Spring

Geography Education Field Practicum

 Specifically designed for undergraduate students and graduate students (teachers) who need specific classroom teaching experience in order to improve their quality of teaching and/or carry out special classroom curriculum research as part of their geography education degrees.

Fall,Spring, Summer 

Developing Societies

Reviews how sociology, cultural geography, and economic anthropology analyze processes of globalization in postcolonial societies. Examines changing livelihoods, patterns of spatial incorporation and societal evolution, and emergent policy problems associated with rapid socioeconomic change. Also taught as Anth 5650/6650 and Soc 5650/6650.

Fall 

 3

Geography Education Inservice Workshop

 Assists classroom teachers in broadening their perspective of Geography Education through increased knowledge, improving their geographic techniques, methods, and teaching resources for their classrooms.

Fall, Spring, Summer

 3

Geography Field Practicum

 Designed for geography students involved in field research and/or internships. Provides opportunity for students to gain practical applied experience in their specialized academic emphasis in geography.

Fall, Spring, Summer 

 1-4

Classroom Technology in Geography Education

 Design, development, and application of contemporary technologies and multimedia classroom teaching resources for preservice and inservice geography education teachers.

Fall, Summer 

 3

Geography Education Field Practicum

 Specifically designed for undergraduate students and graduate students (teachers) who need specific classroom teaching experience in order to improve their quality of teaching and/or to carry out special classroom curriculum research as part of their geography education degrees.

Fall, Spring, Summer 

Advanced Regional Geography

 Critical analysis of world’s regions, focusing on analysis and synthesis of a region’s economic, political, population, and cultural themes in the context of physical environment and global processes. Repeatable for different regions.

Fall, Spring, Summer

 3

Geography Education Classroom Practicum

 Allows geography education students to participate in actual geography classroom teaching with experienced geography teachers.