Economics and Science of the Environment Major Concentration Requirements

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CONCENTRATION IS BEING DISCONTINUED AND WILL NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE TO THE CLASS OF 2025 AND BEYOND.

 

The following required courses for this concentration are in addition to the ES major core courses. Courses completed in this concentration can not count towards the core course requirements.

1-2.  Both of the following economics courses:

• ECON 101. Principles of Microeconomics: Prices and Markets.

• ECON 222. Environmental Economics.

3.  One of the following statistics courses:

• BIO 244. Biostatistics.

• ECON 250. Statistics.

4.  One of the following intermediate economics courses (some courses have prerequisites):

• ECON 255. Econometrics.

• ECON 260. Intermediate Microeconomic Theory.

5. One of the following natural sciences or modeling courses:

• BI/ES 246. Conservation Biology.

• BIO 206. Evolution and Interactions of Life.

• BI/ES 271. Dendrology and the Natural History of Trees/Lab.

• EA/ES 226. Hydrogeology.

• ENVR 221. Ecology of Food and Farming.

• ENVR 240. Water and Watersheds/Lab.

• EACS 210. Sedimentary Processes and Environments/Lab.

• EACS 240. Environmental Geochemistry/Lab.

• PHYS 214. Renewable Energy.

• EA/ES 217. Mapping and GIS/Lab.

• ENVR 220. GIS Across the Curriculum.

• EA/PH 220. Dynamical Climate.

• BI/MA 255A. Mathematical Models in Biology.

• MATH 255B. Mathematical Modeling.

• MA/PH 255E. Modeling Nature.

• MA/PH 255F. Agent-Based Modeling with NetLogo.

6.  One of the following 300-level courses (courses have prerequisites):

• BI/ES 302 or 303. Restoration Ecology.

• BIO 313. Marine Ecology/Lab.

• BI/ES 333. Genetics of Conservation Biology/Lab
• ECON 309. Economics of Less-Developed Countries.

• ECON 325. Prices, Property, and the Problem of the Commons.

• ENVR 306. Disturbance Ecology.

• ENVR 310. Soils/Lab.

All of the  courses required for this concentration are listed on the Economics and Science of the Environment major declaration form.