Forestry majors at Sewanee will integrate traditional forestry courses (such as dendrology, silviculture, biometrics, forest ecology, and natural resource management) with a wide-ranging number of courses outside the department, including economics, biology, statistics, chemistry, and mathematics. Courses in geology, soils, hydrology, tropical and boreal forestry, wildlife management, and natural resource policy are also encouraged or required.

Altogether, a total of nine full department courses, plus the junior presentations and senior project seminars, are required, as shown in the table below.

A summer internship in a forestry-related field is strongly recommended. Forestry majors also may participate in a 3-2 program with Duke University, taking three years of work at Sewanee and two years at Duke, culminating in both a Sewanee's Bachelor's degree and a Duke Master's degree.