The Environmental Economics and Sustainability Minor provides a broad understanding of how the environment and the economy are linked; to prepare students for careers in government, consulting, law and for-profit business. The program also offers the essential courses to prepare for a masters in environmental economics, agricultural economics or environmental management.

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Curriculum

Requirements: 6 courses (18 hours); A maximum of 2 courses can count toward this minor and any other major or minor.

ENVS Prerequisites

ECON Prerequisites

Students wishing to pursue graduate study in applied economics or related field should also take intermediate microeconomics (ECON 303 Intermediate Microeconomics) and the calculus course sequence (MATH 161 Calculus I and MATH 162 Calculus II).

Suggested Sequence of Courses

Undergraduate Policies and Procedures

Please see Undergraduate Policies and Procedures for academic policies that supersede those of academic units within the University.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand how the economy, the environment, and human development goals are linked.
• Understand how economic theory and quantitative analysis can be used to evaluate social and economic outcomes.
• Analyze who benefits or is harmed by economic and environmental policies; identify how benefits and harms are distributed in a population.
• Communicate with professionals about tradeoffs, property rights, ecosystem services, values and related economic measures, inequities, externalities, environmental degradation, and systems thinking.