Natural Resources (NAT RES)

Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
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Terms offered: Spring 2011
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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Terms offered: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024
NATRES 76: How to be a Rausser CNR Scientist is designed for students who would like to explore their own identity as scientists at Rausser College and learn how to best access opportunities for research, internships, and jobs. Through this course, students develop a network of supportive peers, tour laboratory facilities, connect with RCNR faculty & staff, learn about campus resources, and explore & practice skills in communication & professionalism. A central course tenet is a commitment to bolstering equity and inclusion in science, encouraging students to question stereotypes about scientific identity.

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Terms offered: Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Spring 2022
Sophomore seminars are small interactive courses offered by faculty members in departments all across the campus. Sophomore seminars offer opportunity for close, regular intellectual contact between faculty members and students in the crucial second year. The topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment limited to 15 sophomores.
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Terms offered: Spring 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
As a subject, food is multi-disciplinary, drawing on everything from economics and agronomy to sociology, anthropology, and the arts. Each week experts on organic agriculture, school lunch reform, food safety, animal welfare, hunger and food security, farm bill reform, farm-to-school efforts, urban agriculture, food sovereignty, local food economies, etc. will lecture on what their areas of expertise have to offer the food movement to help it define and achieve its goals.
Edible Education: The Rise and Future of the Food Movement: Read More [+]

Terms offered: Not yet offered
The Sponsored Projects for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) program helps students get involved in research projects with world renowned faculty and staff researchers in the Rausser College of Natural Resource
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