5 courses with the subject FWSC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
FWSC 4420Principles of Wildlife Management3
This course will cover historical and current concepts in wildlife management. An emphasis will be placed on the new challenges that face wildlife managers in a variety of environmental settings. The course will include the economic and social context of scientific wildlife management for a variety wildlife species in a variety of habitats.
A combination of lectures, labs, and field trips will emphasize fisheries management in North America, including both freshwater and marine systems. Lectures will include fisheries resources, aquatic habitats, population dynamics, laws and regulations, aquaculture, conservation, and current fisheries issues. Labs will emphasize collection methods.
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the philosophies and concepts of aquaculture. Topics to be covered include water treatment systems; recirculating and flow through aquaculture systems; integrated aquaculture; finfish and shellfish aquaculture; fish health and disease; and the economics and politics of aquaculture.
This course will focus on the history of current federal laws, policies, and programs, and include discussions of the roles of various resource management agencies. The course will focus on related natural resources administration and policies in the United States but will include aspects of international law and policy as they affect North America’s resources. The course will cover the historical context of U.S. natural resource policy including the history of land acquisition and disposition by the federal government and the creation of the public domain including the National Parks, National Forests, Wildlife Refuges, and Bureau of Land Management Lands.
This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of theoretical and applied aspects of animal population dynamics. Emphasis will be placed on principles and techniques used by fisheries and wildlife biologists to quantify and to predict populations of vertebrate animals.
