International Resources Technical Option
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The International Technical Option is designed to enhance students' understanding of international forestry and natural resource management and to prepare them for careers abroad or with internationally oriented institutions and companies in the US. Courses in this option are taught in several different departments and provide a broad background with rigorous technical emphases.
Many graduate students enrolled in this program have a natural resource-related undergraduate degree and/or previous experience abroad. Students without this background may need to take additional preparatory courses, but are welcome in the program as it is wide-ranging to suit the needs of students at many levels. The diversity of backgrounds and experiences of students in the international option enriches the program through classroom interaction and extracurricular activities.
Students choose between two tracks in the international option: (a) science and technology or (b) policy and economics. Students may take courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Duke University at the NC State tuition rate. All students are expected to take the Research Seminar in Forestry (FOR803, 1 credit).
The student's research should focus on an international topic. With approval of the committee, the student may instead develop comparisons, relevance, or lessons of the topic to the international context. MNR students should provide one bound copy of their project report for the international forestry programs files.
The Natural Resources International Resources Technical Option is one 10 Technical Options offered in the NC State's Natural Resources Masters Program.
Contact:
Dr. Erin Sills
Phone: 919-515-7784
erin_sills@ncsu.edu
Examples of courses taken in Natural Resources - International Resources:
AEE 740 Extension in Developing Countries
BIO 526 Conservation Biology (UNC-G)
BIO 565 Conservation Biology (UNC)
ECG 540 Economic Development
ECG 533 Economics of World Food and Agricultural Policy
ECG 590G Global Economics
ENV 217 Tropical Ecology (Duke)
ENV 272 Evaluation of Public Expenditures (Duke)
ENV 275S Protected Areas, Tourism, and Local Development (Duke)
ENV 280 Social Science Surveys for Environmental Management (Duke)
FOR 519 Forest Economics
FOR 581 Agroforestry
FOR 583 Tropical Forestry
FOR 595I Forest Economics I
FOR 610D Silviculture for Intensively Managed Plantations
FOR 680 Field Practicum in Tropical Forestry
FOR 750 Restoration Ecology
NR693/695, Supervised Research/Thesis Research
FOR 782 Silviculture of Forest Plantations in the Tropics
OTS courses in Tropical Biology
PS 536 Global Environmental Law and Policy
PS 533 Global Problems and Policy
PS 539 International Political Economy
SOC 223 Global Deviance (UNC-G)
SSC 472 Forest Soils
SSC 701 Tropical Soils
Mini-courses in policy, economics, grant-writing, silviculture, physiology, GPS, and forest hydrology
Learn more about the Natural Resources Masters Program and the technical options offered through this innovative, multi-disciplinary program.
Master's International (MI) Program Courses
Students in the MI Program may take up to six credit hours of independent study to prepare for and analyze their Peace Corps experience, substituting for up to three credit hours in their chosen track. The other three credit hours serve as electives. For more information on the MI program, please see The International Section.
