Terrestrial Ecosystems Course List
Field of Study required course
NRE 436/EEB 436/Environ 436 Woody Plants (F)
Analytical Courses:
*NRE 538 Natural Resources Statistics (W)
NRE 541 Remote Sensing (W)
NRE 501.010 Analysis and Modeling of Ecological Data (W)
NRE 531 Principles of GIS (W)
NRE 534 GIS and Landscape Modeling (F)
NRE 540 GIS for Natural Resource Applications (F)
NRE 543 Environmental Spatial Data Analysis (F)
NRE 569/CEE 570 Intro to Geostatistics (F)
*required – or equivalent
Biology & Ecology:
NRE/Environ 415 Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Biology (F)
NRE/Environ 416 Field Skills in Wildlife Behavior (taken concurrently with 415) (F)
NRE/Environ 430/EEB 489 Soil Ecology (F)
NRE 455/EEB 477 Lab Field Ecology (F)
NRE/EEB 476 Ecosystem Ecology (F)
NRE 501.010 Forest Ecology (W)
NRE 508 Wetland Ecology (W)
NRE 639.063 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
EEB 442 Biology of Insects (taught in Ann Arbor and at the UMBS) (S)
EEB 445 Biogeography (W)
EEB 463 Neotropical Plants (W)
EEB 474 Ecology of Wetlands (UMBS)
EEB 498 Agroecosystems (F)
EEB 556 Field Botany of Northern Michigan (UMBS) (S)
Ecological Management & Policy:
NRE 501 Ecosystem Management (3) (in development)
NRE 501.114 Biofuels and Bio-Based Carbon Mitigation (3) ( W)
NRE 532 Natural Resource Conflict Management (3) (F)
NRE 561 Psychology of Environmental Stewardship (3) (W)
NRE 562 Environmental Policy, Politics and Organizations (3) (F)
NRE 570 Microeconomics with Natural Resources Application (3) (F)
NRE 571 Environmental Economics (F)
NRE 575 Thinking Analytically for Policy & Decisions (F)
NRE 589 Ecological Restoration (3) (F)
Link to SNRE Courses site, which includes SNRE Course Descriptions, Course Exploration Tool, and links to Registrar's Office and WolverineAccess.

