Conservation Biology Specialty Requirements

Ecological Knowledge Area:

NRE 415/Environ/EEB 424 Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology
NRE 455/EEB 477 Field Ecology Lab
NRE 508  Wetland Ecology
NRE 425/Env 425/EEB 496  Applied Population Ecology
NRE 409/Env 409/EEB 487  Ecology of Fishes
NRE 531  Principles of GIS (*please note that this course must be taken before any other SNRE GIS course)
NRE 534  GIS and Landscape Modeling
NRE 501.034  Biodiversity and Ecosystem Informatics

NRE 639.075 Conservation in a Fragmented Landscape
NRE 639.108  Conservation Biology and Ecosystem Health W08
NRE 589 Ecological Restoration
NRE 576/UP 576  Ecological Design Approaches to Brownfield Redevelopment

Social Sciences Knowledge Area:

NRE 562 Resource Policy
NRE 532 Natural Resources Conflict Management
NRE 592/UP 502 Environmental Planning
NRE 501.117 International Environmental Policy
NRE 501.117  IFRI

* This curriculum is likely to be modified in the near future as new courses are approved, including Conservation in Fragmented Habitats (Perfecto), Community-Based Conservation (Agrawal, Hardin), and Environment and Development (Lemos). Examples of biological and social tracks are under development, and will include recommended courses from ither units including EEB and Public Policy.

Link to SNRE Courses site, which includes SNRE Course Descriptions, Course Exploration Tool, and links to Registrar's Office and WolverineAccess.