Minor in Environmental Economics & Policy (Non-Teaching)
The Environmental Economics and Policy minor teaches students to analyze environmental issues and policies using economic principles. The program includes a rigorous grounding in economics and statistics. The centerpiece of the program is a set of three upper-division courses in Natural Resource, Environmental, and Energy Economics, of which students will choose two. These courses focus heavily on policy analysis. To give students a fundamental grounding in the science of environmental problems, the program includes directed electives in environmental science. And to provide a broader perspective on policy analysis, it includes directed electives in environmental policy, law, natural science, and social science.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Explain how markets operate and the effects of government policies on those markets.
- Analyze changes in market conditions in a broad array of settings and determine the impact on the various groups most affected by the change.
- Analyze and evaluate environmental policies, assessing their effectiveness, efficiency, and equity implications.
- Identify appropriate policy instruments and design strategies to tackle emerging environmental challenges while balancing economic, social, and ecological considerations.
- Integrate economic analysis with concepts from environmental sciences and other fields to assess environmental challenges and propose sustainable solutions.
- Recognize empirical research methods used in environmental economics and policy evaluation, comprehend potential approaches to answer a novel empirical question, and apply basic statistical techniques to analyze economic or environmental data.
- Interpret and present ideas effectively in oral and written forms to those in the environmental and related fields.
| Choose one Introductory Economics course: | 3 | |
| Economic Way of Thinking | ||
| Econ & the Environment | ||
| ECNS 204IS | Microeconomics | 3 |
| Choose two of the following: | 6 | |
| Econ of Natural Resources | ||
| Economics of the Environment | ||
| Energy Economics | ||
| STAT 216Q | Introduction to Statistics | 3 |
| Choose one Environmental Science and GIS Elective: | 3 | |
| Intro to GIS Science & Cartog | ||
| Adv GIS and Spatial Analysis | ||
| Remote Sensing | ||
| Alternative Power & Energy Technology | ||
| General Ecology | ||
| Energy and Sustainability | ||
| Role of Plants in the Environment | ||
| Soils | ||
| Water Resources | ||
| Environmental Biogeochemistry | ||
| Special Topics | ||
| Environmental Risk Assessment | ||
| Natural Resource Ecology | ||
| Choose one Environmental Policy/Social Science/Law Elective: | 3 | |
| Introduction to Public Administration | ||
| Natural Resource Policy | ||
| Environmental Sociology | ||
| Geography of Energy Resources | ||
| Environment and Society | ||
| Geographical Planning | ||
| Water and Society | ||
| Ag in a Global Context | ||
| Economic Development | ||
| Public Finance | ||
| Agricultural Law | ||
| Principles of Business Law | ||
| Environmental Laws and Regulations | ||
| Natural Resource Law | ||
| Total Credits | 21 | |