The faculty in the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture offer a program leading to the M.S. degree in Environmental Resources. Areas of study are offered in natural resource management and range ecology.
The faculty in the school also participate in offering the Ph.D. in Environmental Design and Planning program. See “Doctor of Philosophy” for information on the Ph.D. degree.
MASTER OF SCIENCE
Admission. Applicants to the program are expected to meet the minimum requirements for admission to the Graduate College. In addition, scores from the Graduate Record Examination or Miller Analogies Test are required. Applicants are expected to have completed 18 semester hours in environmental sciences or closely related courses. Applicants not meeting these requirements may be considered for admission with deficiencies.
Submit the following separate application materials to:
Application Deadlines. For fall enrollment, application materials are due in the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture and the Graduate College on March 15.
For spring enrollment, application materials are due in the School of Planning and Landscape Architecture and the Graduate College on October 15.
Selection Procedures and Notifications. School faculty evaluate the applications and supporting materials and recommend to the Graduate College whether the applicant should be granted regular or provisional admission or if admission should be denied. If admission is provisional, the Graduate College specifies in its letter of admission the provisions to be met to gain regular status. The school informs successful applicants of the procedures for enrollment.
Program of Study. A minimum of 30 semester hours of approved graduate course work is required. All students are required to complete a 13-semester-hour core curriculum. First-year students are expected to complete ERS 550 Vegetation Dynamics Studio, ERS 591 Environmental Resources Seminar, and ERS 594 CW: Environmental Resources Statistics. Second-year students are required to complete ERS 591 in the fall semester. Students can complete ERS 485 GIS in Natural Resources or ERS 486 Remote Sensing in Environmental Resources (or an approved substitute if the student has previously taken both ERS 485 and 486) at any time during their residence. All students are also expected to complete a minimum of three semester hours of research and three semester hours of thesis. The remaining hours (11 semester hours) are chosen to support the student’s educational objectives.
Foreign Language Requirements. None.
Comprehensive Examinations. None.
Thesis Requirements. A thesis is required.
Final Examinations. A final oral examination covering the thesis and related subject matter is required.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
Faculty and graduate students in Environmental Resources are active in a number of research programs, including applications of geographic information systems to resource management, monitoring of ecological change, wildlife habitat ecology, vegetation dynamics, fire ecology, soil ecology, and ecosystem restoration. Range ecology studies investigate various problems, from shrub control and hydrologic research in Arizona chaparral to the use of microcomputers in field data acquisition and the effects of power plant emission on vegetation. Other research has considered the relationships between both livestock and wildlife and their environments.
Omnibus Graduate Courses: See omnibus graduate courses that may be offered.
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