Conservation, Resources, and Sustainability Option
This option is available within the Environmental Sciences major at the following locations:
- Corvallis
- Ecampus
- OSU-Cascades
The Conservation, Resources, and Sustainability option helps students obtain a solid science base from which to examine environmental issues in terms of conservation approaches, resource management, and sustainability as science and policy.
Option Code: 843
Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:
- Demonstrate a rigorous cross-disciplinary base across the biological, physical, and social sciences.
- Articulate connections between multiple components of human and natural systems, including implications for land, air, water, climate, energy, food, biodiversity, and human health.
- Investigate and diagnose interdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder environmental issues to propose solutions.
- Apply the analysis of data to an environmental problem.
- Reflect on how identity, including one’s own, affects the perception of issues and the practice of environmental science.
- Communicate effectively with diverse audiences in writing, speech, and in graphic forms.
Code | Title | Credits |
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Conservation | ||
Select at least three courses from the following: | 9-12 | |
FIELD METHODS IN ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION | ||
TROPICAL ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION | ||
ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION | ||
BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION IN MANAGED FORESTS | ||
BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION OF MARINE MAMMALS | ||
INTRODUCTORY POPULATION DYNAMICS | ||
INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT | ||
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS IN FISH AND WILDLIFE | ||
CONSERVATION GENETICS | ||
^WILDLIFE IN AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS | ||
AVIAN CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT | ||
ANTARCTIC SCIENCE AND CONSERVATION | ||
*BIODIVERSITY: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES, AND CONSERVATION | ||
Resource Management and Policy | ||
Select at least three courses from the following: | 9-12 | |
*NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS AND POLICY | ||
*ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY | ||
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW | ||
URBAN FORESTRY | ||
ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF PARK MANAGEMENT | ||
URBAN FOREST PLANNING, POLICY AND MANAGEMENT | ||
TOPICS IN WILDLAND FIRE | ||
WILDLAND FIRE SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT | ||
APPLIED COMMUNITY AND ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY | ||
MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES OF PACIFIC SALMON IN THE NORTHWEST | ||
*ENDANGERED SPECIES, SOCIETY AND SUSTAINABILITY | ||
FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE LAW AND POLICY | ||
INTRODUCTION TO OCEAN LAW | ||
^WILDLIFE IN AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS | ||
ECOSYSTEM SERVICES | ||
GISCIENCE I: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THEORY | ||
RESILIENCE-BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT | ||
CONFLICT, COOPERATION, AND CONTROL OF WATER IN THE US | ||
THE WORLD'S WATER | ||
LAND USE IN THE AMERICAN WEST | ||
PLANNING PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES FOR RESILIENT COMMUNITIES | ||
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT | ||
US ENERGY POLICY | ||
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY | ||
INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY | ||
PRINCIPLES OF RANGELAND ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT | ||
RANGELAND MANAGEMENT PLANNING | ||
*SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT | ||
ENVIRONMENTAL INTERPRETATION | ||
Society and Values | ||
Select at least one course from the following: | 3-4 | |
*NATURAL RESOURCES AND COMMUNITY VALUES | ||
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: USING DATA TO INFORM DECISIONS | ||
*HUMAN IMPACTS ON ECOSYSTEMS | ||
*OCEANS IN PERIL | ||
*HUMAN ECOLOGY | ||
*CONSENSUS AND NATURAL RESOURCES | ||
*MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES IN NATURAL RESOURCES | ||
^HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT | ||
*ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE | ||
*ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES | ||
NATURAL RESOURCE DECISION MAKING | ||
*OCEANS, COASTS, AND PEOPLE | ||
*WORLD VIEWS AND ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES | ||
*ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY | ||
*SOCIETY AND NATURAL RESOURCES | ||
*SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT | ||
*SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES | ||
SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF SUSTAINABILITY | ||
*WOMEN AND NATURAL RESOURCES | ||
Total Credits | 27 |
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Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)
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Writing Intensive Course (WIC)
Option Code: 843