Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences

• Foundations of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences
• Techniques in Fish and Wildlife
• Watershed Management
• Limnology
• Forest Soils
• Ichthyology, Ornithology, Mammalogy, and Herpetology

• Fisheries/Wildlife technician, biologist or manager
• Conservation biologist
• Ecologist
• Public educator and outreach specialist
• Wildlife law enforcement officer
• Game warden
• Wildlife consultant
• Research Scientist

At the end of the program students will be able to:

• Apply science as a body of knowledge and as a method of inquiry.
• Apply key concepts of biology, ecology, physics, and chemistry to fisheries and wildlife organisms, populations, communities, and their habitats.
• Apply basic math skills to problem-solving in fisheries and wildlife populations and their habitat.
• Discuss how anthropogenic issues affect the dynamics of fish populations, communities, and their habitats.
• Articulate scientifically a rationale and justification for assessing and monitoring the effects of major issues on fish and wildlife populations, communities, and
  their habitat.
• Apply gained knowledge of assessment and monitoring protocols to evaluate the effects of major issues on fish and wildlife populations, communities, and their habitats.
• Apply appropriate techniques for studying, analyzing, and assessing fish and wildlife populations.
• Delineate the management environment in ecological, economic, political, and socio-cultural terms.
• Articulate the appropriateness of management approaches used to address the issues and problems affecting fisheries and wildlife, their habitats, and humans.