This program is available at the following locations:

• Corvallis
• Ecampus

The Environmental Law and Policy minor offers students an opportunity to expand their skill sets as they prepare for careers in environmental law or policy. This minor emphasizes the development of policy analysis skills that emphasize economic and legal reasoning relevant to environmental policy decisions in a government, agency, business, non-profit, or legal setting.

Minor Code: 961

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 27 credits of coursework with at least 12 upper-division credits.

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Baccalaureate Core course. Applies to general education requirements for undergraduate students in a catalog year up to 2024-2025

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Students will work with the academic advisor in the Department of Applied Economics to select additional courses for a total of 27 credits

Minor Code: 961