Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources Fisheries & Wildlife
Description
Website: http://snr.unl.edu/undergrad/majors/fish_wild/
Fisheries and wildlife (F&W) professionals are responsible for the conservation, protection, regulation, and management of our nation’s fish and wildlife resources. Their management strategies must provide for both consumptive (hunting, fishing) and non-consumptive uses (bird watching, non-game species enhancement, threatened and endangered species protection, conservation biology, zoo management, and others).
Students who successfully fulfill the requirements in the fisheries and wildlife degree program are prepared to enter postgraduate programs as well as competitively enter the workforce. The curriculum reflects the civil service requirements of the federal government for wildlife and fisheries biologists and incorporates course requirements for certification in professional societies. The breadth of the curriculum prepares graduates to address complex environmental issues and to interact professionally with a multitude of natural resources disciplines in order to develop solutions to problems. Typical careers for graduates of this degree program include fisheries biologist, wildlife biologist, law enforcement officer, ecologist, habitat manager, zookeeper, disease specialist, or research biologist with private consulting firms and zoos, or with governmental resource management agencies at the local, state, or federal level. Because this is a broad field, students should consult their advisor as they select one of the eight options.
College Requirements
College Admission
Requirements for admission into the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR) are consistent with general University admission requirements (one unit equals one high school year): 4 units of English, 4 units of mathematics, 3 units of natural sciences, 3 units of social sciences, and 2 units of world language. Students must also meet performance requirements: a 3.0 cumulative high school grade point average OR an ACT composite of 20 or higher, writing portion not required OR a score of 1040 or higher on the SAT Critical Reading and Math sections OR rank in the top one-half of graduating class; transfer students must have a 2.0 (on a 4.0 scale) cumulative grade point average and 2.0 on the most recent term of attendance.
Admission Deficiencies/Removal of Deficiencies
Students who are admitted to CASNR with core course deficiencies must remove these deficiencies within the first 30 credit hours at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, or within the first calendar year at Nebraska, whichever takes longer, excluding foreign languages. Students have up to 60 credit hours to remove world language deficiencies. College-level coursework taken to remove deficiencies may be used to meet degree requirements in CASNR.
Deficiencies in the required entrance subjects can be removed by the completion of specified courses in the University or by correspondence.
The Office of Admissions, Alexander Building (south entrance), City Campus, provides information to new students on how deficiencies can be removed.
College Degree Requirements
Curriculum Requirements
The curriculum requirements of the College consist of three areas: ACE (Achievement-Centered Education), College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources Core, and Degree Program requirements and electives. All three areas of the College Curriculum Requirements are incorporated within the description of the Major/Degree Program sections of the catalog. The individual major/degree program listings of classes ensures that a student will meet the minimum curriculum requirements of the College.
World Languages/Language Requirement
Two units of a world language are required. This requirement is usually met with two years of high school language.
Experiential Learning
All undergraduates in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources must take an Experiential Learning (EL) designated course. This may include 0-credit courses designed to document co-curricular activities recognized as Experiential Learning.
Minimum Hours Required for Graduation
The College grants the bachelors degree in programs associated with agricultural sciences, natural resources, and related programs. Students working toward a degree must earn at least 120 semester hours of credit. A minimum cumulative grade point average of C (2.0 on a 4.0 scale) must be maintained throughout the course of studies and is required for graduation. Some degree programs have a higher cumulative grade point average required for graduation. Please check the degree program on its graduation cumulative grade point average.
Grade Rules
Removal of C-, D, and F Grades
Only the most recent letter grade received in a given course will be used in computing a student’s cumulative grade point average if the student has completed the course more than once and previously received a grade or grades below C in that course.
The previous grade (or grades) will not be used in the computation of the cumulative grade point average, but it will remain a part of the academic record and will appear on any transcript.
A student can remove from his/her cumulative average a course grade of C-, D+, D, D-, or F if the student repeats the same course at the University of Nebraska and receives a grade other than P (pass), I (incomplete), N (no pass), W (withdrew), or NR (no report). If a course is no longer being offered, it is not eligible for the revised grade point average computation process.
For complete procedures and regulations, see the Office of the University Registrar website at http://www.unl.edu/regrec/course-repeats.
Pass/No Pass
Students in CASNR may take any course offered on a Pass/No Pass basis within the 24-hour limitation established by the Faculty Senate. However, a department may specify that the Pass/No Pass status of its courses be limited to non-majors or may choose to offer some courses for letter grades only.
GPA Requirements
A minimum cumulative grade point average of C (2.0 on a 4.0 scale) must be maintained throughout the course of studies and is required for graduation. Some degree programs have a higher cumulative grade point average required for graduation. Please check the degree program on its graduation cumulative grade point average.
Transfer Credit Rules
To be considered for admission a transfer student, Nebraska resident or nonresident, must have an accumulated average of C (2.0 on a 4.0 scale) and a minimum C average in the last semester of attendance at another college. Transfer students who have completed less than 12 credit hours of college study must submit either ACT or SAT scores.
Ordinarily, credits earned at an accredited college are accepted by the University. The College, however, will evaluate all hours submitted on an application for transfer and reserves the right to accept or reject any of them. Sixty (60) is the maximum number of hours the University will accept on transfer from a two-year college. Ninety (90) is the maximum number of hours the University will accept from a four-year college. Transfer credit in the degree program must be approved by the degree program advisor on a Request for Substitution Form to meet specific course requirements, group requirements, or course level requirements in the major. At least 9 hours in the major field, including the capstone course, must be completed at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln regardless of the number of hours transferred.
The College will accept no more than 10 semester hours of C-, D+, D, and D- grades from other schools. The C-, D+, D, and D- grades can only be applied to free electives. This policy does not apply to the transfer of grades from UNO or UNK to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Joint Academic Transfer Programs
The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources has agreements with many institutions to support joint academic programs. The transfer programs include dual degree programs and cooperative degree programs. Dual degree programs offer students the opportunity to receive a degree from a participating institution and also to complete the requirements for a bachelor of science degree in CASNR. Cooperative programs result in a single degree from either the University of Nebraska–Lincoln or the cooperating institution.
Dual Degree Programs
A to B Programs
The A to B Program, a joint academic program offered by the CASNR and participating community colleges, allows students to complete the first two years of a degree program at the participating community college and continue their education and study in a degree program leading toward a bachelor of science degree.
The A to B Program provides a basic knowledge plus specialized coursework. Students transfer into CASNR with junior standing.
Depending on the community college, students enrolled in the A to B Program may complete the requirements for an associate of science at the community college, transfer to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and work toward a bachelor of science degree.
Participating community colleges include:
- Central Community College
- Metropolitan Community College
- Mid-Plains Community College
- Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture
- Nebraska Indian Community College
- Northeast Community College
- Southeast Community College
- Western Nebraska Community College
3+2 Programs
Two specialized degree programs in animal science and veterinary science are offered jointly with an accredited college or school of veterinary medicine. These two programs permit CASNR animal science or veterinary science students to receive a bachelor of science degree from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with a degree in animal science or veterinary science after successfully completing two years of the professional curriculum in veterinary medicine at an accredited veterinary school. Students who successfully complete the 3+2 Program, must provide transcripts and complete the Application for Degree form via MyRED. Students without MyRED access may apply for graduation in person at Husker Hub in the Canfield Administration Building, or by mail. Students should discuss these degree programs with their academic advisor.
Cooperative Degree Programs
Academic credit from the University and a cooperating institution are applied towards a four-year degree from either the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (University degree-granting program) or the cooperating institution (non-University degree-granting program). All have approved programs of study.
UNL Degree-Granting Programs
A University of Nebraska–Lincoln degree-granting program is designed to provide students the opportunity to complete a two-year program of study at one of the four-year institutions listed below, transfer to CASNR, and complete the requirements for a bachelor of science degree.
Chadron State College. Chadron State College offers a 2+2 program leading to a grassland ecology and management degree program and a transfer program leading to a bachelor of science in agricultural education in the teaching option.
Wayne State College. Wayne State College offers a 3+1 program leading to a bachelor of science in plant biology in the ecology and management option and a 3+1 program leading to a bachelor of science in Applied Science.
University of Nebraska at Kearney. Transfer programs are available for students pursuing degree programs leading to a bachelor of science degree.
University of Nebraska at Omaha. Transfer programs are available for students pursuing degree programs leading to a bachelor of science degree.
Non University of Nebraska–Lincoln Degree-Granting Programs
CASNR cooperates with other institutions to provide coursework that is applied towards a degree at the cooperating institution. Pre-professional programs offered by CASNR allow students to complete the first two or three years of a degree program at the University prior to transferring and completing a degree at the cooperating institution.
Chadron State College–Range Science. The 3+1 Program in range science allows Chadron State College students to pursue a range science degree through Chadron State College. Students complete three years of coursework at Chadron State College and one year of specialized range science coursework (32 credit hours) at CASNR.
Dordt College (Iowa)–Agricultural Education: Teaching Option. This program allows students to pursue an Agricultural Education Teaching Option degree leading toward a bachelor of science in agricultural education. Students at Dordt College will complete 90 credit hours in the Agricultural Education: Teaching Option Transfer Program.
Residency
Students must complete at least 30 of the total hours for their degree using University of Nebraska–Lincoln credits. At least 18 of the 30 credit hours must be in courses offered through CASNR1 (>299) including the appropriate ACE 10 degree requirement or an approved ACE 10 substitution offered through another Nebraska college and excluding independent study regardless of the number of hours transferred. Credit earned during education abroad may be used toward the residency requirement if students register through the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and participate in prior-approved education abroad programs. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln open enrollment and summer independent study courses count toward residence.
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Includes courses taught by CASNR faculty through interdisciplinary prefixes (e.g., LIFE, MBIO, ENVR, SCIL, EAEP, HRTM, ENSC) and CASNR crosslisted courses taught by non-CASNR faculty.
Online and Distance Education
There are many opportunities to earn college credit online through the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Some of these credits may be applicable not only as elective credits but also toward the fulfillment of the College’s education requirements. Credits earned online may count toward residency. However, certain offerings may not be counted toward scholarship requirements or academic recognition criteria.
For further information, contact:
Office of Online and Distance Education
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
305 Brace Labs
Lincoln, NE 68588-0109
402-472-4681
http://online.unl.edu/
Independent Study Rules
Students wishing to take part in independent studies must obtain permission; complete and sign a contract form; and furnish copies of the contract to the instructor, advisor, departmental office, and the Dean’s Office. The contract should be completed before registration. Forms are available in 103 Agricultural Hall or online at the CASNR website.
Independent study projects include research, literature review or extension of coursework under the supervision and evaluation of a departmental faculty member.
Students may only count 12 hours of independent study toward their degrees and no more than 6 hours can be counted during their last 36 hours earned, excluding senior thesis, internships, and courses taught under an independent study number.
Other College Degree Requirements
Capstone Course Requirement
A capstone course is required for each CASNR degree program. A capstone course is defined as a course in which students are required to integrate diverse bodies of knowledge to solve a problem or formulate a policy of societal importance.
ACE Requirements
All students must fulfill the Achievement Centered Education (ACE) requirements. Information about the ACE program may be viewed at ace.unl.edu.
The minimum requirements of CASNR reflect the common core of courses that apply to students pursuing degrees in the college. Students should work with an advisor to satisfy ACE outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 10 with the college requirements.
Catalog Rule
Students must fulfill the requirements stated in the catalog for the academic year in which they are first admitted to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln or when they were first admitted to a Joint Academic Transfer Program. Students transferring from a community college, but without admission to a Joint Academic Transfer Program, may be eligible to fulfill the requirements as stated in the catalog for an academic year in which they were enrolled at the community college prior to attending the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. This decision should be made in consultation with academic advisors, provided the student a) was enrolled in a community college during the catalog year they are utilizing, b) maintained continuous enrollment at the previous institution for 1 academic year or more, and c) continued enrollment at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln within 1 calendar year from their last term at the previous institution. In consultation with advisors, a student may choose to follow a subsequent catalog for any academic year in which they are admitted to and enrolled as a degree-seeking student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. Students must complete all degree requirements from a single catalog year. The catalog which a student follows for degree requirements may not be more than 10 years old at the time of graduation.
Learning Outcomes
Graduates of fisheries and wildlife will be able to:
- Describe and explain the basic characteristics of natural resource systems, which include humans, climate, hydrology, geology and biology, and use standard mapping systems and technology to locate those resources in space.
- Use appropriate resources to identify (with scientific names) flora and/or fauna in at least two specialized groups (grassland plants, woody plants, invertebrates, reptiles/amphibians, birds, mammals, fish, etc.).
- Construct graphical and tabular summaries of quantitative data, conduct simple statistical analyses of those data, and use mathematical concepts to represent the dynamics of natural resource systems.
- Recommend appropriate management actions to achieve a habitat management or wildlife population objective.
- Know the basic pieces of federal legislation relevant to fish and wildlife management (e.g., Endangered Species Act, Migratory Bird Act, National Environmental Planning Act) and how to incorporate their requirements into a natural resources planning process.
Major Requirements
Core Requirements
The following basic courses are required for students in fisheries and wildlife. In addition, students must select and meet the requirements of one of the options, depending on their individual interests and career objectives.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| College Integrative Course (ACE 8) | ||
| SCIL 101 | Science and Decision-Making for a Complex World | 3 |
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 3 | |
| Mathematics (ACE 3) | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-5 | |
| Applied Calculus | ||
| Calculus I | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 3-5 | |
| Statistics | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Statistics | ||
| Statistics and Applications 1 | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 3 | |
| Communications | ||
| Written Communication (ACE 1) | ||
| Select one course from ACE 1 (UNL approved list) | 3 | |
| Oral Communication (ACE 2) | ||
| Select one course from ACE 2 (UNL approved list) | 3 | |
| Communication/Interpersonal Skills Elective | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Any additional UNL approved ACE 1 or ACE 2 course or from course list below: | ||
| Fundamentals of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Communication | ||
| Communicating Science with Public Audiences | ||
| Presentation Strategies to Communicate Agricultural and Environmental Sciences | ||
| Agriculture, the Environment & Science in the Media | ||
| Principles of Mass Media | ||
| Basic Leadership and Leadership and Teamwork | ||
| Leadership and Problem Solving | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 9 | |
| Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences (ACE 6) | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Economic Essentials and Issues | ||
| Principles of Macroeconomics | ||
| Principles of Microeconomics | ||
| Introduction to the Economics of Agriculture | ||
| Select one course each from ACE outcomes 5, 7, and 9 | 9 | |
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 12 | |
| Basic Sciences | ||
| Biological Sciences | ||
| PLAS 215 | Genetics | 4 |
| or BIOS 206 | General Genetics | |
| LIFE 120 & LIFE 120L | Fundamentals of Biology I and Fundamentals of Biology I laboratory (ACE 4) | 4 |
| LIFE 121 & LIFE 121L | Fundamentals of Biology II and Fundamentals of Biology II Laboratory | 4 |
| Select one of the following: | 4 | |
| Ecology and Evolution | ||
| Principles of Ecology and Ecology Laboratory | ||
| Earth Sciences | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Introduction to Geology | ||
| Dynamic Earth | ||
or GEOL 101H | Honors: Physical Geology | |
| Environmental Geology | ||
| Oceanography | ||
| Geology of National Parks and Monuments | ||
| Elements of Physical Geography | ||
| Soil Resources 2 | ||
| Physical Science | ||
| Select one of the following: | 8 | |
| Chemistry in Context I and Chemistry in Context I Laboratory and Chemistry in Context II and Chemistry in Context II Laboratory | ||
| General Chemistry I and General Chemistry I Laboratory and General Chemistry II and General Chemistry II Laboratory | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-5 | |
| Physical Principles in Agriculture and Life Sciences 3 | ||
| Descriptive Physics | ||
| Elementary General Physics I | ||
| Elements of Physics 3 | ||
| General Physics I | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 30-33 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 60-65 | |
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Course requires MATH 107.
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SOIL 153 is strongly recommended for students in the Habitat Management, Wildlife Ecology and Management, Fisheries Ecology and Management options, and students pursuing a Water Science minor.
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AGST 109 or PHYS 151 are recommended for students only taking one semester of physics.
Specific Major Requirements
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| NRES 101 | Natural Resources Orientation 1 | 1 |
| NRES 311 | Wildlife Ecology and Management | 3 |
| NRES 315 | Human Dimensions of Fish and Wildlife Management | 3 |
| NRES 386 / BIOS 386 | Vertebrate Zoology | 4 |
| Select one Natural Resource Policy course from the following: | 3 | |
| Policy Issues in Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Natural Resource and Environmental Law | ||
| Environmental Planning and Policy | ||
| Natural Resources Policy | ||
| Total Credit Hours | 14 | |
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This course may be waived for students entering the major with more than 15 credit hours.
Conservation Biology Option
This option is designed for students considering careers in conservation, research biology, restoration ecology, and policy. Completion of this program also provides excellent preparation for graduate study.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements | ||
| BIOS 416 | Biodiversity Conservation | 3 |
| or NRES 450 / BIOS 450 | Biology of Wildlife Populations | |
| or NRES 462 | Conservation Biology | |
| NRES 211 | Introduction to Conservation Biology | 3 |
| Select one ACE 10 (capstone) from the following: | 3-4 | |
| Wildlife Management Techniques | ||
| Zoo Keeping and Management | ||
| Fisheries Science | ||
| Select one from the following: | 1 | |
| Wildlife Field Techniques | ||
| Fisheries Science Lab | ||
| Animal Courses | ||
| Select two of the following: | 6-8 | |
| Avian Biology | ||
| Field Parasitology | ||
| Aquatic Insects and Identification of Aquatic Insects | ||
| Waterfowl Ecology and Management | ||
| Herpetology | ||
| Mammalogy | ||
| Ecophysiology of Wildlife | ||
| Ichthyology | ||
| Plant Courses | ||
| Select two of the following: | 6-8 | |
| Plant Systematics | ||
| Dendrology: Study and Identification of Trees and Shrubs | ||
| Introduction to Grassland Ecology and Management | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Tree Biology | ||
| Introduction to Forest Management | ||
| Arboriculture: Maintenance & Selection of Landscape Trees | ||
| Forest Ecology | ||
| Invasive Plants | ||
| Wetlands | ||
| Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment | ||
| Great Plains Ecosystem | ||
| Wildland Plants | ||
| Human Dimensions and Policy Course | 3 | |
| Select one of the following: 1 | ||
| Resource and Environmental Economics I | ||
| Natural Resource and Environmental Law | ||
| Ethics in Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Ecological Anthropology | ||
| Development in Theory and Practice | ||
| Individual and Cultural Perspectives on the Environment | ||
| Environmental Law | ||
| Water Law | ||
| Natural Resources Policy | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Environmental Sociology | ||
| Population Dynamics | ||
| Geographic Information Science (GIS) Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 2-4 | |
| Introduction to Geospatial Technologies | ||
| GIS for Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Introduction to Remote Sensing | ||
| Introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS) | ||
| Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Principles of GIS | ||
| Select one of the following: | 1-3 | |
| Independent Research | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Career Experiences in Natural Resource Sciences | ||
| Thesis Research | ||
| Honors Thesis | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 28-37 | |
| Free Electives | ||
| Select 17 hours, recommended electives include: | 17 | |
| Animal Behavior | ||
| Evolution | ||
| Field Parasitology | ||
| Climate Literacy in Natural Resources | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Biogeography | ||
| Wildlife Damage Management | ||
| Employment Seminar | ||
| Environmental Leadership | ||
| Leadership in Public Organizations | ||
| Environmental Education and Interpretation | ||
| Grassland Conservation: Planning and Management | ||
| Biology of Wildlife Populations | ||
| Limnology | ||
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Stream and River Ecology | ||
| Ichthyology | ||
| International Study Tours in Natural Resource Management | ||
| Grasslands Seminar | ||
| Urbanization of Rural Landscapes | ||
And/or any optional courses listed but not taken under the Core courses, Fisheries and Wildlife courses, or Option Requirements headings in this program. | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 17 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 45-54 | |
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This requirement cannot be used to satisfy the Natural Resource Policy course requirement. Students in the Conservation Biology Option must take this requirement in addition to the Natural Resource Policy course requirement.
Students should select sociology or other social science courses for their ACE requirements to meet prerequisites for these upper level SOCI or ANTH courses.
Fisheries Ecology and Management Option
This option is designed for students considering careers in fisheries biology, biological research, and fisheries management. Completion of this program also provides excellent preparation for graduate study.
Students completing the Fisheries Ecology and Management Option qualify for professional certification in the American Fisheries Society (AFS). Students are encouraged to consult with their advisor and the AFS website for further information. AFS requires a minimum grade of a C to receive credit for courses that apply toward professional certification.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements | ||
| NRES 459 / BIOS 459 / WATS 459 | Limnology | 4 |
| or NRES 482 | Ecophysiology of Wildlife | |
| NRES 463 & NRES 463L | Fisheries Science and Fisheries Science Lab (Capstone experience, ACE 10) | 4 |
| Animal Course | ||
| NRES 489 / BIOS 489 | Ichthyology | 4 |
| Plant Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Dendrology: Study and Identification of Trees and Shrubs | ||
| Introduction to Grassland Ecology and Management | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Tree Biology | ||
| Introduction to Forest Management | ||
| Forest Ecology | ||
| Invasive Plants | ||
| Great Plains Ecosystem | ||
| Wildland Plants | ||
| Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment | ||
| Water Resource Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Weather and Climate | ||
| Climate Literacy in Natural Resources | ||
| Introduction to Water Science | ||
| Aquatic Ecology Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 2-4 | |
| Aquatic Insects and Identification of Aquatic Insects | ||
| Hydrology | ||
| Green Space and Urban Forestry Management | ||
| Limnology | ||
| Wetlands | ||
| Stream and River Ecology | ||
| Soil Conservation and Watershed Management | ||
| Geographic Information Science (GIS) Courses | ||
| Select one of the following: | 2-4 | |
| Introduction to Geospatial Technologies | ||
| GIS for Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Introduction to Remote Sensing | ||
| Introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS) | ||
| Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Principles of GIS | ||
| Select one of the following: | 1-3 | |
| Independent Research | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Career Experiences in Natural Resource Sciences | ||
| Thesis Research | ||
| Honors Thesis | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 23-31 | |
| Free Electives | ||
| Select 21 hours, recommended electives include: | 21 | |
| Resource and Environmental Economics I | ||
| Invertebrate Zoology | ||
| Ecological Interactions | ||
| Animal Behavior | ||
| Evolution | ||
| Avian Biology | ||
| Herpetology | ||
| Mammalogy | ||
| Field Parasitology | ||
| Aquatic Insects and Identification of Aquatic Insects | ||
| Introduction to Conservation Biology | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Biogeography | ||
| Employment Seminar | ||
| Leadership in Public Organizations | ||
| Wildlife Management Techniques and Wildlife Field Techniques | ||
| Environmental Education and Interpretation | ||
| Biology of Wildlife Populations | ||
| Ecophysiology of Wildlife | ||
| Water Resources Seminar | ||
| Introduction to Landscape Ecology | ||
| Ichthyology | ||
| International Study Tours in Natural Resource Management | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Urbanization of Rural Landscapes | ||
And/or any optional courses listed but not taken under the Core courses, Fisheries and Wildlife courses, or Option Requirements headings in this program. | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 21 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 44-52 | |
Habitat Management Option
This option is designed for students considering careers in habitat management, private lands management, or public lands (e.g., National Wildlife Refuge) management. Completion of this program also provides excellent preparation for graduate study.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements | ||
| NRES 438 | Grassland Conservation: Planning and Management (Capstone experience, ACE 10) | 3 |
| or NRES 457 / PLAS 457 | Green Space and Urban Forestry Management | |
| NRES 233 | Wildlife Field Techniques | 1 |
| or NRES 463L | Fisheries Science Lab | |
| Animal Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Avian Biology | ||
| Waterfowl Ecology and Management | ||
| Herpetology | ||
| Mammalogy | ||
| Ecophysiology of Wildlife | ||
| Ichthyology | ||
| Plant ID Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Dendrology: Study and Identification of Trees and Shrubs | ||
| Invasive Plants | ||
| Woody Plants for Landscapes: Identification, Management, and Use | ||
| Wildland Plants | ||
| Geographic Information Science (GIS) Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 2-4 | |
| Introduction to Geospatial Technologies | ||
| GIS for Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Introduction to Remote Sensing | ||
| Introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS) | ||
| Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Principles of GIS | ||
| Grassland Systems Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Introduction to Grassland Ecology and Management | ||
| Great Plains Ecosystem | ||
| Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment | ||
| Forest Systems Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Tree Biology | ||
| Introduction to Forest Management | ||
| Agroforestry Systems in Sustainable Agriculture | ||
| Forest Ecology | ||
| Aquatic Systems Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Ecosystem Ecology | ||
| Hydrology | ||
| Limnology | ||
| Fisheries Science and Fisheries Science Lab | ||
| Wetlands | ||
| Stream and River Ecology | ||
| Introduction to Water Science | ||
| Soil Conservation and Watershed Management | ||
| Soil Science Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Principles of Soil Management | ||
| Great Plains Field Pedology | ||
| Soil Conservation and Watershed Management | ||
| Production Systems Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Resource-Efficient Crop Management | ||
| Agroecology | ||
| Arboriculture: Maintenance & Selection of Landscape Trees | ||
| Soils, Environment and Water Quality | ||
| Forage Crop and Pasture Management | ||
| Range Management and Improvement | ||
| Wildlife Focus Courses | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Introduction to Conservation Biology | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Wildlife Damage Management | ||
| Waterfowl Ecology and Management | ||
| Wildlife Management Techniques | ||
| Zoo Keeping and Management | ||
| Biology of Wildlife Populations | ||
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Fisheries Science | ||
| Herpetology | ||
| Mammalogy | ||
| Ecophysiology of Wildlife | ||
| Ichthyology | ||
| Select one of the following: | 1-3 | |
| Independent Research | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Career Experiences in Natural Resource Sciences | ||
| Thesis Research | ||
| Honors Thesis | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 31-42 | |
| Free Electives | ||
| Select 11 hours, recommended electives include: | 11 | |
| Resource and Environmental Economics I | ||
| Avian Biology | ||
| Aquatic Insects | ||
| Identification of Aquatic Insects | ||
| Insect Biology and Insect Identification | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Wildlife Damage Management | ||
| Leadership in Public Organizations | ||
| Environmental Education and Interpretation | ||
| Introduction to Landscape Ecology | ||
| International Study Tours in Natural Resource Management | ||
| Grasslands Seminar | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
And/or any optional courses listed but not taken under the Core courses, Fisheries and Wildlife courses, or Option Requirements headings in this program. | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 11 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 42-53 | |
Law Enforcement Option
This option is designed for students considering careers in wildlife law enforcement. Completion of this program also provides excellent preparation for entry into law enforcement academies.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements | ||
| CRIM 101 | Survey of Criminal Justice | 3 |
| CRIM 203 | Police and Society | 3 |
| CRIM 211 | The Criminal Court System | 3 |
| FORS 120 | Introduction to Forensic Science | 2 |
| NRES 348 | Wildlife Damage Management | 3 |
| Select one ACE 10 (capstone) from the following: | 3-4 | |
| Wildlife Management Techniques | ||
| Fisheries Science | ||
| Issues in Crime and Justice | ||
| Select one from the following: | 1 | |
| Wildlife Field Techniques | ||
| Fisheries Science Lab | ||
| Select two of any 300- or 400-level CRIM courses | 6 | |
| Animal Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Waterfowl Ecology and Management | ||
| Avian Biology | ||
| Herpetology | ||
| Mammalogy | ||
| Ichthyology | ||
| Plant Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Dendrology: Study and Identification of Trees and Shrubs | ||
| Introduction to Grassland Ecology and Management | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Tree Biology | ||
| Arboriculture: Maintenance & Selection of Landscape Trees | ||
| Great Plains Ecosystem | ||
| Wildland Plants | ||
| Woody Plants for Landscapes: Identification, Management, and Use | ||
| Herbaceous Landscape Plants | ||
| Introduction to Forest Management | ||
| Agroforestry Systems in Sustainable Agriculture | ||
| Forest Ecology | ||
| Invasive Plants | ||
| Agroecology | ||
| Geographic Information Science (GIS) Courses | ||
| Select one of the following: | 2-4 | |
| Introduction to Geospatial Technologies | ||
| GIS for Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Introduction to Remote Sensing | ||
| Introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS) | ||
| Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Principles of GIS | ||
| Select one of the following: | 1-3 | |
| Independent Research | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Career Experiences in Natural Resource Sciences | ||
| Thesis Research | ||
| Honors Thesis | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 33-40 | |
| Free Electives | ||
| Select 13 hours, recommended electives include: | 13 | |
| Forensic Entomology | ||
| Introduction to Forensic Science Laboratory | ||
| Crime Scene Investigation and Crime Scene Investigation Laboratory | ||
| Forensic Biology and Forensic Biology Laboratory | ||
| Human Remains in Forensic Science | ||
| Introduction to Conservation Biology | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Employment Seminar | ||
| Leadership in Public Organizations | ||
| Waterfowl Ecology and Management | ||
| Wildlife Management Techniques | ||
| Environmental Education and Interpretation | ||
| Grassland Conservation: Planning and Management | ||
| Pollen Analysis for Behavioral, Biological and Forensic Science | ||
| Biology of Wildlife Populations | ||
| Limnology | ||
| Fisheries Science | ||
| International Study Tours in Natural Resource Management | ||
| Grasslands Seminar | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Sociology of Crime | ||
| Rural Sociology | ||
| Conflict and Conflict Resolution | ||
| Environmental Sociology | ||
And/or any optional courses listed but not taken under the Core courses, Fisheries and Wildlife courses, or Option Requirements headings in this program. | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 13 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 46-53 | |
Wildlife Ecology and Management Option
This option is designed for students considering careers in wildlife biology, wildlife ecology, wildlife research, or wildlife management. Completion of this program also provides excellent preparation for graduate study.
This option was designed to meet the certification requirements of The Wildlife Society as an associate wildlife biologist. Students should refer to The Wildlife Society’s guidelines for certification during their academic career to keep current with any changes in these requirements. See www.wildlife.org for more details.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements | ||
| NRES 208 | Climate Literacy in Natural Resources | 3-4 |
| or METR 100 | Weather and Climate | |
| or METR 140 | Severe and Unusual Weather | |
| or NRES 104 | Climate in Crisis | |
| or NRES 481 / BIOS 481 / WATS 481 | Stream and River Ecology | |
| or WATS 281 / GEOG 281 / NRES 281 | Introduction to Water Science | |
| NRES 433 & NRES 233 | Wildlife Management Techniques and Wildlife Field Techniques (Capstone experience, ACE 10) | 4 |
| NRES 450 / BIOS 450 | Biology of Wildlife Populations | 4 |
| Terrestrial Vertebrate Animal Courses | ||
| Select two of the following: | 7-8 | |
| Avian Biology | ||
| Waterfowl Ecology and Management | ||
| Herpetology | ||
| Mammalogy | ||
| Ecophysiology of Wildlife | ||
| Plant Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Great Plains Ecosystem | ||
| Wildland Plants | ||
| Introduction to Grassland Ecology and Management | ||
| Tree Biology | ||
| Introduction to Forest Management | ||
| Arboriculture: Maintenance & Selection of Landscape Trees | ||
| Agroforestry Systems in Sustainable Agriculture | ||
| Forest Ecology | ||
| Invasive Plants | ||
| Agroecology | ||
| Plant ID or Taxonomy Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Wildland Plants | ||
| Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment | ||
| Dendrology: Study and Identification of Trees and Shrubs | ||
| Invasive Plants | ||
| Geographic Information Science (GIS) Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 2-4 | |
| Introduction to Geospatial Technologies | ||
| GIS for Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Introduction to Remote Sensing | ||
| Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS) | ||
| Principles of GIS | ||
| Additional Written Communication Course | ||
| Select one from the following: | 3 | |
Any ACE 1 course | ||
| Environmental Communication Skills | ||
| Additional Policy Requirement | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
One course from the list of policy courses under Fisheries and Wildlife courses | ||
| Environmental Law | ||
| Water Law | ||
| Select one of the following: | 1-3 | |
| Independent Research | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Career Experiences in Natural Resource Sciences | ||
| Thesis Research | ||
| Honors Thesis | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 33-41 | |
| Free Electives | ||
| Select 12 hours, recommended electives include: | 12 | |
| Resource and Environmental Economics I | ||
| Urbanization of Rural Landscapes | ||
| Ecological Interactions | ||
| Animal Behavior | ||
| Evolution | ||
| Field Parasitology | ||
| Introduction to Conservation Biology | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Biogeography | ||
| Wildlife Damage Management | ||
| Employment Seminar | ||
| Leadership in Public Organizations | ||
| Environmental Education and Interpretation | ||
| Limnology | ||
| Fisheries Science and Fisheries Science Lab | ||
| Wetlands | ||
| Ecophysiology of Wildlife | ||
| Water Resources Seminar | ||
| Introduction to Landscape Ecology | ||
| Ichthyology | ||
| International Study Tours in Natural Resource Management | ||
| Grasslands Seminar | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
And/or any optional courses listed but not taken under the Core courses, Fisheries and Wildlife courses, or Option Requirements headings in this program. | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 12 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 45-53 | |
Zoo Animal Care Option
This option is designed for students considering careers in zookeeping, zoo animal care, environmental education, animal rehabilitation, and animal training. Completion of this program also provides excellent preparation for graduate study.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements | ||
| NRES 211 | Introduction to Conservation Biology | 3 |
| NRES 233 | Wildlife Field Techniques | 1 |
| or NRES 463L | Fisheries Science Lab | |
| NRES 441 | Zoo Keeping and Management (Capstone experience, ACE 10) | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 1-3 | |
| Independent Research | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Career Experiences in Natural Resource Sciences | ||
| Thesis Research | ||
| Honors Thesis | ||
| Animal Courses | ||
| Select two of the following: | 7-8 | |
| Avian Biology | ||
| Aquatic Insects and Identification of Aquatic Insects | ||
| Insect Ecology | ||
| Waterfowl Ecology and Management | ||
| Herpetology | ||
| Mammalogy | ||
| Ichthyology | ||
| Plant Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Great Plains Ecosystem | ||
| Wildland Plants | ||
| Dendrology: Study and Identification of Trees and Shrubs | ||
| Introduction to Grassland Ecology and Management | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Tree Biology | ||
| Introduction to Forest Management | ||
| Arboriculture: Maintenance & Selection of Landscape Trees | ||
| Agroforestry Systems in Sustainable Agriculture | ||
| Forest Ecology | ||
| Invasive Plants | ||
| Agroecology | ||
| Animal Behavior Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Companion Animal and Equine Behavior | ||
| Animal Behavior | ||
| Education Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3 | |
| Environmental Education Curricula | ||
| Environmental Education and Interpretation | ||
| Anatomy and Physiology Course | ||
| NRES 482 | Ecophysiology of Wildlife | 3 |
| Nutrition Course | ||
| ASCI 320 | Animal Nutrition and Feeding | 3 |
| or ASCI 321 | Companion Animal Nutrition | |
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 30-35 | |
| Free Electives | ||
| Select 16 hours from the following: | 16 | |
| Resource and Environmental Economics I | ||
| Human-Companion Animal Interactions | ||
| Introduction to Companion Animals | ||
| Companion Animal and Equine Behavior | ||
| Physiology and Management of Reproduction | ||
| Animal Welfare | ||
| Advanced Animal Nutrition | ||
| Microbiology | ||
| Evolution | ||
| Field Parasitology | ||
| Introduction to Zoo and Aquarium Science | ||
| Introduction to Geospatial Technologies | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Biogeography | ||
| Wildlife Damage Management | ||
| Employment Seminar | ||
| Introduction to Remote Sensing | ||
| Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS) | ||
| Leadership in Public Organizations | ||
| Biology of Wildlife Populations | ||
| Limnology | ||
| Introduction to Landscape Ecology | ||
| International Study Tours in Natural Resource Management | ||
| Environmental Ethics | ||
| Principles and Prevention of Livestock Diseases | ||
| Functional Histology | ||
And/or any optional courses listed but not taken under the Core courses, Fisheries and Wildlife courses, or Option Requirements headings in this program. | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 16 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 46-51 | |
Nature-based Entrepreneurship Option
This option is designed for students considering careers in industry or self-employment as land or resource managers, ecotourism operators, hunting guides, or nature-based artists. Completion of this program provides a 12-hour minor in the Engler Entrepreneurship program in CASNR and prepares students to run their own nature-based business. With a careful selection of courses, students may also be able to obtain a minor in hospitality, restaurant and tourism management or grassland ecology and management.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements | ||
| EAEP 395 | Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Internship | 3 |
| EAEP 488 / ABUS 488 / ENTR 488 / PLAS 488 | Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (ACE 10, Capstone) | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 1 | |
| Wildlife Field Techniques | ||
| Fisheries Science Lab | ||
| Animal Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Avian Biology | ||
| Herpetology | ||
| Mammalogy | ||
| Ichthyology | ||
| Plant Course | ||
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Great Plains Ecosystem | ||
| Wildland Plants | ||
| Dendrology: Study and Identification of Trees and Shrubs | ||
| Introduction to Grassland Ecology and Management | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Tree Biology | ||
| Introduction to Forest Management | ||
| Arboriculture: Maintenance & Selection of Landscape Trees | ||
| Agroforestry Systems in Sustainable Agriculture | ||
| Forest Ecology | ||
| Invasive Plants | ||
| Agroecology | ||
| Fisheries and Wildlife Courses | ||
| Select two of the following: | 6-8 | |
| Introduction to Conservation Biology | ||
| Wildlife Damage Management | ||
| Waterfowl Ecology and Management | ||
| Wildlife Management Techniques and Wildlife Field Techniques | ||
| Environmental Education and Interpretation | ||
| Zoo Keeping and Management | ||
| Biology of Wildlife Populations | ||
| Conservation Biology | ||
| Fisheries Science and Fisheries Science Lab | ||
| Ecophysiology of Wildlife | ||
| International Study Tours in Natural Resource Management | ||
| Entrepreneurship Courses | ||
| Select two of the following: | 6 | |
| Agricultural Marketing and Product Development I and Agricultural Marketing and Product Development II | ||
| Study Tours in International Agriculture | ||
or NRES 492 | International Study Tours in Natural Resource Management | |
| Business Systems in Entrepreneurship | ||
| Foundations of Entrepreneurship | ||
| Family Business | ||
| Identifying and Exploring Entrepreneurial Opportunities | ||
| Managing Rapid Growth and Change in Organizations | ||
| Business Plan Development and Decision Making | ||
| Career Focus Courses | ||
| Select 9 hours from the following: 1 | 9 | |
| Legal Aspects in Agriculture | ||
| Natural Resource and Environmental Law | ||
| Resource-Efficient Crop Management | ||
| Great Plains Ecosystem | ||
| Wildland Plants | ||
| Digital Imaging and Storytelling in Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Landscape and Environmental Appreciation | ||
| Floral Design I | ||
| Vines, Wines and You | ||
| Introduction to Hospitality Management | ||
| Field Experience in Hospitality Management I | ||
| Introduction to Food and Beverage in the Hospitality Industry | ||
| Introduction to Tourism | ||
| Introduction to the Lodging Industry | ||
| Introduction to the Event Industry | ||
| Hospitality and Tourism Marketing | ||
| Guest Services Management | ||
| Legal Environment in Hospitality Management | ||
| Hospitality Financial Management | ||
| Basic Photography/Videography | ||
| Environmental Law | ||
| Water Law | ||
| Dendrology: Study and Identification of Trees and Shrubs | ||
| Introduction to Grassland Ecology and Management | ||
| Tree Biology | ||
| Introduction to Forest Management | ||
| Arboriculture: Maintenance & Selection of Landscape Trees | ||
| Wildlife Damage Management | ||
| Agroforestry Systems in Sustainable Agriculture | ||
| Forest Ecology | ||
| Invasive Plants | ||
| Agroecology | ||
| Environmental Education and Interpretation | ||
| Photography for Non-majors | ||
| Forage Crop and Pasture Management | ||
| Range Management and Improvement | ||
| Visual Communication with Animation | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 34-38 | |
| Free Electives | ||
| Select 8 hours, recommended electives include: | 8 | |
| Resource and Environmental Economics I | ||
| Introduction to Conservation Biology | ||
| Introduction to Geospatial Technologies | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Wildlife Damage Management | ||
| Employment Seminar | ||
| Introduction to Remote Sensing | ||
| Applications of Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Natural Resources | ||
| Introduction to the Global Positioning System (GPS) | ||
| Leadership in Public Organizations | ||
| Biology of Wildlife Populations | ||
| Limnology | ||
| Introduction to Landscape Ecology | ||
| International Study Tours in Natural Resource Management | ||
And/or any optional courses listed but not taken under the Core courses, Fisheries and Wildlife courses, or Option Requirements headings in this program. | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 8 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 42-46 | |
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Work with your advisor to select 9 hours that will enhance professional competencies and complement career goals in land or resource management, ecotourism/guiding, or nature-based art.
Additional Major Requirements
Prerequisite Requirements/Rules
Students are required to complete the Basic Core before their junior year.
Basic Core
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| SCIL 101 | Science and Decision-Making for a Complex World | 3 |
| NRES 101 | Natural Resources Orientation | 1 |
| LIFE 120 & LIFE 120L | Fundamentals of Biology I and Fundamentals of Biology I laboratory | 4 |
| LIFE 121 & LIFE 121L | Fundamentals of Biology II and Fundamentals of Biology II Laboratory | 4 |
| Select one of the following: | 4 | |
| Principles of Ecology and Ecology Laboratory | ||
| Ecology and Evolution | ||
| CHEM 105A & CHEM 105L | Chemistry in Context I and Chemistry in Context I Laboratory | 4 |
| or | ||
| General Chemistry I and General Chemistry I Laboratory | ||
| Select one of the following: | 4-5 | |
| Elementary General Physics I | ||
| Elements of Physics | ||
| Physical Principles in Agriculture and Life Sciences | ||
| General Physics I | ||
| MATH 104 | Applied Calculus | 3-5 |
| or MATH 106 | Calculus I | |
| STAT 218 | Introduction to Statistics | 3 |
| or STAT 380 | Statistics and Applications | |
| Written Communication Requirement | ||
| Select any ACE 1 course | 3 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 33-36 | |
Fisheries and wildlife majors must complete the Basic Core to be able to register for the following 300- and 400-level NRES courses:
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| NRES 386 / BIOS 386 | Vertebrate Zoology | 4 |
| NRES 433 | Wildlife Management Techniques | 3 |
| NRES 450 / BIOS 450 | Biology of Wildlife Populations | 4 |
| NRES 463 | Fisheries Science | 3 |
Grade Rules
Pass/No Pass
Fisheries and wildlife majors must take all NRES courses as graded, with the exception of NRES 497.
GPA Requirements
Students must maintain a 2.5 cumulative GPA to graduate in the fisheries and wildlife major.
Requirements for Minor Offered by Department
A minor in fisheries and wildlife consists of eighteen (18) hours of coursework. An advisor for the minor will be assigned by the fisheries and wildlife major coordinator.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements | ||
| NRES 220 | Principles of Ecology | 3-4 |
| or BIOS 207 | Ecology and Evolution | |
| NRES 311 | Wildlife Ecology and Management | 3 |
| Select one of the following: | 3-4 | |
| Wildlife Management Techniques and Wildlife Field Techniques | ||
| Grassland Conservation: Planning and Management | ||
| Zoo Keeping and Management | ||
| Fisheries Science and Fisheries Science Lab | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 10 | |
| Elective Courses | ||
| Select 7-9 hours of the following to reach a total of 18 hours for the minor: | 7-9 | |
| Natural Resource and Environmental Law | ||
| Introduction to Conservation Biology | ||
| Introduction to Geospatial Technologies | ||
| Ecology Laboratory | ||
| Wildlife Field Techniques | ||
| Introduction to Grassland Ecology and Management | ||
| Biological Invaders | ||
| Special Topics | ||
| Introduction to Forest Management | ||
| Human Dimensions of Fish and Wildlife Management | ||
| Natural Resources Policy | ||
| Wildlife Damage Management | ||
| Vertebrate Zoology | ||
| Independent Research | ||
| Agroforestry Systems in Sustainable Agriculture | ||
| Forest Ecology | ||
| Waterfowl Ecology and Management | ||
| Wildlife Management Techniques | ||
| Grassland Conservation: Planning and Management | ||
| Biology of Wildlife Populations | ||
| Limnology | ||
| Fisheries Science | ||
| Fisheries Science Lab | ||
| Wetlands | ||
| Herpetology | ||
| Avian Biology | ||
| Mammalogy | ||
| Ecophysiology of Wildlife | ||
| Ichthyology | ||
| International Study Tours in Natural Resource Management | ||
| Independent Study | ||
| Career Experiences in Natural Resource Sciences | ||
| Special Topics in Natural Resources | ||
| Thesis Research | ||
| Honors Thesis | ||
| Credit Hours Subtotal: | 8 | |
| Total Credit Hours | 18 | |
Description: Introduction to natural resource disciplines. Fisheries, wildlife, forestry, grasslands, climate, and water science. Participate in field exercises in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $50 |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Description: Agricultural and natural resource systems. The interrelationship and the impact of increased human involvement on these systems.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL/SPR |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Past, present and future climate change. Climate science basics in the context of global changes (such as global warming, droughts, deforestation) that impact Earth and its inhabitants. Future climate change scenarios and possible impacts.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 9 Global/Diversity |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity
Online only
Description: The flora of the earth is constantly being re-distributed by natural and human forces. As plant species change locations, they affect ecosystems, but how? In this course, students will learn how invasive plants establish and spread in ecosystems and develop an understanding of their impacts on ecosystems from local to global scales.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL/SPR |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 9 Global/Diversity |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity
Description: Introduction to Earth's natural resource systems. Interactions between the geosphere (solid earth) and the hydrosphere. The atmosphere and biosphere over many different spatial and temporal scales, and role of humans as part of the system.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $15 |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 4 Science |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 4 Science
Description: Introduction to the scientific, social, and economic dimensions of historical and contemporary water systems. Students will develop an understanding of hydrologic systems and analyze and engage in decision-making about complex challenges associated with water resource use.
This course is a prerequisite for: SCIL 300
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship ACE 4 Science |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship ACE 4 Science
Description: Explore and distinguish the basic concepts, values, and stewardship of wildlife and natural resource conservation in agricultural and natural ecosystems. Examine the philosophies of ecosystem services and stewardship within a dynamic human-dominated world. Students will explore and analyze current issues related to conservation of wildlife and other natural resources.
This course is a prerequisite for: SCIL 300
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
High school earth sciences, chemistry and mathematics courses recommended.
Description: Emphasizes understanding the natural world and improving science literacy by learning the scientific method. Contemporary environmental problems are presented along with relevant questions. The scientific method along with fundamental concepts of chemistry, physics and biology are used to present possible solutions to environmental issues.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $70 |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 4 Science |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:ACE 4 Science
Description: Become familiar with the concepts and challenges associated with biological, ethical, welfare, and administrative aspects of zoo science and captive animal care. Conduct an ethology study using the scientific method.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 4 Science |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 4 Science
Description: The Great Plains region offers considerable ecological and cultural diversity, encompassing more than 600 million acres which have been occupied by humans for over 12,000 years. Introduction to the different populations who have called the Great Plains home, and how they have made a living on this landscape. Investigate Native American life ways in the Great Plains from the time of initial colonization up to European contact and the dramatic changes experienced during the historic era. Select topics centered on contemporary socio-ecological systems on the Plains and how understanding of past Plains experiences can be used to inform on these contemporary issues.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 5 Humanities |
| Experiential Learning: | Case/Project-Based Learning |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 5 Humanities
Prerequisites: Limited to Freshman or Sophomore classification only
Description: Introduction to fisheries and aquatic ecology. Familiarize with current research and critical review of literature. Guidance on careers in aquatic ecology. Initial field sampling experience.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Description: Interdisciplinary study of the natural environment, social environment, human heritage, arts and humanities of the Great Plains.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: An introduction to the naming, identification, and natural history of woody trees and shrubs in North American with emphasis on trees common to Nebraska. Covers morphology, natural site conditions, wildlife and human uses of woody trees and shrubs.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Develop an understanding of the science of the climate system and the climate's influence on our environment. Learn about climate interactions, impacts of changing climate conditions, and actions to reduce these impacts, particularly on natural resources. Develop competency in assessing scientific information about the global climate and learn that such information is essential in making informed decisions about natural resource management.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: To explore interactions between birds and people from economic and scientific perspectives, understand societal conflicts between feral cats and birds, hazards birds present to aircraft, the economics of bird feeding, how commercial bird hunting clubs work, how populations are affected by collisions with vehicles, windows and towers, the taxidermy industry and museum science, and hunting organizations such as Pheasants Forever and Ducks Unlimited.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | SPRING |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $65 |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing.
Description: Introduction to problems faced in fulfilling the ever increasing human needs while maintaining ecosystem and biodiversity. The integration of biological fields such as wildlife biology, ecology, evolution, and genetics with non-biological fields such as economics, philosophy, and politics to the dilemma this presents.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Identification, basic management and design uses of trees and shrubs for sustainable landscapes, with an emphasis on native plants and plants adapted to the Plains states. Emphasis is on live specimens in outdoor environments, supported by online resources.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Characteristics of commercially available trees and shrubs used in urban landscapes. Compares differences among cultivars, design uses, and management issues using a combination of live specimens in outdoor environments and online resources.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Identification of herbaceous plants with ornamental value in the landscape including native and introduced annuals, perennials, grasses and cultivars. Typical ecological associations, environmental tolerances and/or intolerance, cultural requirements, and design characteristics.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Recommended to have basic computer skills
Description: Theory and applications of geospatial information technology (GIT) with emphasis on real-world applications to natural resources. Overview of GIT, focusing on introduction of remote sensing, the global positioning system (GPS), and geographic information systems (GIS). Introduction to data collection, spatial data representation, georeferencing, spatial data analysis, and remote sensing image analysis.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL/SPR |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $50 |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Not open to students who have completed BIOS 207. Will not count toward a major in BIOS. MATH 100A is not sufficient preparation.
Description: Ecology as a quantitative discipline that integrates the life and earth sciences to understand the dynamics of natural and managed ecosystems.
This course is a prerequisite for: BIOS 459, BIOS 859, NRES 459, NRES 859, WATS 459; LARC 487, NRES 487; NRES 222; NRES 311; NRES 374; NRES 862, NRES 462
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: NRES 220 or parallel.
May also be offered at Cedar Point Biological Station. Field trips to local ecosystems are required.
Description: Field and laboratory experiments in terrestrial and aquatic ecology.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Prerequisites: Sophomore status.
Offered off-campus during academic breaks at Cedar Point Biological Station. Course fee applies.
Description: Field and laboratory skills needed for wildlife management emphasizing wildlife and vegetation surveys, mark-recapture of wildlife, radio-telemetry, aging and forensic methods, and habitat assessment.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $220 |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Prerequisites: Permission
Credit hours calculated (similar to NRES 233 and NRES 463L) as a laboratory with 2-3 contact hours per credit hours because of field work and independent study.
Description: Introduction to field and laboratory skills used for fisheries and wildlife management emphasizing animal and habitat surveys, capture methods, radio-telemetry, sexing and aging methods, and habitat assessment using independent experiential learning.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Prerequisites: PLAS 153
Description: Grassland ecology and management is relevant to students with education and career goals in managing natural resources in Nebraska and the Great Plains. About 50% of the land area in Nebraska is classified as grassland (or rangeland) and is the land type with the most opportunity for enhancing biodiversity and wildlife habitat. Applying ecological principles and social values to managing rangeland resources, students will develop a knowledge and appreciation for the various grassland management uses and techniques available to resource managers.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: The influence of culture on individual perspectives related to the concepts of sustainability and the relationship that humans have with the environment. The role of ethics, religion, and historical setting on the individual and cultural perspectives related to environmental challenges at the local to global scales.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 9 Global/Diversity |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity
Description: An introduction to photography in natural resources and conservation. Provides a solid photography foundation for applications in research projects, science communication efforts, and the field of conservation.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL/SPR |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: 3 hrs biological sciences.
Description: Impact of exotic species and invasive organisms: agricultural and medical emerging disease; predicting biological invasions; biological control; regulatory, monitoring, and control efforts; ecological impact.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
PLAS/SOIL 153 recommended, but not required. This course includes an inter-collegiate Soil Judging contest that takes place in the North Central region of the United States during the course of the class, or a course-based undergraduate research experience.
Description: Apply fundamental knowledge to the description of soils in the field. Application of techniques employed in writing descriptions of soil morphology and in classifying and interpreting soils.
| Credit Hours: | 2 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 2 |
| Max credits per degree: | 2 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $40 |
| Experiential Learning: | Fieldwork |
Credit Hours:2
ACE:
Prerequisites: High school chemistry or one semester college chemistry; one course in geology or physical geography or soil.
Description: Survey of the water science from the perspective of both natural and social sciences. Water budget, precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff and stream flow, groundwater, water quality parameters, economics of water, water policy, water law and water politics.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Explore human environmental interaction on the Great Plains. Samples a variety of Great Plains cultures and time periods to explore past use of the Great Plains environment. Evaluation of attributes and related data critical to the operation of past social-ecological systems with reference to changing climatic/ecological dynamics, human environmental impacts, and the sustainability of various indigenous and western modes of land use on the Great Plains. Investigate knowledge of these processes and how they can be of relevance to contemporary issues of Great Plains land management and resource utilization.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 6 Social Science ACE 5 Humanities |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 6 Social Science ACE 5 Humanities
Prerequisites: Permission.
Description: Special topics in natural resources.
| Credit Hours: | 1-4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:1-4
ACE:
Prerequisites: One semester BIOS and one semester CHEM
Description: Introduction to the principles of toxicology as they apply to environmental contaminants, agri-chemicals, and industrial and naturally occurring chemicals.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: ACE 1 course. Sophomore or higher.
Description: Written and oral communication skills for natural resource management including writing for the media, grant writing, conflict resolution and advocacy.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 2 Communication Competence |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 2 Communication Competence
Description: The study of the structure and function of woody plants, with a focus on trees growing in temperate climates. Covers the basics of wood physiology in terms of the biological, physical, and chemical processes utilized by tree to function. The anatomy and morphology of trees with a focus on the impacts of tree maintenance to the structure and function of landscape trees.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Biogeography is a highly interdisciplinary science, relying heavily on ecology, geological science, and climatology. It is global in scope and offers the latest knowledge in understanding organism distributions, and the factors that determine those distributions.
Description: Introduction to the basic concepts of biogeography, the study of distributions of plants and animals, both past and present.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Discussion of the history, biology, and management of the world's forest resources with emphasis on the Great Plains region. Topics include: forest types and their relationship to site conditions, ecological principles of forest management, basic forest management practices, economic and policy decisions in forest management. The field-oriented lab emphasizes tree identification, forest ecology, forest management and wood products.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $15 |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Description: Applied ecology, conservation biology, population biology, and enhancement of vertebrate, non-domestic animal populations through management. Emphasis on policy, decision-making, and management options involving people, habitat, and wildlife.
This course is a prerequisite for: ASCI 321
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Introduction to the basic concepts and ideas relevant in the human dimension of fisheries and wildlife management. Covers social, cultural and economic values, attitudes and behavior of individuals and groups of various stakeholders in fisheries and wildlife management.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Recommend taking STAT 218.
Description: Development of sampling plans and quality assurance project plans (QAPP). Stepwise procedures for correct sampling of soil-air-water environments. Data quality assessment.
This course is a prerequisite for: NRES 320
| Credit Hours: | 2 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 2 |
| Max credits per degree: | 2 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:2
ACE:
Prerequisites: NRES 319 or concurrent enrollment
Outdoor and analytical laboratory field trips required.
Description: Demonstrations and hands on participation in sampling of soil-air-water environments.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $30 |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Covers practical application of the science of tree growth, development, and management in human dominated landscapes. Tree selection for varying landscapes and objectives, proper planting and pruning, identification and correction of tree defects, and working with tree pest issues.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
| Groups: | Laboratory and Field Training |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Description: National curricula are available to formal and non-formal environmental and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) educators. Become certified in a series of national environmental education curricula such as Project WILD, Project WET, Project Aquatic WILD and Project Learning Tree. Apply skills and curricula by teaching others through experiential service learning.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL/SPR |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $55 |
| Experiential Learning: | Community Engagement |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Description: Conflicts and common ground perpetuated by increasing demands on our natural resources. Policy development and issue analysis stressed. Historical policy actions reviewed and evaluated.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Class standing of sophomore or above with at least one semester of chemistry and biology.
Description: Provides a comprehensive understanding of how environmental exposures to physical, chemical and biological hazards influence human health. Offers basic knowledge in the core concepts of toxicology, exposure and risk, vulnerable populations and the interrelationship between human, animal and environmental health.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL/SPR |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 8 Civic/Ethics/Stewardship
Description: Fundamentals of prevention and control of damage caused by vertebrate pests, principally birds and mammals. Philosophical, ecological, and behavioral basis for controlling population levels or individuals of pest species.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $35 |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: PLAS/SOIL 153; MATH 102 or 103; two semesters chemistry (CHEM 105A and 105L, CHEM 106A and 106L, CHEM 109A and 109L, CHEM 110A and 110L) and WATS/GEOG/NRES 281
Description: Chemical and physical processes that influence the fate and transport of contaminants (inorganic, organic, microbial) in soil-water environments. Extent, fate, mitigation and impact of various sources of pollution. Remedial technologies used for environmental restoration of contaminated environments.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing
Description: Processes that give rise to spatial and temporal differences in climate. Various interrelationships between humans and climate. Influence of climate on building styles, the economy, water resources, human health, and society. Humans' inadvertent and purposeful modification of the atmosphere.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $20 |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Become proficient in valuable skills regarding methods, techniques and standards for obtaining field data regarding Herpetofauna for various applications. Gain knowledge of the principles for conservation and management of Herpetofauna such as occupancy, population demographics, regional status, threat analysis, infectious disease occurrences and more. Ability to utilize critical thinking to propose solutions in regard to herpetological conservation and management situations/scenarios. Recognize and identify Nebraska Herpetofauna.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | SUMMER |
| Experiential Learning: | Fieldwork |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Prerequisites: PLAS/NRES/SOIL 279
This course includes a national- or regional-level inter-collegiate Soil Judging contest that takes place during the course of the class.
Description: Apply fundamental knowledge and improve field techniques to the description and interpretation of soils in the field. Application of techniques employed in writing descriptions of soil morphology and in classifying and interpreting soils.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL/SPR |
| Experiential Learning: | Fieldwork |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Description: Overview of the major physical and human landscapes in Africa. Prominent past and current events will be placed into a spatial context in an attempt to develop insight into the interrelationships that exist among people, cultures, countries, economies, and the environment, not only within Africa, but between Africa and the rest of the world.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 9 Global/Diversity |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity
Description: Evolutionary origin and relationships, natural history, and ecological adaptations of vertebrates. Comparative form and function, particularly of bone and muscle systems among and the diversity within vertebrate groups.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | SPRING |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $35 |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing.
Description: Efficient job-hunting. Resumes, cover letters, mock interviews, and dining etiquette.
This course is a prerequisite for: AGRI 395
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Pass No Pass |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $25 |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor(s). One college level course in photography or equivalent, and knowledge of the basics of shooting still photographs or video using digital cameras. Open only to College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources students.
Can be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours by consent of instructor.
Description: Concepts and techniques related to use of remote and automated digital camera technology to capture images in agriculture and natural resources contexts to communicate a narrative/story. Completion of individual project using a variety of technologies including camera traps, time-lapse camera systems, remote triggered cameras, as well as traditional audio and video and conventional photography.
| Credit Hours: | 1-9 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 9 |
| Max credits per degree: | 9 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $50 |
| Experiential Learning: | Case/Project-Based Learning |
Credit Hours:1-9
ACE:
Description: Scientific and research training and necessary soft skills for researchers, using grasslands as a study system. Provides individualized opportunities for engagement with scientific methods, which include experiential learning, acquisition and refinement of skills that enhance higher-learning opportunities, and increased marketability for future employment or postgraduate degrees.
| Credit Hours: | 1-3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 5 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL |
| Experiential Learning: | Case Work, Project-Based Learning, Research |
Credit Hours:1-3
ACE:
Prerequisites: 8 hrs NRES or closely related areas.
To be supervised and evaluated by a NRES faculty member.
Description: Research, literature review, or extension of course work.
| Credit Hours: | 1-5 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 5 |
| Max credits per degree: | 6 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:1-5
ACE:
Prerequisites: 12 hrs biological sciences.
Description: Biology and ecology of aquatic insects.
| Credit Hours: | 2 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 2 |
| Max credits per degree: | 2 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:2
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing or above in natural resources.
Description: Seminar involving technical aspects of forestry, fisheries, and wildlife management.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 2 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing; 4 hrs ecology; and 4 hrs botany or plant physiology.
Description: Principles of plant physiology which underlie the relationship between plants and their physical, chemical and biotic environments. An introduction to the ecological niche, limiting factors and adaptation. An overview of the seed germination and ecology, plant and soil water relations, nutrients, plant energy budgets, photosynthesis, carbon balance and plant-animal interactions. An introduction to various field equipment used in ecophysiological studies.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing, MATH 106 or equivalent, 5 hrs physics, major in any of the physical or biological sciences or engineering.
Description: Physical factors that create the biological environment. Radiation and energy balances of earth's surfaces, terrestrial and marine. Temperature, humidity, and wind regimes near the surface. Control of the physical environment through irrigation, windbreaks, frost protection, manipulation of light, and radiation. Applications to air pollution research. Instruments for measuring environmental conditions and remote sensing of the environment.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing; 12 credit hours in natural resources, environmental studies, or closely related fields
Description: Overview of the human dimensions of natural resources issues. Exploration of the socioeconomic, cultural, and political aspects of human behavior and how these interact with, might influence, or are influenced by the environment.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Offered on the World Wide Web (WWW) fall semester of odd-numbered years and in the classroom fall semester of even numbered-years.
Description: Major leaders in conservation and ecology that emphasizes agricultural and cultural issues and relationships with the environment.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Principles of digitizing earth observations. Manipulate spatial data, create maps, and conduct spatial analyses. Use GIS to analyze and solve real-world questions in agriculture and natural resources.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $50 |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Prerequisites: 12 hours biological or agricultural sciences.
Description: The roles of woody plants in sustainable agricultural systems of temperate regions. Emphasis on the ecological and economic benefits of trees and shrubs in the agricultural landscape. Topics include: habitat diversity and biological control; shelterbelts structure, function, benefits and design; intercropping systems; silvopastoral systems; riparian systems; and production of timber and specialty crops. Comparison of temperate agroforestry systems to those of tropical areas.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior Standing
Description: Remote sensing of the earth from aerial and satellite platforms. Aerial photography, multispectral scanning, thermal imaging, microwave remote sensing techniques. Data acquisition and image analysis. Physical foundations of remote sensing using electromagnetic energy and energy-matter interactions. Applications in geographic, agricultural, environmental and natural resources analyses.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $115 |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Description: Principles of water chemistry and their use in precipitation, surface water, and groundwater studies. Groundwater applications used to determine the time and source of groundwater recharge, estimate groundwater residence time, identify aquifer mineralogy, examine the degree of mixing between waters of various sources and evaluate what types of biological and chemical processes have occurred during the water's journey through the aquifer system.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $25 |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Introduction to the practical uses of remote electromagnetic sensing in dealing with agricultural and water-resources issues.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $35 |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Prerequisites: NRES 418/818
Description: Field techniques as they relate to remote-sensing campaigns. Research methods, systematic approaches to data collection, field spectroscopy, collecting ancillary information linked with spectroscopic data sets as well as aircraft or satellite missions and subsequent analyses of acquired data.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $65 |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Fundamental concepts related to understanding Earth's changing natural systems in the past, present, and the future. The cycling of matter and energy; the relationship between human activity and environmental change; and the consequence of these relationships.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: The structure and function of forest ecosystems including their response to global change; emphasis on forest succession and disturbance regimes in order to understand the dynamics of forested landscapes.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Introduction to ecological, social, and institutional issues. Engage in discussions of important zoonotic diseases, diseases of conservation concern, non-infectious threats, and strategies for assessing and managing wildlife health.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Identification, biology and ecology of weedy and invasive plants. Principles of invasive plant management by preventative, cultural, biological, mechanical and chemical means using an adaptive management framework. Herbicide terminology and classification, plant-herbicide and soil-herbicide interactions, equipment calibration and dosage calculations.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Familiarity with mapping and GIS recommended.
Description: Integrated lectures, lab exercises and field experience provide an understanding of GPS technology and applications. Students will learn to collect, correct and use GPS data in a geographic information system (GIS) environment.
| Credit Hours: | 2 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 2 |
| Max credits per degree: | 2 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $65 |
Credit Hours:2
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Leadership in theories, research, and practices in public organizations and natural resource agencies.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Experiential Learning: | Case/Project-Based Learning |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing
Description: Overview of the technical and sociocultural dimensions of global food insecurity.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: NRES 311
Description: Ecology and identification of North American waterfowl, management of habitats and populations, and current management issues.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: GEOG 217
Practical experience or other formal preparation in GIS may be substituted for prerequisite by permission.
Description: GIS-focused programming, scripting, and spatial analysis using the Python and R programming languages. Topics include: the ArcPy library, algorithm development, open source geospatial libraries, and the manipulation and analysis of geospatial data.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $50 |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: NRES 311
Description: Survey of methods used to obtain data and make decisions for wildlife management. Scientific methods for wildlife science; monitoring and surveys; construction of management plans; habitat use, classification, and management; harvest management.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $10 |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 10 Integrated Product |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product
Requires 20 hours of service.
Description: Examination of formal and informal environmental education and interpretation. Knowledge, application and practice relevant to science teachers and park, extension, museums, and zoo educators.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $40 |
| Experiential Learning: | Community Engagement |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: For PLAS/NRES 435: Senior standing. For AGRO/NRES 835: 12 hrs biological or agricultural sciences.
Description: Integration of principles of ecology, plant and animal sciences, crop protection, and rural landscape planning and management for sustainable agriculture. Includes natural and cultivated ecosystems, population and community ecology, nutrient cycling, pest management, hydrologic cycles, cropping and grazing systems, landscape ecology, biodiversity, and socioeconomic evaluation of systems.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 10 Integrated Product |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing
Description: Survey of mammalian evolution with emphasis on the origin, radiation, and phylogenetic relationships of Cenozoic fossil mammals. Overview of climatic and ecological changes affecting mammalian adaptations and hands on experience with fossil specimens.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: UG: Junior Standing; Grad: None
Recommended: introductory ecology and introductory soils courses
Description: Apply fundamental grassland ecology principles to grassland conservation and identify grassland establishment and management practices appropriate for different environmental and cultural situations. Based on field study, critically analyze management options and outcomes for several grasslands and develop a management plan for a grassland resource.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $30 |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 10 Integrated Product |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product
Description: Exposure to technologies such as spectroscopy, discrete automated colorimetry, chromatography and mass spectrometry used for environmental testing. Hands-on training in calibration, operation and sample analysis, proper use of analytical balance, volumetric glassware and micropipettes, creating and maintaining a laboratory notebook, and development and understanding standard operational procedures. Advanced in-lab training in analytical laboratory techniques and operation of advanced instrumentation used in commercial and research environmental laboratories.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL/SPR |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Description: Characteristics of Great Plains ecosystems, interrelationships of ecological factors and processes, and their application in the management of grasslands. Interactions of fire, vegetation, grazing animals and wildlife.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Examine and build on the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to work in a zoo in various capactities including animal keeping, guest services and curation. Acquire knowledge in all aspects needed to manage zoos including individual species care, collections, guest services, species conservation, and AZA accreditation. Become familiar with the concepts and challenges associated with the biological, educational, ethical, and administrative aspects of zoo science through partnerships and interactions with local zoos.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL/SPR |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $100 |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 10 Integrated Product |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Description: Wildland plants that are important to grassland and shrubland ecosystem management and production. Distribution, utilization, classification, identification (including identification by vegetative parts), uses by Native Americans, and recognition of grasses, forbs, shrubs, exotic and wetland plants.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing and above
Background in ecology and NRES 418 recommended.
Description: Examines global change from a biological perspective, focusing on global change impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Considers the scientific literature on biological aspects of global change, and explores the methods used for studying global change, and involves presentation of brief, comprehensible oral and written summaries of this literature. Social, and economic aspects will also be considered.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
NRES 220 or equivalent, recommended.
Description: Measurement and monitoring of the important vegetation and environmental factors used to develop management guidelines in grasslands, savannas, woodlands, and wetlands. Emphasis on using ecosystem monitoring protocols for assessment of wildlife habitat, fuels management for wild-land fire, livestock production, and watershed function. Requires field sampling and travel to local field sites.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: FORS 120
Description: Collection, processing, identification of common North American pollen types. Pollination ecology relating to scene reconstruction. Fundamental statistics and presentation requirements for a legal and scientific audience.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Description: Study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. Human parasitology is especially interesting due to the adaptation of human populations to a great variety of parasites over long periods of time in the global diversity of environments. Fundamental understanding of human-parasite relations and methods of recovery of parasites from a variety of archaeological remains.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Principles of population dynamics. Management strategies (for consumptive and nonconsumptive fish and wildlife species) presented utilizing principles developed.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $10 |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Prerequisites: NRES/WATS/SOIL/PLAS/GEOL 361 or graduate standing
Description: Environmental chemistry related to the fate and transport of organic contaminants in soil-water environments. Application of computer simulation models (i.e., MODFLOW) for predicting contaminant fate in aquifers. Basic chemical and biological principles of remediating contaminated soil and water.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 10 Integrated Product |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product
Prerequisites: Junior standing or above.
Offered spring semester of even-numbered calendar years.
Description: Impact of climate and extreme climatic events on society and societal responses to those events. Global in scope and interdisciplinary.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: MATH 102 or above
Not available for credit for engineering students and not a substitute for CIVE 456.
Description: Introduction to the principles of hydrology, with emphasis on the components of the hydrologic cycle: precipitation, evaporation, groundwater flow, surface runoff, infiltration, precipitation runoff relationships.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Nature and characteristics of populations and communities. Interactions within and between populations in community structure and dynamics. Direct and indirect interactions and ecological processes, competition, predation, parasitism, herbivory, and pollination. Structure, functioning and persistence of natural communities, foodweb dynamics, succession, and biodiversity.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 10 Integrated Product |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product
Prerequisites: PLAS/SOIL 153 or GEOL 101; CHEM 109A/L and CHEM 110A/L; CHEM 221 or CHEM 221A & CHEM 221L or 251..
Description: Chemical and mineralogical properties of soil components. Inorganic colloidal fraction. Structures of soil minerals as a means of understanding properties, such as ion exchange and equilibria; release and supply of nutrient and toxic materials; and soil acidity and alkalinity. Forms and functions of organic matter in soil.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Biological systems, from molecules to ecosystems, are analyzed using mathematical techniques. Strengths and weaknesses of mathematical approaches to biological questions. Brief review of college level math; introduction to modeling; oscillating systems in biology; randomness in biology; review of historically important and currently popular models in biology.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing, Graduate student or permission
Description: A focus on the management of trees, parks, and green infrastructure in rural and urban communities. Perspectives from community planning, landscape architecture, urban forestry, natural resources, horticulture, and environmental policy. Development and implementation of green space and forest management plans encompassing societal needs and biological limitations in rural and urban communities.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 10 Integrated Product |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product
Description: Survey of measurement techniques and principles used in characterizing the physical properties of soils. Includes analysis of experimental design and sources of experimental error. Techniques include: particle size analysis, soil water content, pore size analysis, field sampling techniques, soil strength, and saturated hydraulic conductivity.
| Credit Hours: | 2 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 2 |
| Max credits per degree: | 2 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:2
ACE:
Description: Physical, chemical, and biological processes that occur in fresh water. Organisms occurring in fresh water and their ecology; biological productivity of water and its causative factors; eutroplication and its effects.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $25 |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 10 Integrated Product |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product
Prerequisites: Senior standing.
Recommend having a strong science background, including courses from the agronomic, environmental, microbiology, engineering or medicine disciplines.
Description: Soil from a microbe's perspective-growth, activity and survival strategies; principles governing methods to study microorganisms and biochemical processes in soil; mechanisms controlling organic matter cycling and stabilization with reference to C, N, S, and P; microbial interactions with plants and animals; and agronomic and environmental applications of soil microorganisms.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | SPRING |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Principles of soil physics. Movement of water, air, heat, and solutes in soils. Water retention and movement, including infiltration and field water regime. Movement of chemicals in soils.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Current issues in conservation biology. Theoretical principles from the areas of ecology and genetics to effectively preserve and manage biological diversity and small populations.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
May be offered at Cedar Point Biological Station.
Description: Fisheries biology emphasizing the determination and evaluation of vital statistics for the management of fish populations. Basis of specific management techniques.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 10 Integrated Product |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product
May be offered at Cedar Point Biological Station.
Description: Field and laboratory skills needed for fisheries biology emphasizing the determination and evaluation of vital statistics for the management of fish populations. Applied data collection and fish sampling techniques will be used.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | Total Seats Needed: 150 |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing; and METR 475/875.
Offered fall semester of even-numbered calendar years.
Description: Elements of climate systems, El Nino/LaNina cycle and monsoons, natural variability of climate on interannual and interdecadal scales. Paleoclimate, and future climate, developed climate change scenarios and climate change impacts on natural resources and the environment.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: CHEM 109A and 109L and CHEM 110A and 110L, or CHEM 105A and 105L and CHEM 106A and 106L; Junior or Senior Standing.
Offered even-numbered calendar years.
Description: Physical, chemical and biological processes that occur in wetlands; the hydrology and soils of wetland systems; organisms occurring in wetlands and their ecology wetland creation, delineation, management and ecotoxicology.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $40 |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing; MATH 106; 4 hrs physics; physical or biological science major.
Description: Discussion and practical application of principles and practices of measuring meteorological and related variables near the earth's surface including temperature, humidity, precipitation, pressure, radiation and wind. Performance characteristics of sensors and modern data collection methods are discussed and evaluated.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: 12 hrs NRES or related fields.
Description: Theory, processes, and mechanisms underlying lake and reservoir water quality degradation and/or pollution and remediation of eutrophications and its effects. Current techniques used to restore and protect degraded lakes.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Emphasis on applied soil physics. Discussion of theoretical principles followed by field and laboratory exercises and applications. Fluxes of water, solutes, air, and heat through the soil. Emphasis on water infiltration, water retention, other soil hydraulic properties. Components of soil water balance. Management of soil water.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: BIOS/NRES 386 and permission.
Description: Fossil and living amphibians and reptiles. Anatomy, classification, ecology and evolution.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $90 |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Prerequisites: Senior standing.
Capstone course.
Description: Holistic approach to the selection and analysis of planning strategies for protecting water quality from nonpoint sources of contamination. Introduction to the use of methods of analyzing the impact of strategies on whole systems and subsystems; for selecting strategies; and for evaluating present strategies.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 10 Integrated Product |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:ACE 10 Integrated Product
May also be offered at Cedar Point Biological Station. Field trips are required and may occur outside of scheduled class time. Lab and field time emphasize diversity of mammalian families and species identification of Nebraska mammals.
Description: Evolution, natural history, ecology, and functional morphology of planetary mammals and mammals of the Northern Great Plains.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $25 |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Prerequisites: PLAS/SOIL 153.
Description: Spatial relationship of soil properties on various parts of landscape typical of the Plains, causal factors, and predictions of such relationships on other landscapes. Grouping these properties into classes, naming the classes, and the taxonomy that results from this grouping. Application of a taxonomy to a real situation through making a field soil survey in a region representative of the Plains border, predicting land use response of various mapped units as it affects the ecosystem, and evaluating the effectiveness of the taxonomic system used in the region surveyed.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Prerequisites: NRES/METR 370.
Description: Regional differentiation of the climates of the earth on both a descriptive and dynamic basis. The chief systems of climatic classification.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Offered spring semester of even-numbered calendar years.
Description: Interaction between earth's climate and the hydrologic cycle. Energy and water fluxes at the land-atmosphere interface. Atmospheric moisture transport, precipitation, evaporation, snowmelt, and runoff. Impacts of climate variability and change on the hydrologic cycle.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: NRES 222 or equivalent
Description: Fundamental physical drivers operating in stream and river ecosystems and how those vary in space and time. Major classes of organisms associated with stream ecosystems and their functional roles. Fundamental controls on biotic diversity in stream and river ecosystems and its variance. Major aspects of stream ecosystem function including energy flow and nutrient cycling. Ecosystem services provided by stream and river ecosystems and causes and consequences of human impacts on streams and rivers. Underlying principles of bioassessment and current methods of stream restoration.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $20 |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Description: Evaluation of the conserved physiological principles that are broadly used across animal groups, as well as the many unique adaptations used by specific taxa. Focuses on all major vertebrate groups, including fish, birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians, and links the physiological mechanisms that allow them to survive to the environments in which they live. Highlights methods scientists use to gather physiological information, and the ways in this information can be used by scientists in a variety of different fields.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior or above standing
Description: Seminar on current water resources research and issues in Nebraska and the region.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Description: Active listening and critical thinking activities related to seminars on current natural resources research and issues in Nebraska, the Great Plains, and throughout the world.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
| Offered: | FALL |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Description: Professional certification from the National Association of Interpretation. Practical skills for developing quality interpretive programs for museum, nature center, zoo and park visitors. Theoretical foundations of interpretation.
| Credit Hours: | 2 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 2 |
| Max credits per degree: | 2 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
Credit Hours:2
ACE:
Description: Receive professional certification from the National Association of Interpretation. Practical skills for staff and volunteers of museums, nature centers, zoos and parks to provide quality customer service.
| Credit Hours: | 1 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 1 |
| Max credits per degree: | 1 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
Credit Hours:1
ACE:
Description: The history, principles, and concepts of landscape ecology. Use and application of landscape structure, function in the planning, the design, and management of human and natural landscapes.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
Description: Occurence, movement, and development of water in the geologic environment.
| Credit Hours: | 3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $10 |
Credit Hours:3
ACE:
May also be offered at Cedar Point Biological Station.
Description: Fishes, their taxonomy, physiology, behavior, and ecology. Dynamics of fish stocks and factors regulating their production.
| Credit Hours: | 4 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 4 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Course and Laboratory Fee: | $20 |
Credit Hours:4
ACE:
Description: Topics vary.
| Credit Hours: | 1-6 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 6 |
| Max credits per degree: | 6 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:1-6
ACE:
Prerequisites: Permission.
Off-campus travel may be required. Choice of subject matter and coordination of on- and off-campus study is at the discretion of the instructor.
Description: Group educational tours to sites that illustrate the diversity of approaches to natural resources management found around the world.
| Credit Hours: | 1-3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 6 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| ACE Outcomes: | ACE 9 Global/Diversity |
| Experiential Learning: | Education Abroad |
Credit Hours:1-3
ACE:ACE 9 Global/Diversity
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
Description: Immersive learning experiences in natural resources.
| Credit Hours: | 0-3 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 12 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Experiential Learning: | Fieldwork |
Credit Hours:0-3
ACE:
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Description: Topic varies and deals with different aspects of forage and/or range and/or livestock, turf and/or landscape grasses, natural habitats, and wetlands.
| Credit Hours: | 1-2 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 2 |
| Max credits per degree: | 4 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:1-2
ACE:
Prerequisites: 12 hrs natural resource sciences or closely-related fields, and permission.
Description: Individual or group projects in research, literature review, or extension of course work.
| Credit Hours: | 1-5 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 5 |
| Max credits per degree: | 12 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:1-5
ACE:
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing; School of Natural Resources (SNR) majors; permission and advanced approval of a plan of work.
Description: Off-campus work experiences sponsored by natural resource agencies, companies, and organizations. Students collaborate in the development of a plan of work that will identify student responsibilities, including a final written report.
| Credit Hours: | 1-6 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 6 |
| Max credits per degree: | 6 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
| Experiential Learning: | Internship/Co-op |
Credit Hours:1-6
ACE:
Prerequisites: 6 hrs NRES or equivalent.
Description: Current issues in natural resource sciences.
| Credit Hours: | 1-6 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 6 |
| Max credits per degree: | 12 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:1-6
ACE:
Prerequisites: Permission of thesis adviser.
Requires conducting a scholarly research project and writing an undergraduate thesis.
| Credit Hours: | 3-6 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 6 |
| Max credits per degree: | 6 |
| Grading Option: | Graded with Option |
Credit Hours:3-6
ACE:
Prerequisites: Admission to the University Honors Program and permission.
AGRI 299H recommended.
Description: Conduct a scholarly research project and write a University Honors Program or undergraduate thesis.
| Credit Hours: | 3-6 |
|---|---|
| Max credits per semester: | 6 |
| Max credits per degree: | 6 |
| Grading Option: | Graded |
Credit Hours:3-6
ACE:
PLEASE NOTE
This document represents a sample 4-year plan for degree completion with this major. Actual course selection and sequence may vary and should be discussed individually with your college or department academic advisor. Advisors also can help you plan other experiences to enrich your undergraduate education such as internships, education abroad, undergraduate research, learning communities, and service learning and community-based learning.
Fisheries & Wildlife - Conservation Biology
Critical - 2.50 GPA required for graduation.
- ***Total Credits Applying Toward 120 Total Hours***
Fisheries & Wildlife - Fisheries Ecology & Management
Critical - 2.50 GPA required for graduation.
- ***Total Credits Applying Toward 120 Total Hours***
Fisheries & Wildlife - Habitat Management
Critical - 2.50 GPA required for graduation.
- ***Total Credits Applying Toward 120 Total Hours***
Fisheries & Wildlife - Law Enforcement
Critical - 2.50 GPA required for graduation.
- ***Total Credits Applying Toward 120 Total Hours***
Fisheries & Wildlife - Nature-Based Entrepreneurship
Critical - 2.50 GPA required for graduation.
- ***Total Credits Applying Toward 120 Total Hours***
Fisheries & Wildlife - Wildlife Ecology & Management
Critical - 2.50 GPA required for graduation.
- ***Total Credits Applying Toward 120 Total Hours***
Fisheries & Wildlife - Zoo Animal Care
Critical - 2.50 GPA required for graduation.
- ***Total Credits Applying Toward 120 Total Hours***
Career Information
The following represents a sample of the internships, jobs and graduate school programs that current students and recent graduates have reported.
Jobs of Recent Graduates
- Fisheries Technician, University of Nebraska-Lincoln - Lincoln, NE
- Conservation technician, Nebraska Game and Parks - Battle Creek, NE
- Highway Environmental Biologist, Nebraska Department of Roads - Lincoln, NE
- Sea Turtle Protection Intern, Bald Head Island Conservancy - Bald Head Island, NC
- Forest Products Program Leader, Nebraska Forest Service - Lincoln, NE
- Environmental Scientist, EA Engineering Science and Technology - Lincoln, NE
- Environmental Technician, New Country Environment - Columbus, NE
- Biological Science Technician, U.S. Fish and Wildlife - Leadville, CO
- Big Cat Keeper, In-Sync Exotics - Wylie, TX