Economics and Science of the Environment Major Concentration Requirements

(Revised 4/2018)

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 (have prerequisites):

• ECON 255 Econometrics

• ECON 260 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

5-6. Two of the following natural science or modeling courses, no more than one of which can be at the 100-level (have prerequisites):

• BIO 190 Organismal Biology/Lab

• 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 240 Water and Watersheds/Lab

• GEO 109 Global Change/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 Climate Change and Modeling

• MATH 255A Mathematical Models in Biology

• MATH 255B Mathematical Modeling

• MA/PH 255E Modeling Nature

• ENVR 2XX Ecology of Food and Farms

• New sea-level rise course

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

• BIO 313 Marine Ecology/Lab

• BIO 332 Ecology and Evolution of Mutualisms

• BI/ES 303 Restoration Ecology

• 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 310 Soils/Lab

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