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SPECIALIZATION IN NATURAL RESOURCE RECREATION
The Specialization in Natural Resource Recreation is available as an elective to students who are enrolled in bachelor’s degree programs at Michigan State University. It includes the management of land, water, forests, fisheries and wildlife, and agriculture and is targeted toward students considering careers in public parks and recreation, commercial recreation enterprise management, forestry, fisheries, wildlife, criminal justice (conservation or recreation law enforcement), environmental policy, environmental management, landscape architecture, and agriculture. This specialization offers an opportunity for students to integrate study of social, biological and physical sciences, natural resources and ecosystems for the management of outdoor recreation.
 
Requirements for the Specialization in Natural Resource Recreation

Course # Course Name Credits
     
  1. One of the following  
PRR 210 Our National Parks and Recreation Lands 3
PRR 302 Environmental Attitudes and Concepts 3
  2. One of the following 3-4
ANS 110 Introductory Animal Agriculture 4
CSS 101 Introduction to Crop Science 3
FOR 202 Introduction to Forestry 3
FW 205 Principles of Fisheries and Wildlife Management 3
PRR 213 Introduction to Parks, Recreation and Leisure 3
ESA 200 Introduction to Environmental Studies and Agriscience 3
  3. Two of the following courses, one of which is outside the student’s requirements for the major 5-7
CSS 210 Fundamentals of Soil Science 3
FOR 404 Forest and Agricultural Ecology 3
FOR 412 Wildland Fire 2
FOR 466 Natural Resource Policy 3
FW 419 Applications of GIS Natural Resources Management 4
FW 443 Restoration Ecology 3
GEO 221 Introduction to Geographic Information 3
PRR 388 Physical Resource Management in Parks, Recreation and Tourism 3
PRR 451 Interpretation and Visitor Information Systems 3
PRR 474 The Tourism System 3
ESA 324 Water Resource Management 3
ESA 430 Environmental and natural Resource Law 3
ZOL 355 Ecology 3
  4. Both of the following 6
PRR 448 Foundations of Natural Resource Based Recreation Management 3
PRR 449 Natural Resource Based Recreation Management Applications 3
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Upon completion of the requirements for the Specialization in Natural Resource Recreation, the student should contact the Chairperson of the Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resource Studies (CARRS) and request certification for the completion of the specialization. After the certification is approved by the Chairperson of CARRS and the Director of Academic Affairs of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the Office of the Registrar will enter on the student’s academic record the name of the specialization and the date that it was completed. This certification will appear on the student’s transcript.