Graduate major in ENR

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The objective of this program is to provide master's students in any UW department granting master's degrees with an opportunity to add knowledge about the human, policy, legal, and scientific elements of ENR issues, to their traditional graduate program.  Completion of the requirements listed below, along with completion of the master's degree requirements in the student's home department results in a Master of....(...Program Name)/Environment and Natural Resources degree.  For instance, a student could earn a Master of Science in Geology/Environment and Natural Resources or a Master of Arts in American Studies/Environment and Natural Resources, etc.  Students must first be admitted to any departmental master's degree program offered by the University of Wyoming.  Primary responsibility for student guidance and program formulation resides with the student's home department.

For a printable version of the ENR graduate major, click here.

ENR Core Courses (ENR Capstone Series) - 6 credit hours
ENR 5000 - Approaches to Environmental and Natural Resource Problem-Solving
ENR 5900 - Environment and Natural Resources Assessment Practice

Distribution Courses - 9 credit hours
Students must complete one course from each of three of the following four categories.  Distribution courses must be completed in the three categories most unlike the student's primary major.  For instance, a Zoology and Physiology graduate student would take one course each from categories a, c, and d.  At least six of the nine credit hours must come from outside the student's home department.

A. ENR Policy, Economics, & Law 
AGEC 4700 Economics of Range Resources
AGEC 4710  Natural Resource Law and Policy
AGEC 4720/5890  Water Resource Economics
AGEC 4750/5890 Natural Resource Planning Economics
AGEC 5630 Advanced Natural Resource Economics
ECON 4400 Environmental Economics
ECON 4410 Natural Resource Economics
ECON 4420 Seminar in ENR Economics for Scientists
ECON 5400 Adv. Resource and Environmental Econ.
GEOG 4040 Conservation of Natural Resources
GEOG 4080 Management of Major River Basins
GEOG 5200 Land Use Planning
GEOG 5750 Public Land Management
LAW 6660 Environmental Law
LAW 6860 Water Rights
POLS 4052 Federal Land Politics
POLS 5051 Environmental Politics and Administration
SOC 4110 Sociology of International Development
SOC 5600 Global Population Issues

B.  ENR Science and Engineering 
ATSC 4010  Atmospheric Processes
ATSC 5880  Atmospheric Science Problems
BOT 4745/5745 Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
BOT 5700  Vegetation Ecology
BOT 5780  Biogeochemistry
CHE 4000  Environment, Technology, and Society
ENVE 5010  Environmental Engineering Principles
ENVE 5895  Environmental Engineering Seminar
GEOG 4450/5450 Fluvial Geomorphology
GEOG 4460 Biogeography
GEOG 4470/ 5470 Fire Ecology
GEOG 5060 Landscape Ecology
GEOL 4490  Geochemistry
GEOL 4880 Earth Surface Processes
GEOL 5444  Geohydrology
GEOL 5777  Geochemistry of Natural Waters
PATB 5140  Principles of Toxicology
REWM 4280  Wildland Hydrology
REWM 4700 Wildland Watershed Management
REWM 4710  Watershed Water Quality Management
REWM 4850  Rangeland Vegetation Management
REWM 5000 Rangeland Resource Management
ZOO 4425/5425 Genetic Markers
ZOO 5300  Principles of Wildlife Ecology and Mgmt. 
ZOO 5310  Fisheries Management
ZOO 5430  Ecology of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosys.
ZOO 5550  Wetland Ecology

C.  Human Dimensions  
AMST 4640  Art and Ecology
AMST 5300  American Culture and the Public Sector
AMST 5400  American Built Environment
ANTH 5310  Environmental Anthropology
ENGL 4480  Regional Literature of the US: The West
GEOG 4500 American Landscapes
GEOG 4530 Images of Wyoming and the West
GEOG 5540 Topics in Cultural Ecology
HIST 5475  American Environmental History
PHIL/RNEW 4340 Topics in Environmental Ethics
REWM 4900 Rangeland Management Planning
SOC/WMST 4580 Women and Third World Development
AMST 4640 Art and Ecology
AMST 5300 American Culture and the Public Sector
AMST 5400 American Built Environment
ANTH 5310 Environmental Anthropology
ENGL 4480 Regional Literature of the US: The West
GEOG 4500 American Landscapes
GEOG 4530 Images of Wyoming and the West
GEOG 5540 Topics in Cultural Ecology
HIST 5475 American Environmental History
PHIL/RNEW 4340 Topics in Environmental Ethics
REWM 4900 Rangeland Management Planning
SOC/WMST 4580 Women and Third World Development

D.  Quantitative/Qualitative Methods  
EDRE 5550 Action Research 
EDRE 5600 Educational Research I: Survey Research 
EDRE 5640 Intro. to Qualitative Research in Education 
GEOG 4200/4210  Geographic Information Sciences I/II 
GEOG 4280/5280 Quantitative Methods in Geography 
GEOG 4300/5300 GPS for Natural Resource Management 
GEOG 4880-4 Spatial Modeling 
GEOL 5111/BOT 4111 Remote Sensing of the Environment 
REWM 5200 Spatial Analysis of Watersheds & Ecosys. 
STAT 5050  Statistical Methods for the Bio. Sciences 
STAT 5070  Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences 
STAT 5080  Statistical Methods for the Agricultural  and Natural Resource Sciences 
STAT 5450  Biological Sampling and Estimation of  Animal Abundance

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