Apr 25, 2024  
2014-2015 Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Catalog FINAL VERSION - Closed for Revisions

Course Descriptions



 

 

Web and Digital Media Development

  
  • WDMD 378 - People, Interfaces, and Environment


    Description:
    Dedicated to the principles and processes of human centered, interactive design. Architectural design processes that shape the physical world around us combined with the virtual interfaces that connect us socially and functionally in almost every aspect of our techological society. Solve social and environmental problems using both architectural as well as computing and technological media. Interdisciplinary problem solving methods applicable to both disciplines and new hybrid collaborative techniques within a project development framework.

    May not earn credit in both WDMD 378 and IA 378 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: IS

    4 cr.

  
  • WDMD 397 - Internship in Web and Digital Media Development


    Description:
    Participate in supervised training work program that you arrange with your adviser at a cooperating organization. Adviser and chair determine credits.

    Prerequisites:
    Cons chair.

    May repeat for 3 cr max. Does not count for Technical focus of WDMD major.

    1-3 cr.

  
  • WDMD 399 - Independent Study


    Description:
    Independent study/project development in Web and/or digital media. Adviser and chair determine credits.

    Prerequisites:
    Cons chair.

    May repeat for 3 cr. Max. Does not count for Technical focus of WDMD major.

    1-3 cr.


Wellness

  
  • WLNS 100 - Integrative Wellness


    Description:
    Physical activity as applied to seven dimensions of wellness. Analysis of personal wellness through experiential learning. Integration of current scientific research and physical activity and wellness concepts. Meets GEP requirements for wellness.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: WLN

    2 cr.

  
  • WLNS 144 - Stress Management


    Description:
    Improve your stress management techniques and become more aware of the stressors in your life. Through examination of the dimensions of wellness, learn techniques to help identify, prevent, and manage stress for a healthy lifestyle.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: WLN

    2 cr.


Wildlife

  
  • WLDL 100 - Wildlife Profession and Preparation


    Description:
    Provide a background on careers in the wildlife field and an overview of skill development necessary to work in the field. Exposure to opportunities in research, internships, and extracurricular, as well as guidance on creating an effective program of study.

    Prerequisites:
    Wildlife major or cons instr.

    1 cr. pass/fail.

  
  • WLDL 305 - Selected Topics in Wildlife Ecology and Management


    Description:
    Selected concepts, practices, principles, issues in wildlife management.

    Prerequisites:
    CNR or biology major or written cons instr.

    May repeat under different subtitles.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    1-3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 505 .
  
  • WLDL 311 - Quantitative Methods for Wildlife and Fisheries Research and Management


    Description:
    Practical experience in formulating hypotheses, designing field studies, analyzing and interpreting data commonly collected in wildlife and fisheries research and management. Through examples and collected data sets, learn appropriate design, selection of quantitative methods, biological interpretation of results, field complications, and impacts of violations of assumptions.

    Prerequisites:
    MATH 355  or FOR 321 ; CNR major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 511 .
  
  • WLDL 321 - Principles of Captive Wildlife Management


    Description:
    Role of captive wildlife management in conservation, research, economics, recreation, and education; impact of confinement on behavior, nutrition and health; legislation relating to capture, transport, and housing of wild animals.

    Prerequisites:
    BIOL 160 , CNR or biology major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (I)

    2 cr.

  
  • WLDL 322 - Techniques of Captive Wildlife Management


    Description:
    Design and administration of facilities; techniques for restraining and handling captive wildlife; sanitation and common diseases, parasites and other problems associated with confining wild animals.

    Prerequisites:
    WLDL 321 , CNR or biology major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (II)

    2 cr.

  
  • WLDL 332 - Carnivore Ecology


    Description:
    Global survey of the taxonomy, ecology, behavior, management and conservation of carnivores.

    Prerequisites:
    BIOL 160 ; NRES 151  or BIOL 305 .

    2 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 532 .
  
  • WLDL 334 - Ungulate Ecology


    Description:
    Survey of the world’s ungulate fauna with primary emphasis on North America. Examine taxonomy, evolution, nutrition, behavior, population dynamics, and community ecology of hooved mammals.

    Prerequisites:
    BIOL 160 ; NRES 151  or BIOL 305 .

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 534 .
  
  • WLDL 340 - Field Experience in Wildlife Management Techniques


    Description:
    Investigate ecological relationships and apply selected wildlife management techniques of habitat evaluation, capturing, marking, monitoring, and censusing animals for integrated resource management.

    Prerequisites:
    NRES 250 , 2.00 GPA in major; CNR major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (SUM)

    1 cr.

  
  • WLDL 350 - Wildlife Management Techniques


    Description:
    Techniques for managing wildlife populations: aging and sexing criteria, capture, handling and control methods, censusing, assessing food habits and quality, estimating home ranges, quantifying habitat relationships, modeling land use impacts, and conducting research studies.

    Prerequisites:
    WLDL 311 , Summer Field Experience, ENGL 254 , ENGL 353 , ENGL 354 , or ENGL 358 ; CNR major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 550 .
  
  • WLDL 353 - Wildlife and Fish Population Dynamics


    Description:
    Mathematical, ecological, physiological, and behavioral characteristics of fish and wildlife population fluctuations. Use of models for characterizing fluctuations, and techniques for sampling, monitoring, and modeling survival, growth, reproduction, population size.

    Prerequisites:
    NRES 250 , BIOL 160 , MATH 111 ; and MATH 355  or FOR 321 .

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 553 .
  
  • WLDL 354 - Wildlife and Fish Populations Dynamics Methods


    Description:
    Demonstration of methods for modeling and dynamics of fish and wildlife populations, including abundance, survival, growth, and reproduction (recruitment).

    Prerequisites:
    NRES 250 ; BIOL 160  and BIOL 305 ; MATH 111  and MATH 355 .

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    1 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 554 .
  
  • WLDL 355 - Wildlife Diseases


    Description:
    Occurrence, importance, and ecologic impact of infectious, parasitic, and chemical diseases of wildlife.

    Prerequisites:
    BIOL 160  or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (II)

    2 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 555 .
  
  • WLDL 356 - Wildlife Disease Methods


    Description:
    Methodology used to identify and study wildlife diseases in the field and laboratory.

    Prerequisites:
    Con reg in WLDL 355  or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (II)

    1 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 556 .
  
  • WLDL 360 - Wetlands Ecology and Management


    Description:
    Investigate physical, chemical and biological processes of wetlands, and how these processes relate to the maintenance and enhancement of our nation’s natural resources. Study wetland functions and values and wetland habitat classification systems.

    Prerequisites:
    NRES 150 , NRES 151 , NRES 250 , NRES 251  and Field Techniques in Natural Resources, or cons instr.

    May not earn credit in both WLDL 360 and WATR 360 .

    Typically Offered:
    (II)

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 560 .
  
  • WLDL 372 - Wildlife of North America


    Description:
    Identification, life history, economic and ecological importance of North American fish and wildlife that are the focus of wildlife management, game enforcement and environmental studies. Emphasis on species for environmental law enforcement and environmental education personnel.

    Prerequisites:
    NRES 151  and NRES 250 ; BIOL 160 .

    2 hrs lec, 2 hrs lab per wk.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 572 .
  
  • WLDL 381 - Internship in Wildlife


    Description:
    Supervised training program in wildlife, in cooperation with private or public resource agencies.

    Prerequisites:
    FOR 319 , FOR 320 , WLDL 340 , SOIL 359 , SOIL 360 , and WATR 380 ; or NRES 475 ; 2.00 GPA in major; and/or cons intern director; CNR major or written cons instr.

    1 cr for 2-4 wks (40 hrs per wk) of work. Credits and/or addl requirements set before registration. May repeat once for 12 cr max.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II, SUM)

    1-12 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 581 .
  
  • WLDL 450 - Human Dimensions of Wildlife


    Description:
    Survey and evaluate research relating to human dimensions of wildlife/fisheries management; review values, satisfactions, and attitudes associated with consumptive and nonconsumptive uses of wildlife and fish.

    Prerequisites:
    CNR major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (II)

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 650 .
  
  • WLDL 451 - Management of Wildlife Habitat


    Description:
    Principles and practices of habitat management for wildlife in North America.

    Prerequisites:
    Summer Field Experience, ENGL 254 , ENGL 353 , ENGL 354 , or ENGL 358 ; CNR major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    4 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 651 .
  
  • WLDL 458 - Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology


    Description:
    Apply basic principles of traditional ecology, landscape ecology, genetics, and behavior to management for biological diversity. Develop critical thinking skills to evaluate and synthesize information to solve wildlife-related natural resource issues of diversity and scarcity.

    Prerequisites:
    WLDL 451  or con reg, CNR or biology major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 658 .
  
  • WLDL 493 - Wildlife Field Seminar


    Description:
    For 2 cr, complete comprehensive report on field experience.

    Prerequisites:
    Cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (On demand)

    1-2 cr. 1 cr may be pass/fail.

    Available for graduate credit as WLDL 693 .
  
  • WLDL 499 - Special Work


    Description:
    Upperclass wildlife majors may arrange for independent study with consent of the assoc dean.

    Prerequisites:
    CNR major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    Credit based on scope of project.

  
  • WLDL 505 - Selected Topics in Wildlife Ecology and Management


    Description:
    Selected concepts, practices, principles, issues in wildlife management.

    Prerequisites:
    CNR or biology major or written cons instr.

    May repeat under different subtitles.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    1-3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 305 .
  
  • WLDL 511 - Quantitative Methods for Wildlife and Fisheries Research and Management


    Description:
    Practical experience in formulating hypotheses, designing field studies, analyzing and interpreting data commonly collected in wildlife and fisheries research and management. Through examples and collected data sets, learn appropriate design, selection of quantitative methods, biological interpretation of results, field complications, and impacts of violations of assumptions.

    Prerequisites:
    MATH 355  or FOR 321 ; CNR major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 311 .
  
  • WLDL 532 - Carnivore Ecology


    Description:
    Global survey of the taxonomy, ecology, behavior, management and conservation of carnivores.

    Prerequisites:
    BIOL 160 ; NRES 151  or BIOL 305 .

    2 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 332 .
  
  • WLDL 534 - Ungulate Ecology


    Description:
    Survey of the world’s ungulate fauna with primary emphasis on North America. Examine taxonomy, evolution, nutrition, behavior, population dynamics, and community ecology of hooved mammals.

    Prerequisites:
    BIOL 160 ; NRES 151  or BIOL 305 .

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 334 .
  
  • WLDL 550 - Wildlife Management Techniques


    Description:
    Techniques for managing wildlife populations: aging and sexing criteria, capture, handling and control methods, censusing, assessing food habits and quality, estimating home ranges, quantifying habitat relationships, modeling land use impacts, and conducting research studies.

    Prerequisites:
    WLDL 311 , Summer Field Experience, ENGL 254 , ENGL 353 , ENGL 354 , or ENGL 358 ; CNR major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 350 .
  
  • WLDL 553 - Wildlife and Fish Population Dynamics


    Description:
    Mathematical, ecological, physiological, and behavioral characteristics of fish and wildlife population fluctuations. Use of models for characterizing fluctuations, and techniques for sampling, monitoring, and modeling survival, growth, reproduction, population size.

    Prerequisites:
    NRES 250 ; BIOL 160 , BIOL 305 ; MATH 111 , and MATH 355 .

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 353 .
  
  • WLDL 554 - Wildlife and Fish Populations Dynamics Methods


    Description:
    Demonstration of methods for modeling and dynamics of fish and wildlife populations, including abundance, survival, growth, and reproduction (recruitment).

    Prerequisites:
    NRES 250 ; BIOL 160  and BIOL 305 ; MATH 111  and MATH 355 .

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    1 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 354 .
  
  • WLDL 555 - Wildlife Diseases


    Description:
    Occurrence, importance, and ecologic impact of infectious, parasitic, and chemical diseases of wildlife.

    Prerequisites:
    BIOL 160  or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (II)

    2 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 355 .
  
  • WLDL 556 - Wildlife Disease Methods


    Description:
    Methodology used to identify and study wildlife diseases in the field and laboratory.

    Prerequisites:
    Con reg in WLDL 355 /WLDL 555  or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (II)

    1 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 356 .
  
  • WLDL 560 - Wetlands Ecology and Management


    Description:
    Investigate physical, chemical and biological processes of wetlands, and how these processes relate to the maintenance and enhancement of our nation’s natural resources. Study wetland functions and values and wetland habitat classification systems.

    Prerequisites:
    NRES 150 , NRES 151 , NRES 250 , NRES 251  and Field Techniques in Natural Resources, or cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (II)

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 360 .
  
  • WLDL 572 - Wildlife of North America


    Description:
    Identification, life history, economic and ecological importance of North American fish and wildlife that are the focus of wildlife management, game enforcement and environmental studies. Emphasis on species for environmental law enforcement and environmental education personnel.

    Prerequisites:
    NRES 151  and NRES 250 ; BIOL 160 .

    2 hrs lec, 2 hrs lab per wk.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 372 .
  
  • WLDL 581 - Internship in Wildlife


    Description:
    Supervised training program in wildlife, in cooperation with private or public resource agencies.

    Prerequisites:
    FOR 319 , FOR 320 , WLDL 340 , SOIL 359 , SOIL 360 , and WATR 380 ; or NRES 475 ; 2.00 GPA in major; and/or cons intern director; CNR major or written cons instr.

    1 cr for 2-4 wks (40 hrs per wk) of work. Credits and/or addl requirements set before registration. May repeat once for 12 cr max.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II, SUM)

    1-12 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 381 .
  
  • WLDL 650 - Human Dimensions of Wildlife


    Description:
    Survey and evaluate research relating to human dimensions of wildlife/fisheries management; review values, satisfactions, and attitudes associated with consumptive and nonconsumptive uses of wildlife and fish.

    Prerequisites:
    CNR major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (II)

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 450 .
  
  • WLDL 651 - Management of Wildlife Habitat


    Description:
    Principles and practices of habitat management for wildlife in North America.

    Prerequisites:
    Summer Field Experience, ENGL 254 , ENGL 353 , ENGL 354 , or ENGL 358 ; CNR major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    4 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 451 .
  
  • WLDL 658 - Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology


    Description:
    Apply basic principles of traditional ecology, landscape ecology, genetics, and behavior to management for biological diversity. Develop critical thinking skills to evaluate and synthesize information to solve wildlife-related natural resource issues of diversity and scarcity.

    Prerequisites:
    WLDL 451  or con reg, CNR or biology major or written cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (I, II)

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 458 .
  
  • WLDL 693 - Wildlife Field Seminar


    Description:
    For 2 cr, complete comprehensive report on field experience.

    Prerequisites:
    Cons instr.

    Typically Offered:
    (On demand)

    1-2 cr. 1 cr may be pass/fail.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WLDL 493 .
  
  • WLDL 740 - Wildlife Issues Investigations


    Description:
    Apply ecological principles and management techniques to study relationships between wildlife issues and land uses, culture, economic and political actions.

    Prerequisites:
    BIOL 305  or equiv, and cons instr. Certified elementary and secondary teachers only.

    Typically Offered:
    (SUM)

    1 cr.

  
  • WLDL 742 - Ecological Data Analysis


    Description:
    Principles and techniques for ecological data analysis, emphasizing model building and hypothesis testing. Study design and traditional statistical approaches as well as information-theoretic and Bayesian approaches. Introduction to multivariate statistics. Other topics may include resource selection functions and survival analysis.

    Prerequisites:
    MATH 355  or FOR 321  or written cons instr.

    3 cr.

  
  • WLDL 752 - Advanced Studies in Wildlife


    Description:
    Survey literature concerned with ecology and management of wildlife.

    Typically Offered:
    (On demand)

    1-3 cr.

  
  • WLDL 758 - Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology


    Description:
    Advanced topics in animal communities including species diversity, rarity, meta-populations, animal invasions, complex species interactions, and animals as regulators of ecosystem functioning. Emphasis on evaluating recent theories with empirical information.

    Prerequisites:
    WLDL 458 /WLDL 658  and BIOL 305  or written cons instr.

    3 cr.


Women’s and Gender Studies

  
  • WGS 105 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies


    Description:
    Introduction to the study of women and gender, the influence of gender on social institutions and structures, and an examination of women’s lives and contributions to society, both within the United States and around the world.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: MNS, SS2; GEP: IS, USD

    3 cr.

  
  • WGS 300 - Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies (Humanities Emphasis)


    Description:
    Interdisciplinary examination of one or more major topics in women’s and gender studies.

    Prerequisites:
    WGS 105  or cons inst.

    May take for credit twice under different subtitles.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU4; GEP: HU

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WGS 500 .
  
  • WGS 301 - Women and Feminism in the Modern World (Social Science Emphasis)


    Description:
    Interdisciplinary study of the impact of feminism in particular modern, social and/or political contexts.

    May take for credit twice under different subtitles.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: SS2; GEP: SS

    3 cr.

  
  • WGS 320 - Literary Perspectives on Race and Gender


    Description:
    How U.S. ethnic minority women writers treat the subjects of race, ethnicity, and gender; social and historical contexts of their literature.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU4, MNS

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WGS 520 .
  
  • WGS 350 - Women and Science


    Description:
    Explores the interaction of women and science including survey of women’s contributions to science, impact of science on women, feminist critiques of science, and feminist standpoints on the future of science.

    Prerequisites:
    jr st or cons instr.

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as WGS 550 .
  
  • WGS 396 - Practicum


    Description:
    You may arrange through the women’s and genders studies coordinator to work with a community organization or agency, or in an applied setting directly involved with women’s and gender related issues.

    1-3 cr.

  
  • WGS 490 - Seminar


    Description:
    Changing status of women in contemporary society; investigate aspects of woman’s role, e.g., in government, education, law, family, community; research involves reading and direct research projects producing significant data or a seminar paper.

    Prerequisites:
    WGS 105  or cons instr.

    3 cr.

  
  • WGS 499 - Special Work


    Description:
    Women’s and gender studies minors may arrange for special work with cons women’s and gender studies coordinator. Research involves reading and direct research, producing significant data or a seminar paper.

    1-3 cr.

  
  • WGS 500 - Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies (Humanities Emphasis)


    Description:
    Interdisciplinary examination of one or more major topics in women’s and gender studies.

    Prerequisites:
    WGS 105  or cons inst.

    May take for credit twice under different subtitles.

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WGS 300 .
  
  • WGS 520 - Literary Perspectives on Race and Gender


    Description:
    How U.S. ethnic minority women writers treat the subjects of race, ethnicity, and gender; social and historical contexts of their literature.

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WGS 320 .
  
  • WGS 550 - Women and Science


    Description:
    Explores the interaction of women and science including survey of women’s contributions to science, impact of science on women, feminist critiques of science, and feminist standpoints on the future of science.

    Prerequisites:
    jr st or cons instr.

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as WGS 350 .
 

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