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NRES 372 - Resource Economics
Description:
Fundamental economic concepts and how they apply to resource use; traditional and revised land use theories; problems of land policy management.
Prerequisites:
BIOL 101 or BIOL 130 or BIOL 160 ; NRES 150 , NRES 151 ; or cons instr.
General Education Designation(s):
GDR: SS2; GEP: IS
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 572 .
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NRES 373 - Agronomy, Agriculture and Environment
Description:
Morphology and management of grain, forage and other crops in agricultural enterprises. Role of crops in causing environmental problems and in providing potential solutions.
Prerequisites:
CNR Summer Field Experiences or cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(I)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 573 .
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NRES 374 - Environmental Interpretation Practicum
Description:
Practice planning and implementing interpretation programs, facilities, signage, exhibits, and publications for nature centers and park visitors.
Prerequisites:
NRES 367 or NRES 368 or NRES 369 or con reg, CNR or biology major or written cons instr.
One 6-hr day per wk at Schmeeckle Reserve.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 574 .
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NRES 376 - Environmental Education Practicum
Description:
Practical experience in environmental ed with K-12 students. Program and staff development, program planning, instruction and evaluation. One full day per wk.
Prerequisites:
NRES 301 or NRES 370 , CNR or biology or education major with environmental ed minor or written cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
4 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 576 .
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NRES 377 - Remote Sensing I
Description:
Characteristics of aerial photographs and digital imagery. Use remote sensing materials to conduct resource inventories, and land use evaluation, and landform analysis.
2 hrs lec, 2 hrs lab per wk. May not earn credit in both NRES 377 and GEOG 377 .
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 577 .
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NRES 378 - Introduction to Minerals Technology
Description:
Survey of extractive and processing systems used in mining, mineral dressing, and metallurgical industries.
Prerequisites:
CHEM 105 or 115; GEOL 104 .
Typically Offered:
(On demand)
3 cr.
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NRES 381 - Internship in Natural Resources
Description:
Supervised training program in resource management in cooperation with private or public resource agencies. One cr for 2-4 wks, (40 hrs per wk) of work. Credits and/or addl requirements set by instructor before registration.
Prerequisites:
FOR 319 , FOR 320 , SOIL 359 , SOIL 360 , WLDL 340 , WATR 380 or NRES 475 ; and/or cons intern director, CNR major or written cons instr; also NRES 388 and NRES 389 if land use planning major.
May repeat once for 12 cr max.
Typically Offered:
(I, II, SUM)
1-12 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 581 .
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NRES 382 - Youth Agency Administration
Description:
Survey of youth agencies including purpose, historic background, community role, development, and organization; analysis of administrative structure, programming, management, policy and volunteering board development, career opportunities, and issues confronting nonprofit youth agencies.
Typically Offered:
(I), (A)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 582 .
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NRES 383 - Nature Center and Camp Management
Description:
Principles and practices for planning, organization and administration of nature centers and youth camps. Management of day and residential facilities analyzing issues of the master planning process, public relations, staff supervision, marketing techniques, fiscal and site management.
Typically Offered:
(II), (A)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 583 .
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NRES 385 - Field Techniques in Forestry, Soils, Water, and Wildlife
Description:
Field techniques used to manage and evaluate forestry, soils, water, and wildlife resources.
Prerequisites:
NRES 150 , NRES 151 , NRES 250 , NRES 251 .
General Education Designation(s):
GEP: XL.
Typically Offered:
(SUM)
2 cr.
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NRES 388 - Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning
Description:
Historical evolution of urban/regional planning. Theories, ideologies, philosophies, and functional areas of planning. Also primary plan implementation tools.
May not earn credit in both GEOG 388 and NRES 388.
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 588 .
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NRES 389 - Urban and Regional Planning Analysis
Description:
Research methods for urban and regional planning. Design and implementation of citizen surveys.
Prerequisites:
Geography students: GEOG 388 ; CNR students: NRES 200 or con reg, or cons instr.
May not earn credit in both NRES 389 and GEOG 389 .
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 589 .
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NRES 390 - Nature Interpretation in Wisconsin
Description:
How to interpret major ecological communities of Wisconsin, their relationship to landforms and climate, key plants and animals, their interrelation-ship and the effect of human activities. Subtitle will designate emphasis.
May repeat for 3 credits max with different subtitles.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
1-3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 590 .
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NRES 391 - Environmental Regulatory Processes
Description:
Overview of permitting processes governing land; air and water resources.
3 cr.
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NRES 392 - Environmental Law Enforcement Theory and Principles (formerly 440)
Description:
Overview of environmental law enforcement activities emphasizing theoretical basis for current enforcement practices.
Prerequisites:
POLI 212 or SOC 230 , CNR major or written cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
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NRES 393 - Environmental Law Enforcement
Description:
Environmental law enforcement practices including search, seizure, ballistics, criminal codes, evidence collection and preservation, and emergency procedures. Fulfills state of Wis. Law Enforcement Standards Board requirements. Offered with state vocational and technical colleges.
Prerequisites:
CNR major or written cons dean and declared environmental law/enforcement minor.
Typically Offered:
Not currently offered
1-12 cr. Pass/fail.
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NRES 394 - Ecological Basis for Planning and Design
Description:
Ecological principles, relationships, and interaction between natural and man-made elements of the environment.
Prerequisites:
NRES 200 or con reg, or cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 594 .
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NRES 395 - Environmental Science for Educators
Description:
Natural, social, and economic factors influencing the quality of our environment; ecological relationships and principles and their relation to human systems, energy, air, land, water and living resources plus biodiversity. Designed for secondary environmental science/studies teachers. Not open to CNR majors or minors.
1-3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 595 .
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NRES 400 - Environmental Studies for Practitioners
Description:
Overview of environmental studies and issues. Topic areas include: Conservation History, Ecological Foundations, Biodiversity, Water, Land, Energy, Air, Environmental Health, and Environmental Quality and the Future. On-campus students must request permission to register.
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 600 .
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NRES 401 - Ecological Lifestyles
Description:
Examine personal lifestyles in light of ecological consideration. Identify ecologically sound lifestyles that foster environmental quality and quality of life.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 601 .
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NRES 402 - Environmental Futures
Description:
Understand and apply techniques used in future studies to identify and analyze how social, scientific, and technological developments may shape the future of human interactions with the natural environment.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 602 .
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NRES 403 - Environmental Education Curriculum Resources
Description:
Identify, evaluate, and apply instructional resources for K-12 environmental ed. Subtitle will designate resource.
Prerequisites:
CNR major or written cons instr.
May repeat for 3 cr max.
1-3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 603 .
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NRES 404 - Environmental Health
Description:
Study of types, levels, and sources of environmental contaminants that impact human health; discussion of individual and community risk related to environmental contaminants; availability of personal and community environmental health resources; and importance of building personal awareness and knowledge of environmental health issues.
May repeat for up to 3 credits with different subtitles.
1-3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 604 .
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NRES 405 - Selected Topics in Natural Resources
Description:
Major concepts and problems in an area of natural resources.
Prerequisites:
Cons instr.
May repeat for credit with different subtitles.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
1-3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 605 .
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NRES 406 - Natural Resources, Culture and Archaeology of the Mayan World
Description:
Survey ecosystems and environmental and natural resource programs and issues in a cultural context in Mexico, Belize or Guatemala.
General Education Designation(s):
GDR: EL, NW; GEP: GA
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 606 .
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NRES 407 - Costa Rica Tropical Ecology
Description:
Survey ecosystems and environmental and natural resource programs and issues in Costa Rica.
General Education Designation(s):
GDR: EL; GEP: GA
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 607 .
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NRES 408 - Plant Resources and Humans
Description:
Explore how continued existence of humans is linked to conservation of plant diversity; use of plant resources to provide food, medicine, fiber, shelter and other needs of past and present cultures throughout the world; evolutionary ecology of domesticated plants; preservation of traditional knowledge of useful plants; conservation strategies/techniques for maintaining plant diversity for future generations.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 608 .
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NRES 409 - Environmental Studies Investigations
Description:
Investigate and report on a selected geographic area to investigate environmental studies considerations including human culture and history, natural history elements and systems, climate, and broad landforms. Submit a culminating paper that ties themes investigated together.
1-3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 609 .
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NRES 410 - Selected Topics in Environmental Education
Description:
Environmental concepts/issues with emphasis on K-12 teaching methods.
May repeat for credit with different subtitles.
1-3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 610 .
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NRES 412 - Ecological Basis for Environmental Education
Description:
Basic ecological concepts and their relationship to understanding and evaluating environmental issues.
Prerequisites:
NRES 411 or cons instr.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 612 .
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NRES 414 - Environmental Education Teaching Strategies
Description:
Plan and evaluate environmental ed curriculum materials and teaching methods.
Prerequisites:
411 and NRES 412 or cons instr.
Typically Offered:
Not currently offered
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 614 .
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NRES 415 - Investigation and Evaluation of Environmental Education Curriculum Resources
Description:
Investigate, evaluate, and apply instructional resources for K-12 environmental ed. Includes curriculum, print, audiovisual materials, computer software and networks, organizations, people and places. Culminating project links resources encountered to grade level taught and individual areas of interest.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 615 .
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NRES 416 - Urban EE
Description:
For teachers and nonformal educators working in an urban setting or interested in working with an urban population. Focus on how to utilize natural areas in an urban setting, urban environmental issues, and techniques to engage urban populations.
May repeat for credit with different subtitles.
1-3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 616 .
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NRES 420 - Forestry Education for Wis K-12 Classroom
Description:
Principles, activities, techniques for K-12 teaching about importance of forests to our ecological, economic, and social well-being. Includes LEAF Program Forestry Education Guide.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 620 .
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NRES 421 - Teaching K-12 Forestry Topics
Description:
Materials and methods to teach K-12 students about current forestry topics, concepts, issues.
May repeat for credit with different subtitle.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 621 .
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NRES 422 - School Forest Programs and Administration
Description:
Planning and administration of Wisconsin School Forest Program. Organize school forest committee, understand property management plans, develop educational plans, locate resources/financial support. Class and Web instruction.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 622 .
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NRES 423 - Human Influence on Wis Forests
Description:
Wisconsin forest resources and role they play in our past, current and future ecological, economic and social well-being. For K-12 teachers. Web course.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 623 .
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NRES 424 - Enhancing School Forest Education
Description:
Increase ability to effectively utilize school forests for environmental education and sustainable natural resource management. Culminating project to demonstrate enhanced educational experiences.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 624 .
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NRES 430 - Energy Education in the Classroom
Description:
Hands-on activities, discussions, classroom application and assignments to help teachers analyze energy information and create strategies and techniques to enhance understanding of what energy is, where it comes from, and how it affects our lives. Includes KEEP energy education activity guide. OK for infusion across K-12 curric.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 630 .
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NRES 431 - Selected Topics in Energy Education
Description:
Hands-on activities, discussions, classroom application and assignments to help teachers analyze energy information and create strategies and techniques to enhance understanding of what energy is, where it comes from, and how it affects our lives.
Repeatable under different subtitles.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 631 .
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NRES 432 - Renewable Energy Education in the Classroom
Description:
Builds on KEEP program with next step in renewable energy to help teachers enhance understanding of energy. Highlights renewable energy K-12 curriculum.
May repeat for 3 cr max with different subtitles.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 632 .
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NRES 433 - Energy Education Concepts and Practices
Description:
Concepts relating to energy definitions, natural laws of energy and energy flows in living/nonliving systems, and their relationships to understanding/evaluating environmental issues. Analyze concepts and synthesize strategies/activities for the classroom.
May repeat 3 cr max.
1-3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 633 .
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NRES 434 - School Building Energy Efficiency Education
Description:
Study energy use in Wisconsin schools. K-12 teachers use school building as energy education learning tool. Develop action plans highlighting energy efficiency and conservation opportunities.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 634 .
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NRES 435 - Renewable Energy Education
Description:
Fundamentals of renewable energy, how to incorporate renewable energy into daily work/home, pros and cons of using renewable energy. Includes case studies and guest speakers.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 635 .
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NRES 440 - Making Environmental Education Relevant to Culturally Diverse Communities
Description:
Basic knowledge and skills to make EE relevant to culturally diverse communities. Broaden your perspective of EE to encompass interests and issues of concern, assess barriers to participation among culturally diverse communities, and appraise the role and significance of building relationships and partnerships with members of a community you intend to work with in the future.
1-3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 640 .
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NRES 441 - Climate Change Implications, Policies, and Solutions
Description:
Assess the implications of climate change on the sustainability of the world’s social-ecological systems. Examine the legal, political, cultural, scientific, economic, and moral dimensions of climate policy including interactions between local, state, U.S. and international policy.
Prerequisites:
NRES 341 or GEOG 335 or GEOL 335 or cons instr.
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 641 .
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NRES 442 - Sustainable Energy: Resources, Technologies, and Policies
Description:
Systems-based, technology assessment approach to examining potential sustainable energy solutions. Evaluate the scientific and engineering challenges and social and economic barriers each solution faces and cross-scale interactions between these factors. Formulate a portfolio of policies for each sustainable technology to drive deployment at the necessary scale.
Prerequisites:
NRES 341 , NRES 220 (or WATR 220 ) or GEOG 335 (or GEOL 335 ), or cons instr.
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 642 .
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NRES 443 - Sustainable Social-Ecological Systems
Description:
Examine the energy challenges facing communities in different regions of the U.S. in this field-based course. Utilize a systems approach to assess these challenges within the complex social-ecological systems in which they are embedded. Employ a transdisciplinary approach to problem solving by integrating knowledge and perspectives from different disciplines and a diverse array of stakeholders; creating new shared knowledge and perspectives; formulating strategies to alter current undesirable trajectories in these social-ecological systems; and creating more sustainable futures for these systems.
Prerequisites:
NRES 341 or cons instr.
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 643 .
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NRES 454 - Fire Behavior and Fuels
Description:
Combustion process and physics of fire related to various fuels in the fire environment. Fire behavior, fuel measurement, and fuel modeling systems. Ecology of fuels, including moisture dynamics related to weather.
Prerequisites:
FOR 224 , FOR 324
Typically Offered:
(I)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 654 .
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NRES 455 - Advanced Fire Ecology
Description:
Fire as a fundamental ecological process emphasizing ecosystem dynamics in North American grasslands, shrublands, and forested systems with selected global examples from other ecosystems. Fire adaptations, regimes, seasonally and fire frequency effects on animal and plant communities, air, soils, and water and the role of fire in the environment.
Prerequisites:
NRES 454 ; FOR 224 , FOR 324 , FOR 450 .
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 655 .
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NRES 457 - Ecological Monitoring
Description:
Theory and practice of ecological monitoring emphasizing ecosystem structure, functions, and populations.
Prerequisites:
FOR 321 and FOR 332 , or cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(II, even yrs)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 657 .
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NRES 458 - Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
Description:
Theoretical framework for identifying threats and solutions to long-term preservation of species and biological communities; includes concepts from traditional, landscape, and population ecology, genetics, sociology and economics.
Prerequisites:
BIOL 305
Typically Offered:
(I)
3 cr.
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NRES 459 - Ecosystem Management and Restoration
Description:
Methods for managing and restoring ecosystems for biological diversity and sustainable use.
Prerequisites:
NRES 458 or WLDL 458 , CNR major or written cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 659 .
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NRES 460 - People and Ecosystems
Description:
Interactions between people and ecosystems and dependency of the health and sustainability of each upon the other.
Prerequisites:
Jr or sr st; application and cons instr.
May not earn credit in both NRES 460 and HP/W 460.
Typically Offered:
Not currently offered; (II)
4 cr.
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NRES 462 - Adaptive Resource Management
Description:
Theory and practice of adaptive management. Methods of integrating social attitudes and values into science-based decision making in natural resources.
Prerequisites:
NRES 474 or cons instr.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 662 .
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NRES 465 - Policy Tools for Private Lands
Description:
Understand analyze, and apply a variety of policy tools to appropriate audiences, develop innovative tools or revisions to in-place policies to address environmental degradation issues that arise from private lands.
Prerequisites:
POLI 397 , HIST 280 , or cons instr.
3 cr.
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NRES 473 - Resource Policy and Law
Description:
The need for, purposes, making, and implementation of natural resources legislation and policy.
Prerequisites:
CNR major or written cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 673 .
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NRES 474 - Integrated Resource Management
Description:
Current issues, problems, trends in integrated management of resources; principles used to form and implement natural resources policy.
Prerequisites:
NRES 150 , NRES 151 , NRES 250 , NRES 251 ; CNR major or cons instr.
General Education Designation(s):
GEP: IS.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 674 .
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NRES 475 - European Environmental Studies Seminar
Description:
Survey environmental problems and programs in Europe; compare with U.S. environmental/natural resource issues. Alternative to Treehaven CNR Summer Field Experiences.
Prerequisites:
NRES 250 , NRES 251 , 2.00 GPA in major and cons instr.
Consists of 1 cr spring orientation, 2 wk CWES CNR Summer Field Experiences, 4-6 wks in Germany and other countries.
General Education Designation(s):
GEP: GA, XL.
Typically Offered:
(II, SUM)
1-8 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 675 .
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NRES 478 - Environmental Issues Investigation and Action
Description:
Rationale and strategies for investigating environmental issues at local, state, regional, or national levels; select and implement actions to resolve issues through political, economic, legal, educational, and lifestyle avenues. Group project.
Prerequisites:
NRES 370 or NRES 395 or CNR major or biology major or cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 678 .
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NRES 479 - International Environmental Studies Seminar
Description:
Subtitle indicates country or world region. Survey ecosystems and environmental and natural resource programs and issues.
Prerequisites:
Written cons instr.
1-6 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 679 .
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NRES 480 - Environmental Education - Residential Life
Description:
Practical experience exploring and implementing best practices in Environmental Education in a residential setting.
May repeat for up to 4 credits. Subtitle, where applicable, indicates emphasis.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 680 .
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NRES 481 - Place-based Instructional Strategies for Environmental Educators
Description:
Investigate place-based Environmental Education, theory and application. Learn and practice effective techniques for engaging student learning in non-formal and residential settings.
1 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 681 .
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NRES 482 - Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Practicum
Description:
Practical experience within Resource Management major options that includes planning and implementing programs. Meets Monday thru Friday with some weekend activities.
Prerequisites:
Sr. st; complete core courses of your major option and Summer Field Experience; must register for 3 credits of NRES 483 con reg 482.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
12 cr.
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NRES 483 - Professional Development in Natural Resource Management
Description:
Examine personal, academic and professional abilities, knowledge, skills, experience, interests, and philosophies related to natural resource management.
Prerequisites:
Undergrad students must register for 3 credits of 483 con reg NRES 482 .
May repeat for credit with different subtitles. Subtitle will designate emphasis. Field Trip/Fee: Includes portfolio development and field trips.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
1-3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 683 .
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NRES 484 - Natural Resources Planning
Description:
Examine the planning process in public land management agencies at the federal, state, and local government levels for both public and private lands, including the role of NEPA and grant making.
Prerequisites:
NRES 394 , or cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(I)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 684 .
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NRES 488 - Land Use Plan Implementation
Description:
Legal, social, and natural resource considerations in creation and enforcement of zoning, subdivision, and related land use regulations. Also ordinances to control junk, billboards, nonconforming uses and structures, and adult businesses.
Prerequisites:
NRES 389 or GEOG 389 or cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(I, even years)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 688 .
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NRES 489 - Applied Natural Resources Planning
Description:
Apply analytical planning techniques to explain contemporary community and natural resource issues. Develop case studies of regions using demographic, land market, natural resource, economic, recreation, and education analyses to propose planning and resource management policies.
Prerequisites:
Two of the following three courses: NRES 465 , NRES 484 , NRES 488 or cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(II, odd years)
3 cr.
Available for graduate credit as NRES 689 .
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NRES 490 - Integrated Resource Management Seminar
Description:
Interdisciplinary teams will investigate natural resource issues and problems, and develop, present, and defend plans.
Prerequisites:
Sr st for majors or minors in natural resources.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
2 cr.
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NRES 491 - Seminar in Conservation Biology
Description:
Outside speakers on practical economics, administration, and management of ecosystems for biodiversity.
Typically Offered:
(II)
1 cr.
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NRES 499 - Special Work
Description:
Upperclass natural resources majors and minors doing above average work may arrange for independent study with cons of assoc dean.
Prerequisites:
2.50 GPA in major.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
Credit based on scope of project.
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NRES 501 - Foundations of Environmental Education I
Description:
Conceptual and philosophical basis for and goals of environmental ed; analysis of instructional materials; knowledge of learners; strategies for developing/implementing environmental ed programs; observe instruction;
Prerequisites:
Jr st, CNR/biology major or written cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(I)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 301 .
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NRES 502 - Foundations of Environmental Education II
Description:
Apply environmental ed theory, philosophy, goals. Survey and use of environmental ed methods and resources. Develop, apply, and evaluate instructional plans and materials in formal/informal settings. In field professional development & career opportunities.
Prerequisites:
NRES 501 or NRES 570 .
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 302 .
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NRES 510 - Environmental Education Teaching Methods
Description:
Strategies for teaching K-12 students about the environment using effective educational methods. Topics include environmental values and teaching problem-solving skills. Meets DPI certification requirement in environmental ed in conjunction with GEOG 339 from UWEX (correspondence).
1 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 310 .
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NRES 520 - Natural Resources Public Relations and Social Science
Description:
Theory, methods, and practice of natural resources social science including theoretical and practical stakeholder involvement and conflict resolution. Focus on developing skills in data collection and analysis and reporting.
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 320 .
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NRES 523 - International Resource Management
Description:
Status and trends concerning the world’s renewable natural resources with emphasis on ecological, socioeconomic and other factors influencing their management; role of natural resources in developing countries and international efforts devoted to their safeguarding and amelioration. Includes seminar on specific resource issues, countries or world regions.
Prerequisites:
NRES 370 for non-CNR majors.
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 323 .
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NRES 535 - Turf Management
Description:
Turf grass selection, establishment, and management for parks, lawns and other recreational land uses.
Prerequisites:
CNR Summer Field Experiences &/or cons instr.
1 hr lec, 2 hrs lab.
Typically Offered:
Not currently offered; (I)
2 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 335 .
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NRES 540 - Sustainability Concepts
Description:
Examine environmental, economic and societal elements of sustainability to build content knowledge.
May repeat for credit with different subtitles.
1-3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 340 .
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NRES 541 - Introduction to Sustainable Energy Policy
Description:
Weigh the environmental, economic, technical, scientific, and social issues surrounding conventional and renewable energy resources including coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, biofuels, biomass, wind, hydropower, solar, geothermal, etc. Critically examine energy policy at the international, federal, and state levels; introduce tools for interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to solve energy challenges.
Prerequisites:
Jr st or cons instr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 341 .
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NRES 558 - Biodiversity and Conservation Biology on the Web
Description:
Explore background information, discuss importance, research issues, investigate threats, review values, and examine solutions in biodiversity and conservation biology. Also effects of economics, education, politics, lifestyle.
Prerequisites:
On-campus students need cons instr.
1 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 358 .
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NRES 568 - Oral Interpretation Methods
Description:
Principles and verbal techniques to relate the values of natural history and cultural features to visitors at parks, recreation areas, museums, and other institutions; walks, talks, and programming.
Prerequisites:
CNR or biology major or written cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 368 .
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NRES 569 - Interpretive Media
Description:
Principles and practice of design; write and produce interpretive publications; trail and wayside interpretive panels; exhibits for parks, nature centers, other facilities. Includes desktop publishing and other digital technologies used to create interpretive media.
Prerequisites:
NRES 367 or NRES 368 or con reg.
Typically Offered:
(II)
4 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 369 .
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NRES 570 - Introduction to Environmental Study and Education
Description:
Natural, social, economic factors influencing environmental quality; ecological relationships/principles and their relation to population growth, pollution, resource allocation and depletion, conservation, technology, and urban/rural planning. Overview of K-12 environmental ed content and methods. Fulfills Wis. teacher certification in environmental ed. Not open to CNR majors/minors.
Prerequisites:
Admis to School of Education or written cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 370 .
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NRES 572 - Resource Economics
Description:
Fundamental economic concepts and how they apply to resource use; traditional and revised land use theories; problems of land policy management.
Prerequisites:
BIOL 101 or BIOL 130 or BIOL 160 ; NRES 150 , NRES 151 ; or cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 372 .
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NRES 573 - Agronomy, Agriculture and Environment
Description:
Morphology and management of grain, forage and other crops in agricultural enterprises. Role of crops in causing environmental problems and in providing potential solutions.
Prerequisites:
CNR Summer Field Experiences or cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(I)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 373 .
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NRES 574 - Environmental Interpretation Practicum
Description:
Practice planning and implementing interpretation programs, facilities, signage, exhibits, and publications for nature centers and park visitors.
Prerequisites:
NRES 367 or NRES 368 and NRES 363, NRES 364, NRES 365, or NRES 369 or con reg, CNR or biology major or written cons instr.
One 6-hr day per wk at Schmeeckle Reserve.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 374 .
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NRES 576 - Environmental Education Practicum
Description:
Practical experience in environmental ed with K-12 students. Program and staff development, program planning, instruction and evaluation.
Prerequisites:
NRES 301 or NRES 370 , CNR or biology or education major with environmental ed minor or written cons instr.
One full day per wk.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
4 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 376 .
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NRES 577 - Remote Sensing I
Description:
Characteristics of aerial photographs and digital imagery. Use remote sensing materials to conduct resource inventories, and land use evaluation, and landform analysis.
2 hrs lec, 2 hrs lab per wk.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 377 .
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NRES 581 - Internship in Natural Resources
Description:
Supervised training program in resource management in cooperation with private or public resource agencies. One cr for 2-4 wks, (40 hrs per wk) of work. Credits and/or addl requirements set by instructor before registration.
Prerequisites:
FOR 319 , FOR 320 , SOIL 359 , SOIL 360 , WLDL 340 , WATR 380 or NRES 475 ; and/or cons intern director, CNR major or written cons instr; also NRES 388 and NRES 389 if land use planning major.
May repeat once for 12 cr max.
Typically Offered:
(I, II, SUM)
1-12 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 381 .
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NRES 582 - Youth Agency Administration
Description:
Survey of youth agencies including purpose, historic background, community role, development, and organization; analysis of administrative structure, programming, management, policy and volunteering board development, career opportunities, and issues confronting nonprofit youth agencies.
Typically Offered:
(I), (A)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 382 .
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NRES 583 - Nature Center and Camp Management
Description:
Principles and practices for planning, organization and administration of nature centers and youth camps. Management of day and residential facilities analyzing issues of the master planning process, public relations, staff supervision, marketing techniques, fiscal and site management.
Typically Offered:
(II), (A)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 383 .
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NRES 588 - Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning
Description:
Historical evolution of urban/regional planning. Theories, ideologies, philosophies, and functional areas of planning. Also primary plan implementation tools.
May not earn credit in both GEOG 388 /NRES 388 .
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 388 .
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NRES 589 - Urban and Regional Planning Analysis
Description:
Research methods for urban and regional planning. Design and implementation of citizen surveys.
Prerequisites:
GEOG 373 , GEOG 388 or NRES 388 , MATH 355 or FOR 321 or SOC 351 , or cons instr.
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 389 .
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NRES 590 - Nature Interpretation in Wisconsin
Description:
How to interpret major ecological communities of Wisconsin, their relationship to landforms and climate, key plants and animals, their interrelation-ship and the effect of human activities. Subtitle will designate emphasis.
May repeat for 3 credits max with different subtitles.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
1-3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 390 .
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NRES 594 - Ecological Basis for Planning and Design
Description:
Ecological principles, relationships, and interaction between natural and man-made elements of the environment.
Prerequisites:
NRES 200 or con reg, or cons instr.
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 394 .
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NRES 595 - Environmental Science for Educators
Description:
Natural, social, and economic factors influencing the quality of our environment; ecological relationships and principles and their relation to human systems, energy, air, land, water and living resources plus biodiversity. Designed for secondary environmental science/studies teachers. . Not open to CNR majors or minors.
1-3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 395 .
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NRES 600 - Environmental Studies for Practitioners
Description:
Overview of environmental studies and issues. Topic areas include: Conservation History, Ecological Foundations, Biodiversity, Water, Land, Energy, Air, Environmental Health, and Environmental Quality and the Future. On-campus students must request permission to register.
3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 400 .
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NRES 601 - Ecological Lifestyles
Description:
Examine personal lifestyles in light of ecological consideration. Identify ecologically sound lifestyles that foster environmental quality and quality of life.
1 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 401 .
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NRES 602 - Environmental Futures
Description:
Understand and apply techniques used in future studies to identify and analyze how social, scientific, and technological developments may shape the future of human interactions with the natural environment.
1 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 402 .
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NRES 603 - Environmental Education Curriculum Resources
Description:
Identify, evaluate, and apply instructional resources for K-12 environmental ed. Subtitle will designate resource.
Prerequisites:
CNR major or written cons instr.
May repeat for 3 cr max.
1-3 cr.
Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 403 .
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