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	Natural Resources Major (BS, HBS)	Print Version
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Agroforestry

Arid Land Ecology

Fish and Wildlife Conservation eCampus

Forest Ecosystems

Geosciences and Natural Resources

Human Dimensions in Natural Resources eCampus

Law Enforcement in Natural Resources

Native Americans and Natural Resources

Natural Resource Education

Natural Resource Policy eCampus

Natural Resources Technology

Resource Conservation

Soil Resources

Watershed Management

Paul Doescher, Director
Connie Patterson, Program Coordinator
211 Peavy Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-5703
541-737-9135
E-mail: naturalresources@oregonstate.edu
Web site: http://naturalresources.oregonstate.edu/

Undergraduate Major

Natural Resources (BS) — A collaborative program offered by the Colleges of Forestry, Agricultural Sciences, Science, and Liberal Arts. It is currently administered by the College of Forestry.

Options
Agroforestry
Arid Land Ecology
Fish and Wildlife Conservation
Forest Ecosystems
Geosciences and Natural Resources
Human Dimensions in Natural Resources
Law Enforcement in Natural Resources
Native Americans and Natural Resources
Natural Resource Education
Natural Resource Policy
Natural Resources Technology
Resource Conservation
Soil Resources
Watershed Management

Minor

Natural Resources

The Natural Resources degree program provides a broad-based approach to the study of natural resources. The curriculum is designed to produce graduates who can understand a range of natural resource issues, work with experts in a variety of resource fields, and deal with social and political components of resource management. This program is an interdisciplinary offering of the Colleges of Agricultural Sciences, Forestry, Liberal Arts, and Science.

In addition to the baccalaureate core, the three main areas for course work include: the natural resources core (46 credits), breadth requirements (21 credits), and the specialty option (50 credits). Within these areas, students have a number of courses to choose from to fulfill requirements. Students acquire knowledge and background in physical and biological systems, math and statistics, natural resource policy, economics, and decision making. Breadth is acquired in seven key areas of resource management. Finally, students develop depth in the specialty option, choosing from a number of pre-approved options, or creating an individualized specialty option.

Only two courses used to complete the natural resources major requirements may be taken S/U. Grades of "C–" or better are required in upper-division natural resources core courses, plus all breadth requirements.

The Natural Resources major is also available at the OSU-Cascades Campus in Bend and through the OSU Extended Campus program.

Core and breadth requirements for the Natural Resources (BS):

Natural Resources Core (46)

AREC 351. *Natural Resource Economics and Policy (3)
   or AREC 352. *Environmental Economics and Policy (3)
   or FOR 330. Forest Resource Economics I (4)
   or FOR 432. Economics of Recreation Resources (4)
ATS 210. Intro to the Atmospheric Sciences (3)
   or GEO 323. ^Climatology (4)
BI 101, BI 102, BI 103. *General Biology (4,4,4)
   or BI 211, BI 212, BI 213. *Principles of Biology (4,4,4)
BI 370. Ecology (3)
   or FOR 240. *Forest Biology (4)
   or FOR 341. Forest Ecology (3)
FE 430. Watershed Processes (4)
   or RNG 355. Desert Watershed Management (3)
   or OC 331. Intro to Oceanography (3)
   or OC 332. Coastal Oceanography (3)
GEO 101. *The Solid Earth (4)
   or CSS 205. *Soils: Sustainable Ecosystems (4)
   or GEO 102. *The Surface of the Earth (4)
   or GEO 201. *Physical Geology (4)
   or GEO 202. *Earth Systems Science (4)
MTH 112. *Elementary Functions (4)
   or MTH 241. *Calculus for Management and Social Science (4)
   or MTH 245. *Mathematics for Management, Life, and Social Sciences (4)
   or MTH 251. *Differential Calculus (4)
NR 455. Natural Resource Decision Making (3)
PS 474. Natural Resource Policy and Bureaucratic Politics (4)
   or RNG 490. Rangeland Management Planning (4)
   or FOR 460. ^Forest Policy (4)
   or FOR 462. Natural Resource Policy and Law (3)
   or FOR 463. Environmental Policy and Law Interactions (3)
   or PS 475. Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
   or PS 477. International Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
ST 351. Intro to Statistical Methods (4)
   or ST 201. Principles of Statistics (3)
   and ST 209. Principles of Hypothesis Testing (1)
   or ST 201. Principles of Statistics (3)
   and ST 211. Intro to Hypothesis Testing (1)
NR 201. Managing Natural Resources for the Future (3)
   or Seminars—Natural Resources (1)+(1)

Note: Particular option programs may specify additional core courses to assure that students meet prerequisites for option courses, or develop background in fields important for the option. Students should not assume that the core courses listed above include all of the necessary background in science or math for every option.

Breadth (21)

Students must complete one course from each of the following groups:

Amenity Uses of Natural Resources

FOR 351. Recreation Behavior and Management (4)
FOR 352. Wilderness Management (3)
FOR 353. Field School (3)
FOR 354. Amenity Resource Management (3)
FOR 371. Eco and Adventure Tourism (3)
FOR 444. Ecological Aspects of Park Management (3)
FOR 451. History and Cultural Aspects of Recreation (4)
FOR 453. Nature Based Tourism (3)
FOR 459. Forest Resource Planning and Decision Making (4)
FOR 493. Environmental Interpretation (4)
SOC 454. *Leisure and Culture (3)

Fisheries and Wildlife

FOR/FW/RNG 346. Topics in Wildland Fire (3)
FOR/FW 445. Ecological Restoration (4)
FOR/FW/RNG 446. Wildland Fire Ecology (3)
FW 311. Ornithology (3)
FW 315. Biology of Fishes (3)
FW 317. Biology of Mammals (3)
FW 320. Introductory Population Dynamics (4)
FW 321. Fisheries and Wildlife Resource Ecology (3)
FW 323. Management Principles of Pacific Salmon in the NW (3)
FW 435. ^Wildlife in Agricultural Ecosystems (3)
FW 451. Avian Conservation and Management (5)
FW 453/FS 453. Forest Management and Wildlife Conservation (3)
FW 454. Fishery Biology (4)
FW 458. Mammal Conservation and Management (4)
FW 465. Marine Fisheries (4)
FW 473. Fish Ecology (4)
FW 481. Wildlife Ecology (4)
GEO 421. Humans and Their Wildlife Environment (3)

Forestry

BOT/FS 415. Forest Insect and Disease Management (5)
FE 370. Harvesting Operations (4)
FOR 341. Forest Ecology (3)
FOR 342. Forest Types of the Northwest (3)
FOR/FW/RNG 346. Topics in Wildland Fire (3)
FOR/HORT 350. Urban Forestry (3)
FOR 365. *Issues in Natural Resources Conservation (3)
FOR/RNG 436. Wildland Fire Science and Management (4)
FOR 441. Silviculture Principles (4)
FOR/FW 445. Ecological Restoration (4)
FOR/FW/RNG 446. Wildland Fire Ecology (3)
FOR/FE 456. *International Forestry (3)
FOR 457. Techniques for Forest Resource Analysis (4)
FOR 459. Forest Resource Planning and Decision Making (4)
FOR 460. ^Forest Policy (4)
FS/FW 453. Forest Management and Wildlife Conservation (3)
FW/FOR/RNG 436. Wildland Fire Science and Management (4)
RNG 477. *Agroforestry (3)
WSE 470. *Forests, Wood, and Civilization (3)

Land and Water

CSS 305. Principles of Soil Science (4)
CSS/GEO 335. *Introduction to Water Science and Policy (3)
CSS 395. *World Soil Resources (3)
FE 430. Watershed Processes (4)
FW 456. Limnology (5)
FW 479. Wetlands and Riparian Ecology (3)
GEO 300. *Environmental Conservation and Sustainability (3)
GEO 306. *Minerals, Energy, Water, and the Environment (3)
GEO 424. International Water Resources Management (3)
GEO 425. Water Resources Management in U.S. (3)
GEO 429. Topics in Resource Geography (3)
RNG 355. Desert Watershed Management (3)
RNG 455. Riparian Ecology and Management (3)

Range

FOR/FW/RNG 346. Topics in Wildland Fire (3)
FOR/RNG 436. Wildland Fire Science and Management (4)
FOR/FW 445. Ecological Restoration (4)
FOR/FW/RNG 446. Wildland Fire Ecology (3)
RNG 341. Rangeland Ecology and Management (3)
RNG 351. Range Ecology I-Grasslands (3)
RNG 352. Range Ecology II-Shrublands (3)
RNG 421. Wildland Restoration and Ecology (4)
RNG 441. Rangeland Analysis (4)
RNG 442. Rangeland-Animal Relations (4)
RNG 450. Landscape Ecology and Analysis (3)
RNG 477. *Agroforestry (3)
RNG 490. Rangeland Management Planning (4)

Resource Values/Philosophy

AG 301. *Ecosystem Science of Pacific NW Indians (3)
ANTH 481. *Natural Resources and Community Values (3)
ANTH 482. *Anthropology of International Development (4)
FW 340. *Multicultural Perspectives in Natural Resources (3)
GEO 309. *Environmental Justice (3)
GEO 420. Geography of Resource Use (3)
HST 481. *Environmental History of the United States (3)
PHL 440. Environmental Ethics (3)
PHL 443. *World Views and Environmental Values (3)

Social and Political

AREC 432. Environmental Law (4)
AREC/PS/SOC 407. Seminar: Current Issues in Rural Policy (4)
BI 301. *Human Impacts on Ecosystems (3)
FOR 462. Natural Resource Policy and Law (3)
GEO/CSS 335. *Intro to Water Science and Policy (3)
GEO 423. Land Use (3)
HST 481. *Environmental History of the United States (4)
PS 449. ^Topics in Comparative Politics: Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
PS 474. Natural Resource Policy and Bureaucratic Politics (4)
PS 475. Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
PS 476. *Science and Politics (4)
PS 477. International Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
SOC 360. *Population Trends and Policy (4)
SOC 456. *Science and Technology in Social Context (4)
SOC 475. Rural Sociology (4)
SOC 480. *Environmental Sociology (4)
SOC 481. *Society and Natural Resources (4)
SOC/ANS/FW 485. *Consensus and Natural Resources (3)

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