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**Review** Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026

Wildlife Certificate

Program Overview

College of Natural and Health Sciences

The certificate program in Wildlife prepares students for careers in resource management fields that require basic wildlife knowledge. Many federal and state resource management agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife require that applicants have a minimum of 12 credits of wildlife focused coursework. This certificate provides an understanding of wildlife diversity and distribution, management and conservation of wildlife species, and the role of wildlife in ecological communities, providing graduates with comprehensive wildlife knowledge.

Certificate Requirements — 12 Credits

Required Course — 4 Credits

BIO 360Ecology

4

Complete a minimum of 8 credits of the following:

BIO 334Mammalogy

4

BIO 335Survey of Fishes, Amphibians and Reptiles

4

BIO 336Animal Plant Interactions

3

BIO 345Comparative Vertebrate Morphogenesis

4

BIO 362Principles of Animal Behavior

3

BIO 363Principles of Animal Behavior Laboratory

1

BIO 411Field Techniques in Biology

2

BIO 422Directed Studies

1- 3

BIO 438Ornithology

4

BIO 461Ecoclimatology

3

BIO 462Conservation Biology

3

BIO 468Disturbance Ecology

3

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