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Undergraduate Degrees
Parks and Recreation
This multidisciplinary minor lets you tailor your coursework to match your interests and goals, from recreational sports to outdoor recreation settings. Gain skills for designing and managing recreation and leisure services programs.
Recreation Administration
Tailor your coursework to match your interests as you prepare for a career in recreation and leisure from individual and group programs to communities and events, all while gaining hands-on experience and building valuable connections.
Recreation Resource Management
Gain a solid understanding of how humans interact with the world in outdoor recreation, a firm foundation of natural resources and scientific knowledge, and learn the best management practices for the various roles of public lands.
Recreation Resources
Master the basics of recreation management, from planning and infrastructure to regulation and integration of natural resources, and explore human connections and partnerships to prepare for careers related to recreation resources.
Conservation and Restoration Ecology
Gain a solid understanding of biological sciences while you learn to leverage ecological principles to maintain healthy ecosystems and restore forests, rangelands, wildlands, and grasslands that have been damaged over time.
Biology: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Focus your biology degree on the interactions between organisms and their environments and all the varieties of life on earth.
Environmental Planning
This minor provides students with a strong professional education in the core principles of environmental planning, from economics to environmental ethics and regulatory standards to city and regional planning.
Forest Ecology and Management
This degree lets you gain the knowledge and skills needed to manage public or private forests — including a broad understanding of biology, economies, and policies — in the only nationally accredited forestry program in the state.
Ornamental Horticulture
Earn a certificate or an associate degree in ornamental horticulture with hands-on experience in greenhouses as you prepare to either continue on for a bachelor’s in plant science or pursue horticulture as a career and hobby.
Outdoor Adventure Leadership
Earn a certificate in Outdoor Adventure Leadership at USU and gain hands-on experience in outdoor recreation, leadership, and environmental stewardship, preparing you for a dynamic career in the industry.
Recreation Administration: Public Recreation
Prepare for management positions in public and non-profit recreation organizations of any size — from municipal recreation departments to state and national parks. This emphasis lets you master skills and learn to work with youth and adults.
Wildlife Ecology and Management
Study with nationally renowned faculty and gain hands-on experience in fieldwork and research of the ecology, behavior, conservation, and management of wildlife populations as you focus on current issues and concerns in natural resources.
Wildlife Science
Learn about the ecology, behavior, conservation, and management of wildlife populations as you focus on current issues and concerns in natural resources, specifically those adjacent to fisheries and aquatic sciences.
Environmental Planning
Prepare for a career helping communities plan for growth and development in a collaborative program that prepares you for engaging work, from analysis to planning, as you inform better land-use decisions and policies.
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Study the ecology, management, restoration, and protection of freshwater fish populations and their habitats in one of the few programs in the state, providing access to fieldwork in a range of aquatic ecosystems.
Fisheries Science
From the general ecology of fish and their habitats to the fundamentals of watershed sciences, this minor lets you dive into the world of conservation and management practices, plus hands-on experiences.
Geography: Geographic Information Science
Learn all about geographic analysis and regional planning by studying geography, landscape architecture, and city and regional planning.
Geography
Obtain a broad understanding of the physical processes that make up Earth, from the natural elements to how they impact societies and various cultures of the world surrounding them, whether you focus on Utah or elsewhere in this minor.
Landscape Architecture
This minor helps students obtain professional foundations and advanced skills to better understand the form and function of natural, cultural, and built environments and how they’ve changed throughout history.
Recreation Administration: Outdoor Adventure Leadership (OAL)
This emphasis prepares you for work in various outdoor programs and other recreation settings in every season. You’ll learn wilderness first aid in addition to various outdoor activities, from rock climbing to skiing to running river trips.
Outdoor Product Design and Development
Learn innovative skills to succeed in the design, development, or management of outdoor product lines. Integrating experiences from engineering to sustainability, this degree offers broad opportunities with leading brands and experts in the field.
Rangeland Ecology and Management
Learn how to manage public lands for recreational use while preserving the land’s natural resources and restoring previously misused areas at the first university to offer expansive academic classes in outdoor recreation.
Watershed Science
Explore the social, economic, and ecological issues surrounding watershed science — including in western environments — in this minor to boost a variety of careers, from research and policy to agriculture and natural resources.
Environmental Studies
When you’re interested in learning about naturals resources and the environment but you’re not majoring in those topics, this is the minor for you. Learn the basic ecological principles, plus best practices for tourism and sustainability.
Environmental Studies
Study the complex opportunities, issues, and concerns that surround humans’ relationships with nature in this interdisciplinary field, encompassing ecology, politics, economics, geography, and societal management.
Geography
Explore the relationships between human society and the physical environment while delving into research about the earth’s resources, whether you choose to specialize in mapping and information analysis or the dynamics of human behavior.
Landscape Architecture
Develop artistic problem-solving skills as you gain hands-on experience in this accredited, studio-based program that prepares you to become a landscape architect with access to unique study abroad opportunities and internships.