Core Courses
Core Courses:
ECOL 6080. Principles of Conservation and Sustainable Development I (4 cr.): This course emphasizes ecological principles important to conservation and development and the ecological consequences of development activities. (Carroll and Pringle)
ECOL 8710. Environmental Law Practicum (4 cr.): Students from ecology, law, environmental design and other disciplines work together to address pressing environmental concerns identified by community stakeholders. Skills developed include: identification of environmental problems within a watershed, research and analysis, legislative drafting, and presentations. This practicum provides hands-on experience and solution-oriented, interdisciplinary group projects. (Fowler and other faculty).
ECOL 8400. Perspectives on Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development (1 cr.): All students in the program participate in this seminar during the fall of their first year. Presentations include faculty and student research and seminars on conservation issues. (Pringle)
ECOL 8990. Problems in Ecology (2 cr.): This course should be used as a independent study with your major professor to define your thesis research problem and plan the research design.
Year 1
(Normal course load is 9-11 hours per semester. Maximum is 12 hours unless special permission is obtained.)
Fall
ECOL 6080: Principles of C/SD I (4 credits)
ECOL 8400. Perspectives on C/SD (1 credit)
Elective (6-7 credits)
Spring
ECOL 8710. Environmental Law Practicum (4 credits)
ECOL 8990. Independent Study (2 credits)
Electives (3-5 credits)
Summer Research or field courses (9-11 credits)
Year 2
Fall Electives and/or research (9-11 credits)
Spring Thesis (research) (9-11 credits)
Summer Thesis (research) (9-11 credits)
Recommended electives for those wishing to pursue more in-depth coverage within the following tracks for specific areas of focus:
Biological and Ecological Sciences
FORS 8360 Quantitative Approaches to Conservation Biology
FORS 6750 Experimental Methods for Research
Social Science/Anthropology
ANTH 6490 Foundations of Ecological Anthropology
ANTH 8500 Conservation and Community
Policy/Law
ECOL 8700 Environmental Policy and Management
ECOL 8720 Environmental Law for Scientists
Electives appropriate for the program include:
Agricultural and Applied Economics
AAEC 6600. Economics of Rural Environmental Quality
AAEC 6800/6800L. Water Resource Economics
AAEC 6930. Environmental Law & Governmental Regulation
AAEC 7600. Environmental Economics & Policy Analysis
AAEC (FORS) 7860. Resource Economics & Management
AAEC 8750. Natural Resource & Environmental Economics
Anthropology
ANTH 6000. Anthropology of Economic Systems
ANTH (PBIO) 6300/6300L. Ethnobotany
ANTH 6490. Foundations of Ecological Anthropology
ANTH 6540/6540L. Environment and Health
ANTH 6560. Anthropology of Development
ANTH 6580/6580L. Ecology of Food, Diet, & Nutrition
ANTH 6590. Ecology & Evolution of Human Disease
ANTH 6610. Introduction to Research Methods
ANTH 6620. Methods of Sociocultural Anthropology
ANTH 8060. Primate and Human Ecology
ANTH 8400. Human Population Ecology
ANTH 8410. Comparative Human Ecological Systems
ANTH 8420. Human Ecosystems Evolution
ANTH 8500. Seminar in Ecological Anthropology
ANTH 8610. Field Methods in Ecological Anthropology
ANTH 8620. Anthropological Data Analysis
Biology
BIOL 8000. Tropical Biology: An Ecological Approach
Botany
PBIO 6650/6650L. Plant Taxonomy
PBIO 6850/6850L. Vegetation Analysis
PBIO 8140/8140L. Algal Ecology
PBIO 8360 .Fungal Ecology
PBIO (ECOL) 8410. Community Ecology
PBIO 8700. Plant Population Biology Seminar
PBIO 8840. Plant Ecology Seminar
PBIO 8850/8850L. Terrestrial Biogeochemical Cycling
PBIO 8890/8890L. Environmental Physiology
Cellular Biology
CBIO (PBIO) 6600-6600L. Biology of the Protists
Crop & Soil Science
CRSS 6590-6590L. Soil Fertility
CRSS (MIBO) 6610-6610L. Soil Microbiology
CRSS 6660-6600L. Chemical Analysis of Environmental Samples
CRSS 6670. Environmental Soil Chemistry
CRSS 8280-8280L. Crop Responses to Microclimate
CRSS 8340-8340L. Environmental Aspects of Herbicide Use
CRSS 8350. Weed Ecology
Ecology
ECOL 3700 combined with ECOL 8990. Organic Agriculture
ECOL 6000-6000L. Organismal, Population & Community
ECOL 6010-6010L. Ecosystem Ecology
ECOL 6030-6030L. Mammalogy
ECOL 6040-6040L. Ornithology
ECOL 6050-6050L. Ichthyology
ECOL 6070-6070L. Invertebrate Zoology
ECOL 6110. Insect Diversity
ECOL (FORS) 6310-6310L. Limnology
ECOL (CRSS) 6650-6650L. Soil Biology and Ecology
ECOL 8000. Topics in Modern Ecology
ECOL (ANTH) 8110 Tropical Ecological & Cultural Systems
ECOL (PBIO) 8120-8120L. Plant Reproductive Ecology
ECOL 8150-8150L. Wetland Ecology
ECOL 8170. Natural History of the Hymenoptera
ECOL 8220. Stream Ecology
ECOL 8230. Lake Ecology
ECOL (PBIO) (FORS) 8310. Population Ecology
ECOL 8440. Principles of Agroforestry/ Agroecology
ECOL 8500. Theoretical Ecology
ECOL 8560. Ecology Seminar
ECOL 8580-8580L. Theory of Systems Ecology
ECOL 8600-8600L. Nuclear Tracers in Ecology
ECOL 8700. Environmental Policy & Management
ECOL 8900. Problems in Ecology
Educational Research and Measurement
ERSH 7400. Qualitative Research Methods in Education
ERSH 8410. Qualitative Data Collection in Education
ERSH 8420. Qualitative Data Analysis in Education
Entomology
ENTO 6010-6010L. Insect Taxonomy
ENTO 6130. Internship in Crop Protection & Pest Management
ENTO 6500-6500L. Insect Ecology
ENTO 6740-6740L. Insect Pest Management
ENTO 6940-6940L. Aquatic Entomology
ENTO 8820. Biological Control
Forest Resources
FORS 6110. Forest Hydrology
FORS 6150. Control & Systems Theory for the Environmental Scientist
FORS 6300-6300L. Management of Wildlife Habitat
FORS 6340. Endangered Species Management
FORS 6800-6800D. Forest Resources Policy
FORS 7310-7310L. Techniques in Wildlife Population Management
FORS 7360-7360L. Fisheries Management
FORS (RLST) 7400-7400L. Park Management
FORS 7410. Wilderness Management
FORS 7710. Advanced Forest Economics
FORS 7820. Natural Resource Law for Managers and Administrators
FORS 7850. Forest Policy Issues
FORS (AAEC) 7860. Resource Economics and Management
FORS 8300. Fisheries and Wildlife Seminar
Genetics
GENE 8134. Evolutionary Genetics
GENE 8504. Research Methods in Population Biology
Geography
GEOG 6020. Fluvial Geomorphology
GEOG 6160. Applied Climatology
GEOG (PBIO) 6220. Ecological Biogeography
GEOG (PBIO) 6240. Plant Geography
GEOG 6670. Geography of Development
GEOG 6810. Conservation Ecology and Resource Management
GEOG 6330-6330L. The Use and Interpretation of Aerial Photographs
GEOG 6350-6350L. Remote Sensing of the Environment
GEOG 6370-6370L. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 6470-6470L. Geographic Analysis & Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 8350. Remote Sensing with GIS Applications
Landscape Architecture
LAND 6400. Plant Communities of the Southeast
LAND 6030. Nature & Sustainability
Law
JURI 6640. International Law I
JURI 6650. International Law II
JURI 6670. Seminar on International Protection of Human Rights
JURI 6690. Law of the Sea and Protection of the Environment
JURI 6910. Natural Resources
JURI 7280. Law and Environment
JURI 7290. Environmental Litigation Seminar
JURI 7520. International Law and Economic Development
Marine Sciences
MARS (FORS) 6380-6380L. Marine Fisheries Biology
MARS 6810. Microbial Biogeochemistry
MARS 8160-8160L. Marine Ecology
Medical Microbiology
MMIB 6800. Environmental Epidemiology
Political Science
POLS 6210. International Organization
POLS 6220. International Law
POLS 7900. Managing Volunteers in the Public and Nonprofit Sector
Statistics
STAT 6210. Statistical Methods I
STAT 6220. Statistical Methods II
STAT 6290. Non-Parametric Methods
STAT 6380. Survival Analysis
STAT 8040. Environmental Statistics
STAT 8270. Spatial Statistics
Contact
Cathy Pringle, Chair
Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development
Odum School of Ecology
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-2202
(706) 542-2968
cpringle@uga.edu
