The Outdoor Recreation and Resource Management track is designed for students who are interested in the creation, management, and use of natural areas, including parks, reserves, and wilderness areas. This track prepares students for careers with the National Park Service and with other governmental and non-governmental organizations devoted to the conservation and preservation of natural areas, and graduate school. Courses that could be taken for specializing in this track include, but are not limited to:
GEOG 3153: Conservation of Natural Resources
GEOG 4003: Natural Hazards and Society
GEOG 4023: Geography of Arid Lands
GEOG 4053: Biogeography
GEOG 4113: Cultural and Political Ecology
GEOG 4143: Geography of Travel and Tourism
GEOG 4153: Geography of Outdoor Recreation
GEOG 4163: Resource Management in the National Parks
GEOG 4213: Sport, Place and Society
GEOG 4333: Remote Sensing
GEOG 4343: GIS: Resource Management Applications
GEOG 4353: GIS: Socioeconomic Applications
Some examples of courses in other departments that could be taken towards this track are:
NREM 1012: Introduction to Natural Resource Ecology and Management
RMTR 4453*: Outdoor Education
RMTR 4553*: Tourism in Recreation Settings
RMTR 4473*: Recreation in the Natural Environment
NREM 4043*: Natural Resource Administration and Policy
NREM 4053*: Natural Resource Recreation
NREM 4093: Natural Resources, People and Sustainable Development