Wayne A. Freimund (Assistant Professor of Recreation Management) Director
The Wilderness Institute in the School
of Forestry offers educational
opportunities and special presentations,
and coordinates research related to
wilderness and wildlands management.
In addition to the Wilderness Issues
Lecture Series and a summer educational
program, the Wilderness Institute offers
the interdisciplinary undergraduate
program Wilderness and Civilization.
The Wilderness and Civilization
program is designed to provide students,
at or beyond the sophomore level, with a
broad interdisciplinary introduction to
the subject of wilderness, focusing on
the multi-faceted values that wild lands
hold for civilized society. The intent is to
produce informed citizens, better able to
participate in processes for public
involvement concerning wilderness
issues; the program is not intended as a
professional land management
qualification, although many students
supplement their professional education
through this program. A special feature
is that students develop a sense of
community by participating as a group in
the intensive package of courses and
field experiences required. Students who
complete the Wilderness and
Civilization program become eligible for
the wilderness studies minor.
Requirements for a Minor
To earn a minor in wilderness studies
the student must participate in the
Wilderness and Civilization
two-semester program and fulfill the
course requirements shown below (about
24 credits). The program's course
offerings may vary from year to year, but
will include sufficient courses from the
A and B lists:
Two semesters of: | Credits |
For 272 Wilderness and Civilization | 3 |
and at least four courses from Section A literature, philosophy and culture: |
Dram 200A Wilderness and Expression | 1-4 |
Enlt 221L History of American Literature | 3 |
Evst 301E Ethics, Beauty and the Environment | 3 |
LS 302 American Indian Literature | 3 |
NAS 303E Ecological Perspectives in Native American Traditions | 3 |
Phil 327E Environmental Ethics RS 347 Nature and Cosmology | 3 |
and at least two courses from Section B science and social science: |
Econ 345S Economics of Wildland Preservation | 3 |
Evst 101N Environmental Science | 4 |
For 130N Introduction to Ecology | 3 |
For 271 Wilderness Ecology | 3 |
For 304 Conservation of Natural and Human Resources in Montana | 3 |
Recm 370S Conservation of Wilderness, Wild Rivers and National Parks | 3 |
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