Nov 24, 2024

2017-18 Catalog

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2017-18 Catalog FINAL VERSION - Closed for Revisions

Conservation Biology Minor

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This minor is administered by the Wildlife Ecology Discipline.

Consists of 23-25 credits.

Required core, 12 credits

BIOL 305 - General Ecology 3 cr.
NRES 324 - Invasive and Exotic Species 3 cr. or
NRES 457 - Ecological Monitoring 3 cr.
NRES 458 - Biodiversity and Conservation Biology 3 cr. or
WLDL 458 - Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology 3 cr.
NRES 459 - Ecosystem Management and Restoration 3 cr.

Economics, policy, and planning, 6 credits

Natural Resources or Economics

NRES 372 - Resource Economics 3 cr. or
ECON 342 - Ecological Economics 3 cr.

One course from

Biological support, 5-7 credits

Plant taxonomy/ecology

One course from

BIOL 342 - Vascular Plant Taxonomy 4 cr.
BIOL 355 - Plant Ecology 4 cr.
FOR 332 - Forest Ecosystem Ecology 3 cr.

Animal taxonomy

One course from

BIOL 361 - Aquatic Invertebrate Zoology 3 cr. or
WATR 361 - Aquatic Invertebrate Zoology 3 cr.
BIOL 367 - General Entomology 4 cr.
BIOL 374 - Ichthyology 4 cr.
BIOL 376 - Herpetology 3 cr.
BIOL 377 - Ornithology 3 cr.
BIOL 378 - Mammalogy 3 cr.
FOR 426 - Forest Entomology 3 cr.
WATR 488 - Aquatic Insects 3 cr.
WLDL 372 - Wildlife of North America 3 cr.

Note

To graduate with a minor in conservation biology you must have a 2.25 minimum cumulative grade point average.