Natural Resources: Environmental Economics (M.S.)

Program Overview

This Master's program in Natural and Environmental Resources provides students with a foundation in research methods, data analysis, and natural resource education. Students can choose to focus on environmental economics, completing additional coursework in econometrics and microeconomics. The program culminates in either a research-based thesis or a professionally oriented directed research project.

Program Outline

Outline:

• Course Requirements:
• NR 903: Approach to Research (2 credits)
• One of the following additional research methods classes (2-3 credits):
• NR 905: Grant Writing
• BIOL 902: Writing and Publishing Science
• BIOL 950: Scientific Communication
• GRAD 834: Fundamentals of Citizen and Community Science
• NR 993: Natural and Environmental Resources Seminar (2 credits)
• NR 996: Natural Resource Education (1 credit)
• or NR 900: Teaching Assistantship Practicum (1 credit)
• One of the following Data Analysis courses (3-4 credits):
• ANFS 933: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation of Experiments
• BIOL 811: Experimental Design & Analysis
• DATA 800: Introduction to Applied Analytic Statistics
• ECON 926: Econometrics I
• EDUC 904: Qualitative Inquiry in Research
• ESCI 801: Quantitative Methods in Earth Sciences
• MATH 835: Statistical Methods for Research
• MATH 839: Applied Regression Analysis
• MATH 840: Design of Experiments I
• NR 909: Analysis of Ecological Communities and Complex Data
• NR 913: Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology
• PPOL 908: Quantitative Methods for Policy Research
• PSYC 805: Research Methodology and Statistics I
• PSYC 907: Research Methods and Statistics III
• SOC 901: Sociological Methods I: Intermediate Social Statistics
• SOC 903: Sociological Methods III: Advanced Social Statistics
• SOC 904: Sociological Methods IV: Qualitative and Historical Research Methods
• One of the following:
• NR 899: Master's Thesis (36 credits) - a research-based thesis that is the foundation for a peer-reviewed publication.
• NR 998: Directed Research (44 credits) - a professionally oriented body of work, most often geared to meet the needs of the stakeholder.
The project will culminate in a scholarly paper or report that is suitable for publication in the respective field of scholarship.
• Environmental Economics Option Requirements:
• ECON 926: Econometrics I (4 credits)

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