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:

• 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 (BCC)

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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