Environmental and Natural Resource Economics B.S.
Accelerated Bachelor to Masters Program
Sample Curriculum
First year
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| Fall Semester | ||||
| URI 101 | Planning for academic success | 1 | ||
| EEC105 | Introduction to Resource Economics | 3 | ||
| NRS 100 | Natural Resource Conservation | 3 | ||
| GEO100 or GEO103 | Environmental Geology or Understanding the Earth | 3 or 4 | ||
| General Education | 3 | |||
| General Education | 3 | |||
| BS | 16-17 | |||
| Spring Semester | ||||
| EEC205 | Environmental economics and policy | 3 | ||
| MTH103, 111, 131 or BUS11 | Applied precalclus, precalculus, applied calculus or intro bus analysis & Appl. (based on placement) | 3 | ||
| Supporting science elective | 3 or 4 | |||
| General Education | 3 | |||
| General Education | 3 | |||
| BS | 15-16 | |||
| Summer | ||||
| No credits necessary, consider internship. | ||||
Second year
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| Fall Semester | ||||
| EEC310 | Ecn. of Natural Resource Management and Policy | 3 | ||
| ECN328 | Intermediate microeconomics | 3 | ||
| Supporting science elective | 3 or 4 | |||
| Supporting science elective | 3 or 4 | |||
| General Education | 3 or 4 | |||
| BS | 15-18 | |||
| Spring Semester | ||||
| Concentration elective | 3 or 4 | |||
| STA307, 308, 409 or BUS210 | Intro Biostatistics, Intro. Statistics, Stat. Methods in Res., or Manag. Stats | 3 or 4 | ||
| General Education | 3 or 4 | |||
| General Education | 3 or 4 | |||
| WRT___ | WRT 200 level or above | 3 or 4 | ||
| BS | 15-19 | |||
| Summer | ||||
| Free elective | 3 | |||
| Supporting elective | 3 | |||
| BS | 6 | |||
Third year
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| Fall Semester | ||||
| EEC440 | Benefit-cost analysis | 3 | ||
| ECN328 | Concentration elective | 3 or 4 | ||
| Supporting science elective | 3 or 4 | |||
| Supporting science elective | 3 or 4 | |||
| General Education | 3 or 4 | |||
| BS | 15-19 | |||
| Spring Semester | ||||
| Supporting elective | 3 or 4 | |||
| Supporting elective | 3 or 4 | |||
| Supporting elective | 3 or 4 | |||
| General Education | 3 or 4 | |||
| General Education | 3 or 4 | |||
| BS | 15-19 | |||
| Summer | ||||
| Free elective | 3 | |||
| Free elective | 3 | |||
| BS | 6 | |||
Fourth year
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| Fall Semester | ||||
| EEC518 | Mathematics for Economists | 2 | ||
| ECN528 | Microeconomics | 3 | ||
| EEC/ECN400+ | Concentration elective | 3 | ||
| EEC501 | Graduate seminar | 1 | ||
| Supporting elective (for BS) | 3 | |||
| MS only BS only Double dip | 4 3 5 | |||
| Spring Semester | ||||
| EEC534 | Natural Resource Economics | 4 | ||
| EEC535 | Environmental Economics | 3 | ||
| EEC432 | Environmental economics and policy (capstone) | 3 | ||
| Supporting elective (for BS) | 3 | |||
| MS only BS only Double dip | 4 3 6 | |||
Fifth year
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| Fall Semester | ||||
| EEC502 | Research methodology | 3 | ||
| EEC576 | Econometrics | 4 | ||
| Elective for MS | 3 | |||
| MS only | 11 | |||
| Spring Semester | ||||
| EEC598 | Master's non-thesis research | 1 | ||
| EEC535 | Elective for MS (EEC676 suggested) | 3 | ||
| MS only | 4 | |||
| Spring Semester | ||||
| EEC598 | Master's non-thesis research | 1 | ||
| EEC535 | Elective for MS (EEC676 suggested) | 3 | ||
| MS only | 4 | |||
Total
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| BS Total MS Total Double dip | 120 34 11 |
*Bolded & Italic: Suggested courses to double dip. Students can double dip on any 400- or 500- level course (applicable for graduate degree) up to 11 credits. These should be EEC/ECN/BUS 400+ if it needs to qualify as concentration for the B.S. (which this plan assumes)