Master of Natural Resources, MNR

Master of Natural Resources, MNR

Level:

Master's Degree

Credits required:

30 credits

Cost per credit:

$488

Next start date:

May 6, 2024

Lead the Effort to Effectively Manage Natural Resources

The Master in Natural Resource program opens the door to a fulfilling career focused on the outdoors. This program was designed to give natural resource professionals the skills required to work as decision makers and managers in natural resources. You will broaden your knowledge by mastering coursework covering a variety of topics within natural resources. These skills will advance your career in natural resource management.

The goal of USU’s Online Master of Natural Resources degree is to prepare you for an advanced career in natural resource management positions. This program is designed for professionals who continue working while earning the degree. Faculty have real-world experience, and teach relevant concepts in analysis and decision theory. Coursework focuses on human dimensions, quantitative methods, ecological foundations, spatial analysis and policy/administration. Student earning this degree may also complete the Geographic Information Science (GIS) or National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) certificates in conjunction with this degree.

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Leslie Gonzalez

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College: College of Natural Resources

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Career Outlooks

As a natural resource professional, this master's degree gives you the knowledge and skills to become a leader. Some career options are: Forester, Rangeland Scientist, Fisheries and Wildlife Biologist, Wetland Ecologist, Natural Resource Managers, and more.

Natural Resources Curriculum Preview

 

Introduction to policies, laws, institutions, and practices guiding western water allocation, emphasizing how to efficiently and equitably allocate increasingly scarce supplies. Explores reserved water rights, water markets, stream adjudication, public trust doctrine, basinwide management, and riparian management. 

The overall aim of this course is to make direct links between principles of ecological theory and applied aspects of natural resource management. 

In this course, students consider what an increasingly democratic GIS might look like. They gain hands-on experience with tools and theories that aim to make GIS a more inclusive technology by working with spatial data in the open-source programming language R. 

This course covers sources, transport and transformation processes, impacts, prevention, and mitigation of the major categories of water pollution. It includes policy and management approaches required by the Clean Water Act and state law. Additional work is required for students registered in the graduate-level course.