Timeroom: Fall 2024

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 887 (01) - Advanced Topics in Sustainable Energy

Adv Topics Sustainable Energy

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 6
CRN: 11894
Special Fees: $36.00

This course will engage students in advanced topics in sustainable energy. Course reviews basic structure of our energy system, energy markets and economics, and the environmental, economic and technological of our energy landscape. Focus will be on electricity and building use with introductions to the transportation system. Students will gain the knowledge to evaluate innovations in technology, policy and financing necessary to implement sustainable energy goals from conservation and efficiency to renewables and energy storage.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Cross listed with : NR 787.01

Instructors: Constantine Spandagos

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	MW	3:10pm - 4:30pm	JAMS G54

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 899 (01) - Master's Thesis

Master's Thesis

Credits: 1.0 to 10.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term - Grad Thesis (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 13947

Master's Thesis. Usually 6 credits, but up to 10 credits when the problem warrants.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 10 credits.

Instructors: Jessica Ernakovich

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 900 (01) - Teaching Assistantship Practicum

Teaching Assistantship Practic

Credits: 0.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 14676

This course covers best practices, norms, and expectations in performing the duties of a teaching assistant. Strategies for effective grading, communication with students and instructors, and institutional policies are explored and reinforced.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Mark Ducey

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 903 (01) - Approach to Research

Approach to Research

Credits: 2.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 10274

Provides incoming graduate students with an overview of the scientific method, peer review, and various research approaches and methods. Ethics, institutional and individual responsibilities, and effective communication are also addressed in a seminar and discussion format.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Rem Moll

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	W	8:10am - 10:00am	MURK G04

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 977 (01) - Just Maps: Cartographies of Environmental Justice

Just Maps

Credits: 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 10
CRN: 14696

Maps are ubiquitous. We carry them in our pockets, hang them on walls. We use maps to orient ourselves and rely on them to make meaning of social-environmental information. But whose space and time to maps employ? How do maps construct knowledge and to what social and political ends? What power dynamics do maps reflect and how do they become powerful themselves? This course explores such questions with focus on environmental in/justice. Completion of a GIS/Mapping course required prior to taking this course.

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Teresa Cohn

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	MF	9:10am - 11:00am	SLS 118

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 993 (01) - Natural and Environmental Resources Seminar

Sem/NorthrnForest:PthtoSustain

Credits: 2.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 15
CRN: 13719

Presentation and discussion of recent research, literature, and policy problems in the natural and social sciences influencing resource use.

Section Comments: The Northern Forest: A Path to Sustainability

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Mark Ducey

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024	W	11:10am - 1:00pm	SLS 120

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 995 (01) - Investigations

Investigations

Credits: 1.0 to 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading

Class Size: 20
CRN: 10612

Investigations in Natural Resources may include topics in environmental conservation, forestry, soil science, water resources, and wildlife management.

Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: STAFF

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 996 (01) - Natural Resource Education

Natural Resource Education

Credits: 2.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 25
CRN: 10284

Responsibilities include set-up, teaching, and grading of one lab section per week or equivalent lecture experience. Meets the teaching requirement for M.S. degree students.

Section Comments: May not be repeated.

Department Approval Required. Contact Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Instructors: Jessica Ernakovich

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024		Hours Arranged	TBA

Durham Life Sciences & Agriculture :: Natural Resources

NR 998 (01) - Directed Research

Directed Research

Credits: 1.0 to 4.0
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Graduate Credit/Fail grading

Class Size: 5
CRN: 10250

Student designs and conducts original research that culminates in a paper of publishable quality. Alternative to NR 899 for those choosing non-thesis degree option. IA (continuous grading).

Registration Approval Required. Contact Instructor or Academic Department for permission then register through Webcat.

Repeat Rule: May be repeated for a maximum of 4 credits.

Instructors: Jessica Ernakovich

Start Date	End Date	Days	Time	Location
8/26/2024	12/9/2024		Hours Arranged	TBA