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Master of Science in Resource ManagementSince 1983, the Resource Management (REM) Master's Program has offered students an interdisciplinary, resource management curriculum drawing from Geography and Anthropology, as well as Biology, Economics, History, Philosophy, and Political Science. Natural and cultural resources intertwine in several ways. Understanding the multiplicity of resource issues is critically important to making defensible decisions at all levels. Central Washington University's interdisciplinary program leading to a Master of Science degree in Resource Management offers two emphases: Cultural Resource Management and Natural Resource Management. Natural and cultural resources intertwine in several ways. First, natural resource exploitation triggers much of the human activity that creates cultural resources and current perceptions of cultural resources are modifying management of natural resources. Second, both areas are affected by a common framework of legislation, policy formulation, fiscal management and national and international systems. Understanding the multiplicity of resource issues is critically important to making defensible decisions at all levels. In recognition of these interconnections, all students in the program take a common core of coursework, linking cultural and natural resources, as they pursue their more specialized interests. We believe that well prepared resource managers must be capable of understanding problems and opportunities associated with both cultural and natural resources. Program objectives include further qualifying students for management positions in resource fields and promoting wiser and more effective management of resources in the future. Program DescriptionThe REM Program provides students with skills in policy analysis and formulation, management practices, as well as resource appraisal and evaluation. Course specific work also introduces students to microeconomics and organization management. The program best serves students with prior education and experience in resource-related fields of science. The REM graduate curriculum introduces students to regional ecological, socio-cultural, and economic systems that include cultural and natural resource management. Cultural resource management focuses on the management of ethnographic and archaeological sites and materials, historic properties, archives, and museums. Natural resource management focuses on the management of land, water, soil, energy, mineral, atmospheric, and biotic resources in socio-political and cultural context. The REM program has an explicit and intentional integration and synthesis of both natural and cultural resource management in its structure and core class requirements. One of the fundamental tenets of the REM program is that natural and cultural resources intertwine in several ways, and that holistic understanding of the multiplicity of resource issues is critically important to training resource managers to make defensible resource management decisions. Not only does this require understanding of the various components of the natural environment, but also awareness of Native American and other cultural perspectives of resource management issues. Overarching program goals include qualifying students for positions in resource fields, and promoting wiser and more effective management of resources in the future. Specifically, these include the following:
The program is truly interdisciplinary, with roughly 60% of current incoming students interested in natural resource management (e.g., fisheries, river systems, wetlands, wildlife), 30% interested in CRM (e.g., CRM archaeology, historic preservation, museums), and 10% interested in some combination of these two (e.g., GIS and CRM, tribal sovereignty and reservation resources). A good way to understand the composition of our program is to look at the graduate student roster that indicates each student's research interests, and the list of completed thesis titles. For more information on the principal host departments, see geography at http://www.cwu.edu/~geograph/ and anthropology at http://www.cwu.edu/~anthro/
CurriculumStudents in the program are expected take a common interdisciplinary core of coursework that explicitly links cultural and natural resources; as a result, they become capable of understanding problems and opportunities associated with cultural and natural resource integration. Students interested primarily in either natural or cultural resource management enroll together in the seven required core classes, most of which are co-taught by faculty representing both natural and cultural resource interests, primarily from the geography and anthropology departments. As a result, all students are exposed to resource management issues, concepts, policies, and techniques from a truly interdisciplinary perspective. In addition, students and faculty alike benefit from the ongoing synthesis and juxtaposition of their various perspectives and backgrounds, whether through lectures, class discussions, or student presentations. We believe this truly holistic, integrated and applied focus promotes wiser and more effective management of resources; it is also the hallmark which makes our program unique. At least six academic quarters of continuous full-time study will be required for completion of course work, field experience and research, and thesis writing. Core courses examine natural and cultural resource issues and how they are affected by ecological systems, management practices, political change and economic development. Required economics coursework reviews the advantages and disadvantages of market, command, and mixed economies in terms of human welfare and impacts on environmental equality. Elective courses in several fields can be chosen to explore important concepts or to fill knowledge gaps. Graduate credit is given for courses numbered 500 and above; courses numbered at the 400 level may be accepted for credit toward a graduate degree provided that they are approved as part of the student's course of study. Courses numbered at the 300 level (or lower) will not be accepted for credit toward a graduate degree. A maximum of nine (9) quarter hours of credit may be applied to the master's degree from other accredited institutions which offer graduate degrees, provided that the credits are approved as part of the official course of study and did not apply to another degree.
Required CoursesNote: Minimum of 60 credits, by advisement, in the following categories. Core Courses: 27 credits
Seminars/Electives in Cultural or Natural Resource Management, and other supporting courses: 22-28 credits Internship or Field Experience: 6-12 credits are available, but this is not required Thesis (REM 700): 6 credits
Elective CoursesREM Electives:
Other courses available as electives at the graduate level may include the following:
Facilities and EquipmentFacilities and equipment for the REM program are housed in the departments of Anthropology and Geography. Currently available from the Geography department are a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) computer laboratory, small physical geography laboratory, graduate assistant offices, and an extensive map and air photo collection. The GIS lab is a 21-seat computer lab, with an adjacent overflow laboratory housing an additional 7 work stations, located centrally on the first floor of Lind Hall. The physical geography laboratory includes a small analysis space and a small storage room. Currently available from the Anthropology Department are several archaeology laboratories (zooarchaeology, geoarchaeology, and artifact analysis labs), the Anthropology Museum , reading room, MacIntosh computer laboratory, and limited student work spaces. Equipment available in the program includes: Field surveying equipment: Garmin Etrex GPS units, Trimble GPS units, CTS GPS units, total station theodolites, laser rangefinders, slope-a-scopes, Brunton pocket transits with tripods, Silva Ranger compasses, level and tripod, altimeters, range poles, reel tapes, pin flags, and optical surveying equipment. Field excavation equipment: air pump tank, portable garages (for shade), construction tool box, shovels, trowels, shaker screens, wheelbarrows, scoops, grid nails, tape measures, folding rules, etc. Hydrology equipment: research boats and trailers, flow meters, turbidity meters, dissolved oxygen meters, conductivity meter, water quality monitoring kit, Secchi disks, dry suits, aquascopes, sediment sampler tube, Imhof cone, dredges (Ponar, Peterson, and Ekman), pH meters, thermographs, light extinction meter, waders. Climatology and biogeography equipment: thermometers, max-min thermometers, sling psychrometers, wind meters, increment borers, DBH tapes. Air photo and GIS laboratory equipment: pocket stereoscopes, mirror stereoscopes, computers, large format HP color plotter, laser printer, color laser printer, desktop scanners, large format digitizers. Soil and sediment laboratory equipment: penetrometers, soil probes, bucket augers and extensions, sieves, sieve shaker, hydrometers, digital balances, triple beam balances, binocular microscopes, muffle furnace, soil drying ovens, and other glassware. Archaeology laboratory equipment: optical microscopes, digital calipers, small capacity digital scales for weighing, magnifier lights, lamps, shop vacuum, fume hoods, chest freezer, computers, laser printer, storage cabinets and shelves. The REM program is a cooperating member of the CWU Center for Spatial Information, the Central Washington Archaeological Survey, and other related programs and research projects that are headquartered at the University.
Resource Management FacultyProgram Faculty: (All CWU tenured and tenure-track faculty who are members of the Graduate School faculty and who have either (1) taught a required course and/or served as Thesis Committee Chair for the REM program in the past three years, or (2) served as an REM student advisor in the past year.) Andrews, Tracy (Anthropology) Cultural Anthropology, Political Ecology, Native America; Ecological, environmental and medical anthropology, political ecology, development Barlow, Kathleen (Anthropology) Cultural Anthropology, Museum Studies; Culture and politics of natural resource extraction, museums and cultural heritage, Pacific Bloodworth, Gina (Geography) Water Resources, Environmental Studies, Trans-boundary Issues; Water policy & law, trans-boundary resource issues, dams, rivers, resource consumption and supply Cook, James (History, Asian Studies) environmental history, China/Japan, desertification, water resource management Gabriel, Anthony (Geography; sabbatical 2007-2008) Physical Geography, Water Resources; resource analysis, shoreline inventory and assessment, coastal geomorphology, ecological characterization of aquatic systems, lakes and watersheds in the Columbia Basin , Pacific Northwest Hackenberger, Steven (Anthropology) Archaeology, Paleoecology, CRM; Columbia Plateau, Eastern Caribbean Islands, Suncadia Resort, CWU NAGPRA, NPS Kennewick studies, archaeological repositories, and museum education Hickey, Robert GIS, Remote Sensing, Environment, Geology; Erosion modeling, economic geology, Western Australian tidal mudflats, Australia Huckabay, James (Geography) Conflict Studies, Energy, Wildlife Resources, Aerial Photography; Western United States Hultquist, Nancy (Geography) Human Geography, GIS, remote sensing; Human interaction with urban and rural environments, stewardship of public lands Kuhlken, Robert (Geography) Cultural Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Environmental Literature, Historical Geography; Pacific Northwest , American West, Oceania Lillquist, Karl (Geography) Geomorphology, Soils, Airphoto Analysis, Field Methods, Arid Watersheds, Mountain Environments, Environmental Change; Western North America Lipton, Jennifer (Geography) Cultural Ecology, Political Ecology, Landscape Ecology; Conservation & development, land use & landcover change, protected area networks, geospatial techniques Lubinski, Patrick (Anthropology) Archaeology, Zooarchaeology, CRM; Hunting strategies, mammalian and fish biogeography, mammoths, Washington and Rocky Mountains Mack, Richard (Economics) Regional and Resource Economics; Resources in relation to regional economies, energy issues, Asian resource issues McCutcheon, Patrick (Anthropology) Archaeology, Geoarchaeology, CRM; Cultural and natural resource management in Mount Rainier National Park, archaeological inventory Saddle Mountains BLM, archaeology of the Mississippi River Valley Pedersen, Lene (Anthropology) Cultural Anthropology: Symbolic, Ecological and Visual; Role of traditional institutions in a globalizing world, resource management, indigenous rights, gender Sheeran, Lori (Anthropology) Biological Anthropology, Primate Ecology; Interdisciplinary research in Yellow Mountains World Heritage Site , China (with psychology, biology) Sullivan, Allen (Geography) Physical Geography, Natural Resource and Environmental Mgt., Landscape Reconstruction; Columbia River Basin salmon, freshwater mussels, dispersed camping impacts, shrub-steppe ecology Uebelacker, Morris (Geography) Cultural Geography; Rivers and watersheds, resource and land use patterns, cultural resource management Wassell, Charles (Economics) Economics; Mathematical modeling of economic issues with policy implications Wirth, Rex (Political Science) Wood, W. William (Anthropology) Museum Studies, Cultural Anthropology; Ecotourism and development, Latin America , globalization Affiliate Faculty: ( other faculty with Graduate School faculty status who wish to request membership on the basis of scholarship, teaching, or service activities and interests relevant to the REM program.) Amutabi, Maurice (History) development, developing countries, non-governmental organizations, globalization Beck, Daniel (Biological Sciences) terrestrial ecology, wildlife, conservation biology Cleary, Delores (Sociology) American Indian social resources Ely, Lisa (Geological Sciences) fluvial geomorphology, Quaternary geology, paleohydrology Ernest, Kristina (Biological Sciences) terrestrial ecology, plant-animal interactions, wildlife biology Fallshore, Marte (Psychology) environmental decision-making and education, conservation psychology Henebry-DeLeon, Lourdes (Anthropology) forensic anthropology, NAGPRA Herman, Daniel (History) nineteenth-century American West, American Indian history, American cultural history James, Paul (Biological Sciences) fisheries management, fish ecology Kovalerchuk, Boris (Computer Science) fusion and mining of electronic data from GIS and other applications Matheson, Megan (Psychology) animal behavior and conservation Ogden , Michael (Communication) documentary, ethnography, technology impacts on indigenous societies Pinkart, Holly (Biological Sciences) microbiology, microbial ecology, biogeochemistry, molecular ecology Reasons, Charles (Law and Justice) legal research and legal issues in resource management Wagner, R. Steven (Biological Sciences) biodiversity decline, population viability assessment, conservation genetics. Wellock, Thomas (History) environmental history, American West Wang, Penglin (Anthropology) linguistic and cultural anthropology, Asia , endangered languages
Admission RequirementsThe Resource Management Program admits a select group of students on a competitive basis each Fall quarter. Minimum entrance requirements are an earned Bachelor's degree and minimum 3.0 GPA for the past 90 quarter credits or 60 semester credits. Additionally, you must be able to meet the guidelines for undergraduate degree preparation outlined on the web page, including basic statistics, knowledge of microeconomic principles, and proficiency with computers. Students lacking undergraduate coursework in statistics or economics may be accepted, but will be required to take remedial courses in the first year. Letters of reference are very important, as is your own letter of application; we do not require GRE scores. We make our decisions based on GPA, letters of recommendation, statement of purpose (clarity of purpose and quality of writing), appropriateness of undergraduate degree and/or past experience, personal contacts (if the student calls or visits), and match of student interests to the interests and expertise of the Resource Management faculty. Naturally, all of these criteria are judged in the context of the total applicant pool for the upcoming year. The admission packet consists of 2 forms you can download at http://www.cwu.edu/~masters/forms/formsGraduate.html : (1) Application for Graduate Admission, (2) Recommendation for Graduate Studies (one for each of 3 references). We also recommend you submit the third form on that page (3) Assistantship Application Form. In addition to these forms, you will need to submit: (4) application fee, (5) a statement of objectives or purpose of up to 500 words (detail goals and specific academic interests, and how you plan to reach those goals), and (6) official transcripts. For priority consideration (including assistantships), apply by February 15, but applications are accepted through April 1. Applications received after April 1 are considered on a space-available basis. We render decisions on admission usually by the first week in May. There are a number (16) of graduate assistantships available each year, including tuition waivers. You may apply for an assistantship as part of your Graduate School application process, although there is a much earlier deadline of February 15. Graduate assistants may be assigned to assist with teaching, lab supervision (e.g. GIS lab), or collaborative research with faculty. There are typically a number of research assistantships funded by external grants available each year as well. One of these is an NSF-funded fellowship for the Yakima WATERS Project (Watershed Activities To Enhance Research in Schools), which is a K-12 outreach project helping to infuse watershed research into local classrooms (For more information, please go to: http://www.cwu.edu/~waters/ ). Additionally, residents of 14 western states participating in the Western Regional Graduate Program are automatically eligible for a waiver of out-of-state tuition funded by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. (Participating states are AK, AZ, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, NM, ND, OR, SD, UT, WA, and WY. Please note that you are applying as a WRGP scholar if you are a resident of one of these states) For further information please contact either of our program directors: Cultural Resource Emphasis:Dr. Patrick Lubinski Natural Resource Emphasis:Dr. Karl Lillquist |
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