ENR Courses

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ENR Capstone Projects - 4900/5900 Environmental Assessments
The culminating project for ENR students is to create an environmental assessment of a local or global environmental development. In Spring 2007 students in section one of the capstone class wrote an environmental assessment of impacts expected from a proposed pipeline designed to transport coalbed methane produced water from the Powder River Basin to the North Platte River. Students in section two of the capstone course wrote an environmental assessment of impacts from a liquefied natural gas facility in Baja California, Mexico. Links to both documents and the executive summary of both documents are below:

Coalbed Methane Assessment

Executive Summary, Coalbed Methane Assessment

Liquefied Natural Gas Assessment

Executive Summary, Liquefied Natural Gas Assessment

Courses for Undergraduates

ENR 1100 - Environment and Natural Resource Problems and Policies (2 credit hours; F1<>I)
This course is a survey of environmental and natural resource issues and policies at local/regional, national, and global scales. Students are challenged to think critically as they dissect the causes, complexities, and solution of contemporary interdisciplinary ENR problems. (Offered fall semesters.)

ENR 2000 - Environment and Society
(3 credit hours; W2, C2, G1<>G)
This course considers the fundamentally different ways various disciplines and elements of society approach, evaluate, and develop positions on environmental and natural resource issues. Taught by an interdisciplinary team of faculty, the course encourages conversation among students and faculty. At the same time, students develop critical thinking skills and the ability to identify and understand the dimensions of ENR issues at a range of scales. (Offered spring semesters.)

ENR 4000 (formerly 3000) - Approaches to Environmental and Natural Resource Problem-Solving
(3 credit hours; M3<>CS, WB)
The main purpose of this class is to make students aware of the ways scholars and practitioners approach environmental issues and design policies. The course gives students an opportunity to become involved in the decision processes of environmental issues. Additionally, the course helps students learn how decision-makers acquire, organize, and interpret data used in ENR problem solving. Includes structural review of the history, rationale and content of relevant laws and regulations as well as conflict resolution and environmental ethics. (Offered fall semesters.)

ENR 3900 - ENR Seminar
(1-3 credit hours, max. 3)
The purpose of this course is to use the knowledge gained in other courses to work with hands-on projects and case studies. The course features presentations from faculty researchers on campus, researchers in the field, and policy makers in the public and private sectors. Previous classes have focused on national energy plans, the complexities of biodiversity issues, and environmental economics. (Usually offered fall and spring semesters.)

ENR 4500 - Risk Analysis
(3 credit hours; QB)
Explores the major components of risk analysis, including risk perception, identification, assessment, communication, management, and policy. Provides quantitative treatment of risk assessment procedures, fundamental mathematical models, and the concepts of variability and uncertainty; and practical experience in risk analyses conducted by teams of students. Emphasizes environment and natural resource examples.

ENR 4890 (formerly 4990) - Topics in Environment and Natural Resources
(1-6 credit hours)
The specific issues covered in ENR Topics vary from year to year. Past courses have focused on water law in Wyoming, adaptive management, collaborative decision making, and other timely topics. (Offered approximately once a year.)

Spring 2007 - Business Sustainability

ENR 4900 - Environment and Natural Resources Assessment Practice
(3 credit hours; C2, W3<>WC)
The main purpose of this class is to provide students experience in working toward the resolution of ENR issues in multidisciplinary teams. The course uses case studies to help students appreciate the differences between theory and application and helps students apply the investigatory, analytical, and organizational skills they have acquired to ENR management problems. (Offered spring semesters.)

ENR 4970 - Internship
(1-6 credit hours)
The ENR internship is intended to supplement the student's academic training with practical experience in dealing with ENR issues as well as providing interaction with ENR professionals. (Offered all semesters.)

International Internship Opportunities

(1-6 credit hours)

Students are encouraged to seek international internship opportunities. The benefits of international internships are two-fold – students will gain a body of knowledge about the systems and issues of another country, but they will also gain important life experience as they navigate through the demands of life abroad. International internships can be completed as part of a study abroad at another university or as a work experience abroad for which students could receive UW academic credit. Click here to learn more about organizations that can help place you in an ENR-related internship abroad.

ENR 4600 (formerly 4890) - Campus Sustainability
(3 credit hours)

The main goal of this course is to continue the systematic exploration begun by students in the spring of 2005 of what our university is doing and what it can do further to become a role model for institutional environmental, economic and social sustainability. Through readings, field trips, consultation with on-campus and off-campus experts, and research, students will assess the environmental impacts of our university and begin to develop strategies for reducing those impacts in economically and socially sound ways. Students will learn about sustainable practices at other university campuses, and will study and practice the tools for successful social change in the context of the University of Wyoming.

Courses for Graduate Students

ENR 5000 - Approaches to ENR Problem-Solving
(3 credit hours)
Uses faculty practitioner, policymaker(, and student presentations and discussions to explore the methodologies and tools of ENR-related disciplines and how the tools of these disciplines fit together to inform policy. (Offered fall semesters.)

ENR 5500 - Risk Analysis
(3 credit hours)
Explores the major components of risk analysis, including risk perception, identification, assessment, communication, management, and policy. Provides quantitative treatment of risk assessment procedures, fundamental mathematical models, and the concepts of variability and uncertainty; and practical experience in risk analyses conducted by teams of students. Emphasizes environment and natural resource examples.

ENR 5900 - Environment and Natural Resources Assessment Practice
(3 credit hours)
The main purpose of this class is to provide students experience in working toward the resolution of ENR issues in multidisciplinary teams. The course uses case studies to help students appreciate the differences between theory and application and helps students apply the investigatory, analytical, and organizational skills they have acquired to ENR management problems. (Offered spring semesters.)

ENR 5890 (formerly 5990) - Topics in Environment and Natural Resources
(1-6 credit hours)
The specific issues covered in ENR Topics vary from year to year. Past courses have focused on water law in Wyoming, adaptive management, collaborative decision making, and other timely topics. (Offered approximately once a year.)

ENR 5600 (formerly 5890) - Campus Sustainability
(3 credit hours)

ENR Courses

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