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 market and policy outcomes using microeconomic and legal principles, including how prices are formulated.
• 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.

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.

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Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)

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Core Education course. Applies only to students admitted to an OSU undergraduate degree from Summer 2025 onwards

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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 28 credits

Minor Code: 962