| Department | Course Number | Course | Description |
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| WILD/WATS/ENVS | 2000 | Natural Resources Professional Orientation | Through a combination of in- and out-of-classroom activities, students develop an understanding of curriculum requirements and career opportunities associated with the Natural Resources majors. Students will also be introduced to natural resource management issues and research involving multiple disciplines. |
| WILD | 2200 | Ecology of Our Changing World | Foundations of ecological and evolutionary relationships of organisms with other organisms and with the physical environment, emphasizing populations, communities, and ecosystems. Integration of basic science with applications of science to understanding human interactions with the environment. |
| WILD | 2400 | Wildland Resources Techniques |
Introduction to research and management techniques for wildlife, range, and forest resources. Emphasizes field and laboratory skills for studying and managing wild plants and animals.
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| WILD | 3100 | Introduction to Wildland Fire |
This course introduces students to science and management of wildland fire. Topics include combustion and fire behavior, fire ecology, and fire management and policy.
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| WILD | 3300 | Management Aspects of Wildlife Behavior |
Principles, concepts, and mechanisms of animal behavior, emphasizing behavioral ecology, development, and comparative aspects of special relevance to management of fish and wildlife.
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| WILD | 3850 | Vegetation and Habitat Management |
Applying ecological principles and concepts to manipulate the composition, structure, and productivity of wildland vegetation for a range of objectives, including the creation and maintenance of wildlife habitat, using biological, chemical, and mechanical methods, as well as fire.
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| WILD | 4320 | Wildland FIeld Skills |
This course is a set of workshops and training exercises related to core practical skills needed for fieldwork in natural resources. Additional coursework is required for those enrolled in the graduate-level course.
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| WILD | 4500 | Principles of Wildlife Management |
Provides students with a working knowledge of the application of basic concepts in ecology and animal behavior to the management of wildlife resources to achieve diverse objectives of conservation, control, or cropping.
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| WILD | 4550 | Wildlife Law Enforcement |
Explores essential topics relating to enforcement of wildlife and other natural resource laws, including applicable state and federal laws, policy formulation, rights of the individual, search and seizure, field forensic procedures, and the judicial process.
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| WILD | 4600 | Conservation Biology |
Patterns and processes creating biological diversity. Causes and consequences of diversity losses from genes to ecosystems, including habitat fragmentation and exotic invasion. Conservation laws and organizations. Approaches to conserving diversity loss, including reserve design, corridors, and species reintroductions.
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| WATS | 3100 | Fish Ecology, Conseration, and Management |
This course covers ecology, conservation, and management of freshwater, marine, and anadromous fishes and examines behaviors, distributions, population dynamics, species interactions, and ecosystem effects, as well as the societal importance of fishes and how endangered, recreational, commercial, and subsistence fisheries are managed.
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| WATS | 4650 | Principles in Fishery Managment |
Emphasizes management of fish populations within context of community and ecosystem dynamics. Stresses use of simulation models to assess effects of growth, recruitment, and mortality on age-structured populations.
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| WATS | 4950 | Research Communication |
Individual study and research upon selected watershed sciences problems.
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| ENVS | 3300 | Fundamentals of Natural Resource Recreation Management |
Principles of wildland recreation management including characteristics of recreation use and users, introduction to planning concepts, management of wildland recreation facilities and infrastructure, and integration with other natural resource uses.
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| ENVS | 4000 | Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management |
This course focuses on how people and institutions interact within the natural resource management arena. Topics include complex social-environmental problems, values and behaviors, sustainability leadership and innovation, community diversity, resource dependency, stakeholders, collaboration and conflict, indigenous knowledge, and resource governance.
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| SOC | 3110 | Methods of Social Research |
This course provides an overview of social research methods. It covers the formulation of research questions, usage of theory to inform research design, common data collection methods, basic techniques of analyzing that data, and ethical considerations for conducting research.
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| SOC | 3310 | Environmental Justice |
Students learn about environmental justice, which involves fair and equitable outcomes and meaningful involvement and participation in response to environmental issues. Environmental justice is intersectional and interdisciplinary and covers issues related to class, gender, race, ethnicity, Indigenous studies, and international and global concerns.
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| ENGL | 3640 | Nature Writing |
This interdisciplinary course explores how practices of reading and writing impact the relationship between humans and the environment. Students investigate how the environment has been shaped by colonialism and westward expansion and how contemporary writings influence current conversations on environmental issues.
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| WILD | 3500 | Introduction to Management |
This course covers ecological principles and calculations used in making rangeland management decisions. Students compete in the Society for Range Management (SRM) Undergraduate Range Management Exam (URME) to demonstrate critical thinking skills and synthesis range knowledge.
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| WILD | 4000 | Principles of Rangeland Management |
Modern principles of rangeland management, including history of the profession, ecology, plant physiology, impacts of grazing on individual plants and plant communities, grazing management, range animal nutrition, rangeland watersheds, and the economics and planning of rangeland practices. Also introduces range-wildlife relations and vegetation manipulation.
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| WILD | 4100 | Scientific Communication for Natural Resource Professionals |
This course is designed to enhance the scientific literacy skills of natural resource professionals by teaching: 1) how to read scientific articles, and 2) how to communicate scientific information effectively in written and oral form to different audiences.
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| WILD | 4750 | Monitoring and Assessment in Batural Resource and Environmental Management |
Lectures, laboratory exercise, and field-based projects introduce students to the concepts, strategies, and analytical methods of natural resource and environmental monitoring and assessment.
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| WILD | 4910 | Vegetation Resource Management and Planning |
Students conduct science-based assessments of natural resources through implementation of analytical methods and synthesis. Case studies are used to develop concepts, strategies, and problem-solving skills. Basic GIS and remote sensing skills are also developed.
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| WILD | 5220 | Community-Based Conservation Partnerships |
Seeks to infuse ecology with applied conservation and management approaches. Conservation and management of natural resources requires an understanding of ecological relationships and strategies for working with diverse stakeholders. PhD-level students present their research.
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| WILD | 5300 | Human-Wildlife Interactions |
This course explains current legal, ethical, and biological principles for the control and/or management of problem vertebrate species.
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| WILD | 5700 | Forest Assessment and Management |
Detailed analysis of forest stand structure and growth. Development of silvicultural prescriptions to meet specific objectives. Analysis of costs and benefits of alternative forest management strategies. Emphasizes forest management to achieve a broad range of objectives.
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| WILD | 5710 | Forest Vegetation Disturbance Ecology and Management |
Examines causes, effects, and management options for selected biotic and abiotic agents of disturbance in wildland ecosystems.
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| ENVS | 3600 | Living with Wildlife |
This course introduces ecological, behavioral, and evolutionary processes governing wild animals’ interactions with their environments and each other. Students explore impacts of human activities on wildlife and of wildlife on people and consider strategies for sustainable coexistence with human society.
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| ENVS | 4500 | Advanced Natural Resource Recreation Management |
This course explores social, psychological, and geographic influences on human behaviors in wildland recreation settings. Emphasis is placed on critical problems affecting public land recreation management.
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| ENVS | 5300 | Natural Resources 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.
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| WATS | 4000 | Natural Resources Teaching Experiences |
Students will learn principles of outdoor education and will be trained in delivering hands-on environmental education lessons. Mentored by educators and agency professionals, students will deliver environmental education lessons to 4th grade students. Fall section -September. Spring section- Feb-April.
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| WATS | 4310 | Wetland Ecology and Management |
Explores the physical, chemical, and biological structure of wetlands. Focuses on the major types of wetlands found in North America, as well as their ecology and management; U.S. wetland policy and mitigation; and regional, national, and global impacts on restoration of wetlands.
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| WATS | 4720 | Drone Data Analysis for Environmental Restoration |
Drones (UAV / UAS) have revolutionized data collection for natural resources (rivers, forestry, wildlife, wetlands, agriculture, etc.) and are used to evaluate restoration success. Students learn mission planning and drone-based data collection, processing, and analysis for natural resources applications. Additional coursework is required for those enrolled in the graduate-level course.
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| WATS | 5630 | Beaver Translocation for Restoration |
This course provides a field-based, three-day introduction to beaver translocation to support process-based restoration of riverscapes. Students gain experience live-trapping nuisance beaver, caring for beaver in holding facilities, and releasing beaver to riverscapes for restoration.
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| ANTH | 4650 | Utah's Public Lands: Past, Present, Future |
This class teaches students about the history and debates surrounding the creation, management, and activism involving Utah’s public lands.
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