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Learning outcomes

Environmental, Agricultural and Resource Economics

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On successful completion of the course, stream, program, major or specialisation, students will be able to:

 Learning outcomeGraduate qualities
1Explain and apply core microeconomic and macroeconomic concepts to analyse environmental, agricultural and resource economic problems
  • Depth of disciplinary expertise
  • Critical thinking and problem solving
2Apply economic models and methods to analyse environmental problems and agricultural and resource markets
  • Depth of disciplinary expertise
  • Critical thinking and problem solving
3Critically evaluate alternative environmental, agricultural and resource policies using economic criteria (e.g. efficiency, equity, distributional impacts and uncertainty)
  • Depth of disciplinary expertise
  • Critical thinking and problem solving
4Communicate the results and implications of economic analysis applied to environmental, agricultural and resource economics clearly for specialist and non-specialist audiences
  • Oral and written communication
  • Influence
5Develop and defend evidence-based economic arguments, individually and in teams, about environmental, agricultural and resource issues
  • Information and digital literacy
  • Inventiveness
  • Influence
6Apply economic reasoning to interdisciplinary problems, integrating relevant concepts, assumptions and evidence from economics and other relevant fields (e.g., ecology, geography, politics, law or public health)
  • Interdisciplinary effectiveness
7Apply ethical and socially informed judgement when evaluating economic policies, recognising impacts across diverse social, cultural and institutional contexts
  • Cultural competence
  • Integrated professional, ethical, and personal identity