Master's International Studies-Peace Corp and Environment and Natural Resources Degree

The Master's International-Peace Corps and Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) degree allows students to learn about and practice innovative approaches to environmental and natural resource management issues from a global perspective. Students must take 24 hours of coursework prior to Peace Corps service.

Required Courses (12 hours)

6 hours from international studies theory and research coursework;
ENR 5000 - Approaches to Environmental and Natural Resource Problem-Solving;
ENR 5900 - Environment and Natural Resources Assessment Practice.

Electives (12 hours)

Students must complete one course from three of the following four categories for a total of 9 hours, and 3 hours from any other combination of international studies and enr courses. ENR courses with an international focus are strongly encouraged; however, other courses will be considered depending on a student's interest and availability of courses. Many courses listed below, while not specifically internationally-focused, are applicable to a variety of global issues.

A. ENR Policy, Economics, & Law
AGEC 4710 Natural Resource Law and Policy
AGEC 4720/5890 Water Resources Economics
AGEC 5630 Advanced Natural Resource Economics
ECON 4400 Environmental Economics
ECON 4410 Natural Resource Economics
ECON 5400 Advanced Resource and Environmental Economics
GEOG 4040 Conservation of Natural Resources
GEOG 4080 Management of Major River Basins
GEOG 5200 Land Use Planning
GEOG 5750 Public Land Management
LAW 6660 Environmental Law
LAW 6860 Water Rights
POLS 5051 Environmental Politics and Administration
SOC 4110 Sociology of International Development
SOC 5600 Global Population Issues

B. ENR Science and Engineering
ATSC 4010 Atmospheric Processes
ATSC 5880 Atmospheric Science Problems
BOT 4745/5745 Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology
BOT 5700 Vegetation Ecology
BOT 5780 Biogeochemistry
CHE 4000 Environment, Technology, and Society
ENVE 5010 Environmental Engineering Principles
ENVE 5895 Environmental Engineering Seminar
GEOG 4450/5450 Fluvial Geomorphology
GEOG 4460 Biogeography
GEOG 4470/5470 Fire Ecology
GEOG 5060 Landscape Ecology
GEOL 4490 Geochemistry
GEOL 4880 Earth Surface Processes
GEOL 5444 Geohydrology
GEOL 5777 Geochemistry of Natural Waters
PATB 5140 Principles of Toxicology
REWM 4280 Wildland Hydrology
REWM 4700 Wildland Watershed Management
REWM 4710 Watershed Water Quality Management
REWM 4850 Rangeland Vegetation Management
REWM 5000 Rangeland Resource Management
ZOO 4425/5425 Genetic Markers
ZOO 5300 Principles of Wildlife Ecology and Management
ZOO 5310 Fisheries Management
ZOO 5430 Ecology of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
ZOO 5550 Wetland Ecology

C. Human Dimensions
ANTH 5310 Environmental Anthropology
GEOG 5540 Topics in Cultural Ecology
PHIL/RNEW 4340 Topics in Environmental Ethics
SOC/WMST 4580 Women and Third World Development

D. Quantitative/Qualitative Methods
EDRE 5550 Action Research
EDRE 5600 Education Research I: Survey Research
EDRE 5640 Intro. to Qualitative Research in Education
GEOG 4200/4210 Geographic Information Sciences I/II
GEOG 4300/5300 GPS for Natural Resource Management
GEOL 5111/BOT 4111 Remote Sensing of the Environment
REWM 5200 Spatial Analysis for Watersheds & Ecosystems
STAT 5050 Statistical Methods for the Biological Sciences
STAT 5070 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences
STAT 5080 Statistical Methods for the Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences
STAT 5450 Biological Sampling and Estimation of Animal Abundance

Click here for course descriptions of ENR courses. For descriptions of elective courses see the Graduate Bulletin.