TRI-Related Degrees & Courses at F&ES

Yale Tropical Resources Institute

Dr. Lisa M. Curran, Director
Dr. Amity Doolittle, Program Director

School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
210 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
U.S.A.

phone 203.432.3660
fax 203.436.4404

www.yale.edu/tri

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F&ES Degree Programs for Tropical Studies

F&ES students from all degree programs and concentrations can focus on the tropics and benefit from Yale's tropical studies offerings.

The following links provide details of the graduate degree programs at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (links open in new windows):

Courses Relevent to Tropical Studies at Yale

Most of the F&ES’s courses are relevant to those students interested in a focus on the tropics. F&ES offers a strong interdisciplinary program with courses both specific to or derived from certain regions of the world and courses global in reach and application. The following is a short list of courses that are specific to the tropics, with links to descriptions at the F&ES website. See also the F&ES full course list for additional information. (Links below open in current window and exit the TRI site.)

[F&ES 30004b] — Reconciling Development and Conservation on the Amazon Frontier: A Tropical Conservation Field Course

F&ES 30008b — Topics in the Tropics

F&ES 30009a — Biogeography, Biodiversity, and Conservation

F&ES 30010b — Tropical Field Botany

F&ES 32002b — Tropical Ecosystem Dynamics and Anthropogenic Change

[F&ES 32006a] — Tropical Forest Ecology and Management

[F&ES 30016a] — Seminar in Molecular Approaches to Systematics, Conservation Genetics, and Behavioral Ecology

[F&ES 33003b] — Seminar in the Conservation and Development of Amazonia

F&ES 33015a — Human Dimensions in the Conservation of Biological Diversity

F&ES 80054a — Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development

F&ES 80157b — Sustainable Development and Conservation: Advanced Readings

F&ES 83047a — Social Ecology, Community Forestry, and the Future of Place-Based Environmentalism

F&ES 83056a — Social Science of Development and Conservation

F&ES 83065b — Topics in Environmental Justice

F&ES 84004a — The Economics of Sustainable Development

F&ES 86048a — Introduction to Planning and Development