Distance Education in Wildlife Forensic Sciences & Conservation

Courses

All master’s students take four core courses and 21 credits of elective courses.

Graduate certificate students must take the following courses: WIS6561; WIS6557 or WIS6558; WIS6563, WIS5562 and WIS6559.

Unless otherwise noted, all courses are assigned a letter grade. Courses and schedules are subject to change based on demand and availability.

Core Courses

Course #	Course Title	Credits	Spring	Summer	Fall
WIS 6561	Wildlife Crime Scene Processing	3	X
WIS 6559	Forensic Science for Conservation Biology	3		X
Either WIS 6557 or WIS 6558:
WIS 6558	U.S. Wildlife Law, Policy and Ethics	3	X
WIS 6557	International Wildlife Conservation Law, Policy and Ethics	3			X
Either SUR 6395, STA 6093, or WIS 6934:
WIS 6934	Forensic DNA Statistics and Applied Population Genetics	3	X
SUR 6395	Topics in Geographic Information Systems (GIS Fundamentals)	3			X
STA 6093	Introduction to Applied Statistics for Agricultural and Life Science	3			X

(Master’s students must take either WIS 6557 or WIS 6558 and one of the following: SUR 6934 or STA 6093 or WIS6934).

Electives

21 Credit Hours Required for Master’s Students Only

Course #	Course Title	Credits	Spring	Summer	Fall
VME 6574	Aquatic Animal Pathology & Forensic Science	3	X
VME 6617	Environmental Risk Assessment of Veterinary Drugs	3	X
WIS 5562	Conservation Medicine	3	X
WIS 6052	Bird Language	3	X
WIS 6306	Applied Wildlife Forensic Genetics	3	X
VME 6581	Working Dogs in Conservation and Forensic Sciences	3	X
VME 6053	Skeletal Trauma Analysis in Animals	3		X
WIS 6050	Professional Communication in Wildlife Forensic Sciences	3		X
WIS 6425	Carrion Ecology and Evolution	3		X
WIS 6565	Negative and Suboptimal Research Findings in Wildlife Forensics	3		X
WIS 6051	Wildlife Tracks and Sign	3			X
WIS 6421	Wildlife Toxicology: The Ecohealth Perspective	3			X
WIS 6563	Wildlife Forensic Pathology	3			X
WIS 6576	Human-Wildlife Conflict	3			X
WIS 6905**	Research Problems in Wildlife and Range Sciences (Supervised Research)	1-5	X	X	X
WIS 6946**	Wildlife Forensics Internship	1-6	X	X	X

Students may take any electives from UF’s online Veterinary Forensic Sciences program to satisfy elective requirements for the online Wildlife Forensic Sciences and Conservation program.

View additional elective courses here.

Registration for courses is available to students once they have been accepted to the program. Students cannot register themselves using One.UF.