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NRMT 389 Internship, 3 credits
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits. Formerly AGRI 389. Students are placed in work experiences related to their stated career goals for a minimum of eight hours a week for a semester. Each student must do an in-depth study in some portion of the work experience and produce a special project and report related to this study. A student work log is also required. An evaluation from the external supervisor of the project will be required. Organizations at which our students have completed internships!

NRMT 470 Natural Resources Management 4 credits
Course Syllabus
85 semester hours. For NRMT majors only. Field work and independent research on watersheds. Intensive seminar on resource management planning and report preparation. Projects completed by students.

NRMT 479 Tropical Ecology and Resource Management 1-6 credits
Course Syllabus
Prerequisites: BSCI106, an introductory economics course, and permission of instructor. Repeatable to 10 credits if content differs. Tropical ecosystems and issues of human use and impact. Includes lectures which lead up to an off-campus trip in a tropical environment.

MEES 698D Introduction to Ecological Engineering, 3 credits
 Course Syllabus
This course is a survey of the discipline of ecological engineering which deals with the use of constructed ecosystems for the solution of environmental problems.  Ecological engineering designs are usually more cost effective and environmentally compatible compared with conventional technologies, which makes them attractive.  The course focuses on engineering principles and their application to the design, construction and operation of domestic ecosystems. However, this is also a course on theoretical ecology because it deals with new ecosystems that have never existed before. In this regard, one important hypothesis that will be explored during the course is that the action of building an ecosystem provides information about ecology that would not have been available from other scientific methods.