The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics provides an opportunity for you to develop academic skills that complement your interests and aptitudes. Whether you wish to pursue a career in business or government, you will find training in economic reasoning, management and policy to be a good foundation. It includes the natural resource and environmental economics courses offered in the Department of Economics. You then choose four courses from biology, geography, agronomy, chemistry and government. When combined with a field in political process, students are prepared to work with a public interest or environmental agency.