Interdisciplinary Core Courses

TCD offers interdisciplinary core courses in three categories: concepts, skills, and methods. An additional possible core course is the TCD Practicum (see below). A list of TCD course offerings for the current and previous semesters can be found HERE.

Course Requirements

PhD students must take 3 courses totaling 9 credits as per scheme below:

• One TCD core conceptual course (LAS 6290 or equivalent); and
• One TCD core skills course (LAS 6291 or equivalent); plus
• One additional core course that can be any course listed below.

Master’s students from affiliate departments, MALAS and MDP students must take 2 core courses totaling 6 credits as per scheme below:

• One TCD core conceptual course (LAS 6290 or equivalent); and
• One TCD core skills course (LAS 6291 or equivalent).

Interdisciplinary Core Courses List

TCD Concepts (fulfill LAS6290 course requirement)

• LAS 6290/FOR 6628 Community Forest Management (Every fall semester)
• LAS 6290 Ethnoecology and Conservation (every other year)
• LAS 6943 Development Theory and Practice in Latin America and Africa (updated Aug. 2024)
• LAS 6938 Power & Environment (Every spring semester)
• LAS 6938 Climate change and Enviromental justice in Latin America (updated Nov. 2024)
• GEO 6938 People and Parks (Every spring semester)
• WIS 6522 Coupled Human and Wildlife Systems (Spring semester of odd years)
  
  

TCD Skills (fulfill LAS6291 course requirement)

• LAS 6291 Conservation Media (New course in Fall 2023)
• LAS 6291 Communication and Leadership Skills (Every fall semester)
• LAS 6291 Conflict and Collaboration Management (Alternate each spring semester)
• LAS 6291 Facilitation Skills for Adaptive Management (Alternate each spring semester)
• LAS 6291/WIS 6934 Systematic Planning for Conservation Projects (Each spring semester)
  
  

TCD Research Methods

• LAS 6292 Data Collection and Management (Every spring semester) 
• SUR 6934 Drone Ecology
  
  

 TCD Practicum

• LAS 6940 Tropical Conservation and Development Practicum (Available every semester)

Courses that have been offered in the past:

• LAW 6930 Conservation Clinic
• LAS 6291 Fundraising for TCD Professionals
• FOR 6934 / LAS 6290 Social-Ecological Impacts of Dams and Infrastructure Projects
• LAS 6290 The Amazon
• LAS 6290 Knowledge, Governance and Land Use Dynamics in the Tropics
• LAS 6290 Interdisciplinary Research and Practice for Social-Environmental Management
• LAS 6292/FOR 6934 Field Skills for Forest Conservation