Wildlife Enterprise Management (WLEM)
The Wildlife Enterprise Management (WLEM) degree is a cross-disciplinary program providing graduates with basic principles of wildlife management, hospitality services, and business to prepare them to lead wildlife-focused outdoor excursions and manage hunting and fishing lodges, ranches, corporate retreat facilities, and other consumptive use facilities.
Collaboratively taught by faculty in the College of Forestry, Wildlife and Environment and the Colleges of Business and Human Sciences, the curriculum will provide students with:
- Understanding of wildlife management principles as they apply to consumptive use enterprises.
- Understanding of the ecological principles that lie at the foundation of conservation biology and ecotourism.
- Baseline customer service skills, food and beverage production, and lodging skillsets.
- Ability to effectively market and advertise a wildlife or outdoor enterprise.
- Exposure to legal issues related to the operation of wildlife and outdoor enterprises.
Graduates of the major will qualify for a Business Minor offered by the Harbert College of Business.
Wildlife Enterprise Management
| Freshman | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| ENGL 1100 English Composition I | 3 | ENGL 1120 English Composition II | 3 |
| BIOL 1020 Principles Of Biology | 3 | BIOL 1030 Organismal Biology | 3 |
| BIOL 1021 Principles Of Biology Lab | 1 | BIOL 1031 Organismal Biology Laboratory | 1 |
| WILD 1200 Hunting and Fishing the World | 3 | MATH 1130 Precalculus Trigonometry | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | CORE Social Science | 3 |
| WILD 2050 Wldlfe Conservation Hist Law | 3 | HOSP 1010 Intro To Hospitality Mgt | 3 |
| 16 | 16 | ||
| Sophomore | |||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| Core History1 | 3 | PHIL 1040 Business Ethics or 1020 Introduction To Ethics | 3 |
| Free Elective | 3 | BIOL 3060 Ecology | 4 |
| COMM 1000 Public Speaking | 3 | HOSP 2350 Culinary Fundamentals | 3 |
| WILD 3280 Wildlife Ecology & Management2 | 3 | HOSP 2300 Hospitality Law | 3 |
| ECON 2030 Prin Of Macroeconomics or BUSI 3250 International Business (m) | 3 | WILD 2400 Sporting Firearms and Archery | 2 |
| WILD 3500 Outdoor Safety and Liability | 1 | ||
| 15 | 16 | ||
| Junior | |||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| Core History1 | 3 | FINC 3810 Foundations Business Finance (m) | 3 |
| ACCT 2810 Fundamentals Of Accounting (m) | 3 | MNGT 3810 Management Foundations (m) | 3 |
| WLEM Restricted Elective3 | 3 | WLEM Restricted Elective3 | 3 |
| Free Elective | 4 | HOSP 2500 Lodging Operations | 2 |
| HOSP 2501 Lodging Operations Lab | 1 | ||
| WILD 3600 Wildlife Field Techniques | 4 | ||
| 13 | 16 | ||
| Senior | |||
| Fall | Hours | Spring | Hours |
| Core Fine Arts | 3 | Core Literature | 3 |
| Core Social Science | 3 | WLEM Restricted Elective3 | 3 |
| MKTG 3810 Foundations of Bus. Marketing (m) | 3 | WLEM Restricted Elective 3 | 3 |
| HRMN 3420 Human Resource Management | 3 | WILD 5290 Mammal Ecology Mgt | 2 |
| WILD 5280 Avian Ecology Mgt | 2 | WILD 4500 Adv. Wild Enterprise Manage | 3 |
| 14 | 14 | ||
| Total Hours: 120 | |||
- 1
- Student must complete a sequence in History.
- 2
This course must be completed with a grade of "C" or better.
- 3
See College for list of courses that satisfy the restricted elective.