As far as class work, I think the basics, resource management with policy, and fisheries and asking the real tougher questions, things like why should we really stock this lake? Should we pollute it to best serve the fishermen or the habitat?

Should we limit fish takes from this lake or only allow catch and release(less stocking, but more in lake death, vs taking the fish out, basically a temp holding pond while the fishermen take the fish home and eat them- but less N and P left in the lake also- but then you have deaths of trout from the stocking methods and normal mortality).

Always a trade off in resource management.
Trying to weigh which users and which methods work best for everyone.

Most of these systems are not "natural", they are much more like landscape horticulture, agriculture farms etc and are managed in similar way, as such, their ecology is more like agriculture, not natural systems.

The same is true for natural lakes vs planted aquariums
Like public environmental perceptions, aquarist often misapply nature/natural systems for their "created" systems that are heavily managed and very different.

They are not the same.
Something to ponder.

Regards,
Tom Barr