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New Brunswick Undergraduate Catalog 2015–2017 School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Programs of Study Environmental and Business Economics 373 Graduation Requirements for the Major  

Graduation Requirements for the Major


Students matriculating prior to the fall semester 2015 in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences (SEBS) must complete the SEBS general education requirements. In addition, students majoring in environmental and business economics must complete the major requirements described below.

Students matriculating fall 2015 or after and transfer students matriculating in 2016 and after must complete a goal-based Core Curriculum in place of general education requirements. The goal-based core is described here: http://sebs.rutgers.edu/core. Courses are certified for the Core Curriculum by a faculty committee. A current list of certified courses can be found here: http://sebs.rutgers.edu/core. Environmental and business economics major requirements are as described below.

For an up-to-date description of
environmental and business economics major requirements, courses, and course sequences please refer to the program webpage at http://dafre.rutgers.edu/underdescription.


Major Requirements for all Students Regardless of Matriculation Date

Proficiency in Environmental and Business Economics (55-70 credits)

A. REQUIRED COURSES (22-23)

Quantitative Skills (10)

  01:640:1__   CALC1 (4)

  11:373:215  Applications of Statistics in Business Economics (3) or 01:960:285  Introductory Statistics for Business (3) or 01:960:211  Statistics I (3)

  33:010:272  Introduction to Financial Accounting (3)

Computer and Information Technology Competence (3-4)

   11:373:210  Business Decision Computer Tools (4) or 01:198:170  Computer Applications for Business (3)

Professional Ethics

11:373:201 Corporate Citizenship and Social Responsibility (3)

Additional Requirements (9)

  11:373:241  Introduction to Management (3)

  11:373:321  Economics of Production (3)

  11:373:422  Demand and Price Analysis (3)

B. OPTIONS (33-44)

Majors must complete all option-required courses with a grade of C or better. No more than one grade of D is allowed in the remaining option elective courses.

1. Business Economics (33-35)

Required courses (12)

  11:373:201  Corporate Citizenship and Social Responsibility (3) or equivalent

  11:373:231  Introduction to Marketing (3)

  11:373:341  Management: Human Systems Development (3)

  11:373:351  Business Finance I (3)

Electives (21-23)

At least three of the following business/economics courses:

  01:220:300  International Economics (3)

  01:220:301  Money and Banking (3)

  01:220:302  Labor Economics (3)

  01:220:308  Introduction to Managerial Economics (3)

  01:220:311  Methods of Cost Benefit Analysis (3)

  01:220:322  Econometrics (3)

  01:220:394  Economics of Capital Markets (3)

  01:220:415  Portfolio Theory (3)

  11:373:331  Economics of Food Marketing Systems (3)

  11:373:352  Economics of Futures Markets (3)

  11:373:402  Global Marketing (3)*

  11:373:403  Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3)*

  11:373:425  Econometric Applications (3)

  11:373:451  Business Finance II (3)

  11:373:465  Business Research (4)*

At least two of the following policy courses:

  11:373:323  Public Policy toward the Food Industry (3)

  11:373:335  Energy Economics and Policy (3) 11:373:361  Land Economics (3)

  11:373:362  Natural Resource Economics (3)

  11:373:363  Environmental Economics (3)

  11:373:371  Food Health and Safety Policy (3)

  11:373:404  Bioscience Policy (3)

  11:374:313  Environmental Policy and Institutions (3)

  11:374:314  Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management (3)

  01:790:237  Political Economy and Society (3)

  01:790:305  Public Policy Formation (3)

  01:790:327  International Political Economy (3)

  01:790:337  American Political Economy (3)

  01:790:338  Government and Business (3)

  11:374:315  International Environmental Policy (3)

At least two additional courses in environmental and business economics (373), economics (220), or Calculus II.

2. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (33-34)

Required courses (12)

  11:373:201  Corporate Citizenship and Social Responsibility (3) or equivalent

  11:373:361  Land Economics (3)

  11:373:362  Natural Resource Economics (3)

  11:373:363  Environmental Economics (3) or 01:220:332  Environmental Economics (3)

Electives (21-22)

At least three of the following courses in problem solving or policy analysis:

  01:220:311  Methods of Cost Benefit Analysis (3)

  01:220:386  Operations Research I (3)

  01:220:395  Law and Economics (3)

  01:790:305  Public Policy Formation (3)

  01:960:337  Managerial Statistics (3)

  11:372:232  Fundamentals of Environmental Geomatics (3)

  11:373:351  Business Finance I (3)

  11:373:425  Application of Econometrics in Agricultural Economics (3)

  11:375:333  Environmental Law I (3)

  11:375:409  Environmental Statement and Impact (3)

At least one of the following courses in policy applications:

  01:450:140  The Greenhouse Effect (3)

  01:450:370  Global and Regional Climate Change (3)

  11:373:231  Introduction to Marketing (3)

  11:373:404  Bioscience Policy (3)

  11:374:315  International Environmental Policy (3)

  11:375:301  Environment and Health (3)

  11:375:410  Workshop in Environmental Assessment and Impact (3)

  11:375:421  Air Pollution (3)

  11:628:401  Science in Shoreline Management (3)

  11:704:451  Ecosystems Ecology and Global Change (3)

At least one of the following interdisciplinary courses:

  01:512:323,324  History of the North American Environment (3,3)

  10:975:315  Theory and Methods of Land-Use Planning (3)

  11:372:231  Fundamentals of Environmental Planning (3)

  11:372:384  A Systems Approach to Environmental and Agricultural Issues (3)

  11:375:333,334  Environmental Law I,II (3,3)

  11:704:351  Principles of Ecology (3)

Two additional courses in environmental and business economics (373), economics (220), or Calculus II.

3. Food Industry Economics (33-35)

Required courses (12)

  11:373:201  Corporate Citizenship and Social Responsibility (3) or equivalent

  11:373:231  Introduction to Marketing (3)

  11:373:331  Economics of Food Marketing Systems (3)

  11:373:341  Management: Human Systems Development (3)

Electives (21-23)

Four of the following courses, of which at least three must come from group A:

A. Courses in business strategy/policy

  11:373:323  Public Policy toward the Food Industry (3)

  11:373:351  Business Finance I (3)

  11:373:352  Economics of Futures Markets (3)

  11:373:371  Food Health and Safety Policy (3)

  11:373:402  Global Marketing (3)*

  11:373:403  Innovation and Entrepreneurship (3)*

  11:373:425  Econometric Applications (3) or 01:220:322  Econometrics (3) 

  11:373:451  Business Finance II (3)

  11:373:465  Business Research (4)*

B. Courses in environmental/resource economics

  11:373:361  Land Economics (3)

  11:373:362  Natural Resource Economics (3)

  11:373:363  Environmental Economics (3)        

At least 3 credits of courses in one of the following areas: animal science (067), soils (in environmental sciences 375), food science (400), nutritional sciences (709), or plant biology (776).          

At least two additional courses in environmental and business economics (373), economics (220) or Calculus II.

4. Food Science and Management Economics (43-44)

Required courses in the sciences (26)

  01:160:209  Elementary Organic Chemistry (3)

  11:400:201  Principles of Food Science (3)

  11:400:301  Food Processing Technologies (4) 

  11:400:405  Sensory Evaluation of Foods (3)

  11:400:411  Food Chemistry (3)

  11:400:412  Food Product Development (3)

  11:400:423  Food Microbiology (3)

  11:680:390  General Microbiology (4)

Required courses related to business management (17-18)

  11:373:201  Corporate Citizenship and Social Responsibility (3) or 11:400:314  Current Issues in Food Science (2) or equivalent

  11:373:231  Introduction to Marketing (3)

  11:373:323  Public Policy toward the Food Industry (3) or 11:373:371  Food Health and Safety Policy (3)  

  11:373:351  Business Finance I (3)

Unspecified Electives

In addition to courses meeting the above requirements, students can take any other courses offered by the university, for which they meet the course eligibility requirements, to bring their total number of credits to the minimum of 128 required for graduation.

 
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