Agricultural, Environmental, and Regional Economics - Pennsylvania State University - Penn State Main Campus

Agricultural, Environmental, and Regional Economics from Pennsylvania State University - Penn State Main Campus is a Campus Master Enviroment degree that prepares you for a Science career. The graduate program emphasizes economic theory and quantitative methods as applied to the food and agricultural system, natural resources and the environment, and regional economics and economic development. Graduate Option in Watershed Stewardship M.S. students in this program may elect the Graduate Option in Watershed Stewardship. This option provides enhanced educational opportunities for students with an interest in water resources management. The Watershed Stewardship Option attracts students from several graduate programs and educates them to facilitate team-oriented, community-based watershed management planning directed at water resource problems. The Watershed Stewardship Option is coordinated with similar options in other graduate programs through the Center for Watershed Stewardship. The Graduate Option in Watershed Stewardship requires 18 credits of graduate course work when taken with the M.S. degree in Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics: 6 credits of breadth courses, 3 credits of environmental economics, 1 credit of Watershed Stewardship Seminar (AEREC 591), and 8 credits of Watershed Stewardship Practicum I and II (AEREC 570 and AEREC 571). Breadth courses consist of 3 credits of graduate course work from water resources science and 3 credits from either humanities or communications/design. For M.S. students, the 3 credits in environmental economics consist of Resource and Environmental Economics I (AEREC 519). In the watershed stewardship practicum courses, students work in multidisciplinary teams with community, government and business leaders to analyze and understand natural resource problems and creatively synthesize appropriate solutions in a written watershed management plan. Lists of acceptable water resources science, humanities, and communication/design courses are maintained by the Center for Watershed Stewardship. Students may petition the Agricultural , Environmental and Regional Economics Graduate Program Committee and the Center for Watershed Stewardship to substitute higher level or equivalent courses to suit their specific backgrounds and goals. Courses taken for the Graduate Option in Watershed Stewardship may be used to satisfy other equivalent (400- or 500-level) degree requirements in the Agricultural, Environmental and Regional Economics graduate program with the concurrence of their adviser and the Agricultural , Environmental and Regional Economics Graduate Program Committee. The graduate committee for a student enrolled in the Option in Watershed Stewardship must include a faculty representative from the Center for Watershed Stewardship. View more details on Pennsylvania State University - Main Campus . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Enviroment courses.