NRM Course Descriptions
| Course Number | Course Description | Instructor | Credits | |||
| NRM 150 | Natural Resources Management Orientation -- An introduction to natural resources management issues, concepts, and careers. | Dr. Bruce Steele | 1 | |||
| NRM 225 | Natural Resources & Agrosystems -- An introduction to scientific theories as they relate to natural resources and agriculture. Influence of these theories on current perspectives toward the environment. (Cross Listed with RNG) | Dr. Christina Hargiss | 3 | |||
| NRM 264 | Natural Resource Management Systems -- General principles of management of natural resource systems including hydrology, soil erosion, irrigation, drainage, and water quality. Prerequisites: Math 103 or 104. Cross-listed with ASM | Dr. Xinhua Jia | 3 | |||
| NRM 401 | Urban-Ecosystem Management -- An interdisciplinary management survey examining the urban/rural interface and environmental and social factors driving the process of urbanization as a sustainable ecosystem. | Dr. Christina Hargiss | 3 | |||
| NRM 402 | River and Stream Resource Management -- The structure and function of river and stream ecosystems: biotic and abiotic functioning, stream and river ecological theories, management and monitoring practices. | Dr. Christina Hargiss | 3 | |||
| NRM 421 | Environmental Outreach Methods -- Introduction to philosophies, theories, and methods common to environmental education and outreach. | Dr. Christina Hargiss | 3 | |||
| NRM 431 | National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) & Environmental Impact Assessment -- Introduction to the process of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), its development, and how to implement NEPA in the world today. Course will discuss in-depth the process for completing environmental assessments and environment impact statements. | Dr. Christina Hargiss | 3 | |||
| NRM 453 | Rangeland Resources/Watershed Management -- Study of the management of physical/biological settings and processes along with human activities on water and watersheds considering preventative and resotative strategies in a rangeland setting. Prereq: RNG 336 or NRM/RNG 225. Cross-listed with RNG | Dr. Jack E. Norland | 3 | |||
| NRM 454 | Wetland Resources Management -- Principles of wetland systems, wetland management, wetland functions, wetland assessment, and wetland improvement. Prereq: RNG 336. | Dr. Edward (Shawn) DeKeyser | 3 | |||
| NRM 462 | Natural Resource and Rangeland Planning - - Capstone experience for School of Natural Resources Sciences majors: students use advanced planning tools and different management strategies to demonstrate integrated knowledge in managing public and private natural resources. Prereq: at least senior standing and must be a Natural Resources Management, Range Science or Soil Science major. | Dr.Jack Norland | 3 | |||
| NRM 491 | NRM Seminar -- A discussion of contemporary local, national, and international natural resources issues, including colloquiums and student presentations of case studies and research topics. | Dr. Christina Hargiss | ||||
| NRM 601 | Urban-Ecosystem Management -- An interdisciplinary management survey examining the urban/rural interface and environmental and social factors driving the process of urbanization as a substainable ecosystem. | Dr. Christina Hargiss | 3 | |||
| NRM 602 | River and Stream Resource Management -- The structure and function of river and stream ecosystems: biotic and abiotic functioning, stream and river ecological theorgies, management and monitoring practices. | Dr. Christina Hargiss | 3 | |||
| NRM 621 | Environmental Outreach Methods -- Introduction to philosophies, theories, and methods common to environmental education and outreach. | Dr. Christina Hargiss | 3 | |||
| NRM 631 | National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) & environmental Impact Assessment -- Introduction to the process of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), its development, and how to implement NEPA in the world today. Course will discuss in-depth the process for completing environmental assessments and environment impact statements. | Dr. Christina Hargiss | 3 | |||
| NRM 653 | Rangeland Resources/Watershed Management -- Study of the management of physical/biological settings and processes along with human activities on water and watersheds considering preventative and resotative strategies in a rangeland setting. Prereq: RNG 336 or NRM/RNG 225. Cross-listed with RNG | Dr. Jack E. Norland | 3 | |||
| NRM 654 | Wetland Resources Management -- Principles of wetland systems, wetland management, wetland functions, wetland assessment, and wetland improvement. Prereq: RNG 336. | Dr. Edward (Shawn) DeKeyser | 3 | |||
| NRM 662 | Natural Resource and Rangeland Planning - - Capstone experience for School of Natural Resources Sciences majors: students use advanced planning tools and different management strategies to demonstrate integrated knowledge in managing public and private natural resources. | Dr. Jack Norland | 3 | |||
| NRM 690 | NRM Seminar -- A discussion of contemporary local, national, and international natural resources issues, including colloquiums and student presentations of case studies and research topics. | Dr. Christina Hargiss | ||||
| NRM 701 | Terrestrial Resources Management -- Management and ecology of heterogeneous landscapes where ecosystem processes and human activities interact as dynamic components. Prereq: BOT 660, 754 | Dr. Edward (Shawn) DeKeyser | 3 | |||
| NRM 702 | Natural Resources Management Planning -- Presentation of principles, practices and key policy issues of natural resources management and planning. | Dr. Jack E. Norland | 3 | |||
| NRM 720 | Natural Resource Administration & Policy -- A comprehensive analysis of the theory of externalities and their application to the design of natural resources policy. | Dr. Bruce Steele | 2 | |||
| NRM 730 | Environmental Law -- Overview of the subject of environmental law. | TBA | 1 |
