Program Overview

Natural Resource Management Undergraduate Academic Certificate

Requirements

To complete the certificate, students must take a total of 24 credits from the courses listed in the program of study. All coursework must be completed with a grade of C or better. With CNR certificate committee approval, students may transfer up to six credits of coursework from another institution to count towards their certificate program.

Course List

• REM 1510: Rangeland Principles
• FOR 2100: Principles of Ecology
• REM 2520: Wildland Plant Identification
• REM 2530: Wildland Plant Identification Field Studies
• REM 2800: Introduction to Wildland Restoration
• GEOG 3850: Foundations of GIS
• REM 3410: Systematic Botany
• ENVS 4500: Environmental Hydrology
• ENVS 4850: Energy Efficiency and Conservation
• FISH 4150: Limnology
• FIRE 4451: Fuels Inventory and Monitoring
• FIRE 4410: Air Quality, Pollution, and Smoke
• FOR 4310: Forest Policy and Administration
• FIRE 4407: GIS Application in Fire Ecology and Management
• REM 4100: Principles of Vegetation Monitoring and Measurement
• REM 4110: Wildland Habitat Ecology and Assessment
• REM 4290: Landscape Ecology
• REM 4400: Restoration Ecology
• REM 4560: Integrated Rangeland Management
• REM 4590: Rangeland Ecology
• WLF 4400: Conservation Biology

Total Hours

24

Learning Outcomes

Students that complete the Natural Resource Management certificate should be able to integrate technical “field” knowledge with analytical skills to solve important natural resource management problems.

Specifically, students should be able to:

1. Describe ecological processes, including human impacts that influence ecosystem change, and the future sustainability of natural resources.
2. Characterize natural resources and be familiar with methods to quantify at least one of these resources.
3. Identify desired future conditions to achieve natural resource-related objectives, prescribe management actions needed to achieve those objectives, and evaluate success of prescribed actions.