Curriculum Information

Required Core Classes (23 credit hours):

  • BIO 511 Foundation in conservation, 3 credit hours (Offered every Fall)
  • BIO 501 Intro to Graduate Study, 3 credit hours (Offered Fall term)
  • BIO 535 Advanced Data Analysis, 4 credit hours (Offered Winter term)
  • BIO 510* Current Issues, 1 credit hour (Offered each term) 
    * students must take Current Issues 3 different terms for a total of 3 credit hours
  • BIO 595 Graduate Research/Thesis (2 credits per term*) 
    *students must take BIO 595 in 5 different terms, for a total of 10 credit hours. Prerequisite: BIO 501

Elective Coursework (24 credits)

  • BIO 507 - Drug Development
  • BIO 526 - Evolutionary Biology Credit Hours: 3
  • BIO 546 - Conservation Biology Credit Hours: 3
  • CHEM 565 – Fate & Transport of Pollutants
  • CE 589 - Treatment Wetlands Credit Hours: 3
  • ENV 521 Fire Ecology Hours: 3
  • ENV 534 Advanced Data Analysis 1 Hours: 4
  • ENV 535 Advanced Data Analysis 2 Hours: 4
  • ENV 559 Ichthyology Hours: 3
  • ENV 560 Risk Management and Wilderness First Aid Hours: 3
  • ENV 566 Environmental Education Hours: 3
  • ENV 565 - Ecological Resto. & Monitoring Credit Hours: 4
  • ENV 569 - Treatment Wetlands Credit Hours: 3
  • ENV 595 - Research in Env. Sciences Credit Hours: 4
  • ENV 585 – Ecoregional Management
  • ENV 584 – Sustainable Human Ecology
  • BIO/ENV 507 – Seminars in Biology and Environmental Science
  • ENV 534 – Advanced Data Analysis
  • GIS 526 - Geospatial Vector Analysis II Credit Hours: 4
  • GIS 532 - Customizing the GIS Envirn II Credit Hours: 4
  • GIS 546 - GIS Database Development Credit Hours: 2
  • GME 525 - Remote Sensing Credit Hours: 4