NRSC 4480

Students are provided with the opportunity to work on a specific project under the supervision of a faculty member in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences. Projects may involve field and/or laboratory research, or may be purely literature based. Normally the subject of the project will fall under the expertise of the faculty member, and will lead to a written paper. Under prior arrangement, a student may conduct research outside of the academic year and later complete the analysis and writing. The course differs from NRSC 4990 in that the scope of the project generally is more modest than an honours thesis; for example, students may work with existing data sets provided they are making a significant contribution to the final product.