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General Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences Series – Appropriate Courses
Appropriate courses
Below is a list of courses available online that may be appropriate for the General Natural Resources Management and Biological Sciences series 0401 classification.
Not all courses are offered every term.
Be sure to go to the online schedule of classes to check on availability. You can click on individual course titles to check its availability each term, course description, prerequisites, syllabus and bookstore other information.
Agricultural and Resource Economics
AEC 351 – Natural Resource Economics and Policy
Atmospheric Sciences
ATS 341– Snow, Smoke and Storms: Climate Change Impacts in the PNW
Biology
BI 370 – Ecology (has strict prerequisites)
BI 483 – Population Biology (has strict prerequisites)
Botany
BOT 321 – Plant Systematics
BOT 323 – Flowering Plants and the World
BOT 324 – Fungi in Society
BOT 331 – Plant Physiology (has strict prerequisites)
BOT 341 – Plant Ecology (has strict prerequisites)
BOT 441 – Field Methods in Plant Ecology
BOT 461 – Mycology (has strict prerequisites)
Chemistry
CH 331 – Organic Chemistry (has strict prerequisites)
CH 390 – Environmental Chemistry (has strict prerequisites)
Environmental Science
ENSC 452 – Environmental Assessment
Forest Engineering
FE 430 – Watershed Processes
Forest Ecosystems and Society
FES 341 – Forest Ecology
FES 342 – Forest Types of the Northwest
FES 365 – Issues in Natural Resources Conservation
FES 422 – Research Methods in Social Science (statistics requirement)
FES 440 – Wildland Fire Ecology
FES 445 – Ecological Restoration
FES 452 – Biodiversity Conservation in Managed Forests
FES 485 – Consensus and Natural Resources
FES 486 – Public Lands Policy and Management
Forestry
FOR 346 – Topics in Wildland Fire
FOR 431 – Economics and Policy of Forest Wildland Fire
FOR 436 – Wildland Fire Science and Management
FOR 441 – Silviculture Principles
Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences
FW 303 – Survey Of Geographic Information Systems in Natural Resource
FW 311 – Ornithology
FW 315 – Ichthyology
FW 317 – Mammalogy
FW 320 – Introductory Population Dynamics
FW 321 – Applied Community and Ecosystem Ecology
FW 323 – Management Principles of Pacific Salmon in the Northwest
FW 325 – Global Crises in Resource Ecology
FW 326 – Integrated Watershed Management
FW 340 – Multicultural Perspectives in Natural Resources
FW 345 – Global Change Biology
FW 350 – Endangered Species, Society and Sustainability
FW 370 – Conservation Genetics (has strict prerequisites)
FW 415 – Fisheries and Wildlife Law and Policy
FW 421 – Aquatic Biological Invasions
FW 434 – Estuarine Ecology
FW 435 – Wildlife in Agricultural Ecosystems
FW 439 – Human Dimensions of Fisheries and Wildlife Management
FW 451 – Avian Conservation and Management
FW 456 – Freshwater Ecology and Conservation
FW 462 – Ecosystem Services
FW 479 – Wetlands and Riparian Ecology
FW 481 – Wildlife Ecology
Geography
GEOG 323 – Climatology (has strict prerequisites)
GEOG 333 – Environmental Justice (has strict prerequisites)
GEOG 340 – Introduction to Water Science and Policy
GEOG 350 – Geography of Natural Hazards
GEOG 360 & 361 – Geographic Information Systems and Theory
GEOG 440 – Conflict, Cooperation, and Control of Water in the US
GEOG 452 – Environmental Assessment (cross-listed with ENSC 452)
Geosciences
GEO 307 – National Park Geology and Preservation
GEO 308 – Global Change and Earth Sciences
GEO 387 – Environmental Hydrology
Horticulture
HORT 310 – Plant Propagation
HORT 318 – Applied Ecology of Managed Ecosystems
History
HST 481 – Environmental History of the United States
Natural Resources
NR 325 – Scientific Methods of Analyzing Natural Resources Problems
NR 455 – Natural Resource Decision-Making
Political Science
PS 475 – Environmental Politics and Policy
Rangeland Ecology and Management
RNG 341 – Principles of Rangeland Ecology and Management (has specific prerequisites)
RNG 353 – Wildland Plant Identification
RNG 421 – Rangeland Restoration and Management (has specific prerequisites)
RNG 441 – Vegetation Monitoring and Analysis (has specific prerequisites)
RNG 457 – Habitat Analysis 1: Habitat Use and Movement (has specific prerequisites)
Soil Science
SOIL 366 – Ecosystems of Wildland Soils (has specific prerequisites)
SOIL 388 – Soil Systems and Plant Growth (has specific prerequisites)
SOIL 395 – World Soil Resources (has specific prerequisites)
SOIL 445 – Environmental Soil Chemistry (has specific prerequisites)
SOIL 466 – Soil Morphology and Classification (has specific prerequisites)
SOIL 468 – Soil Landscape Analysis (has specific prerequisites)
Tourism Recreation Adventure Leadership
TRAL 357 – Parks and Protected Areas Management
Zoology
Z 423 – Environmental Physiology (has specific prerequisites)
Note on prerequisites: Many prerequisites at OSU are advisory in nature, rather than a strictly enforced requirement. If you can demonstrate to the instructor that you have acquired the necessary background, through coursework or other means, the instructor may choose to allow an override of the prerequisite.
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