TCD Certificate and Concentration Curriculum
Currently Offered TCD Courses
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Interdisciplinary Core Courses (6-9 credit hours)
TCD offers interdisciplinary core courses in three different categories: tropical conservation and development concepts, conservation and development skills, and research methods. An additional core course, Tropical Conservation and Development Practicum, offers academic credit for professional experience outside the classroom.
MALAS students and Ph.D. students from affiliate departments must take LAS 6290 (or the equivalent) and LAS 6291 plus one additional core course. This additional course may be any of the following: LAS 6290, LAS 6291, LAS 6292, or LAS 6905 (Tropical Conservation and Development Practicum).
Master's students from affiliate departments must take two core courses: LAS 6290 (or the equivalent) and LAS 6291.
Tropical Conservation and Development Concepts
GEO 6938 Management of Protected Areas in Africa and the Americas
GEO 6938 Community Conservation and Rural Development in Africa
EVR 6320 Principles of Natural Resource Management
LAS 6290 The Amazon
LAS 6290/FOR 6934 Community Forest Management
LAS 6290/GEO 6938 Land Use/Land Cover Change
LAS 6290/GEO 6375 Land Change Seminar
Conservation and Development Skills
LAS 6291 Conflict and Collaboration Management
LAS 6291 Facilitation Skills for Adaptive Management
LAS 6291 Policy Reform for Conservation and Sustainable Development
LAS 6291 Conservation Entrepreneurship
Research Methods
LAS 6292 TCD Research Methods
LAS 6292/FOR 6934 Field Skills for Forest Conservation
TCD Practicum
LAS 6905 Tropical Conservation and Development Practicum
Tropical Ecology Courses (3 credit hours)
All students take three credit hours from the following list:
AGR 5511 Crop Ecology
AGR 5277c Tropical Crop Production
AGR 6233c Tropical Pasture and Forage Science
ALS 5136 Agricultural Ecology Principles and Applications
BOT 5685 Tropical Botany
BOT 6935 Ecology and Natural History of the Tropics
BOT 6935 Principles of Ecosystem Ecology
BOT 6935 Tropical Ecology
BOT 6951/PCB 6347c Tropical Biology (8 credits; off‐campus OTS course)
EES 5305 Ecological and General Systems
FAS 6337c Fish Population Dynamics (4 credits)
FNR 5335 Agroforestry
FOR 6170 Tropical Forestry
PCB 5046 Advanced Ecology
PCB 6356c Ecosystems of the Tropics
PCB 6447c Community Ecology
SOS 5050 Soils for Environmental Professionals
SOS 5132 Tropical Soils Management
WIS 5555 Conservation Biology
WIS 6452 Wildlife Ecology
WIS 6453 Wildlife and Agriculture
WIS 6464 Wildlife Habitat Analysis
WIS 6468c Pattern and Process in Landscape Ecology
WIS 6934 Introduction to Tropical Ecology and Conservation
Social Science Courses (3 credit hours)
All students must take three credit hours from the following list. Students from natural science departments must take these hours outside of their major department:
AEB 5167 Economic Analysis in Small Farm Livelihood Systems
AEB 6453 Natural Resource Economics
AEB 6483 Seminar in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
AEB 6645 Economic Development and Agriculture
AEB 6933 Ecological Economics
AEE 5073 Ag Resources, People, Environment
AEE 6316 International Extension
AFS 6905 Migration and Development
ANG 5266 Economic Anthropology
ANG 5303 Women and Development
ANG 5354 Anthropology of Modern Africa
ANG 5701 Applied Anthropology
ANG 5702 Anthropology and Development
ANG 6261 Anthro GIS and Human Environment
ANG 6303 Gender and International Development
ANG 6930 Ethnobotany
ANG 6930 Historical Ecology
ANT 5256 Rural Peoples in the Modern World
CPO 6036 Politics of Developing Societies
CPO 6077 Comparative Social Movements
ENV 6932 Global Environment and Policies
FOR 5615 Forest Conservation and Management Issues and Policy
FOR 6934 Conservation Behavior FOR 6934 Education for Sustainability
FYC 6230 Theory in Community Development
GEA 6419 Geography of South America
GEA 6466 Geography of Amazonia
GEO 5809 Geography of World Agriculture
GEO 6118 Contemporary Geographic Thought
GEO 6931 Seminar on Cultural and Political Ecology
GEO 6938 Cultural and Political Ecology
GEO 6938 Economics for Conservation
GEO 6938 Food and Agriculture in Africa
GEO 6938 Seminar on Climate Change
INR 6039 International Political Economy
INR 6352 International Environmental Relations
LAH 5527 Andean Nations
LAH 5934 History of Amazonia
LAS 6220 Issues and Perspectives in Latin America
LAS 6938 Cuban Agriculture
LEI 5255 Outdoor Recreation and Park Management
LEI 6834 Ecotourism
PAD 6865 Development Administration
POL 6933 Peasants
POS 6933 Policy of Development
POS 6933 Water Politics
PUP 6008 Public Policy Analysis
PUP 6015 Comparative Policy Analysis
PUR 6934 Communication for Development and Social Change
REL 5195 Religion, Ethics and Nature
REL 5937 Religion and Nature in Latin America
REL 6037 Nature in Western Religions
REL 6107 Core Seminar Religion and Nature
REL 6125 Religion and Politics in the Americas
REL 6181 Ethics and Natural Sciences
REL 6183 Religion and Environmental Ethics
REL 6358 Native Religions of the Americas
REL 6387 Religions in Latin America
SUR 6427 Land Tenure and Administration
SYA 7933 Seminar on Environment and Society
WIS 6578 Human Dimensions of Biological Conservation
WST 6348 Ecofeminism
WST 6935 Gender, Development, and Globalization
Course Substitutions
Course substitutions can only be made with prior approval from the TCD Program. To request a course substitution, send an e-mail message to TCD Academic Adviser, Marianne Schmink (fall 2009) or Emilio Bruna (spring 2010), explaining the proposed substitution. Attach an electronic copy of the alternate course syllabus