NRES Course Offerings

Proposed Offerings by Quarter: Fall 2024 - Spring 2025 (updated Feb 15, 2024)

***Course offerings are subject to change as they are dependent upon student enrollment & faculty availability***

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Course	Title	Units	Fall	Winter	Spring	Notes
NR 140	Careers in Natural Resources Mgmt and Env. Science	1	✓
NR 141	Introduction to Forest Ecosystem Management	3	✓
NR 142	Environmental Management	3	✓
NR 203	Resource Law Enforcement	3		✓
NR 204	Wildland Fire Control	3	✓		✓
NR 208	Dendrology	4	✓	✓	✓
NR 215	Land and Resource Measurements	1	✓	✓	✓
NR 218	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems	3	✓	✓	✓
NR 260	Forest Operations	4			✓
NR 290	Intercollegiate Forestry Activities	1	✓	✓	✓
NR 304	Agroecology	4			✓
NR 305	Forest Ecology and Silvics	4	✓	✓	✓
NR 306	Natural Resource Ecology and Habitat Management	4	✓			NR 306 was previously offered F,W,Sp, but will only be available Fall 2024. ENVM students can take NR 304 or NR 305 or NR 306.
NR 307	Fire Ecology	3			✓
NR 308	Fire and Society	4	✓	✓	✓
NR 310	Global Climate Change	4	✓	✓	✓
NR 312	Technology and Wildland Fire Management	4	✓
NR 314	Environmental Life-Cycle Analysis	4		✓	✓
NR 315	Forest Mensuration	4		✓	✓
NR 320	Watershed Processes and Management	4	✓	✓	✓
NR 323	Human Dimensions in Natural Resources Management	4	✓	✓	✓
NR 324	Social Dimensions of Sustainable Fodo and Fiber Systems	4		✓
NR 326	Natural Resources Economics and Valuation	4	✓	✓
NR 328	Environmental Leadership and Community Engagement	4			✓
NR 335	Conflict Management in Natural Resources	4		✓	✓	NR 335 was previously offered F & W. It will now be offered W & Sp.
NR 340	Wildland Fire Management	3	✓
NR 341	Wildland Fire Behavior	4		✓		*New class!
NR 350	Urban Forestry	3	✓
NR 355	Drone Assisted Surveying	4				Not offered at this time.
NR 360	Ethnicity and the Land	4				Can be found under ES 360.
NR 363	Undergraduate Seminar	2	✓	✓	✓
NR 365	Silviculture and Fuels Management	4		✓	✓	NR 365 was previously offered F & Sp. It will now only be offered Winter 2025 and Spring 2025.
NR 402	Forest Health	4		✓		NR 402 was previously offered F & W. It will now only be offered Winter 2025.
NR 404	Environmental Law	4	✓		✓	NR 404 was previously offered F & W. It will now be offered Fall and Spring.
NR 406	Indigenous Peoples and International Law and Policy	4				Not offered this year.
NR 408	Water Resource Law and Policy	4		✓		NR 408 was previously offered Spring. It will now be offered Winter 2025.
NR 414	Sustainable Forest Management	4		✓
NR 416	Environmental Impact Analysis and Management	4	✓	✓	✓
NR 418	Applied GIS	3	✓	✓	✓
NR 420	Watershed Assessment and Protection	4		✓
NR 421	Wetlands	4				Not offered at this time.
NR 422	Stream Measurements and Water Quality Monitoring	1			✓
NR 425	Applied Resource Analysis and Assessment	4	✓	✓	✓
NR 435	Environmental Policy Analysis	4	✓		✓	Previously offered F, W & Sp. Now offered only F & Sp.
NR 445	Systems Thinking in Environmental Management	4	✓
NR 455	Wildland-Urban Fire Protection	4			✓	Previously offered Winter. Now offered Spring 2025.
NR 464	Senior Project - Ecological Restoration	4			✓
NR 465	Senior Project - Ecosystem Management	4		✓	✓
NR 472	Leadership Practice	1		✓	✓
NR 474	Forest Stewardship Practices	8				Not offered at this time.
NR 475	Senior Project - Forest Stewardship	4				Not offered at this time.
SS 120	Introduction to Soil Science	4	✓	✓	✓
SS 221	Soil Health and Plant Nutrition	4	✓	✓	✓
SS 321	Soil Morphology	4	✓		✓	Previously offered F, W & Sp. Now offered only Fall and Spring.
SS 421	Wetlands	4				Not offered at this time.
SS 422	Soil Ecology	4			✓
SS 423	Environmental Soil and Water Chemistry	5	✓
SS 424	Environmental Soil Physics - Senior Project	4		✓
SS 431	Digital Soil Mapping	4			✓
SS 440	Forest and Range Soils	4			✓
SS 444	Soil Judging	2	✓		✓
ERSC 144	Introduction to Earth Science	4	✓
ERSC 223	Rocks and Minerals	4		✓
ERSC 303	Soil Erosion and Water Conservation	4	✓
ERSC 442	Applied Environmental Groundwater Hydrology	4			✓	Offered odd years
ERSC 443	Applied Environmental Contaminant Transport	4			✓	Will be offered Spring 2026 (even years)