NEW: How to join the ESRM: Wildlife Conservation Option

Overview

Effective with the 2025-2026 Academic year, there is now a declaration process for the Environmental Science and Terrestrial Resources Management: Option in Wildlife Conservation.

ESRM students can join the Wildlife Conservation Option at any time, though must complete certain ESRM major graduation requirements first, and fill out a plan of study regarding how they will complete all of the degree requirements.

The Wildlife Conservation Option is the only Option in the ESRM major that requires a separate declaration process, due to the high volume of students desiring the Option (as compared with the number of Wildlife Conservation faculty available to teach them) and the high number of declared Option students who leave the Option (generally for ESRM: General) prior to graduation.  So, the application process and steps are here to help students be fully academically prepared for Option courses, be aware of the rigorous demands of the Wildlife Conservation curriculum, and be able to follow an appropriate academic plan that will allow them to graduate on time with their Bachelor’s degree.

How to Join the Wildlife Conservation Option

To be eligible to join the  Wildlife Conservation option, students must be a current ESRM major or ESRM Option student (or have submitted a completed ESRM Major Declaration form concurrently). Additionally, students must have completed the following ESRM major course requirements (please wait to fill out the Wildlife Declaration form until grades are recorded for all of these courses – in progress courses are not accepted):

1. English Composition (5 credits)
2. Calculus 1 (generally Q SCI 291 or MATH 124)
3. Calculus 2 (generally Q SCI 292 or MATH 125)
4. Chemistry 1 (generally CHEM 120 or CHEM 142)
5. Chemistry 2 (generally CHEM 220 or CHEM 152)
6. Biology 180 or BIOL 161 and BIOL 162
7. Biology 200 or BIOL 161 and BIOL 162
8. Biology 220 or BIOL 161 and BIOL 162

Declaration Timeline and Instructions

• The declaration form is open on an ongoing basis, and you can complete and submit the form as soon as all grades for the ESRM requirements are posted.

Click here to join the Option – always open

To complete the declaration form you will need to have completed all of the declaration requirements listed above.

Advice regarding completion of your MyPlan Academic Plan:

• Please click on the form and carefully read over the questions.  You will want to prepare answers to all questions in advance, as you cannot save your responses.
• Please use the Wildlife Conservation sample 4 year academic plan for compiling your academic plan.
• For your own academic plan you construct in the application, please pay careful attention to the order of the Wildlife Conservation courses highlighted in orange, and in particular the listings of course prerequisites for many of the courses.  You must have all prerequisites completed in order to take the course in question.
• ESRM-prefixed Wildlife courses are only offered in the quarter indicated on the sample plan.
• MyPlan guidance is available at this page.