Rangeland and Wildlife Management, M.S.
The 30 credit hour requirement is met through major core, major research, and major elective courses. A minimum of 18 credit hours in graduate level RWSC and/or WSCI courses, and six (6) hours of quantitative analysis statistic-based courses is required toward the RWSC Master of Science degree. Also, up to six (6) hours of free elective courses may count toward the credit hour requirement.
Students who receive a graduate stipend must be enrolled as a full-time student each semester. Research hours (5399 or 6999) can be taken to fulfill the obligation of being a full-time graduate student; however, research hours do not count toward formal course work hours.
To graduate, M.S. students must pass an oral defense and produce a thesis of a quality acceptable to their graduate committee. Students have up to two attempts to pass their oral defense.
| Code | Title | Semester Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirements | 6 | |
| Select two courses from the following: | ||
| Experimental Design & Analysis | ||
| Applied Regression Analysis | ||
| Practical Non-Parametric Stats | ||
| Applied Multivariate Analysis | ||
Any other graduate-level statistics course. | ||
| Thesis Requirement | ||
| RWSC 5306 | Thesis | 3 |
| RWSC 5306 | Thesis | 3 |
| Approved Electives | 12-18 | |
| Select 12-18 hours of coursework from the following: | ||
| Biopolitics, PR & Wildlife Law | ||
| Remote Sensing for Wildlife St | ||
| Restoration Ecology | ||
| Wildlife Nutrition | ||
| Wildlife Conservation Biol | ||
| Wildlife Research Methods | ||
| Waterfowl Ecology & Management | ||
| Wildlife Habitat Mgmt | ||
| Adv Studies Range and Nat Res | ||
| Ecosys Function and Management | ||
| Grazing Management | ||
| Probs in Range and Wldlfe Mgt | ||
| Avian Community Ecology | ||
| Wildlife Diseases | ||
| Experimental Design & Analysis | ||
| Applied Regression Analysis | ||
| Practical Non-Parametric Stats | ||
| Applied Multivariate Analysis | ||
| Wildlife Population Ecology | ||
| Free Electives | 0-6 | |
| Select 0-6 hours of graduate-level coursework in BIOL, GEOG/GIS, ANSC, RWSC, PLSS, or RAMT. | ||
| TOTAL | 30 Credits | |