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Advisers Globus-Harris, Klotz
The environmental economics major program focuses on the relationships between the economic system and the natural environment, including the use of the natural environment as an economic asset and the impact on the natural environment of the economic system. In addition to courses stressing economic analysis, the major program includes a study of the relevant sciences, humanities and other social sciences.
This major is part of the Environmental Studies (ENST) Program and is designed for students who are interested in analyzing environmental issues using the framework of economics. Students take a set of courses in the ENST program as well as economics courses that have an environmental emphasis but also provide breadth in economics. The ENST courses focus on interdisciplinary approaches to ethical, natural scientific, and social scientific aspects of environmental issues.
For students graduating in the Class of 2025 and earlier, please refer to prior University Catalog requirements.
Major Requirements
The major program consists of the following requirements:
Environmental Studies Courses (seven)
All of the Following
- ENST 200听-听Environmental Science: Challenges and Solutions 听补苍诲 ENST 200L听
- ENST 202/PHIL 202听-听Environmental Ethics 听
- ENST 450听-听Community-based Study of Environmental Issues
One of the following introductory environmental science courses:
- CHEM 100听-听The Chemistry of Altered and Natural Environments
- ENST 240听-听Sustainability: Science and Analysis
- GEOG 231听-听Geography of the Physical Environment
- GEOL 101听-听Environmental Geology
- GEOL 102听-听Sustainable Earth
- GEOL 135听-听Oceanography and the Environment
- GEOL 190听-听Evolution of Planet Earth
One of the following environmental justice courses:
Other required courses (two):
- One course from the Arts and Humanities Courses Related to the Environment听list.
- One course from the Environmental Studies Depth Electives听list.
Economics Courses (seven)
All of the Following
- ECON 151听-听Introduction to Economics
- ECON 251听-听Intermediate Microeconomics (with a minimum grade of C)
- ECON 252听-听Intermediate Macroeconomics (with a minimum grade of C)
- ECON 375听-听Applied Econometrics (with a minimum grade of C)
- ECON 483听-听Seminar in Resource and Environmental Economics (or, with permission of the major adviser and program director, another economics seminar with a research project focused on an environmental or resource issue)
- MATH 105听-听Introduction to Statistics
One of the Following
Major Declaration
In order to declare an environmental economics major, students must have first earned a grade of C or better in either ECON 251听or ECON 252. Students who declare a major while enrolled in one of these courses may file "provisional" major declarations. Students with a grade lower than C in ECON 251, ECON 252, or ECON 375听may not declare an environmental economics until a grade of C or higher is earned.
Honors and High Honors
Environmental Economics students interested in pursuing honors follow the same process outlined for honors in Economics; see the catalog listing for the Economics major and consult your academic advisor for more details.
Environmental Studies Program
For more information about the department, including Faculty,听transfer credit, awards, etc.,听please visit the听Environmental Studies program听catalog听page.