Curriculum
Requirements
A minimum of 30 credits:
- 27 credits course work from 400/500 level courses
- 3 credits professional paper requirement
Curriculum
The flexible and interdisciplinary nature of this program allows you to select courses to fit your professional goals and interests.
Marni Rolston, the LRES program manager, will assign you an advisor to help you with course selection. Contact Marni at (406) 994-2029 or mrolston@montana.edu.
Required Course
Students will successfully complete:
|
Rubric
|
No
|
Course
|
Semester
|
Credit
|
Location
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
LRES
|
575
|
Spring or Fall |
3
|
Online
|
Electives
Students will successfully complete 27 credits selected from:
| Course | Course Title | Credits | Location | Sp | Su | Fa |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGSC 401 |
3 |
Online |
|
|
X | |
| AGSC 502 | Women in Agriculture | 2 | Online | X | ||
| ENTO 510 | Insect Ecology | 3 | Online | X |
|
|
| LRES 505 | Concepts of GIS in Environmental Science | 3 | Online | X | X | |
| LRES 507 | Environmental Risk Assessment | 3 | Online | X | X | |
| LRES 510 | Biodiversity Survey and Modeling Methods | 3 | Blended | X | ||
| LRES 515 | Microbial Ecology | 3 | Online | X | ||
| LRES 530 | Natural Resource Law | 3 | Online | X | ||
| LRES 532 | Soil Ecosystems and Processes | 3 | Online | X | X | |
| LRES 533 | Wetland Ecology and Management | 3 | Online | X | X | |
| LRES 534 | Environmental Data Analysis | 3 | Online | X | X | X |
| LRES 540 | Ecology of Plants and Plant Communities | 3 | Online | X | X | |
| LRES 544 | Water Quality | 3 | Online | X | ||
| LRES 546 | Quantitative Methods Environmental | 3 | Online | x | ||
| LRES 562 | Land Rehabilitation Field Problems | 2 | Field | X | ||
| LRES 566 | Chemical Ecology | 3 | Online | X | ||
| LRES 571 | Landscape and Ecosystem Ecology | 3 | Online | X | ||
| LRES 573 | Remote Sensing in Environmental Science | 3 | Online | X | ||
| MB 527 | Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons | 3 | Online | X even |
For More Information
- Scott Powell, Program Coordinator and Primary Advisor at spowell@montana.edu or (406) 994-5017
- Marni Rolston, Program Manager, at mrolston@montana.edu or (406) 994-2029
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