This past summer. Our team chose biodiversity as the biological concept, organizational behavior as the human sciences concept and the reintroduction of the grizzly bear into the central Idaho wilderness as the current controversy. The model was designed so that in the future any interdisciplinary faculty team in the CFWR could work within the course model to deliver an integrated natural resource problem-solving course. The challenge to students and professors is developing team skills and functioning as integrated problem-solving teams. The course requires students to use information they ve learned in their disciplinary-focused courses in solving integrated natural resource problems.
Emphasis is placed on information gathering, synthesizing, and problem-solving.
Techniques include reflective journaling, small group discussions and team projects. Students are challenged to create presentations for audiences varying from other CFWR audiences to members of the general public. The course is web-enhanced, including developing a bibliography of useful source materials on the web as students post reviews of independent library research activities. Interdisciplinary panels of other faculty members and scientists and managers in the region are also an important part of the class. To more learn about the people that put this site together The School of Natural Resources is a unit of the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources at the University of Missouri-Columbia .