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SFR 107 - Forest Vegetation
An introduction to the identification, distribution, taxonomy, silvics and utilization of North American tree species. Emphasis on the dominant forest cover types typical of each region of the U.S. together with their associated shrub and herbaceous communities. Site affiliations and the relationships to selected vertebrate wildlife species are included. Course may include field work during and outside of the course’s scheduled times.
Prerequisites: Majors in Forest Operations, Bioproducts, & Bioenergy; Forestry; Parks, Recreation and Tourism; and Ecology & Environmental Science with a concentration in Forest Ecosystem Science
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 108 - Introduction to Arboriculture and Community Forestry
Introductory course in arboriculture (study of trees on an individual basis) and community forestry (management of trees in a community/urban setting). The student studies the management of the urban/community forests, the people interaction/dynamics when dealing with community trees, and the development and purpose of a community forestry management plan. The course includes identifying valuable features, growth habits, and cultural requirements of urban trees and shrubs.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 109 - Introduction to Arboriculture Lab
The principles of tree care, pruning, repair and maintenance are covered. Preparation to become a licensed Maine arborist and/or ISC Certified Arborist is provided.
Corequisites: SFR 108
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1
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SFR 111 - Forest Through Time
Basic concepts of science will be used to explain how forests have responded to natural and human influences over time. This foundation will be used to explore how a range of uses will affect the future sustainability of forest systems and their ability to meet society’s needs.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Application of Scientific Knowledge and Population & the Environment Requirements when taken with SFR 112. Satisfies the General Education Lab in the Basic or Applied Sciences and Population and the Environment Requirements when taken with SFR 101 and SFR 112.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1
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SFR 112 - Forests Through Time: Discussions
Weekly discussions based on information presented in SFR 111.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Application of Scientific Knowledge and Population and the Environment Requirements when taken with SFR 111. Satisfies the General Education Lab in the Basic or Applied Sciences and Population and the Environment Requirements when taken with SFR 101 and SFR 111.
Prerequisites: SFR 111 or concurrently
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 2
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SFR 120 - Understanding Wood
Laboratory based hands-on course provides experience in the selection, planning, and implementation of woodworking projects. Students learn principles of safe operation of power and hand tools, basic wood material properties related to machining, and the fundamentals of wood gluing and finishing. Student projects will require additional time during scheduled woodshop hours.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 1
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SFR 201 - Wildland Firefighter Preliminary Training
Prepares students for wildland firefighter basic training needed for the Firefighter Red Card which is recognized nationally by the U.S. Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management and many state and local fire agencies.
Prerequisites: Major in Forestry, Forest Operations, Bioproducts & Bioengineering, Parks, Recreation, and Tourism, or Ecology and Environmental Sciences.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 0-1
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SFR 205 - Forest Measurements and Statistics
Encompasses methods used to measure log, tree, stand and forest-level attributes. Principles of summarizing individual tree data and of using statistics in forest management are presented. Course may have field trips during class times.
General Education Requirements: Quantitative Literacy.
Prerequisites: SFR 107 or permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SFR 208 - Geomatics, Coordinate Geometry, and GPS
An introductory course presenting fundamental concepts in land resource measurements, applied mathematics, mapping techniques and practical applications of GPS including; linear and angular measurement, computations employing coordinate geometry, area determination, land recording systems, compass navigation, basic skills of map preparation, and practical GPS Skills. Course may include field work during and outside of the course’s scheduled times.
Prerequisites: MAT 116 or MAT 122 or a passing score on UM Math Placement Exam #3.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4
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SFR 209 - Chain Saw and Fire Training
A field course leading to certification in Level 1 chain saw safety training and US Forest Service Red Card fire training. Additionally, field safety will be discussed.
Prerequisites: SFR 201
Course Typically Offered: Summer
Credits: 1
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SFR 213 - Forest Operations Field Tour
Will observe different timber harvesting operations and machines through field visits and assess at multiple scales with application to integrated management of forest trees, wildlife, water, and soil. Planning and implementation of forest operations systems for various forest stand conditions will be examined. This course intends to introduce associated ecological, social, policy, and ethical issues in forestry, thereby, preparing future forest resource professionals for operational management under varying objectives and site conditions.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 1
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SFR 215 - Introduction to Forest Bioproducts and Bioenergy
Introduction to renewable products (including energy) derived from the forest. The fundamentals of their production systems will be described through required wood forms (i.e. log diameter/species) and processing systems. The attributes and use of these products will be described from physical, chemical, mechanical, biological, and lifecycle perspectives.
General Education Requirements: Applications of Scientific Knowledge
Prerequisites: MAT 116 or MAT 122 and CHY 121 and CHY 123.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SFR 222 - Environmental Communication Skills
The nature and problems of environmental communication, with opportunities to practice communication through a range of exercises.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SFR 301 - Field Course in Parks, Recreation and Tourism
Principles and techniques used to manage recreation opportunities in natural resource settings. Field trips are organized to reveal a diversity of recreation sites and associated planning and management by private businesses and public agencies to provide quality recreation experiences while also preserving environmental resource conditions.
Prerequisites: Sophomore standing and permission
Course Typically Offered: Summer
Credits: 1
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SFR 345 - Special Problems in Forestry
Original investigation and/or readings on forest resources problems, the subject to be chosen after consultation with staff.
Prerequisites: Open to high-ranking juniors and seniors
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, and Summer
Credits: Ar
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SFR 349 - Applied Forest Ecology and Silviculture
A survey of forest ecosystem management designed for students majoring in related fields. Lectures apply concepts in forest ecology, biology, silviculture, harvesting, wood products utilization, and economics to the protection and management of public and private forest land. Emerging concepts and technologies relating to forest ecosystem management and sustainability are presented relative to defining and achieving land management goals and objectives. Laboratories reinforce practical field skills in locating, inventorying, and assessing stands and forests. Lec 3 Lab 3. Course may have field trips during class times.
Prerequisites: Junior standing in EES, PRT, or WLE
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4
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SFR 397 - Field Experience in Forestry
A field experience is a professional activity participated in by students under the supervision of a practicing professional in the field. A high degree of responsibility is placed on the student for developing a study plan including learning objectives and their assessment. The study plan must be approved by a faculty member prior to the field experience. May be repeated. Can be taken for 0 credit as a Pass/Fail Grade only.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 0-6
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SFR 400 - Applied Geographic Information Systems
An introduction to the methods and processes for the application of geographic information systems to natural resource management. Emphasis is placed on project planning and hands-on experience in systems operation. Course may include field work outside of the course’s scheduled times.
Prerequisites: MAT 116 or MAT 122 or a passing score on UM Math Placement Exam #3.
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring
Credits: 4
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SFR 402 - Advanced Forest Measurements and Models
A continuation of the topics introduced in SFR 205 including methods used to measure log, tree, stand, and forest-level attributes. Students will also learn how to sample and analyze forest resources data including use of spreadsheets, databases, and stand projection models. Because of overlap, SFR 402 and SFR 503 cannot both be taken for degree credit, Lec 2 Lab 2. Course may have field trips during class times.
Prerequisites: SFR 205 or Graduate Standing.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SFR 406 - Remote Sensing of the Forest Environment
In this course, students will learn the key concepts and rationale underlying the acquisition, interpretation, processing and presentation of remote sensing imagery for forestry and natural resources applications. Students are introduced to remote sensing technology, methods and applications including airphoto interpretation; digital photogrammetry; satellite image analysis; and LIDAR forest inventory. With an emphasis on hands-on demonstrations and laboratory exercises, students will gain proficiency in working with digital imagery and other geospatial data using ArcGIS, including vegetation indices, forest classifications, land cover change maps and three-dimensional point clouds.
Prerequisites: SFR 400 or permission; SFR 100, PSE 100, or BIO 200 recommended but not required.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 411 - Forestry Rules of Maine
Introductory course designed to prepare those who wish to become licensed foresters in the State of Maine for the examination required as a part of that process.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 1
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SFR 412 - Winter Tree Identification
Six week field course for identification of Maine Trees and shrubs in their winter condition.
Prerequisites: SFR 107 or permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 1
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SFR 414 - Introduction to Third-Party Forest Certification
An in-depth coverage of third-party forest certification systems focusing on Maine with additional exposure to national and international applications. Topics will include how forests are certified using standards that ensure sustainability of forest management, the mechanics of forest certification and how third-party audits are conducted. The course may include a full day field trip outside of class time.
Prerequisites: SFR 408 or SFR 446 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 1
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SFR 434 - Recreation Site Planning and Management
Principles and techniques are examined to manage recreation opportunities in natural resource settings. Course may have field trips during class times. The field trips are organized to reveal a diversity of recreation sites and associated planning and management by entities to provide quality recreation experiences while also preserving environmental resources conditions.
Prerequisites: SFR 228 or permission
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 437 - Ecotourism: Principles, Trends, and Issues
Examines ecotourism as a growing and important sector of the tourism industry due to its focus on sustainability issues. This course covers the principles and fundamental concepts of ecotourism, and how the concept differs from other forms of alternative tourism. Contemporary issues such as marketing, governance, certification, and community engagement in both US and international contexts will be discussed via the use of case studies.
Prerequisites: SFR 150 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, even years
Credits: 3
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SFR 444 - Forest Resources Economics
Economics of domestic and international forest resources production, processing and distribution. Contributions of forest resources to local, regional, and national economies. Fundamentals of financial analysis. Evaluation of priced and unpriced forest resources for acquisition, taxation, management, and disposal. Because of overlap SFR 444 and SFR 544 cannot both be taken for degree credit.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: ECO 120.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 446 - Forest Resources Policy
Mechanisms involved in, and influences on the evolution of national, state and private forest policies in the United States and other nations. Development of professional codes of ethics in Forestry and examination of professional, private business, environmental, and public sector ethical challenges, particularly in the formation of forest policies. Lec 3.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Ethics
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SFR 450 - Processing of Biomaterials
Understanding how the resources of the forests are used and processed is important. This course provides an overview of the machinery and processes used for manufacturing bioproducts including lumber, wood-based composites, veneer, lumber, pulp and paper and other forest products. The laws and standards under which production and evaluation of bioproducts occur are an important part of the course. The commercial measurement of forest resources is detailed as are the effects of timber defects on finished product quality. In addition to classroom lectures and discussions, the course includes field trips, during scheduled class periods, to various forest products manufacturing operations and laboratory exercises related to quality control techniques used in industry. Students enrolling in the course should have passed at least one course meeting the general education requirement for a science with lab or application of science.
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years
Credits: 4
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SFR 477 - Forest Landscape Management and Planning
Integration of biophysical and socioeconomic sciences for the multiple use management to achieve desired products, services and conditions of forest lands. Application of modern analytical procedures for strategic, tactical and operational forest planning up to the landscape level. Because of overlap SFR 477 and SFR 577 cannot both be taken for degree credit. Course may have field trips during class times.
Prerequisites: SFR 349 or Pre/Co-requisite of SFR 409 or SFR 509 and Pre or Co-requisite of SFR 444 or SFR 544
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 478 - Tools for Forest Management
Lab support for SFR 444/544 and SFR 477/577. Hands-on experience with tools useful for forest management, including: database, mapping, growth and yield programs; mathematical techniques; and landscape management systems.
Corequisites: SFR 444/544 and SFR 477/577
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1
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SFR 479 - Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors
Explores the relationship between human behavior and the natural environment through a variety of social and environmental psychology constructs including: intrinsic and instrumental values, beliefs, attitudes, perceptions of control, and social norms.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 3
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SFR 492 - Capstone Directed Study
One student or a group of students select a problem in natural resource utilization, management, or policy, and prepare a prospectus and ultimately a detailed technical report on the topic. Each student or group will work closely with one or more faculty who agree to serve as mentors. Capstone projects are highly integrative of topics covered in the undergraduate program and involve applying knowledge to field- or lab-based activities. Study results are presented in an oral presentation and a final technical report. (May be repeated for credit until a total of 3-4 credits have been earned.)
General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive and Capstone
Prerequisites: Senior Standing in FBB, FTY, or PRT
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1-4
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SFR 493 - Sustainable Tourism Planning
The course provides a basis for a tourism destination service learning project involving natural and cultural attractions. The project will involve developing, facilitating, evaluating and documenting the tourism destination planning process. Specific topics include tourism potential evaluation, tourism sociocultural and environmental impacts, community-based tourism planning, tourism regional and site planning, and strategic tourism planning. The course requires field trips within and outside of scheduled class periods. (Because of overlap SFR 493 and SFR 593 cannot both be taken for degree credit).
General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive and Capstone
Prerequisites: Senior Standing in PRT or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 346 - Special Problems in Forest Operations, Bioproducts, and Bioenergy
Original investigation in forest engineering, the subject to be chosen after consultation with the staff. Open to high-ranking juniors and seniors.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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SFR 395 - Internship for Forest Operations, Bioproducts and Bioenergy
A professional activity under the general supervision of an experienced professional with a high degree of responsibility placed on the student. Learning objectives are pre-established and agreed upon between the faculty coordinator and the placement supervisor. Not normally repeated.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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SFR 398 - Field Experience in Forest Operations, Bioproducts and Bioenergy
A field experience is a professional activity participated in by students under the supervision of a practicing professional in the field. A high degree of responsibility is placed on the student for developing learning objectives and securing the approval of a faculty member for academic credit for the learning involved. May be repeated.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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SFR 401 - Timber Harvesting
Examine and analyze timber harvesting practices in the United States and Canada with special emphasis on Maine. Discussion of harvest methods and systems, production, and regulation. Because of the overlap, SFR 401 and SFR 502 cannot both be taken for degree credit.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 403 - Forest Roads
Design, construction, and maintenance of forest road systems and bridges, examination of road-vehicle interactions, and analysis of forest products transportation. Lec 2, Lab 3.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 453 - Biocomposite Materials
A comprehensive analysis of the influence of materials and processing parameters on the chemical, physical and mechanical properties of biocomposite materials. Principles of adhesion and adhesives technology and their impact on biocomposite manufacture and performance will be addressed. Laboratories will provide practical experience in the manufacture and evaluation of a variety of biocomposites produced using hot pressing, cold pressing, extrusion, and injection molding. Lec 3, Lab 3
Prerequisites: CHY 121 and CHY 123; SFR 215, SFR 450 and PHY 107 or PHY 111.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 4
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SFR 460 - Forest Operations and Bioproducts Manufacturing Tour
One-week inspection trip to representative manufacturers of bioproducts selected for demonstration of typical plant and forest operations. A written report is required.
Prerequisites: Forestry major or Parks, Recreation and Tourism major or Forest Operations, Bioproducts, and Bioenergy major with Junior Standing.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 1
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SFR 464 - Forest Resources Business, Marketing and Entrepreneurship
This is a broadly based course with multiple facets related to the business aspects of forest resource transactions between buyers and sellers; the marketing of forest resources and the development and management of a forest resource related business. The course includes the principles of contractual agreements, detailed information about the markets for forest resources both local and international, the basic tenets of entrepreneurship and the fundamentals of business ownership, planning and management. In addition to basic lectures and projects, practitioners discuss their experiences and share information about business management, contracts, the ethics of the buyer-seller interactions, and the marketing of products. A semester project requires at least one field visit outside of scheduled times. Students enrolling in the course should have passed at least one course meeting the general education requirement for science with lab or application of science. Course may have field trips during class times.
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SFR 150 - Introduction to Tourism
Introduction to tourism is designed to help students of all disciplines understand one of the largest industries in the world. This course will introduce the nature, structure and complexity of travel and tourism with special emphasis on nature-based tourism-how it’s defined, how it evolved, and its magnitude globally. Students will examine types and functions of various stakeholders in the creation and delivery of tourism including governments, private sector and communities. Finally this course will explore the motivations for travel affecting demand for tourism.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, even years
Credits: 3
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SFR 226 - Park Systems of the World
An examination of national parks as cultural identity. Topics include the genesis and rate of spread of the national parks idea, the cultural/political/economic environment of national parks, parks and the natural environment, comparative park system administration, and the trend and condition of the world’s park systems. Lec 3.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Course Typically Offered: Fall, odd years
Credits: 3
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SFR 228 - Forest Recreation Management
A broad yet comprehensive study of the theories, problems and techniques of managing recreation systems in both the public and private sectors. Emphasis given to current recreation management issues. Rec 3.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SFR 347 - Special Problems in Parks, Recreation, and Tourism
Original investigation in Recreation Resources, the subject to be chosen after consultation with the staff. Open to high-ranking juniors and seniors.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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SFR 396 - Internship in Parks, Recreation and Tourism
A professional activity under the general supervision of an experienced professional with a high degree of responsibility placed on the student. Learning objectives are pre-established and agreed upon between the faculty coordinator and the placement supervisor. Not normally repeated.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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SFR 399 - Field Experience in Parks, Recreation and Tourism
A field experience is a professional activity participated in by students under the supervision of a practicing professional in the field. A high degree of responsibility is placed on the student for developing learning objectives and securing the approval of a faculty member for academic credit for the learning involved. May be repeated.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: Ar
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SFR 452 - Environmental Interpretation
A mid-level course in the principles and techniques of environmental interpretation, with special reference to parkland settings. Interpretive planning, interpretation of complex subjects and controversy, ethics, special populations and research are discussed. Students are required to demonstrate their understanding and application of interpretive principles using examples from their field. Course may include field work during and outside of the course’s scheduled times.
Prerequisites: Junior Standing or permission of instructor and SFR 228.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, odd years
Credits: 4
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SFR 480 - Wilderness and Protected Areas Management
Historical overview of wilderness and protected area management in the United States involving western cultural influences such as Beowulf, Christianity, and Romanticism. Basic concepts of the unique management problems and opportunities associated with wilderness and wild and scenic river systems. Ideas will be explored on how to deal with the complexities of wilderness subsystems, their values, and their uses in the United States as well as international context.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: SFR 228
Course Typically Offered: Spring, odd years
Credits: 3
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SFR 491 - Senior Capstone in Parks, Recreation and Tourism
Selected issues and trends facing the recreation and parks profession today. Serves as the capstone experience, integrating all of the course work for Parks, Recreation and Tourism students.
General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive and Capstone
Prerequisites: Senior standing and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SWK 320 - Introduction to Social Work
Focuses on the history and development of social welfare and social work, the basic values and concepts of social work practice and the major fields of social work practice. Second semester students or sophomore level.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: SOC 101 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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SWK 330 - Contemporary Issues in Diversity and Pluralism
Examines plurality and diversity from a standpoint of difference created by culture, race, social structure, religious affiliation, gender, age, sexual orientation and ability. Issues of prejudice and discrimination examined on an individual and societal level.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: SOC 101.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SWK 350 - Human Behavior and the Social Environment I
Examines normative development, behavior, values and attitudes as influenced by age, cohort, gender, culture, social class, social structures, oppression and other environmental factors. Addresses the life span and attendant concerns from multiple theoretical perspectives within a systems person-in-environment framework. Considers implications for social work practice and social welfare policy.
Prerequisites: PSY 100 and SOC 101 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SWK 351 - Human Behavior in the Social Environment II
Examines research and traditional/alternative theories related to normative development of families, small groups and communities. Explores the impact of age, gender, social class, oppression and other environmental factors on that development. Examines the physical environment (nature and built), social structure and contexts of organizations and institutions in interaction with families, groups and communities. Considers implications for social work practice and social welfare policy.
Prerequisites: SWK 350 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SWK 361 - Generalist Social Work Practice I
Explores the functions and roles of the social worker, the value base of social
work practice, and the processes of providing service. Social Work majors only.
Prerequisites: SWK 350 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SWK 380 - The Biological Person and the Environment
The biological person as viewed from a biopsychosocial-spiritual model requires that social workers develop an appreciation and understanding of the reciprocal impact of behavior and biology on one another. For social workers, understanding the biological systems means closely examining the human body and all of the intricate, interdependent systems and their actions that are necessary to maintain life.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SWK 395 - Beginning Field Experience in Social Work
Preparation for field practicum, exploration of interest in professional social work and introduction to social welfare agency milieux through volunteer experience. Students must register for both fall and spring semesters.
Prerequisites: Social Work major or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1 - 3
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SWK 440 - Social Welfare Policy and Issues
Provides an analytic perspective on the provision of social services and the interrelatedness of practice and policy analysis. The dimensions of choice in social welfare policy and major issues in provision of services are examined.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Writing Intensive
Prerequisites: SWK 320
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SWK 462 - Generalist Social Work Practice II
Develops knowledge, values and skills necessary for provision of social services
to individuals, families and small groups. Includes knowledge and skill building
in interpersonal communication, planning and carrying out interventions, and evaluating
interventions within the context of generalist social work practice. Integrates
classroom and field instruction experiences. Limited to senior social work majors.
Prerequisites: SWK 361.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SWK 463 - Generalist Social Work Practice III
Explores the theory and practice of purposive social change in social agencies
and communities, participation of social workers in politics, and social worker
roles of advocate, resource mobilizer, program planner, and organizer. Integrates
the classroom and field instruction experience. Limited to senior social work
majors.
Prerequisites: SWK 462.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SWK 491 - Methods of Social Work Research
Beginning methods of social work research. Strategies and methods of developing knowledge in the context of social work practice and social welfare. The place of theory in research, problem formulation, ethical concerns, research designs, including practice research and evaluation, methods of data collection, sampling, introduction to program evaluation, and basic procedures in data analysis and statistics.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SWK 495 - Field Practicum in Social Work
Generalist social work practice in community agencies provides opportunities to apply social work knowledge and skills directed toward planned intervention and change efforts. Limited to social work majors who have completed at least 75 course credit hours. 12 credit hours of Field Practicum required, 6 per semester. Variable credit by permission.
General Education Requirements: Capstone
Prerequisites: SWK 361 and SWK 440.
Corequisites: SWK 462 (fall semester) and SWK 463 (spring semester.)
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1-6
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SWK 497 - Special Topics in Social Work
Content varies to suit needs of individual students or small groups. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: Permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1-3
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SOC 101 - Introduction to Sociology
Introduces the fundamental concepts, principles, and methods of sociology, analyzes the influence of social and cultural factors upon human behavior and evaluates effect of group processes, social classes, stratification, and basic institutions on contemporary society.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 201 - Social Inequality
Structural analysis of social inequality within American society and the global community. Emphasis on the causes, extent and social consequences of inequality, especially those based on race, gender, social class and the level of economic development.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: SOC 101 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SOC 214 - Crime and Criminal Justice
The causes, extent and nature of crime in American society and the operation of the criminal justice system. Emphasis given to theories and dynamics of criminal behavior and to the efforts of police, courts and prisons to prevent and to control criminality.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: SOC 101 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SOC 219 - Statistical Reasoning in Sociology
The use of statistical methods in sociological research. Topics include descriptive and inferential statistics and hypothesis testing. Special emphasis place on sociological applications of statistical techniques, an understanding of when they are appropriate to use, and the information they yield.
General Education Requirements: Quantitative Literacy
Prerequisites: SOC 101 or permission
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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SOC 220 - Deviance and Social Control
The study of deviant behaviors, individuals and groups, with emphasis on social order, power and identity. Use of the sociological perspective to explore definitions of deviance, theories of deviance, processes by which individuals become labeled as deviant, the nature of deviant identities and societal consequences of constructions of deviance.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: SOC 101 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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SOC 240 - Topics in Sociology
A second-level study of topics such as “Sociology of Youth.” “Sociology of Countercultures,” “Sociology of Sport,” and “Urban Sociology.” May be repeated for credit if the topics differ.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: SOC 101 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 1-3
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SOC 302 - The Structure of Societies
An examination of the structure and dynamics of large scale social organizations. Particular emphasis on institutional, formal, or bureaucratic and community structures characteristic of the industrialized and post-industrialized world.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of sociology or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered.
Credits: 3
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SOC 308 - Problems of Violence and Terrorism
The nature and causes of revolutionary and government-sponsored international terrorism. The future of terrorism and how to cope with it. The institutionalization of terrorism in pre-modern and contemporary totalitarian states. The social causes of war and social conflict. Social preconditions for the maintenance of a sustainable peace. An examination of the nature of human aggression.
General Education Requirements: Ethics and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Writing Intensive
Prerequisites: SOC 101 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 314 - Law and Society
Presents a sociological perspective on law and the legal system in the United States and other societies. Topics include problems in defining law, sociological theories of the origins and consequences of law, international differences in modes of dispute resolution, the relation between law and social change, studies of the legal profession and legal discretion in the criminal justice system.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: SOC 101 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 324 - Domestic Violence
This class focuses on the extent, nature, causes, and consequences of domestic violence in the United States. Specifically, the course focuses on intimate partner violence, child abuse, child-to-parent abuse, elder abuse, and related topics. This course revolves around three themes: 1) gaining knowledge and insight about domestic violence, 2) understanding the social context of domestic violence, 3) evaluating criminal justice responses to domestic violence.
Prerequisites: SOC 101 and Junior or Senior; or with permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 325 - Sociology of Religion
Topics include: comparative religious cultures and beliefs; the social construction of religious beliefs; institutionalized religions and the resurgence of new sects and cults; major world religions and the way religion preserves and changes the social order; the encounter between religion and contemporary developments in science. Secularization and the future of religion.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: SOC 101 and junior or senior standing or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SOC 329 - Sociology of Gender
Analysis of contemporary constructions of gender. Emphasis on the interpersonal and institutional dimensions of sexism and the prospects of social change.
General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: 6 hours of sociology or WGS 101 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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SOC 337 - Sociology of Mental Illness
Examination of the sociological concepts of mental illness. Analysis of the relationship between mental illness and the sociological factors responsible for these disorders. Cross-cultural examination of mental illness. The nature and structure of mental care institutions.
General Education Requirements: Ethics and Social Contexts and Institutions
Prerequisites: PSY 100 or SOC 101 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 338 - Race and Ethnicity
Explores dominant/subordinate relations nationally and internationally with emphasis on socially defined racial and ethnic groups. Origins, nature, and consequences of racial/ethnic oppression and inequality; historical and social contexts of intergroup relations and conflicts; implications of changing racial/ethnic diversity.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity & International Perspective and Social Contexts & Institutions
Prerequisites: SOC 101 and SOC 201 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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SOC 340 - Intermediate Topics in Sociology
An intermediate-level study of topics such as “Sociology of Emotions,” “Sociology of Science and Technology,” and “Modern Sociological Theory.” May be repeated for credit if the topics differ.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of sociology or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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SOC 390 - Research Methods in Sociology
Explores the relationship between theory and research. Specific topics include the nature of scientific proof in the social sciences, measurements of variables, hypothesis and theory testing, sampling, research design, ethical issues in research, and the relationship between research and policy-making.
General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive
Prerequisites: Junior standing and 6 hours of sociology courses or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 460 - Major Ideas in Sociology
The sociological theories of Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Mead and others. Developments in sociological theory as related to methodology, social issues, and current trends in contemporary sociology.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and 6 hours of sociology or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SOC 493 - Senior Thesis
The completion of a senior thesis on a topic of the student’s choice under the supervision of a sociology faculty member. Encourages excellent senior students to conduct a significant piece of sociological research. May be taken for only one semester, but normally students should plan to enroll for two semesters as a significant project usually cannot be completed in less than an academic year. May be repeated once for 3 additional credits. Students who take two semesters of this course may choose to substitute them for SOC 499-Senior Capstone to satisfy both the Sociology and General Education capstone requirements.
Prerequisites: Permission; Sociology major with senior standing and a minimum GPA in sociology courses of 3.5; SOC 390, SOC 460 and statistics.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3
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SOC 495 - Internship in Sociology
A supervised internship providing practical experience in a field placement and requiring parallel readings and study. Emphasis on the guided application of concepts and principles from related courses and structured readings to applied situations in the field. Students may take 3-9 credits. Not more than 6 credit hours may be used toward the departmental major.
Prerequisites: Sociology major with senior standing; GPA of at least 3.0 and permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3 - 9
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SOC 497 - Departmental Projects I
No description available.
Prerequisites: permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1-3
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SOC 498 - Departmental Projects II
No description available.
Prerequisites: permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 1-3
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SOC 499 - Senior Seminar
Selected theoretical and empirical topics in Sociology. Serves as the capstone course for Sociology majors and will assume a knowledge of and will build upon, the material presented in the other required courses in the major. The intent of the course is to help students integrate their Sociology knowledge and to apply it in dealing with fundamental questions of social life and social theory.
General Education Requirements: Capstone
Prerequisites: Sociology major with senior standing; SOC 390 and SOC 460 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SPA 101 - Elementary Spanish I
A systematic study of the basics of the Spanish language. Equal emphasis on developing reading, comprehension, speaking and writing skills. For students with no previous study of Spanish or fewer than two years in high school.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Summer
Credits: 3 - 4
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SPA 102 - Elementary Spanish II
A continued study of the basics of the Spanish language. Equal emphasis is placed on developing reading, comprehension, speaking and writing skills. For students with no previous study of Spanish or fewer than two years in high school.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: SPA 101 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 - 4
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SPA 109 - Spanish for the Medical Professions
In response to the ever-growing Spanish-speaking population in the United States, this course will address the specific Spanish communications skills required by those students who intend to pursue careers in medical or health-care fields. This course will focus on medical situations with Spanish-speaking patients and/or family members with limited English. It will emphasize technical vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and grammar, as well as cultural awareness. Entering students will need to have an elementary notion of Spanish to be able to benefit fully from this course.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: SPA 101 or 2 years of high school Spanish
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SPA 117 - Accelerated Spanish I
An intensive, systematic study of the Spanish language at the beginning level that provides the equivalent of two semesters of beginning Spanish (SPA 101 and SPA 102) in one semester. For students with no previous study of Spanish or fewer than two years of high school Spanish.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 6
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SPA 203 - Intermediate Spanish I
An integrated approach using audio-visual materials and reading texts of a literary and/or cultural nature to strengthen comprehension, reading, writing, and speaking. Includes a systematic but gradual review of the essentials of Spanish grammar.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: SPA 102 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SPA 204 - Intermediate Spanish II
An integrated approach using audio-visual materials and reading texts of a literary and/or cultural nature to strengthen comprehension, reading, writing, and speaking. Includes a systematic but gradual review of the essentials of Spanish grammar.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: SPA 203 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SPA 217 - Accelerated Spanish II
This course is a continuation of SPA 117 Accelerated Spanish I. A multi-media intensive study of Spanish language and culture that develops speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills. Equivalent to two semester of intermediate Spanish (SPA 203 and SPA 204).
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives
Prerequisites: SPA 117 or permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 6
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SPA 305 - Applied Spanish
Intensive oral and written practice in real-life situations. Development of confidence, accuracy, fluency and communicative strategies in formal and informal modes of expression. Guided development of idiomatic expression and structures; development of self-correct in speech and writing. Reinforcement through interactive situations.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Writing Intensive
Prerequisites: SPA 204 or SPA 217
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3
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SPA 306 - Workshop in Speaking and Writing Spanish
Develops fluency and accuracy in written and oral Spanish. Students help design course content through projects, performances, and problem-solving.
General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspective and Writing Intensive
Prerequisites: SPA 305 or equivalent or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3
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SPA 307 - Readings in Peninsular Literature
An overview of Peninsular Spanish literature. Provides practice in reading and analyzing culturally important texts. Includes a selection of genres and periods will be included. May be taken either before or after SPA 308.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, Western Cultural Tradition and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: SPA 306 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3
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