The NRM BA degree will provide entry-level working professionals with the real-world, interdisciplinary skills and knowledge needed for careers in natural resource and environmental management. Through academic coursework, internships and mentorships with environmental organizations, and experiential capstones, students will develop knowledge of core natural resource and environmental management, planning, and leadership concepts while acquiring hands-on experience with real-life case studies directly related to their professional interests. Students will receive in-depth training in leadership development, program planning management, economic and policy analysis, and conservation science and management. The two emphasis areas allow students to focus their studies on their academic interests and employment market needs.
Why Consider a Natural Resources Management (Extension) Major?
Do you want to make a difference in protecting the environment and the public good, as well as diversify access to resources for everyone? WWU'S College of the Environment's BA degree in Natural Resource Management focuses on the policies and practices that make that happen. The program focuses on resource sustainability and environmental resilience, while at the same time querying positionalities and cultural-economic lenses around resource access in diverse populations and landscapes.
The program focuses on problem solving and implementing shared visions to effect laws and policies that monitor and manage environmental and climate change. Such laws and policies protect diverse, culturally appropriate, health-driven, economically viable landscapes – in the United States and throughout the world. We are proud to offer this degree to our students and to continue our program's strong community partnerships, worldwide, in which students apply their learning to assist communities in organizing for sustainable futures.
About the Program
This major supports students in exploring how stakeholders attempt to regulate pollution, manage (for the long-term) natural resources, protect natural spaces, and counter environmental disturbances. It emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to solving urban problems that face communities. Students can choose an emphasis: Climate/Energy, Land Use, and Food Security.
With sustainability and climate change on the forefront of humanity's greatest social and ethical problems, students studying natural resource management will acquire knowledge on "how" government works, and how to be most effect in solving global issues.
The program prepares students with the knowledge and skills needed to make positive changes towards a socially and environmentally just world. Graduates are prepared for professional careers in policy agencies, consulting firms, and nonprofit organizations at the local, state, and federal levels of government, as well as for advanced graduate study.
