Environmental Economics and Policy Minor
This program is available at the following locations:
- Corvallis
- Ecampus
The Environmental Economics and Policy minor offers students an opportunity to expand their skill sets in preparation for careers in environmental consulting, resource management, and policy analysis. This minor emphasizes the development and application of economic tools towards identifying the role that humans play in affecting environmental problems, and how policy solutions can be developed that alter human behavior and improve environmental quality.
The Environmental Economics and Policy minor is available to students who are not pursuing the EEP major.
Minor Code: 962
Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:
- Explain microeconomic theory at the intermediate level, including producer theory, how markets work and prices are formulated, market failure and its causes, and welfare theory.
- Analyze natural resource and environmental management issues, including the management of specific resources (such as fishery, forests, land, and water), by applying relevant economic theory and tools.
- Apply statistics and regression techniques to economic data and models and evaluate results.
- Communicate the process and results of economic analysis of environmental and natural resource issues through a variety of written and oral methods.
- Demonstrate the powers and constraints of US legal structures and policy tools to address environmental and natural resource issues.
Each minor in the Applied Economics Department is created to provide students within and outside the discipline the opportunity to study a secondary area. This minor requires 28 credits of coursework with at least 12 upper-division credits.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Core | ||
| AEC 250 | +*INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY | 4 |
| or ECON 201Z | +*PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS | |
| AEC 253 | *ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, POLICY, AND ECONOMICS | 4 |
| AEC 351 | *NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS AND POLICY | 3 |
| AEC 352/ECON 352 | *ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY | 3 |
| Additional credits 1 | 14 | |
| Total Credits | 28 | |
- *
Baccalaureate Core course. Applies to general education requirements for undergraduate students in a catalog year up to 2024-2025
- +
Core Education course. Applies to general education requirements for undergraduate students in catalog year 2025-2026 and beyond
- 1
Students will work with the academic advisor in the Department of Applied Economics to select additional courses for a total of 28 credits
Minor Code: 962