All students must meet the Degree and University Requirements.
All students must meet the Catamount Core Curriculum Requirements.
All students must meet the Rubenstein Core Curriculum Requirements.
Major Requirements
The Forestry major provides students with an education in ecologically responsible forestry, emphasizing the complex landscapes of the northeastern United States. Students develop their abilities to coordinate and manage all aspects of sustainable forestry through an education that combines a strong foundation in natural and social sciences with hands-on field-based classes, internships, research experiences, and forest management projects. This Society of American Foresters accredited curriculum is integrative, technologically current, and science-based.
Students supplement a core of required forestry and related courses with a student-proposed, faculty-approved area of concentration1 such as forest ecosystem health, forest ecology, consulting forestry, public forest administration, or international development.
The concentration represents at least nine credits and can be fulfilled by a self-designed sequence of course work2, an appropriate university minor, or a natural resource oriented study abroad experience.
Forestry majors are required to complete a 3-credit internship experience that requires approval by the Forestry Program Director. Experiences must include learning objectives and activities directly related to the major and include substantive deliverables that demonstrate a depth of academic knowledge and disciplinary practice.
A total of 120 credits is required for the degree.
| Requirement Description | Credits | |
|---|---|---|
| ALE 2610 | Fundamentals of Soil Science | 4 |
| CHEM 1100 | Outline: General Chem w/lab | 4 |
| FOR 1090 | Introduction to Forestry | 1 |
| FOR 1210 | Dendrology | 4 |
| FOR 2110 | Nat Res Ecol and Assessment 1 | 4 |
| FOR 2120 | Nat Res Ecol and Assessment 2 | 4 |
| FOR 2220 | Forest Ecosystem Analysis 3 | 4 |
| FOR 2570 | Wildland Fire | 3 |
| FOR 2991 | Internship | 3 |
| or FOR 3991 | Internship | |
| FOR 3230 | Multi-Resource Silviculture | 4 |
| FOR 3330 | Woodlot Mgt & Forest Ops | 4 |
| FOR 3350 | Forest Ecosystem Health | 3 |
| FOR 4720 | Sustain Mgmt Forest Ecosys | 4 |
| MATH 1088 | Numbers for Naturalists | 3 |
| NR 2100 | Environmental Communication | 3 |
| NR 2400 | Applied Environ Statistics | 4 |
| or STAT 1410 | Basic Statistical Methods 1 | |
| NR 2430 | Intro to Geog Info Systems | 3 |
| A course in economics or ecological economics 4 | 3 | |
| SEP 2410 | Intro to Ecological Economics | 3 |
| or ECON 1450 | Principles of Microeconomics | |
| PBIO 1040 | Intro to Botany | 4-8 |
| or BIOL 1400 & BIOL 1450 | Principles of Biology 1 and Principles of Biology 2 | |
| or BIOL 1000 & BIOL 1005 | AP Biology 1 and AP Biology 2 | |
| At least 9 additional credits in the area of concentration 1, 2 | 9-12 | |
| Additional Options: 5 | ||
| Independent Study | ||
or FOR 2995 | Undergraduate Research | |
or FOR 3993 | Independent Study | |
or FOR 3995 | Undergraduate Research | |
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The student-proposed concentration must be endorsed by the student’s advisor and approved by the Forestry faculty prior to the last three semesters of study.
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The self-designed sequence of course work for the student's concentration should be at least six credits at the 2000-level or higher.
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The field intensive course, FOR 2220, is offered only during the summer session.
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Or an advisor approved economics course.
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Up to 3 credits of FOR 2993, FOR 2995, FOR 3993 or FOR 3995 can be applied towards major if a relevant experiential learning plan has been approved by the Program Director prior to the start of the experience.