Nov 18, 2024

2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Insect and Wildlife Environmental Education (MS)

Program Educational Goals:

Develop age appropriate curricula focused on various fauna.
Determine how to engage both live and virtual audiences with scientific content.
Learn how to design effective learning assessments.
Develop organizational skills for designing and implementing curricula that builds on scientific concepts.
Takes responsibility for their learners’ learning and uses ongoing analysis and reflection using current research, education, and policy to improve their planning and practice.

Program Policy Document:

Please see the Program Policy Document for more information.

Requirements for the Degree:

The program requires 30 credits of graduate-level coursework, including 4 core courses for 18 credits and 12 credits of restricted electives.

Core:

EDUC 641 - Teaching Science in the Middle School Credit(s): 3
ENWC 642 - Insect and Wildlife Ecology Environmental Education Internship Credit(s): 9
ENWC 643 - Growing Young Naturalists Credit(s): 3
ENWC 656 - Conservation Biology Credit(s): 3

Electives:

Education Group:

Six credits from the following:

EDUC 613 - Adolescent Development and Educational Psychology Credit(s): 3
EDUC 614 - Teaching Exceptional Adolescents Credit(s): 3
EDUC 619 - Diversity in Secondary Education Credit(s): 3
EDUC 678 - Topics in Education Credit(s): 3
SCEN 650 - Scientific Inquiry for Current and Future Teachers Credit(s): 3

Taxonomy Group:

Three credits minimum from the following:

ENWC 606 - Insect Identification - Taxonomy Credit(s): 4
ENWC 618 - Ornithology Credit(s): 3
ENWC 624 - Herpetology Credit(s): 3
ENWC 625 - Mammalogy Credit(s): 3

Ecology and Conservation Group:

Three credits from the following:

ENWC 616 - Wildlife Habitat Management Credit(s): 3
ENWC 620 - Behavioral Ecology Credit(s): 3
ENWC 622 - Landscape Ecology Credit(s): 3
ENWC 623 - Pollination Ecology Credit(s): 3
ENWC 626 - Aquatic Insects Credit(s): 3
ENWC 628 - Disease Ecology Credit(s): 3
ENWC 635 - Population Ecology Credit(s): 3

Credits to Total a Minimum of 30

Last Revised for 2022-2023 Academic Year