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University of New Hampshire 1 CEP 508 - Applied Community Development NATURAL RESOURCES AND Credits: 4 Students work in an actual community, assisting individuals and groups THE ENVIRONMENT to identify needs and problems, establish attainable and objective goals, assess requirements and resources, and formulate programs for The Department of Natural Resources and the Environment integrates the development and methods of collection, analysis, and integration of applied social sciences and natural resources sciences, enabling a more pertinent primary and secondary economic, social, political, and physical holistic, integrated approach to education, research, and outreach about data for community development. Prereq: CEP 415 or permission. Lab. use and conservation of resources. Equivalent(s): CD 508 Grade Mode: Letter Grade We offer a bachelor of science degree in the following areas: • Community and Environmental Planning CEP 614 - Fundamentals of Planning Credits: 4 • Environmental Conservation and Sustainability Community planning process in nonmetropolitan communities; practical • Environmental and Resource Economics application of planning techniques. Communities' components: housing, • Environmental Sciences jobs, schools, recreation, transportation, community appearance, • Forestry (B.S.F.) and the administrative structure for planning. Use of planning tools: • Wildlife and Conservation Biology data gathering and analysis, the master plan, zoning and subdivision regulations, community development programs. Prereq: EREC 411; We offer an associate of applied science degree in the following CEP 415;/or permission. area: Attributes: Writing Intensive Course • Forest Technology (A.A.S.) Grade Mode: Letter Grade https://colsa.unh.edu/natural-resources-environment CEP 672 - Fundamentals of Real Estate Credits: 4 This course covers timely subjects in National and regional real estate, Programs such as types of property ownership, easements, financing, contracts, appraisal, brokerage, property listings, commissions, fair housing, and • Community and Environmental Planning (CEP) property management. The goal of this class is to prepare students to • Environmental Conservation and Sustainability pass the New Hampshire Real Estate Sales Agent License Exam and/or • Environmental Sciences be knowledgeable real estate investors. Prereq: MATH 420 or higher. Equivalent(s): CD 672, NR 672 • Environmental and Resource Economics (EREC) Grade Mode: Letter Grade • Forestry CEP 673 - Green Real Estate • Wildlife and Conservation Biology Credits: 4 This class covers issues related to existing and new real estate Courses development with respect to history, law (state statutes and federal legislation), economics, and technology. The course looks at impacts of green development from an individual building level, and out to regional Community & Environmental Planning and global levels. We look at common problems and solutions, review (CEP) case studies, and discuss emerging trends in "green development." Grade Mode: Letter Grade CEP 415 - Community Development Perspectives Credits: 4 CEP 777 - Topics in Community Planning Introduces students to a range of community development and Credits: 4 environmental planning issues facing communities as they undergo Advanced treatment of the concepts and tools required for effective social, economic, and environmental change. Through class discussion local and regional planning to guide land use, capital investment in and examination of case studies, this course instills basic principles infrastructure, and organization for service delivery. Prereq: CEP 614 or and processes of community development and environmental planning, permission. formulation, and conflict resolution. Community and environmental Attributes: Writing Intensive Course planning topics covered in the course include land use conflict, urban/ Grade Mode: Letter Grade suburban sprawl, rural development, economic development, local food systems, community infrastructure, and environmental stewardship. Emphasis is placed on the roles and responsibilities of community development professionals, including land use planners, municipal administrators, and community leaders. Attributes: Social Science (Discovery) Equivalent(s): CD 415 Grade Mode: Letter Grade 2 Natural Resources and the Environment CEP 794 - Community and Environmental Planning Internship EREC #535 - Being a Locavore Credits: 4-12 Credits: 4 Fieldwork in a planning office for student’s professional development. Explores the growth of the Locavore movement in the United States, Student must be supervised by a qualified planner or faculty-approved starting with the evolution of the mainstream agricultural system. Topics supervisor throughout the internship and remain in consultation with a such as the Agricultural Adjustment Act, farm subsidies, the development faculty advisor. A Memorandum of Understanding between the student, of mono-culture large scale farms, as well as the Magnuson-Stevens the internship supervisor, and the faculty advisor, as well as midterm Act and the current state of fisheries. Ethical, economic, and social and final written reports are required. May be taken for 4 credits with phenomenon will be discussed, followed by nutrition, and environmental 150 hours of internship up to a maximum of 12 credits for 450 hours of impacts. Students will keep a food journal, which will be used as a basis internship. Cr/F. to source, budget, and plan for years of eating local food. The class Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credits. concludes with an investigation into the growing trend of local farmers' Equivalent(s): CD 794 markets, CSAs, and on farm sales. How and why more and more people Grade Mode: Credit/Fail are going local and perhaps becoming "Locavores". CEP 795 - Investigations Attributes: Social Science (Discovery) Credits: 2-4 Grade Mode: Letter Grade Special assignments in readings, investigations, or field problems, or EREC 572 - Introduction to Natural Resource Economics teaching experience. May be repeated. Prereq: permission. Credits: 4 Equivalent(s): CD 795, CD 795W, CEP 795W Introduces theory, methods of analysis, and current literature of natural Grade Mode: Letter Grade resource economics and policy. Topics include multiple use, taxation, optimal harvest scheduling, market failure, property rights, public goods, Environmental & Resource Economics benefit-cost analysis, amenity values, non-market resource services and natural resource policy. Topics applied to forests and forestry, wildlife (EREC) management, outdoor recreation, public lands, agriculture, fisheries, EREC 411 - Environmental and Resource Economics Perspectives water, energy and mining/nonrenewable resources. Credits: 4 Grade Mode: Letter Grade Microeconomic theory and analysis in resource management and use EREC #600 - Field Experience decisions. Survey of significant resource problems from an economic Credits: 1-4 perspective and the application of economic analysis. A supervised experience providing the opportunity to apply academic Attributes: Social Science (Discovery) experience in settings associated with future professional employment Mutual Exclusion: No credit for students who have taken ECN 412, and/or related graduate opportunities. Must be approved by a faculty ECN 412W, ECON 402, ECON 402A, ECON 402H. advisor selected by the student. Prereq: permission. Cr/F. Grade Mode: Letter Grade Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits. EREC 444 - The New Pirates of the Caribbean Equivalent(s): EREC 600W, RECO 600 Credits: 4 Grade Mode: Credit/Fail Inquiry into many facets of tourism from the standpoint of tourists and EREC 601 - Agribusiness Economics and Management tour destination. Economic and institutional factors affecting human Credits: 4 well-being from the use of land and water resources; discussions of Applications of economic and management principles in production, distributional aspects of benefits from tourism activities.; environmental marketing, finance, and other operational decisions facing small impacts; ownership patterns and uses; cultural attributes; and local agribusiness firms. Prereq: EREC 411 or ECON 402 or equivalent. economies in small Caribbean island nations. Cruise ships, time-shares, Grade Mode: Letter Grade all-inclusive resorts, hurricanes, casinos, bars, rum, sex, and drugs are investigated through extensive readings and web surfing. EREC 606 - Land Economics Perspectives: Uses, Policies, and Taxes Attributes: World Cultures(Discovery); Inquiry (Discovery); Writing Credits: 4 Intensive Course Economic and institutional perspectives affecting human use of land Grade Mode: Letter Grade resources; discussion of land ownership patterns and uses; land rent, location, and resource use; institutional constraints; partial ownership EREC 525 - Statistical Methods and Applications policies; and local planning for more efficient use of land. Real estate Credits: 4 markets, transfers, valuation, and taxation. Prereq: EREC 411 or Applications of elementary statistical concepts and methods including equivalent or permission. probability, descriptive techniques, statistical inference and bivariate Equivalent(s): RECO 606 and multivariate statistical analysis. Orientation is toward analysis Grade Mode: Letter Grade and interpretation of data commonly encountered in social science disciplines. EREC 627 - Community Economics Attributes: Quantitative Reasoning(Disc) Credits: 4 Mutual Exclusion: No credit for students who have taken ADM 430, ADMN Economic
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