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WIU to Offer Three-Year Degree
MACOMB, Ill. (AP) -- Western Illinois University's Quad Cities campus will offer students interested in the great outdoors a chance to earn a degree in three years.

The new Natural Resources Management track will begin this fall. The accelerated degree program is a partnership between WIU and the Eastern Iowa Community College District.

School officials say the curriculum will prepare students for careers in outdoor recreation and natural resources management.

Classes will be held at the Quad Cities campus and at the Nahant Marsh Education Center. The center is a 62-acre nature preserve located along the Mississippi River.

Students will be given the chance to do a "summer wilderness experience." All students also will be required to finish a 12-week internship.

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