The Environmental Economics and Sustainability major provides students rigorous training in economics and awareness of sustainability challenges, including global climate change, food production, environmental conservation, and social justice. Training in economics provides knowledge of how individuals and governments make decisions and the ways in which the economy can be structured and managed for the common good, training that is a crucial part of solving sustainability challenges. The Governance concentration is intended for students seeking a career in government, non-governmental organization (NGO), or law.
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.
- Have specialized expertise in using either the governance process or business
- management to solve social and environmental challenges.
- Succeed in graduate school and work in professional fields.
SES Shared Learning Outcomes
All SES majors share the following Program Learning Objectives, in addition to their unique major-specific Program Learning Objectives:
- Articulate the foundational principles of natural and social sciences and humanities essential to solving environmental problems.
- Critically evaluate the accuracy and credibility of information relating to environmental topics.
- Employ knowledge and skills to design and implement solutions that contribute to a just and sustainable world.
- Exemplify the values of environmental and social justice through actions to care for our common home and one another.
