CONS 301 - Quantitative Methods in Conservation

Credits: (3)
Prerequisite(s): CONS 201 or ENSP 101 or BIOL 204
Domain (Anchored): NQR
This course is designed to help students explore applications of quantitative methods to support sustainable conservation decisions while addressing real-world issues and finding that state of harmony between humans and natural resources. Students (juniors and seniors) will be exposed to a basic hands-on experience in advanced analysis, synthesis, and discussion of applied conservation issues and solutions. Students will identify questions that are of interest to conservation decision makers; and design analyses to answer those questions.

Data acquisition, processing, analysis and presentation of results will be a major part of the course. Assignments will be taught using open-source software language “R” and packages that are widely used in conservation science