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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. May repeat once for 12 cr max. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 381 .
Prerequisites:
Instructor Consent
Typically Offered:
(I, II, SUM)
1-12 cr.
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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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 382 .
Typically Offered:
(I), (A)
3 cr.
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NRES 583 - Organizational Leadership
Description:
Principles and practices for leadership and administration of natural resource organizations and agencies. Consideration of strategic planning, staff hiring and supervision, risk management, marketing, fundraising, budgeting, and site/facility management. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 383 .
Typically Offered:
(II), (A)
3 cr.
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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 230 /NRES 388 . Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 388 .
3 cr.
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NRES 589 - Methods in Social Science
Description:
Connect natural resources with people using a variety of problem analysis skills. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 389 .
3 cr.
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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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 390 .
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
1-3 cr.
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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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 394 .
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
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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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 395 .
1-3 cr.
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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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 400 .
3 cr.
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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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 401 .
1 cr.
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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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 402 .
1 cr.
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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. May repeat for 3 cr max. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 403 .
Prerequisites:
CNR major or Instructor Consent
1-3 cr.
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NRES 604 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 404 .
1-3 cr.
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NRES 605 - Selected Topics in Natural Resources
Description:
Major concepts and problems in an area of natural resources. May repeat for credit with different subtitles. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 405 .
Prerequisites:
Instructor Consent
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
1-3 cr.
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NRES 606 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 406 .
3 cr.
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NRES 607 - Costa Rica Tropical Ecology
Description:
Survey ecosystems and environmental and natural resource programs and issues in Costa Rica. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 407 .
3 cr.
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NRES 608 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 408 .
1 cr.
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NRES 609 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 409 .
1-3 cr.
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NRES 610 - Selected Topics in Environmental Education
Description:
Environmental concepts/issues with emphasis on K-12 teaching methods. May repeat for credit with different subtitles. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 410 .
1-3 cr.
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NRES 612 - Ecological Basis for Environmental Education
Description:
Basic ecological concepts and their relationship to understanding and evaluating environmental issues. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 412 .
Prerequisites:
Instructor Consent
1 cr.
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NRES 614 - Environmental Education Teaching Strategies
Description:
Plan and evaluate environmental ed curriculum materials and teaching methods. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 414 .
Prerequisites:
NRES 612 or Instructor Consent
1 cr.
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NRES 615 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 415 .
1 cr.
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NRES 616 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 416 .
1-3 cr.
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NRES 620 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 420 .
1 cr.
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NRES 621 - 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 subtitles. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 421 .
1 cr.
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NRES 622 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 422 .
1 cr.
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NRES 623 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 423 .
1 cr.
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NRES 624 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 424 .
1 cr.
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NRES 630 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 430 .
1 cr.
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NRES 631 - 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). Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 431 .
1 cr.
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NRES 632 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 432 .
1 cr.
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NRES 633 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 433 .
1-3 cr.
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NRES 634 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 434 .
1 cr.
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NRES 635 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 435 .
1 cr.
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NRES 640 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 440 .
1-3 cr.
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NRES 641 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 441 .
3 cr.
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NRES 642 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 442 .
Prerequisites:
NRES 541 or Instructor Consent
3 cr.
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NRES 643 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 443 .
Prerequisites:
NRES 541 or Instructor Consent
3 cr.
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NRES 654 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 454 .
Prerequisites:
Both FOR 224 and FOR 324
Typically Offered:
(I)
3 cr.
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NRES 655 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 455 .
Prerequisites:
NRES 454 , FOR 224 , FOR 324 , and FOR 450
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
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NRES 657 - Ecological Monitoring
Description:
Theory and practice of ecological monitoring emphasizing ecosystem structure, functions, and populations. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 457 .
Prerequisites:
Both FOR 521 and FOR 532 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered:
(II, even yrs)
3 cr.
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NRES 659 - Ecosystem Management and Restoration
Description:
Methods for managing and restoring ecosystems for biological diversity and sustainable use. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 459 .
Prerequisites:
Either NRES 458 or WLDL 458 , and CNR major; or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
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NRES 662 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 462 .
Prerequisites:
NRES 474 /NRES 674 , or Instructor Consent
1 cr.
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NRES 665 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 365 .
3 cr.
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NRES 673 - Resource Policy and Law
Description:
The need for, purposes, making, and implementation of natural resources legislation and policy. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 473 .
Prerequisites:
CNR major or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
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NRES 674 - Integrated Resource Management
Description:
Current issues, problems, trends in integrated management of resources; principles used to form and implement natural resources policy. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 474 .
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
3 cr.
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NRES 675 - International Field Experiences in Natural Resources Management
Description:
Survey environmental issues and natural resource management strategies in a country other than the United States; compare/contrast environmental/natural resource issues and management strategies with those in the U.S. Completion of this course and associated prerequisites meet the CNR’s summer field experience requirement. Consists of 1 cr spring orientation, 2 wk CWES CNR Summer Field Experiences, 4-6 wks in country (or countries) outside of the United States. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 475 .
Prerequisites:
Instructor Consent
Typically Offered:
(II, SUM)
1-8 cr.
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NRES 678 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 478 .
Typically Offered:
(II)
3 cr.
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NRES 679 - International Environmental Studies Seminar
Description:
Subtitle indicates country or world region. Survey ecosystems and environmental and natural resource programs and issues. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 479 .
Prerequisites:
Instructor Consent
1-6 cr.
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NRES 680 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 480 .
1 cr.
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NRES 681 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 481 .
1 cr.
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NRES 683 - Professional Development in Natural Resource Management
Description:
Examine personal, academic and professional abilities, knowledge, skills, experience, interests, and philosophies related to natural resource management. May repeat for credit with different subtitles. Subtitle will designate emphasis. Includes portfolio development and field trips. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 483 .
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
1-3 cr.
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NRES 684 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 484 .
Typically Offered:
(I)
3 cr.
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NRES 688 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 488 .
Prerequisites:
Either NRES 589 or GEOG 530 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered:
(I, even years)
3 cr.
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NRES 689 - 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. Available for undergraduate credit as NRES 489 .
Prerequisites:
Two of the following three courses: NRES 365 , NRES 484 , or NRES 488 ; or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered:
(II, odd years)
3 cr.
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NRES 701 - Readings in Environmental Education
Description:
Readings on history, philosophy, practices, methods, and issues of environmental education. Assignments vary depending on credits.
1-3 cr.
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NRES 703 - Leadership Development in Natural Resources
Description:
Assessment and experiences to develop leadership capacity in natural resources and educationally related organizations. Individual and small group activities to explore current theories and practices in leadership and implications for successful organizational and personal development. May repeat for up to 6 credits under different subtitles/emphasis.
1 cr.
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NRES 705 - Environmental Issues Investigation and Action
Description:
Examine current theories of behavior change. Use primary and secondary information sources to investigate environmental issues and develop a case study. Explore strategies for issue analysis/resolution. May not take both 705 and NRES 478 /NRES 678 .
1-3 cr.
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NRES 706 - Community Resources in Environmental Education
Description:
Explore variety of human, cultural, technological, and natural resources to enrich environmental ed curricula; field trips to integrate environmental ed with classroom instruction.
Prerequisites:
NRES 614 and either NRES 570 or NRES 612
1 cr.
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NRES 708 - Outdoor Teaching Sites for Environmental Education
Description:
Relationship of current environmental ed developments to outdoor teaching sites. Philosophy, design, construction, and use of outdoor sites, schools and school forests. Practical experiences in developing outdoor teaching site strategies.
1 cr.
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NRES 720 - Advanced Topics in Natural Resources and Public Relations
Description:
Theory and techniques for effective public relations for natural resource professionals. Create plans for stakeholder involvement in decision-making or social marketing to impact natural resource behaviors. May repeat for credit with different subtitles. Subtitle will designate emphasis.
1-3 cr.
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NRES 721 - Field Ecology for Environmental Education
Description:
Examine patterns and relationships in nature, the ways in which organisms interact and function. Emphasis will be placed on pragmatic application of ecological concepts to foster understanding and also to explore what nature can teach us about sustainability. Studies will be extended by examining the great challenges human activities, at all scales from local to global, are creating for sustainability of a quality environment.
3 cr.
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NRES 750 - Human Dimensions Research Methods
Description:
Discuss research methods, relevant literature, and current issues in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources. May repeat for 4 cr max under different subtitles.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
1 cr.
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NRES 751 - Applied Environmental Education Program Evaluation
Description:
Designed for environmental educators and natural resource professionals. Apply skills in designing evaluation tools such as surveys, observation forms, and interview and focus group guides to assist in evaluating education programs.
3 cr.
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NRES 752 - Needs Assessment in Environmental Education and Interpretation
Description:
Learn to conduct a needs assessment to develop or revise programs, products, or services to meet the needs of environmental education and/or interpretation audiences, program providers, and organizations.
1-3 cr.
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NRES 755 - Developing Curriculum for Non-formal Environmental Education Settings
Description:
Best practices in curriculum development for environmental education in both formal and non-formal settings. Learn where to find model environmental education curricula and how to evaluate it, adapt it to specific needs, build original curricula, and use assessment techniques for improvement.
Prerequisites:
NRES 701
1-3 cr.
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NRES 760 - Grant and Proposal Development
Description:
Develop a systematic approach to winning grants from corporate, foundation, and governmental sources.
1-3 cr
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NRES 761 - Personal Leadership Development for Environmental Education
Description:
Theoretical and practical background in personal leadership skills and development for implementation of EE beyond the classroom.
Prerequisites:
Acceptance in MSNREE Program
1 cr.
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NRES 762 - Organizational Leadership Development for Environmental Education
Description:
Practical leadership skills within context of organizational culture, power, and politics to implement EE beyond the classroom.
1 cr.
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NRES 765 - Human Resources in Natural Resources Organizations
Description:
Understand and apply human resource skills such as employee development and evaluation, leading effective teams, and employment law. May repeat for credit with different subtitle.
1-3 cr.
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NRES 767 - Fundamentals of Natural and Cultural Interpretation
Description:
Designed to provide working professionals with core concepts of natural and cultural interpretation and how they can be applied in a professional setting.
Prerequisites:
Pre-registration required
3 cr.
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NRES 768 - Advanced Personal Interpretation Methods
Description:
Gain advanced skills in planning and development of interpretive talks, walks, and other personal-based presentations. Participants will have opportunities to discuss and conduct evaluation, structuring, theme development, creative techniques, spontaneous interpretation, and non-verbal communication skills.
3 cr.
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NRES 769 - Advanced Interpretive Media Design
Description:
Gain advanced skills in effective design of non-personal interpretive media such as wayside exhibits, kiosks, interpretive trails, interior exhibits, audio apps, and websites; includes analysis of existing media, interpretive message writing, comparison of modern sign materials, fabrication methods, and base structures. Training will be provided in professional design software such as Adobe Photoshop and InDesign.
3 cr.
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NRES 770 - Natural Resources Policy
Description:
Investigate how the policy development process for public natural resource management agencies is influenced at the federal, state, and local government levels by developing an understanding of social and ecological conditions. Study of specific decision-making techniques is emphasized for both regulatory and resource management action, including an emphasis on methods for working with diverse communities of affected stakeholders in each context.
3 cr.
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NRES 771 - Introduction to Natural and Social Science Research
Description:
Provides an understanding of social science and natural science research, the experimental design that underlies this research, and the proper analytical techniques applied to these types of data. Evaluate research findings to interpret and make use of published studies for natural resources management.
Typically Offered:
Each fall
3 cr.
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NRES 772 - Natural Resources Leadership and Communication
Description:
Exploration of conceptual models for organizational capacity analysis, programmatic evaluation, and conflict resolution as they relate to the role of natural resource professionals as leaders within their own organization and among the broader community of stakeholders. Places specific emphasis on developing skills in communication, negotiation, facilitation, and strategic planning relevant to professionals working in natural resources organizations.
3 cr.
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NRES 773 - Applied Ecosystem Ecology and Management
Description:
Investigate the flow of matter and energy through ecosystems, particularly focusing on carbon, nutrient, and tropic dynamics. Explore how humans have altered ecological processes and associated ecosystem services. Examination of ecosystem management through case studies.
3 cr.
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NRES 774 - Decision Making in Natural Resource Management
Description:
Introduces the concept of modeling to support decision-making in the field of natural resources management. Modeling tools will be used to evaluate opportunity cost, alternatives, compromises, and determine optimal decisions.
3 cr.
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NRES 775 - Selected Topics in Natural Resources
Description:
Examination of major concepts and issues in natural resources management. May be repeated under different subtitles.
1-3 cr.
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NRES 776 - Contaminants in the Environment
Description:
Overview of the sources, transport behavior, and environmental fate of conventional and emerging contaminants. Predicting exposure pathways and assessing risk to human or ecosystem health. Evaluating possible strategies for prevention, mitigation, and remediation of environmental contamination.
3 cr.
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NRES 777 - Geospatial Analysis for Natural Resources Management
Description:
Learn how to use various geographic information system tools for natural resource management, such as ArcMap and Google Earth Pro. Prepare various forms of data for use in smartphones or tablets. Learn how to collect field data, upload and download data, and analyze these data using various data analysis tools.
3 cr.
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NRES 780 - Land Use Education
Description:
This online course will explore land use concepts, issues, and ideas and investigate land use resources. It will also develop activities and highlight connections to Wisconsin Model Academic Standards in environmental education and social studies. May repeat for up to 6 credits under different subtitles/emphases.
Prerequisites:
(for credits 2-6) 780: Exploration and Investigation of Land Use
1 cr.
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NRES 791 - Introduction to Research
Description:
Explore role and value of research in society, and the ways scientific knowledge accumulates. Directed work in preparation of study plans (thesis or project proposals) and presentation of research findings.
Typically Offered:
(I)
1 cr.
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NRES 794 - Graduate Seminar
Description:
Discuss selected environmental and natural resource topics. Required of CNR graduate students every semester except when presenting a NRES 795 - Graduate Seminar
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
1 cr.
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NRES 795 - Graduate Seminar
Description:
Student presentation and discussion of selected environmental and natural resource topics including results of student research.
Typically Offered:
(I, II)
1 cr.
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NRES 796 - Independent Study
Description:
Advanced work on a specific natural resource problem.
Typically Offered:
(I, II, SUM)
1-3 cr.
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NRES 797 - Research Methods, Design and Analysis
Description:
Statistical methods of experimental design and analysis for research in natural resources.
Prerequisites:
Either MATH 255 or FOR 321 , or Instructor Consent
Typically Offered:
(I)
3 cr.
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NRES 798 - Graduate Project Work
Description:
Project credits for students in CNR programs.
1-3 cr, repeatable up to 6 cr.
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NRES 799 - Thesis
Description:
(Not on Plan B)
Typically Offered:
(I, II, SUM)
2-6 cr.
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NURS 310 - Professional Essentials
Description:
Orientation to nursing major including skill building in writing, navigating the online environment, and components of professional nursing practice.
Prerequisites:
Nursing Major
1 cr.
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NURS 399 - Special Work
Description:
Choose topic within your nursing health care option and work on independent project under supervision of SHCP faculty.
1-3 cr.
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NURS 407 - Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice
Description:
Apply philosophical perspectives, theories, and standards to the practice of professional nursing. Analyze factors influencing nursing/health care delivery. Enhance professional communication skills.
Prerequisites:
NURS 310 ; either ENGL 150 or ENGL 202 , Nursing Major, and R.N. License
3 cr.
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NURS 441 - Chronic Care Management
Description:
Explore interaction of biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors important to understanding management of chronic conditions at the individual, family, community, and social levels.
Prerequisites:
NURS 310 , Nursing Major, and R.N. License
3 cr.
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NURS 446 - Research and Evidence-Based Practice
Description:
Introduction to importance of research to improve clinical practice, strategies to evaluate the quality of research and evidence, and increase integration of research into practice.
Prerequisites:
NURS 310 , either HS 301 or MATH 255 , Nursing Major, and R.N. License
3 cr.
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NURS 447 - Leadership and Management
Description:
Examine nursing leadership and management using relevant theories and concepts. Analyze decision-making in relation to communication, delegation, supervision, and group process.
Prerequisites:
NURS 310 , Nursing Major, and R.N. License
3 cr.
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NURS 452 - Aging and Health
Description:
Explore normal aging and lifestyle factors that promote optimal aging or lead to health alterations. Examine coping and facilitation of elders’ achievement of health goals.
Prerequisites:
NURS 310 , either ENGL 150 or ENGL 202 , Nursing Major, and R.N. License
3 cr.
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NURS 453 - Information Management and Health Care Technology
Description:
Utilize computer and information/decision science to support quality and safety in health care. Explore informatics issues and examine nursing’s role in healthcare technology. Opportunities to use and master various healthcare technologies and healthcare data will be given.
Prerequisites:
NURS 310 , either HS 301 or MATH 255 , Nursing Major, and R.N. License
3 cr.
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NURS 454 - Community Health Nursing
Description:
Nursing care of populations and communities to facilitate optimal health outcomes.
Prerequisites:
NURS 310 , Nursing Major, and R.N. License
3 cr.
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NURS 455 - Concepts in Nursing Practice
Description:
Experiential learning in community settings applying theory, research, critical thinking, and reasoning using tools of reflection, writing, and discussing.
Prerequisites:
NURS 454 (or concurrent registration), Nursing Major, and R.N. License; or Instructor Consent
General Education Designation(s):
GEP: IS, XL
3 cr.
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NURS 472 - Nursing Economics
Description:
Various payment systems in healthcare will be explored including how these payment methods have shaped the healthcare system. Emphasis will be on how healthcare and nursing is changing to meet the challenges of the changing economic healthcare environment and how this shapes nursing careers now and in the future.
Prerequisites:
Acceptance in the Nursing Program
3 cr.
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