Applied Fire Science and Management, B.S. MAP

Major Academic Plans

Students at Cal Poly Humboldt follow many different paths to graduation. Your educational and career goals, as well as personal interests all contribute to planning the courses you take. 

Major Academic Plans or MAPs show what courses you might take each semester in order to meet university and major program requirements and graduate with a degree in four years. Discussing course options with an advisor will best serve you in planning a customized schedule to meet your individual academic needs.

Additionally, you may build your personalized plan in DARS planning tools using a program MAP as a resource. Meet with your advisor each semester to assist in planning and to review your progress.

Year 1 - Semester 1 (15-17 Units)

• GE Area A2: Written Communication  ENGL 102 - Composition and Rhetoric A Units: 3
• OR   ENGL 104 - Accelerated Composition and Rhetoric Units: 3
• AND (optional)    ENGL 110 - Academic Literacies Support and Seminar Units: 2
• Major and GE Area B2/B3:   BOT 105 - General Botany Units: 4
• Major and GE Area B4:   STAT 108 - Elementary Statistics Units: 3
• Major and GE Area E:   SCI 100 - Becoming a STEM Professional in the 21st Century Units: 3
• Major:   FIRE 123 - Fundamentals of Fuel and Fire Units: 2

Year 1 - Semester 2 (16 Units)

• GE Area A1:   COMM 100 - Fundamentals of Speech Communication Units: 3 (If you took ENGL 102 last semester, take ENGL 103. Talk to an advisor about the best semester to take COMM 100.)
• Major and GE Area B1:   CHEM 107 - Fundamentals of Chemistry Units: 4
• Major, American Institutions US History, DCG Domestic, and GE Area D:   NAS 200 - Indigenous Peoples in U.S. History Units: 3
• Major Interdisciplinary Requirement (Taxonomy):   FOR 130 - Dendrology Units: 3 (see program description for other course options)
• Major Interdisciplinary Requirement (Ecology):   FOR 131 - Forest Ecology Units: 3 (see program description for other course options)

Year 2 - Semester 3 (15-16 Units)

• GE Area C1: Arts Units: 3 
• Major (Interdisciplinary Requirement)  Units: 3-4 (see program description for course options)

• GE Area D:   GSP 101 - Geospatial Concepts Units: 3
• Major and GE Area F:   NAS 104 - Introduction to Native American Studies Units: 3
• Major:   SOIL 260 - Introduction to Soil Science Units: 3

Year 2 - Semester 4 (15 Units)

• GE Area A3: Critical Thinking Units: 3
• GE Area C2: Humanities Units: 3

• Major:   GSP 216 - Introduction to Remote Sensing Units: 3
• OR   GSP 270 - Geographic Information Science (GIS) Units: 3
• Major:   FIRE 223 - Fire Weather Units: 3
• Major:   FOR 315 - Forest Management Units: 3

Year 3 - Semester 5 (15-16 Units)

• Major (Interdisciplinary Requirement) Units: 3-4

• Major and American Institutions, US Government:   FOR 359 - Forest and Rangeland Policy Units: 3
• Major:   FIRE 321 - Fire Ecology Units: 3
• Major:   FIRE 323 - Fire Behavior and Effects Units: 3
• Major:   NAS 309 - Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Natural Resource Management Units: 3

Year 3 - Semester 6 (16-17 Units)

• Major (Interdisciplinary Requirement) Units: 3-4
• GE Area C1 Arts or C2 Humanities Units 3

• Major and UD GE Area B:   FISH 300 - Introduction to Fishery Biology Units: 3
• OR   RRS 306 - Rangeland Management Principles Units: 3
• Major:   WSHD 310 - Hydrology and Watershed Management Units: 4
• Major:   FIRE 324 - Fuel Inventory and Management Units: 3

Year 4 - Semester 7 (15-16 Units)

• UD GE Area C: Arts and Humanities Units: 3
• Major (Interdisciplinary Requirement) Units: 3-4

• Major and UD GE Area D:   FIRE 305 - Humans and Fire Units: 3
• Major:   FIRE 422 - Applied Fire Use and Policy Units: 3
• Major:   FIRE 482 - Applied Fire Internship Units: 3

Year 4 - Semester 8 (12-13 Units)

• Major (Interdisciplinary Requirement) Units: 3-4

• Major:   ESM 425 - Environmental Impact Assessment Units: 3
• Major:   FIRE 431 - Landscape Fire Modeling Units: 3
• Major and GWAR:   FIRE 479W - Applied Fire Capstone Units: 3