Certificate in Environmental & Natural Resource Economics
Introduction
The departmental Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics is awarded to qualifying undergraduate majors with a "field of concentration" in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics.
Requirements
To qualify for the certificate, students must complete two core courses as follows:
- ECON 435 - Natural Resource Economics
- ECON 436 - Economics of the Environment
and two courses chosen from the following list:
- ECON 454 - Cost-Benefit Analysis (recommended)
- ECON 403 - The Economics of Property Rights
- ECON 404 - Industrial Organization and Price Analysis
- ECON 431 - Government and Business
- ECON 437 - Economics of Biological Resources
- ECON 450 - Public Finance: Expenditure Policy
- ECON 451 - Public Finance: Tax Policy
- ECON 485 - Game Theory with Applications to Economics
Students must earn a grade of at least 2.8 in each of the four courses and a grade point average for the four courses of at least 3.0.
Getting the Application
The application for this certificate is available online. You will
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the form for the Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resource
Economics, click
here. Printed copies of the application are available from the advising
office, in Condon Hall, room 413.
When you have completed the required classes, fill
out the application and return it with an unoffical UW transcript
to:
Advising Office
Department of Economics
Box 353330
402 Condon Hall
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98105.
Please print your name clearly as you wish it to appear and include
your permanent mailing address. Certificates are not printed on a regular
schedule so there may be some delay between your date of graduation
and receipt of your certificate.
Last Updated December 4, 2007
