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Minimum Course Requirements
Forest Biology and Silviculture (ecology, soils, tree physiology)
1 year college-level biology
1 year college-level chemistry
*1 year calculus
*+1 course in computer science
1 course in dendrology or plant taxonomy
1 course in silviculture or forest ecosystems
1 course in general or plant ecology
1 course in forest measurements, natural resources assessment
or statistics
1 course in plant physiology, genetics, plant anatomy, morphology,
cytology, mycology, biochemistry, or soils, depending on
the area of specialization
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Fisheries
and Aquatic Sciences (aquaculture,
fisheries biology and management, limnology)
1 year college-level biology
*1 semester of calculus
1 year college-level chemistry
1 course in physiology or genetics
1 course in statistics or natural resources assessment
1 course in general ecology
1 course in vertebrate zoology
1 course in aquatic science (fisheries biology or management,
aquaculture, ichthyology, limnology, aquatic ecology, or
similar)
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Forest Information and Assessment/Geographic
Information Systems
1 year college-level biology
*1 year calculus
*1 course in computer science
*1 course in statistics
1 course in dendrology or plant taxonomy
1 course in plant ecology or general ecology
1 course in silviculture or forest ecosystems
1 course in forest measurements or natural resources assessment
1 course in forest management
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Genetics
2 years college-level biology
1 year calculus and/or statistics (1 semester of each is
permissible)
1 year chemistry
1 course in genetics (population genetics, molecular biology,
evolution, conservation genetics of animals or plants).
1 course vertebrate zoology or botany or cell/molecular biology
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Natural Resource Social Science
1 year college-level science (biology, ecology, chemistry)
*1 semester calculus
*1 course in statistics
1 course in policy (water, agriculture, natural resources, land-use, wildlife)
1 course in resource economics or management science
1 course in resource management or planning (water resources, forest, wildlife, natural resources, land-use, sustainable development)
1 year social science (sociology, philosophy, history, planning) |
Wildlife Science (community ecology, conservation
biology, physiology)
1 year college-level biology
*1 semester of calculus
1 year college-level chemistry and/or physics (1 semester
of each is permissible)
1 course in statistics
1 course in physiology or genetics
1 course in general ecology
1 course in vertebrate zoology
1 course in dendrology or plant taxonomy
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Wood Science and Technology
Mathematics through integral calculus
1 course in computer science
1 course in statistics
*+1 course in physical and mechanical properties of wood
*+1 course in wood processing
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Courses that may be included on the plan of
study in addition to minimum credit requirements:
*M.S.
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