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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Department of Applied Economics and Statistics


Economics of Sustainability and Policy Concentration BS Four-Year Plan

Fall Spring
First Year
APEC 135 - Introduction to Data Analysis   APEC 100 - Sustainable Development  (Multicultural Requirement)
APEC 150 - Economics of Agriculture and Natural Resources **  ECON 101 - Introduction to Microeconomics ** 
MATH 221 - Calculus I ***  ENGL 110 - First-Year Writing  
Breadth Requirement (Creative Arts and Humanities or History and Cultural Change) (1/2) ENWC 201 - Wildlife Conservation and Ecology *** 
First Year Seminar Free Elective (2/10)
Free Elective (1/10)  
Credits: 16 Credits: 15
Second Year
COMM 212 - Public Speaking & Professional Presentation   ENGL 312 - Written Communications in Business  
ECON 103 - Introduction to Macroeconomics **  Physical Science Requirement (1/2)*
ECON 308 - Banking and Monetary Policy   POSC 220 - Introduction to Public Policy ** 
STAT 200 - Basic Statistical Practice ***  Breadth Requirement (Creative Arts and Humanities or History and Cultural Change) (2/2)
Free Elective (3/10) Free Elective (4/10)
Credits: 15 Credits: 16
Third Year
APEC 343 - Environmental Economics ** or APEC 444 - Economics of Environmental Management   APEC 324 - Introduction to Resource Economics  or APEC 424 - Resource Economics  
ECON 300 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory without Calculus ** or ECON 301 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory with Calculus **  APEC 406 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Policy ** 
Physical Science Requirement (2/2)* ECON 300-level Elective (1/2)
APEC 410 - International Agricultural Trade and Marketing   Free Elective (6/10)
Free Elective (5/10) Free Elective (7/10)
Credits: 16 Credits: 15
Fourth Year
APEC 429 - Community Economic Development   APEC 409 - Surveys and Economic Experiments  (DLE and Capstone)** 
APEC 480 - Geographic Information Systems in Natural Resource Management  ECON 303 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory without Calculus ** 
Economics of Sustainability and Policy concentration Elective (1/2)* Economics of Sustainability and Policy concentration Elective (2/2)*
Free Elective (8/10) ECON 300-level Elective (2/2)
Free Elective (9/10) Free Elective (10/10)
Credits: 16 Credits: 15
Total Credits: 124
*See program page for approved courses.
**These courses also satisfy the University Breadth Requirement: Social and Behavioral Sciences 
***These courses also satisfy the University Breadth Requirement: Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology

Disclaimer: Four-Year Plans are a Departmental suggestion of how a student could complete this degree in four years (eight semesters). Students may opt to take courses in the summer or winter sessions. These plans do not take into account additional requirements brought on by minors or other majors. A Four-Year Plan is subject to change from year-to-year given the resources and focuses of the Department.  It is the student’s responsibility to meet with his or her assigned advisor at least once a semester to monitor progress and ensure that he or she is on track to graduate on time. This document is intended as a supplemental advisement tool to be used in conjunction with in-person advisement and the UDSIS Degree Audit.  Students should direct any questions or concerns regarding degree progress to their advisor or Academic Assistant Dean.