2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin - NMU Bulletin

RE 376 Advanced Firefighter 2 cr.  (2-0-0)

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: RE 272 and RE 372.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course is designed to meet the training needs for both the Advanced Firefighter/Squad Boss and Incident Commander Type 5 (ICT5) on wildfires. Meets National Wildfire Coordinating Group requirements for S-131 and S-244. APC granted for NWCG certificates in S-131 and S-244 inclusive.

RE 375 Followership to Leadership 2 cr.  (1-0-2)

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: RE 372.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This is an introductory course in fireline leadership, designed as a self-assessment tool for individuals preparing to step into a leadership role. Meets National Wildfire Coordinating Group requirements for L-280. APC granted for NWCG L-280.

RE 374 Lessons Learned 2 cr.  (1-0-2)

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: RE 372.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

The purpose of the course is to visit and use historical fatality wildland fire sites as a learning tool to help fireline decision makers avoid making similar mistakes in the future.

Requires a field trip to the site of a fatal wildland fire. Additional fees required.

RE 373 Interagency Incident Business Management 1 cr.  (1-0-0)

• Offered: Winter
• Prerequisites: RE 372.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

The purpose of this course is to give students an understanding of agency policies and incident business management practices they will encounter as a wildland firefighter. Meets National Wildfire Coordinating Group requirements for S-260. APC granted for NWCG certificate S-260.

RE 292 Wildland Fire Field Experience 3 cr.

• Offered: Fall Winter Summer
• Prerequisites: RE 172 and instructor permission required.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

The course is designed to provide students with practical experience with agencies who provide wildland fire management services. 

RE 175 Basic Air Operations 1 cr.  (1-0-0)

• Offered: Fall
• Prerequisites: RE 172 or concurrent enrollment.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Instruction for basic aviation safety, aircraft types and capabilities, aviation management, tactical and logistical uses of aircraft, and requirements for helicopter take-off and landing areas. Meets National Wildfire Coordinating Group requirements for S-270. APC granted for NWCG certificate S-270. 

EC 295 Special Topics in Economics 1-4 cr.

• Offered: On demand.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Variable content, depending upon the specialization of the instructor and the special needs of the students.

Notes: May be repeated if topic differs.

PS 436 Classic Readings in Public Administration 4 cr.

• Offered: Summer
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course provides a learning opportunity and general introductory scholarship related to the development of public administration as an academic discipline. The course is designed to provide interested students a foundation for understanding practical and theoretical concepts related to public administration in the United States.

PS 315 Politics and Film 4 cr.

• Offered: Contact department
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

This course uses films and selected documentaries to analyze a series of political topics, all linked by themes of power and violence in political systems. Some of these issues are basic and permanent in politics, such as the troubled relationship between private and public ethics; others, such as totalitarianism, force us to rethink the nature of modernity itself.

AN 383 Medical Anthropology: Pluralistic Systems of Health Care 4 cr.  (4-0-0)

• Offered: Contact Department
• Prerequisites: AN 100 or AN 110, or instructor's permission.
• Bulletin Year: 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Bulletin | View the current NMU Catalog.

Analysis of behavioral science dimensions of health systems and institutions at regional, national and global scales. Discussion includes social and cultural factors relating to health, occurrence and distribution of disease. Cross cultural analysis of biomedicine and societal medical systems.