2010-2011 UF Graduate Catalog (PDF Format) - Graduate School ...

University of Florida Graduate School
Ph.D.) in forest resources and conservation.
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Combined programs: The School offers a combined
bachelor's/master's degree program, which allows qualified students
to earn both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree with a
savings of 1 semester. Ph.D. students may pursue a co-major with
the Department of Statistics (see below).
Concentration in geomatics: Students completing 15 or more
credits with an SUR designation, as part of an SFRC graduate
degree, may earn the concentration in geomatics. Geomatics is the
collection, analysis, and management of spatial information and
includes such fields as surveying, mapping, land tenure, cadastral
systems, geographic information systems, and remote sensing.
Statistics co-major: Ph.D. students with the School may elect the
co-major offered jointly with the Department of Statistics. Students
focusing on forest genetics, tree improvement, and other statisticsintensive
aspects of natural resource management are potential
candidates for this option.
Certificates: The School administers the Graduate Certificate in
Agroforestry, and SFRC students regularly earn certificates in
Geographic Information Systems and in Environmental Education
and Communication. Requirements are described under
Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificates and Concentrations in this
catalog.
For additional information, visit the School's web page at
http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu.
For details on what terms courses will be offered, visit,
http://www.sfrc.ufl.edu/gcourses.html.
FNR 5072C: Environmental Education Program Development
(3) Comprehensive approach, from needs assessment to evaluation,
applied to youth-based, nonformal environmental education.
Required field trip and group project. Offered fall term of oddnumbered
years.
FNR 5335: Agroforestry (3) Biological, ecological, socioeconomic,
and technical-managerial aspects of tree/crop, tree/animal, and
tree/crop/animal systems. Examples of traditional and modern,
rotational, and intercropped systems, and analyses of their
structure, functioning, and potentials, with special reference to the
tropics and subtropics. Offered spring term.
FNR 5462: Spatial Models and Decision Analysis () Prereq: FOR
3434C, basic statistics, or instructor permission. Environmental
modeling in a spatial context using descriptive and prescriptive tools
and spatial reasoning.
FNR 5608: Research Planning (3) Prereq: consent of instructor.
Required for all new M.S. students. History and philosophy of
science, scientific method, development of a research proposal.