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Legacy Course Guide

Below is a list of ECCB courses and former prefix/name along with the semester taught. For additional information on courses not listed below that formerly had ESSM, RENR, or WFSC prefixes, please contact the department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management.

Legacy Course New Course Name Semester Taught Credits Type 
ESSM 203 ECCB 203 Forest Trees of North America fall 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 291 ECCB 291 Research fall/spring/summer 0 Res 
ESSM 291 ECCB 291 Research fall/spring/summer  Res 
ESSM 300 ECCB 325 Field Studies in Forest Ecosystems summer (10-week) 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 303 ECCB 312 Agrostology fall 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 304 ECCB 301 Diversity and Evolution of Plants spring 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 306 no longer taught Plant Functional Ecology and Adaptation inactivated 3 Lec 
ESSM 307 ECCB 307 Forest Protection spring 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 308 ECCB 308 Fundamentals of Environmental Decision-Making spring 3 Lec 
ESSM 309 ECCB 309 Forest Ecology fall 3 Lec 
ESSM 310 ECCB 310 Forest Tree Physiology and Breeding spring 3 Lec 
ESSM 311 ECCB 303 Fire Ecology and Biogeochemistry fall/spring 3 Lec 
ESSM 318 ECCB 318 Coupled Social and Ecological Systems not currently offered 3 Lec 
ESSM 319 ECCB 319 Principles of Forestry fall 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 320 ECCB 320 Ecosystem Restoration and Management fall 3 Lec 
ESSM 324 ECCB 324 Forest Measurements spring 2 Lab 
ESSM 351 ECCB 351 Geographic Information Systems for Resource Management fall/spring 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 405 ECCB 405 Forest Resource Assessment and Management spring 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 416 ECCB 416 Fire Ecology and Natural Resource Management see ECCB program coordinator 3 Lec 
ESSM 417 ECCB 417 Prescribed Fire spring (odd yrs) 4 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 420 ECCB 420 Ecological Restoration of Wetland and Riparian Systems see ECCB program coordinator 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 430 ECCB 430 Advanced Restoration Ecology fall 3 Lec 
ESSM 444 ECCB 444 Remote Sensing of the Environment fall 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 446 ECCB 446 Drones for Environmental Remote Sensing spring (odd yrs) 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 459 ECCB 407 Programming for Spatial Data Applications see ECCB program coordinator 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 462 ECCB 406 Advanced GIS Analysis for Natural Resources Management not currently offered 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 481 no longer taught Senior Seminar see advisor 1 Sem 
ESSM 484 ECCB 484 Internship fall/spring/summer  Ind 
ESSM 491 ECCB 491 Research fall/spring/summer  Res 
ESSM 605 ECCB 605 The Research Process fall 2 Lec 
ESSM 621 ECCB 621 Physiological Plant Ecology fall (even yrs) 3 Lec 
ESSM 622 ECCB 622 Biogeochemistry of Terrestrial Ecosystems not currently offered 3 Lec 
ESSM 624 ECCB 607 Terrestrial Ecosystems and Global Change not currently offered 3 Lec 
ESSM 626 ECCB 626 Fire Ecology not currently offered 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 631 ECCB 620 Ecological Restoration of Wetland and Riparian Systems not currently offered 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 633 ECCB 633 Coastal Processes and Ecosystem Management spring 3 Lec 
ESSM 635 ECCB 635 Ecohydrology spring 3 Lec 
ESSM 646 ECCB 646 Drones for Environmental Remote Sensing spring (odd yrs) 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 647 ECCB 612 Agrostology fall 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 648 ECCB 648 Wetland Plant Taxonomy not currently offered 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 651 ECCB 651 Geographic Information System for Resource Management fall/spring 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 652 ECCB 652 Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Systems spring 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 655 ECCB 644 Remote Sensing of the Environment fall 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 656 ECCB 656 Advanced Remote Sensing spring (even yrs) 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 660 ECCB 660 Landscape Analysis and Modeling not currently offered 3 Lec/Lab 
ESSM 671 ECCB 671 Ecological Economics fall 3 Lec 
ESSM 681 ECCB 681 Seminar fall/spring/summer 1 Sem 
ESSM 684 ECCB 684 Professional Internship fall/spring/summer  Ind 
ESSM 685 ECCB 685 Directed Studies fall/spring/summer  Ind 
ESSM 691 ECCB 691 Research fall/spring/summer  Res 
FRSC 420 ECCB 408 Arboriculture not currently offered 3 Lec/Lab 
new ECCB 101 Introduction to Ecology and Conservation Biology fall/spring 1 Lec 
new ECCB 285 Directed Studies: Professional Writing fall/spring 1 Ind 
new ECCB 485 Directed Studies: Senior Writing fall/spring 1 Ind 
new ECCB 600 Population, Communities and Ecosystems fall 3 Lec 
RENR 205 ECCB 205 Fundamentals of Ecology fall/spring 3 Lec 
RENR 215 ECCB 215 Fundamentals of Ecology–Laboratory fall/spring 1 Lab 
RENR 405 ECCB 351 Geographic Information Systems for Resource Management fall/spring 3 Lec/Lab 
RENR 460 ECCB 460 Nature, Values, and Protected Areas fall 3 Lec 
RENR 484 ECCB 484 Internship fall/spring/summer  Ind 
RENR 659 ECCB 671 Ecological Economics spring 3 Lec 
WFSC 300 ECCB 300 Field Studies not currently offered 3 Lab 
WFSC 302 ECCB 302 Diversity and Evolution of Vertebrates fall/spring 3 Lec/Lab 
WFSC 304 ECCB 304 Conservation Biology fall/spring 3 Lec 
WFSC 311 ECCB 311 Ichthyology fall 3 Lec/Lab 
WFSC 314 ECCB 314 Down River: Biology of Gulf Coastal Fishes summer 3 Lec/Lab 
WFSC 315 ECCB 315 Herpetology spring 3 Lec/Lab 
WFSC 316 ECCB 316 Field Herpetology spring 1 Lab 
WFSC 335 ECCB 313 Diversity and Evolution of Invertebrates fall/spring 3 Lec 
WFSC 401 ECCB 401 General Mammalogy fall/spring 3 Lec/Lab 
WFSC 402 ECCB 402 General Ornithology spring 3 Lec/Lab 
WFSC 403 ECCB 403 Population and Community Ecology fall/spring 3 Lec 
WFSC 415 ECCB 415 Coastal Marine Biology and Geology of Alaska not currently offered 3 Lec 
WFSC 422 ECCB 422 Behavioral Ecology spring 3 Lec 
WFSC 433 ECCB 400 Molecular Ecology fall/spring 3 Lec 
WFSC 448 ECCB 448 Fish Ecophysiology not currently offered 3 Lec 
WFSC 450 ECCB 450 Caribbean Conservation summer 2 Lab 
WFSC 451 ECCB 451 Caribbean Research Seminar summer 1 Lab 
WFSC 454 ECCB 454 Amazon Field School not currently offered 4 Lec 
WFSC 462 ECCB 462 Amazon River Tropical Biology spring 3 Lec 
WFSC 602 ECCB 616 Field Herpetology spring 1 Lab 
WFSC 604 ECCB 603 Ecological Modeling spring 3 Lec 
WFSC 605 see note Community Ecology inactivated   
WFSC 613 no longer taught  Animal Ecology inactivated   
WFSC 614 ECCB 614 Down River: Biology of Gulf Coastal Fishes summer 1 Lab 
WFSC 624 ECCB 613 Dynamics of Populations fall 3 Lec 
WFSC 631 ECCB 631 Ecological Applications in R spring 3 Lec 
WFSC 633 ECCB 634 Conservation Genetics not currently offered 3 Lec 
WFSC 639 no longer taught Wildlife Ecotoxicology inactivated 3 Lec 
WFSC 646 ECCB 606 Quantitative Phylogenetics spring 3 Lec/Lab 
WFSC 648 ECCB 602 Molecular Evolution spring 3 Lec/Lab 
WFSC 654 ECCB 654 Amazon Field School not currently offered 3 Lec/Lab 
WFSC 655 ECCB 655 Applied Biodiversity Science I spring (even yrs) 3 Lec 
WFSC 670 ECCB 670 Excel Biometry not currently offered 3 Lec 

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