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NR Law Enforcement A.A.S. Degree

Career Description
Students in the Natural Resources Law Enforcement Program learn skills that lead to becoming a conservation officer. Conservation officers work with fish and wildlife agencies, state parks, trails, forests, waters and wetlands, as well as work in educational activities within and throughout Minnesota. Conservation officers often work from 4x4 patrol vehicles, snowmobiles, ATV, and various watercrafts.

Program Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate basic identifications kills for wildlife

Demonstrate basic knowledge of environmental relationships

Achieve P.O.S.T. Board certification

Understand employment opportunities for Natural Resource Law Enforcement

Special Program Requirements
Students must be able to complete skills portion of the program to become licensed. This involves several real-life crime-scene situations, firearms and physical proficiency, and law enforcement procedural practices.

Transfer Opportunities
Students have the opportunity to transfer to most four-year colleges that offer a Bachelor of Arts in Law Enforcement.

Employment Opportunities
The selection process for being a conservation officer in Minnesota includes a written exam, division interview, background investigation, functional capacity exam, psychological assessment and a medical evaluation. In addition, conservation officers must be a United States Citizen, possess a valid Minnesota driver’s license, have no felony convictions, have the ability to swim and possess a license or be eligible for licensing as a Minnesota peace officer at
the time of hire.

Natural Resource Law Enforcement, AAS - Program Planning Form (pdf)

A.A.S. CURRICULUM

Required Courses
CRJU 1101*  Criminal Justice (3cr)
CRJU 1104*  Juvenile Justice (3cr)
CRJU 2101*  Criminal Law (3cr)
CRJU 2102*  Criminal Procedures (4cr)
CRJU 2108*  Criminal Investigations (3cr)
CRJU 2140*  Law Enforcement & Behavioral Science (3cr)
NATR 1106   Intro to NR Law Enforcement (2cr)
NATR 1125   Ichthyology (3cr)
NATR 1130   Mammalogy (3cr)
NATR 1135   Ornithology (3cr)
NATR 1360   Animal Behavior (3cr)
NATR 2110   Herpetology (2cr)
Required Total 35 credits

General Education Courses
Student must complete the requirements listed in the AAS
Degree/General Education Transfer Curriculum document.
BIOL 2416  General Ecology (3cr)
ENGL 1410  Composition I (4cr)
POLS 1439  State & Local Government (3cr)   OR
POLS 1435  American Government Politics  (3cr)
SOCL 2405  Criminology (3cr)
SOCL 2481  Race Ethnicity & Oppression (3cr)

Choose one (1) of the following:
SPCH 1431  Fundamentals of Public Speaking (3cr)
SPCH 1421  Interpersonal Communication (3cr)
General Education Total 19 credits

Electives
Choose a minimum of eighteen (18) credits from following to
complete program:
CRJU 2114    Traffic Law (3cr)
CRJU 2124    Evidence Identification & Prep (4cr)
NATR 1112    Land Measurement (3cr)
NATR 1120    Dendrology (3cr)
NATR 1140    Limnology (3cr)
NATR 1200    Intro to Natural Resources (3cr)
NATR 1280    Intro to GPS & GIS (Arc View) (2cr)
NATR 2130*  Wildlife Management (3cr)
NATR 2140*  Fisheries Management (3cr)
Skills (offered at CLC-check w/coordinator) (10-14cr)
Total 18 credits

GRADUATION REQUIREMENT 72
*Denotes Prerequisites

Individual semester plans are determined between
instructor and student to best meet the student’s
needs.