Graduate Courses
FRS 5013 Southern Teachers’
Conservation Workshop (same as EDFD 5013 )
3 credits: 1 week of study
One week of
intensive instruction and laboratory exercises on
conservation issues. Course requires preparation of
teaching plans.
FRS
502V Special Topics
Variable credit
Selected
topics in forest resources.
FRS 5033 Advanced Forest
Soils
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: FOR
2264, or graduate standing and permission of instructor.
Preparation for professional and research careers in forest
soils. Quantitative evaluation of soil fertility and water
movement, and qualitative consideration of patterns and
processes of pedogenic processes across forested landscapes.
FRS 5043 Advanced
Geographic Information Systems I
3 Credits: 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory
Prerequisite: FRS 5113 and SIS 3814. This course will cover
advanced GIS topics such as spatial database design, raster
modeling, and 3D modeling. The first third of the course
will discuss spatial database structures and the second
third of the course students will work on developing
cartographic models and performing raster analyses. For
example, students will use GIS raster modeling techniques to
delineate watersheds and determine viewsheds. For the third
portion of the course, students’ study how to display GIS
data in three dimensions and how to customize GIS software.
FRS 5053 Advanced
Geographic Information Systems II
3 Credits: 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory
Prerequisites: FRS
5043 and CIS 4623. This course has four focus areas:
network analysis for solving transportation and routing
problems; metadata creation tools and standards; advanced
Global Positioning Systems (GPS); and data services,
including the design of a data server and an
internet-enabled GIS. Customized applications will be
incorporated into existing GIS internet packages for display
and presentation on the internet.
FRS 5063 Remote Sensing
3 credits: 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory
Prerequisite: SIS
3814. Remote sensing concepts including electronic and
analog sensor systems, land cover classification, rectifying
and registering images, and digital mapping.
FRS 5073 Spatial
Statistics
3 credits: 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory
Prerequisites: SIS
3814 and FRS 5113, or instructor’s permission. This is an
analytical, problem-based course that explores the field of
spatial statistics. Students will use statistical tools to
determine patterns of spatial variability across a wide
variety of data sets. Topics discussed will include
distance sampling, interpolation methods, such as inverse
distance weighting, kriging, co-kriging, and point pattern
analyses.
FRS
5083 Digital Photogrammetry
3 credits: 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory
Prerequisites: FRS
5113, SIS 3814, and FRS 5063. Image mosaicing, digital
orthophoto creation, aerial triangulation, single image and
block triangulation, ground control, digital terrain
modeling extraction, orthorectification, and mono and stereo
terrain model editing.
FRS
5102 Research Methods
2 credits: 2 hours lecture
Introduction to the
conceptual and technical aspects of research. Topics
include the scientific method, science reasoning, literature
searching, scientific writing, and ethics.
FRS 5113
Statistics in Research I
3 credits: 2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory
Fundamental
concepts and applications of statistics with focus on
natural resources. Probability and distribution theory;
estimation and hypothesis tests involving one parameter;
hypothesis tests involving two parameters; simple and
multiple linear regression. Use of statistical software.
FRS
5123 Statistics in Research II
3 credits: 2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory
Prerequisite: FRS 5113 or
permission of instructor. Essential concepts and
applications of statistics with focus on natural resources.
Analysis of variance; multiple range tests; analysis of
covariance; higher order experimental designs; categorical
data; non-linear regression. Use of statistical software.
FRS 5143 Landscape Ecology
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: One
course in ecology or permission of instructor. Advanced
concepts associated with landscape ecology. Study of
spatial variation in landscapes at a variety of scales.
Includes biophysical and societal causes and consequences of
landscape heterogeneity.
FRS 5233 Natural Resource
Policy
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Foundations for
understanding forest and natural resource policy. Includes
historical context as well as social, biological, and
political constraints and ramifications of policy.
FRS 5283 Tree Growth and
Wood Properties
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Structure and properties of wood and wood products, tree
growth and wood properties, and the effects of silviculture
practices on wood quality.
FRS
5153 Wildlife Population Analysis and Management
3 credits: 2 hours
lecture, 3 hours laboratory
Introduction to the
techniques used in the analysis, interpretation, and management
of wildlife populations. Measures of abundance, dispersal,
fecundity and mortality, population modeling, competition and
predation, and the management of rare species and their habitats
are discussed in detail.
FRS 5203
Human Dimensions in Natural Resources
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Foundations for
understanding human-natural resource relationships. Development
of a theoretical understanding of the importance of viewing
humans as part of the natural resource decision making process.
FRS
5223 Forest Ecosystem Ecology
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisites:
Graduate status and one course in ecology. Advance study into
the structure and function of forest ecosystems including
current and founding theories on energy flow, nutrient cycling,
temporal change in and disturbance of ecosystems, landscape and
spatial relationships, biodiversity, and anthropogenic
alteration of ecosystems.
FRS
5253 Advanced Forest Economics
3 credits: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisites: FOR 4673
or equivalent; MATH 1073 or equivalent; FRS 5113 and FRS 5123.
Advanced economic principles applied to forest-based natural
resource problems. Valuation, forecasting, inventory models,
supply and production of forest outputs, regional economic
analysis. Readings and problems.
FRS 5313 Digital Remote Sensing
3 credits: 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory
Prerequisites: FRS
5113 and FOR / SIS / WLF 3814, or permission of instructor.
Advanced digital remote sensing concepts. Includes principles
of remote sensing for mapping, landcover classification, and
analysis of spectral data.
FRS 5433 Forest Stand Dynamics
3 credits: 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory
Prerequisite: FOR 3434
or permission of instructor. Study of contemporary
silvicultural practices and their ecological, social, and
economic underpinnings. Emphasis on case studies from forests
in Arkansas.
FRS 5691 Seminar
1 credit: 1 hour lecture
Discussions and
presentations relating to forest resource topics. May be
repeated for credit.
FRS 573V Forest Enterprise
Variable credit
Prerequisite: Graduate
student status or permission of the instructor. Forest
enterprise is an endeavor, a struggle, a campaign to assist
private forest landowners in managing their forest resources
(water, wildlife, timber, recreation). Course modules are 1
credit each. Module 1 focuses on the role of consulting
foresters in providing management assistance. Module 2 stresses
assistance from government agencies and programs. Module 3
describes programs from private, industrial, and non-government
organizations (NGOs). The course may be taken for 1-3 credits,
but may not be repeated.
FRS
579V Research and Thesis
Variable credit
Research while enrolled
for a master’s degree under the direction of faculty members.
FRS
589V Independent Study in Forest
Resources
Variable credit
Consult the Independent
Study and Research subheading in the Graduate Programs section
of this catalog for prerequisites and description.
Forest Resources Core Curriculum
FRS 5113
Statistics in Research I.................... 3 hrs.
FRS 5123
Statistics in Research II................... 3 hrs.
FRS 5223
Forest Ecosystem Ecology.............. 3 hrs.
FRS 5691
Seminar (two required)..................... 2 hrs.
FRS 5102
Research Methods.......................... 2 hr.
FRS 579V
Research and Thesis ...................... 3 – 6 hrs.
Electives:
..................................................... 11 – 14
hrs.
Total Hours:
...................................................... 30 hrs.
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