BEC degree requirements

Degree requirements

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Requirements

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BEC core

Field of Study Specialization

No less than two from BEC List A

Field of Study Breadth

 

At least one additional course

From BEC List A or B

NRE core

NRE 509 (Natural Systems Core)
NRE 510 (Social Systems Core)
NRE 580 (Environmental Assessment)
[School-wide requirement]

Total of 10 credits hours

Electives

Electives

Must be a graduate level course at 400-level or above

Analytics

Analytics
[School-Wide Requirement]

NRE 538 - Natural Resource Statistics or equivalent and one additional analytics course from the BEC Analytics list

Opus or Non-Opus

Opus
[School-wide requirement]

Option 1: At most 6 credit hours of NRE 700/ NRE 701.

Option 2: 6 credit hours of advanced course work including at least 1 BEC seminar (600 level), and one skills module, and or any remaining credit hours taken as courses from BEC lists A & B

Cognates

Minimum 4 credit hours outside of SNRE
[Rackham requirement]

Can be double counted with other degree requirements.

TOTALS

TOTAL "NRE" CREDIT HOURS

Minimum 25 credit hours

 

TOTAL CREDIT HOURS

Minimum 42 credit hours

*Any waiver or substitution of degree requirement must be approved by the appropriate faculty and submitted to OAP.