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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to the activities, legal and political contexts, organizational structures, challenges and opportunities of working with nonprofit and voluntary organizations in support of environmental and recreational goals. Requires participation in volunteer activities as part of an Academic Service-Learning experience.
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2.00 Credits
Legal and administrative regulation of forests and associated resources (water, air, fish, wildlife, and scenery). Emphasis on agency organizational culture, federal legislation, court cases, administrative procedures, and federal natural resources agencies' interactions with tribal, state, and local governments.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the challenges and opportunities of sustaining resources and ways of life. Develops a global and long-term perspective on concepts of sustainability, challenges, resources, courses of action to become sustainable, and how to measure progress toward sustainability goals. Cross-listed as: ENVS 6550.
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3.00 Credits
Allows Utah Conservation Corps members to explore land management issues and sustainability while engaging in service. Sessions during pre-service training focus on contextual factors defining environmental issues. During weekly field sessions, students focus on personally relevant aspects of sustainability.
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3.00 Credits
This class teaches the conceptual foundations of issues students will encounter in a career in natural resources. The issues include environmental conflict, post-normal science, human macroecology, cultural variation, management and institutions, wicked problems, communication, and coupled natural and human systems. Dual listed as: ENVS 7000
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3.00 Credits
Review key concepts regarding the human dimensions of natural resources and environment, with applications to land and resource management. Topics include: attitudes and perceptions, behavior-change strategies, user-group conflict, visitor use impacts/capacity, environmental justice, and local community impacts.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to principles and practices of resilience theories as applied to community and environmental systems. Students work with community partners to identify and design approaches for enhancing community resilience. Some travel within Utah is required. Additional coursework is required for those enrolled in the graduate-level course. Dual-listed as: ENVS 4030 Repeatable for credit: No Grade Mode: Standard
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3.00 Credits
Introduces modeling of human-environment systems. The course focuses on understanding the importance of complexity, system thinking, interdependencies, and feedbacks in HES. It also aims at developing basic skills needed to build and analyze simple computational models.
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3.00 Credits
Examination of policy issues and administrative approaches in fish and wildlife management, with particular emphasis on nonbiological issues facing wildlife managers and administrators. Cross-listed as: ENVS 4110.
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3.00 Credits
Political, legal, and economic bases for wildland recreation management. Relationship between outdoor recreation and tourism. Lectures concurrent with ENVS 4130. Also includes weekly discussion session focusing on relevant scientific research and policy analyses. (Sp)
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