研究生 Certificate in Conservation 生物学
保护生物学- CTCBIG
项目概述
Conservation 生物学 is a discipline concerned with the preservation, 管理, 生物多样性的恢复. The field is inherently interdisciplinary and merges natural and social sciences to focus on understanding of the factors responsible for promoting and maintaining biodiversity on the one hand and the challenges of mitigating the extinction of species, preserving sensitive habitats and managing landscapes that support biodiversity on the other hand. The program in Conservation 生物学 offers an interdisciplinary graduate certificate in conservation biology that involves contributions from anthropology and sociology, 生物科学, 经济学, 地理位置, 地质, 历史, 政治科学. The program applies a multifaceted understanding of the factors affecting the preservation of biological diversity. It is centered in the 生物科学系 but includes faculty members from the departments of Environmental & Plant 生物学, Economics, Geography, and Political Science.
The certificate program is designed to provide graduate students in the natural sciences exposure to the social, 经济, and political approaches for conserving biological diversity. 相反, graduate students in the social sciences are given the opportunity to obtain expertise in biological principles that can be used to understand how human altered habitats may lead to a loss of biological diversity. Students enrolled in any master's or doctoral program at newbb电子平台 are eligible to apply for the certificate. Each student in the program chooses a certificate adviser to oversee the completion of requirements.
职业发展机会
Students with this certificate can pursue careers where additional training in conservation policy and biological diversity will make them more competitive.
毕业要求
The requirements for the certificate are the completion of BIOS 5810 Animal Conservation 生物学 (3), BIOS 7970 Seminar in Conservation 生物学 (2), and three courses from the following list for a total of 14 - 17 credit hours. Two of the three courses must be outside the student?我的主要研究领域. The certificate is awarded upon fulfillment of these requirements and completion of the graduate degree.
Nine departments within the College of Arts & Sciences offer the courses listed below. 除了, up to five hours of courses offered under titles such as Special Topics or Colloquium that focus on aspects of conservation biology may be applied toward the certificate with the approval of the student's certificate adviser.
生物科学
- BIOS 5250 – Evolutionary Genetics (3)
- BIOS 5570 -动物系统(3)
- BIOS 5770 – Population Ecology (3)
- BIOS 5780 -群落生态学(3)
- BIOS 5790 – Advanced Evolution (3)
- GEOG 5160 – Bio地理位置 (3) cross-listed as BIOS 5160
- GEOG 5170 -景观生态学(4)
- GEOG 5440 – Agricultural Ecosystems (4)
- GEOL 5480 -古生态学(4)
- PBIO 5090 – Plant Systematics and Survey of Vascular Plant Families (4)
- PBIO 5220 – Tropical Plant Ecology (3)
- PBIO 5340 – Plant Population 生物学 and Community Ecology (4)
- PBIO 5750 – Plant Population Genetics and Speciation (3)
Natural Resource Economics and Policy
- GEOG 5470 – Natural Resource Conservation (4)
- GEOG 5500 -土地用途规划(4)
- GEOG 5530 – Environmental Planning and Assessment (4)
- ECON 5130 – Economics of the Environment (4)
- ECON 5140 – Natural Resource Economics (4)
- POLS 5250 – Environmental and Natural 资源 Politics and Policy (3)
- POLS 5260 – Politics of the Contemporary Environmental Movement (3)
Sociological Context of Conservation 生物学
- ANTH 5780 -人类生态学(3)
- GEOG 5210 – Population Geography (4)
- HIST 5060 – American Environmental 历史 (4)
- SOC 5810 – Environmental Sociology (3)
- 专题及座谈会(H4)
- ANTH 5944 – Seminar in Human Ecology (3)
- GEOG 6470 – Seminar in Resource Management (4)
入学要求
Students currently enrolled in a graduate degree program can add the conservation biology certificate to their program of study by completing an Application for Update of 项目 [PDF]. There are no other requirements beyond university admission requirements.
证书的使命
The goal of the conservation biology certificate program is to provide interdisciplinary training for students interested in the maintenance and preservation Biological Diversity.