Environmental Policy and Resources Planning
Major contacts: Martin Nie & Michael Patterson
The environmental policy track provides students with the substantive background and analytical skills necessary to practice conservation in a larger political, legal, economic, and social context. Suggested coursework focuses on topics such as property, U.S. public lands policy, environmental regulation, conflict, markets and economic incentives, and political institutions and processes, among others. Students are introduced to a number of real-world environmental problems and the policy approaches, strategies, and tools that can be used to deal with them.
Coursework is designed to prepare students to work in a variety of conservation-oriented fields, including environmental/land management agencies, natural resource industries, non-governmental organizations, planning departments and programs, environmental communications, law, and others.
| FOR 320 |
Forest and Environmental Economics |
(3 cr. Prerequisites: MATH 150, ECON 111S) |
| FOR 380 |
Environmental Conservation |
(3 cr. Prerequisite: junior standing) |
| FOR 422 |
Natural Resources Policy |
(3 cr.) |
| FOR 423 |
Montana Wilderness Policy and Politics |
(2 cr.) |
| FOR 424 |
Community Forestry & Conservation |
(3 cr. same as SOC 424) |
| FOR 473 |
Collaboration in Natural Resources Decisions |
(3 cr. same as EVST 473) |
| FOR 489 |
Ethics and Management of Public Lands |
(3 cr. Prerequisite: lower-division course in perspective 5 or instructor consent; senior standing) |
| ECON 111 |
Microeconomics |
(3 cr.) |
| ECON 112 |
Macroeconomics |
(3 cr.) |
| ECON 440 |
Environmental Economics |
(3 cr. Prerequisites: ECON 111S, 112S, same as EVST 440) |
| EVST 302 |
Introduction to Environmental Regulation |
(3 cr.) |
| EVST 367 |
Environmental Politics and Policies |
(3 cr. Prerequisite: EVST 167H or instructor consent) |
| GEOG 335 |
Water policy |
(3 cr. Prerequisite: upper division standing) |
| GEOG 465 |
Planning Principles and Processes |
(3 cr. Prerequisite: upper division or graduate standing) |
| PSC 100S |
Introduction to American Government |
(3 cr.) |
| PSC 361 |
Public Administration |
(3 cr. Prerequisite: PSC 100S) |
| PSC 461 |
Administrative Law |
(3 cr. Prerequisite: PSC 100S and junior standing) |
| PSC 468 |
Public Policy Cycle |
(3 cr.) |
| RECM 370S |
Conservation of Wilderness, Wild Rivers, and National Parks |
(3 cr.) |
| WBIO 410 |
Wildlife Policy and Biopolitics |
(3 cr.) |
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