Course Guide - Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management

To ensure that students and their advisors can most efficiently plan a course progression, below is a list of all Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management undergraduate and graduate courses taught, as well as the semester(s) in which the courses are offered. For a full description of each course, visit the Texas A&M Undergraduate Catalog or the Texas A&M Graduate and Professional Catalog.

Undergraduate Courses

Course Number	Legacy Number	Course Name	Semester(s) Offered
RWFM 101	ESSM 201	Exploring Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management	Fall, Spring
RWFM 103		Introduction to Outdoor Enterprise Management
RWFM 202		Concepts in Applied Plant Biology	Fall, Spring
RWFM 301	ESSM 301	Wildland Watershed Management	Spring
RWFM 302	ESSM 302	Wildland Plants of North America	Fall
RWFM 305		Principles and Practices of Wildlife and Fisheries Management	Fall, Spring
RWFM 308	WFSC 303	Fish and Wildlife Laws and Administration	Fall, Spring
RWFM 309	WFSC 327	Wildlife Diseases	Spring
RWFM 313	ESSM 313	Vegetation Sampling Methods and Designs in Ecosystems	Spring
RWFM 314	ESSM 314	Principles of Rangeland Management Around the World	Fall, Spring
RWFM 316	ESSM 316	Range Ecology	Fall
RWFM 317	ESSM 317	Vegetation Management	Spring
RWFM 321		Communicating Natural Resources	Fall, Spring
RWFM 322	RPTS 308	Community Development and Sustainability	Fall
RWFM 323	RPTS 316	Parks and Protected Area Management	Fall
RWFM 325	ESSM 305	Watershed Analysis and Planning	Fall
RWFM 330	RWFM 489	Conservation Principles and the Role of Hunting	Spring
RWFM 333		Rangeland, Wildlife & Fisheries Field Techniques	Summer
RWFM 336		Research Methods in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources	Spring
RWFM 345		Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management and Policy	Spring
RWFM 346	RENR 345	Park Ecology and Management	Spring
RWFM 349		Rangeland and Wildlife Animal Nutrition	Spring
RWFM 350		Wildlife Population Dynamics	Spring
RWFM 351	ESSM 351	Geographic Information Systems for Resource Management	Fall, Spring
RWFM 354		Wildlife Anatomy and Physiology
RWFM 370		Aquatic Vegetation Management	Fall
RWFM 371		Pond and Small Impoundment Management	Spring
RWFM 375	RENR 375	Conservation of Natural Resources	Fall, Spring
RWFM 400	RENR 400	Study Abroad in Natural Resources	Winter mini-mester
RWFM 401		Grazing Management and Rangeland Nutrition	Fall
RWFM 402		Wildlife Tracks and Signs	Fall
RWFM 403	RWFM 489	Bird Language	Fall, Spring
RWFM 404	WFSC 404	Aquatic Ecosystems	Spring
RWFM 405	WFSC 405	Urban Wildlife and Fisheries	Fall
RWFM 406	WFSC 406	Wildlife Habitat Management	Fall
RWFM 408	WFSC 408	Techniques of Wildlife Management	Fall, Spring
RWFM 409	RWFM 489	Nature in the Classroom	Fall, Spring, Summer
RWFM 410	WFSC 410	Principles of Fisheries Techniques and Management	Fall
RWFM 411	RENR 410	Ecosystem Management	Spring
RWFM 415	ESSM 415	Range Analysis and Management Planning	Fall
RWFM 419	WFSC 419	Wildlife Restoration	Fall
RWFM 420	WFSC 420	Ecology and Society	Fall, Spring, Summer
RWFM 421		Game Bird Management	Spring
RWFM 422		Large Mammal Management	Fall
RWFM 423		Waterfowl and Wetland Management
RWFM 424		Wildlife Damage Management
RWFM 425		Carnivore Management	Spring
RWFM 427	WFSC 427	Disease Management in Fisheries and Aquaculture
RWFM 436	ESSM 406	Natural Resources Policy	Fall, Spring
RWFM 440	ESSM 440	Wetland Delineation	May-mester
RWFM 443	WFSC 444	Aquaculture Production and Hatchery Management	Spring
RWFM 444		Aquaculture Hatchery Management
RWFM 445		Fish Health and Diseases	Spring
RWFM 446		Fish Physiology	Fall
RWFM 447	WFSC 447	Aquatic Animal Nutrition, Feeding and Disease Management	Fall
RWFM 461		Community-Based Conservation
RWFM 470	RENR 470	Environmental Impact Assessment	Spring
RWFM 480	ESSM 480	Plant Identification and Undergraduate Range Management Exam Team Competitions	Fall, Spring
RWFM 481	ESSM 481	Senior Seminar	Fall, Spring
RWFM 484	WFSC 484	Internship	Fall, Spring, Summer
RWFM 485	WFSC 485	Directed Studies	Fall, Spring, Summer
RWFM 489		Expand Your Range Field Course	Summer II
RWFM 489		Private Land Stewardship
RWFM 489		Conservation Funding
RWFM 489		Environmental Conservation Planning
RWFM 491	WFSC 491	Research	Fall, Spring, Summer

Graduate Courses

Course Number	Legacy Number	Course Name	Semester(s) Offered	Delivery Method*
RWFM 601	ESSM 636	Wildland Watershed Management	Spring	F2F
RWFM 602	WFSC 689	Special Topics – Wildlife Tracks and Signs	Fall	Distance
RWFM 603	WFSC 689	Bird Language	Fall, Spring	Distance
RWFM 605	RPTS 605	Community Organization and Natural Resources Management	Fall	F2F
RWFM 606	WFSC 636	Wildlife Habitat Management
RWFM 608	WFSC 638	Techniques of Wildlife Management	Fall, Spring	F2F
RWFM 609	WFSC 637	Wildlife Diseases	Spring	F2F
RWFM 611	ESSM 611	Grazing Management and Range Nutrition	Fall	F2F
RWFM 612	ESSM 612	Rangeland Vegetation Management
RWFM 616	WFSC 689	Invasive Species Ecology and Management	Spring	F2F
RWFM 618	WFSC 618	Study Design for Natural Resource Science
RWFM 619	WFSC 619	Wildlife Restoration	Fall	F2F
RWFM 620	WFSC 689	Ecology and Society	Fall, Spring	Distance
RWFM 621	WFSC 689	Communicating Natural Resources	Spring	Distance, F2F
RWFM 625	WFSC 689	Watershed Analysis and Planning	Fall	Distance, F2F
RWFM 627	WFSC 627	Ecological Risk Assessment
RWFM 628	WFSC 628	Wetland Ecology and Pollution
RWFM 630	WFSC 689	Conservation Principles and the Role of Hunting	Spring	F2F
RWFM 633	WFSC 623	Aquaculture	Spring	F2F
RWFM 640	ESSM 628	Wetland Delineation	May-mester	F2F
RWFM 641	WFSC 641	Sustainable Military Land Management	Fall	Distance
RWFM 642	WFSC 642	Field Military Land Management	Spring	Distance
RWFM 643	WFSC 644	Wildlife and Natural Resource Policy	Spring	Distance
RWFM 645	WFSC 689	Fish Health and Diseases	Spring	F2F
RWFM 649	WFSC 689	Nutrition of Range and Wild Animals	Spring	F2F
RWFM 651	ESSM 651	Geographic Information System for Resource Management	Spring	Distance/F2F
RWFM 653	RPTS 653/RPTS 653	Conservation Psychology	Fall (odd years)	F2F
RWFM 658		Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence
RWFM 659	RPTS 609	Human Dimensions of Parks and Protected Areas	Fall	F2F
RWFM 660	WFSC 689	Leadership in Natural Resource Management	Fall	F2F
RWFM 662	WFSC 689	Quantitative Methods in Natural Resources	Even years only	F2F
RWFM 665	RENR 662	Environmental Law and Policy
RWFM 670	ESSM 672/RENR 660	Environmental Impact Assessment	Spring	Hybrid, requires in-person attendance for guest speaker
RWFM 671		Fisheries and Small Impoundment Management
RWFM 672	WFSC 689	Aquatic Vegetation Identification and Management	Fall	F2F
RWFM 678	RPTS 678	Latent Variable Model Applications	Fall (even years)	F2F
RWFM 681	WFSC 681	Seminar	Fall/Spring	F2F
RWFM 684	WFSC 684	Professional Internship	Fall/Spring
RWFM 685	WFSC 685	Directed Studies	Fall/Spring
RWFM 689	WFSC 689	Special Topics
RWFM 689		Special Topics – Conservation Funding		Synchronous
RWFM 689		Special Topics – Citizen Science: Applications for Natural Resources Management
RWFM 689		Special Topics – Private Land Stewardship
RWFM 689		Special Topics – Fish and Wildlife Economic s	Spring	Synchronous distance/F2F
RWFM 689		Special Topics – Foundations in RWFM	Spring	F2F
RWFM 689		Special Topics – Large Mammal Management	Fall	F2F
RWFM 689		Special Topics – Spatial Data Integration for RWFM	Fall	F2F
RWFM 689		Special Topics – Environmental Conservation Planning		Synchronous distance
RWFM 691	WFSC 691	Research	Fall, Spring

* F2F = Face to face; Distance = Online; Hybrid = Distance but in person for guest speakers