Economics and Science of the Environment Major Concentration Requirements

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, taken by the end of the junior year:

• 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 270. Ecology and Evolution/Lab.

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

• ES/GE 226. Hydrogeology.

• ENVR 221. Ecology of Food and Farming/Lab.

• ENVR 240. Water and Watersheds/Lab.

• GEO 210. Sedimentary Processes and Environments/Lab.

• GEO 240. Environmental Geochemistry/Lab.

• PHYS 214. Renewable Energy.

• ES/GE 217. Mapping and GIS/Lab.

• ENVR 220. GIS Across the Curriculum.

• GE/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 303. Restoration Ecology.

• BIO 313. Marine Ecology/Lab.

• BIO 332. Ecology and Evolution of Mutualisms.

• BI/ES 303. Restoration Ecology.

• 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.