Spring 2027

Principles of Wildlife Management

Principles of Wildlife Management covers conserving animal populations for societal benefit, including endangered species, exploited species, nature reserves, and wildlife pests.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Karie Cherwin3.2/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.67 GPA, 85.4% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.61 GPA, 76.1% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.58 GPA, 75.9% A/AB (n=54 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain the history of wildlife management and conservation in North America.

  • Compare multiple stakeholder viewpoints demonstrating the ways in which human dimensions influence management decisions and outcomes.

  • Describe key policies governing wildlife management and conservation.

  • Apply the ecological principles that are used in biologically sound wildlife management and conservation plans to various scenarios.

  • Summarize management approaches for various groups of animals, including game, non-game, invasive, and rare/endangered animals.

  • Explain how different habitat types, including grasslands, forests, and wetlands, are managed to support the wildlife that depend on them.

  • Assess ways to approach wildlife management in the context of a changing global climate.

  • Synthesize and communicate advanced wildlife management concepts to an academic audience.

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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F&W ECOL 318 or graduate/professional standing

F&WECOL 379

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Raw average: 2.68/5 from 19 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.67 GPA, 85.4% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.61 GPA, 76.1% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.58 GPA, 75.9% A/AB (n=54 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

KARIE CHERWIN is recorded teaching in Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 650

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 3.67 GPA, 85.4% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.61 GPA, 76.1% A/AB (n=46 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.58 GPA, 75.9% A/AB (n=54 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Management of endangered species, exploited species, wildlife communities in nature reserves, and wildlife pests.
  • History of wildlife management and conservation in North America.
  • Human dimensions and stakeholder viewpoints influencing management decisions.
  • Key policies governing wildlife management and conservation.
  • Ecological principles applied to biologically sound wildlife management and conservation plans.
  • Habitat management for grasslands, forests, and wetlands to support dependent wildlife.
  • Wildlife management approaches in the context of a changing global climate.

Skills

  • Explain the history of wildlife management and conservation in North America and describe key policies governing it.
  • Compare multiple stakeholder viewpoints to demonstrate how human dimensions influence management decisions and outcomes.
  • Apply ecological principles used in biologically sound wildlife management and conservation plans to various scenarios.
  • Summarize management approaches for game, non-game, invasive, and rare/endangered animals and explain habitat management strategies.
  • Assess ways to approach wildlife management in the context of a changing global climate.
  • Synthesize and communicate advanced wildlife management concepts to an academic audience.

Grades

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The course’s semester-average GPA, not an individual student’s grade. The center uses 5 same-season terms, weighted toward recent results.

The range uses the finite-sample 80th-percentile rank of absolute errors from earlier same-season forecasts. Each forecast uses only records from earlier terms. At least four forecasts are required; bounds are rounded outward and limited to 0–4. This is an empirical estimate: changing instructors or grading policies can reduce its coverage.

4 earlier forecasts · 0.31 GPA average error.

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F&WECOL 379 · Spring 2027

Principles of Wildlife Management

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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