Undergraduate major in ENR

The ENR undergraduate major is essentially a double major, in that students must complete the requirements of a second "affiliated major" in addition to the requirements of the ENR program (although some courses will fulfill requirements in both majors). In this way, the ENR major adds a breadth of knowledge to the depth of understanding achieved in a traditional discipline. With careful planning, many students are able to complete the ENR double major in little or no additional time because many of the ENR core courses and distribution classes also fulfill University Studies requirements.

Some things to remember:

The ENR major is available to any undergraduate student completing a bachelor's degree program at UW. Given the interdisciplinary nature of ENR issues, every major is an appropriate complement to studies in ENR.
Either ENR or the affiliated discipline may be listed first on the student's transcript. Although advising materials (e.g., the student's PIN or PERC numbers) are sent to the department listed first, students should be advised by both departments to determine course schedules, eligibility for graduation, etc.
To declare an ENR major, students must complete a "Declaration of Second Major" form, available at the SENR office (210 Wyo Hall), which must be signed by the SENR Director and the department head of the student's affiliated major department. The student is then responsible for submitting the completed form to Registration and Records (167 Knight Hall).
Regardless of which major is listed first on the student's transcript, the diploma is issued by the college of the student's affiliated major.
Prior to graduation, each student is required to schedule an exit interview with SENR so that we may improve the program through student feedback.

Major Requirements

The ENR major requires a minimum of 34 credit hours in ENR core courses and distribution courses in addition to the curriculum requirements in the student's affiliated major. The 1991 and 2003 University Studies designations are shown in parentheses.

ENR Core Courses - 14 credit hours
ENR 2000 - Environment and Society (3 credit hours; W2, C2, G1<>G)
ENR 4000 - Approaches to ENR Problem-Solving (3 credit hours; M3<>CS, WB) (Formerly ENR 3000)
ENR 3900 - ENR Seminar (1 credit hour)
ENR 4500 Risk Analyses and Management (3)

ENR 4900 - ENR Assessment Practice (3 credit hours; C2, W3<>CS)
ENR 4970 - Internship (1 credit hour)

ENR Elective Courses - 2 credit hours (additional credit hours chosen from the following)
ENR 1100 - ENR Problems and Policies (2 credit hours; F1<>I)
ENR 3900 - ENR Seminar (up to 2 additional credit hours)
ENR 4970 - Internship (up to 5 additional credit hours)
ENR 4890 (formerly ENR 4990) - Topics in ENR (up to 11 additional credit hours)

Distribution Courses - 18 credit hours
In fulfilling these requirements, students may take a maximum of one course in the department of their affiliated discipline. Students may not count any course toward the fulfillment of more than one of the distribution requirements. Special topics courses offered from time to time may also be accepted toward the appropriate distribution requirement, subject to approval by the SENR advisor.

NOTE: The distribution menus that follow are applied to all students who registered for the ENR major after January 1, 2004. Students who registered prior to that date would use the old distribution menus. Students who registered prior to January 1 may complete courses from either the new or the old distribution menus.

A. Environmental Science and Natural Resource Management (3 credit hours)
CE 3400 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
GEOG 1050 Introduction to Environment and Natural Resources
GEOG 4040 Conservation of Natural Resources
GEOG 4080 Management of Major River Basins
PHYS 2150 Physical Principles of Contemporary Social Problems
REWM 2000 Principles of Rangeland Management
REWM 4200 Reclamation of Drastically Disturbed Lands
REWM 4700 Wildland Watershed Management
RNEW 2100 Forest Management
ZOO 2450 Principles of Fish and Wildlife Management
ZOO 4310 Fisheries Management

B. Physical and Earth Science (3-4 credit hours)
ATSC 2100 Atmospheric Change, Composition and Climate
ATSC 4010 Atmospheric Processes
CE 2420 Environmental Engineering Chemistry
CHEM 3020 Environmental Chemistry
GEOG 1010 Introduction to Physical Geography
GEOG 3450 Weather and Climate
GEOL 1100 Physical Geology
GEOL 3080 General Field Geology
GEOL 3400 Geologic Hazards
GEOL 3500 Global Change
GEOL 4444 Geohydrology
REWM 3100 Principles of Wildland Water Quality
SOIL 2010 Introduction to Soil Science
SOIL 3130 Environmental Quality

C. Biological Science (3 - 4 credit hours)
AECL 1000 Agroecology
BIOL 2002 Global Ecology
BIOL 2400 General Ecology
BOT 4700 Vegetation Ecology
BOT 4745 Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
ENTO 1000/1001 Insect Biology
GEOG 4460 Biogeography
MOLB 2210 General Microbiology
RNEW 3000 Tropical Ecology

D. Social Science (3 credit hours)
AGEC 4710 Natural Resources Law and Policy
ECON 2400 Economics of the Environment
ECON 4400 Environmental Economics
ECON 4410 Natural Resource Economics
GEOG 2550 Recreation and Natural Resources
GEOG 4500 The American Landscape
GEOG 4540 Topics in Cultural Ecology
GEOG 4750 Public Land Management
POLS/ENR 4051 Environmental Politics and Administration
POLS/ENR 4052 Federal Land Politics
REWM 4900 Rangeland Management and Planning

E. Humanities (3 credit hours)
AMST 3000 Cultures of Nature in the U.S.
ANTH 4310 Environmental Anthropology
GEOG 4420 Tourism and Recreation
GEOG 4530 Images of Wyoming and the West
HIST 4475 American Environmental History
HP 3151 The Consciousness of Nature
PHIL 2330 Environmental Ethics
PHIL 2345 Natural Resource Ethics
PHIL 3500 History of Science
RELI 2060 Nature and Spirit
RELI 4500 East Meets West: Religious Dimensions of Global Ecology

F. Statistics (3 - 4 credit hours)
GEOG 4280 Quantitative Methods in Geography
STAT 2010 Statistical Methods for Business and Management Science
STAT 2050 Fundamentals of Statistics
STAT 2070 Introductory Statistics for the Social Sciences
STAT 4220 Basic Engineering Statistics

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Undergraduate major in ENR

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