Undergraduate Majors
Undergraduate Major Brochures
Introduction
Our undergraduate major programs are designed to help students understand the interactions among natural resource systems and evaluate the impacts of humans as stewards and managers of these systems.
All of the natural resources majors share a core curriculum of degree requirements. These requirements apply to every major leading to a bachelor of science degree in natural resources and reflect a common foundation essential for professionals in these sciences. These courses should be taken early in a degree program because they provide knowledge of basic principles needed for more specialized courses. Students who want to transfer from other institutions also should use these courses as a guide.
The requirements include 21 hours in natural resources, three of which must be from the introductory class, Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Systems. One course is required from each of the following areas:
- animal resources
- geological and soil resources
- plant resources
- water and climatic resources.
Also required are
- 5 hours of mathematics and analytical skills
- 20-21 hours of natural sciences (biology, physics and chemistry)
- 9 hours of communications.
Undergraduate Majors
- Environmental Restoration Science
- Environmental Studies with a specialization in Applied Climate Sciences or Natural Resources (coordinated by SNR with College of Arts and Sciences)
- Fisheries and Wildlife
- Grassland Ecology and Management
- Natural Resources and Environmental Economics (through Agricultural Economics with SNR)
- Water Science (an interdisciplinary major with SNR)
Pre-degree programs
- Pre-Forestry (2-year program for transfer, administered through SNR)
- Pre-Natural Resources Curriculum (for undeclared students preparing for a major in natural resources)
All majors lead to a Bachelor's of Science in Natural Resources through the
College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.
