Agricultural Economics
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Courses for ABUS (ABUS)
ABUS
855
Marketing and Globalization LINKCrosslisted as MRKT 855| Credit Hours: | 3-6 |
| Max credits per degree: | 6 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
GRBA *813 or equivalent
Globalization and resulting changes in the business environment. Access to new consumers, new supplies. The effect on consumer choices. Readings from scholarly and popular press, videos, and a “real world” application. Marketing strategies developed for Nebraska firms and organizations such as value-added food marketers.
Courses for AECN (AECN)
AECN
401/801
Advanced Farm Management and Linear Programming LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Capstone course.
The role of budgeting and linear programming in analyzing farm organization problems, theory of linear programming, linear program design, and analysis of linear programmed solutions to farm organization problems. Includes goal programming, multiple objective programming, risk programming, and financial modeling.
AECN
452/852
Agricultural Finance LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
AECN 201 or 4 hrs accounting.
Principles and concepts of financial management of farm and agribusiness firms developed. Various strategies for acquiring and using capital resources by the individual firm explored. Institutions providing the sources of agricultural credit are individually studied.
AECN
456/856
Environmental Law LINKCrosslisted as NREE 456| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Personalized System of Instruction |
| Course Delivery: | Web |
Available through Online and Distance Education.
Administrative law, risk assessment, environmental impact review, Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, non-point pollution control, wetlands regulations pesticide and toxic substance regulation, solid and hazardous waste regulation, drinking water protection, land use regulation, energy policy, and international environmental law.
AECN
457/857
Water Law LINKCrosslisted as NREE 457, WATS 457| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Personalized System of Instruction |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
AECN/NREE 357.
Course offered even numbered years. Offered through Extended Education and Outreach.
Environmental impact review; public trust doctrine; endangered species; land use controls; wetlands regulation; surface and ground water rights; Indian and federal water rights; impact of water quality regulations on water allocation.
AECN
465/865
Resource and Environmental Economics II LINKCrosslisted as NREE 465, WATS 465| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
MATH 104 and one course in statistics.
Credit in AECN 865 will not count toward any advanced degree programs in ECON or AECN.
Application of resource economics concepts and empirical tools to resource management problems. Public policy issues involving environmental quality, land and water management.
AECN
804
Agricultural Law LINKCrosslisted as LAW 704G| Credit Hours: | 1-4 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Legal problems and issues of unique importance to lawyers serving the agricultural sector. The Farm Credit System, the Farmers’ Home Administration, and farm financing problems under the Uniform Commercial Code; commodity futures markets; agricultural cooperatives; farmland preservation and rural land use controls; foreign investment in American agriculture; farm labor legislation; farm programs and the economic regulation of agriculture; pesticides; and food additives.
AECN
815
Analytical Methods in Economics and Business LINKCrosslisted as ECON 815| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Equilibrium Analysis: Applications in business, finance, and economics. Market equilibria, accumulations, and economics. Optimization: profit, cost, and utility functions. Constrained optimization problems with utility functions. Constrained optimization problems in production and consumer allocations; Kuhn and Tucker conditions; static and dynamic input-output Models.
AECN
818
Taxation-Farm and Ranch LINKCrosslisted as POLS 818| Credit Hours: | 1-4 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Selection of substantial income tax problems affecting farms and ranches.
AECN
832
Economics of Agricultural Production LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Static economic analysis of multi-variant agriculture response functions. Resource and enterprise choice, cost functions, resource evaluation, and size and scale economies.
AECN
840
Applied Welfare Economics and Public Policy LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
AECN/ECON *873
Principles of welfare economics applied to policy issues in agriculture and natural resources. Review of measures of household welfare, willingness to pay, and notions of Pareto optimality, aggregate welfare and market failure. Practical methods of comparative statics analysis of the effect of public policies on consumer and firm behavior, and on market equilibrium. Theory of externalities and welfare implications of market versus non-market allocation of public goods examined. Applications include evaluation of such policies as taxes, price supports, quotas, pollution controls, environmental damage liability, and intellectual property rights.
AECN
841
Environmental Law LINKCrosslisted as LAW 641G| Credit Hours: | 1-4 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Legal problems encountered as a result of the impairment of the quality of the environment. Control of air, water, land, noise, and radiation pollution, and the roles of federal, interstate, state, and local agencies in affording protection. Includes private actions, class actions, and regulatory actions to protect both private and public interests.
AECN
868
Advanced Resource and Environmental Economics LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Application of conceptual and empirical tools for analyzing resource problems. Both public and private dimensions of resource management are considered with emphasis on public policy. Economics of environmental quality, management of exhaustible and renewable resources, valuation of non-market goods and key elements of environmental policy analysis.
AECN
873
Microeconomic Models and Applications LINKCrosslisted as ECON 873| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
This course is intended for MA Option II students and others who do not plan to proceed to PhD studies. Analysis of microeconomic decision-making by individuals and firms with emphasis on consumer demand, production, cost and profit, market structure and the economics of games, uncertainty, and information.
AECN
876
Water Law, Planning and Policy LINKCrosslisted as LAW 776G| Credit Hours: | 1-4 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Judicial, legislative, and administrative problems in water resource development, allocation, and control.
AECN
883
Ecological Economics LINKCrosslisted as CDEV 883, NRES 883| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
A synthesis across the notion of “utility” as represented in traditional environmental and natural resource economics, “ecology” in ecological economics, and “community” in behavioral economics. Ideas from thermodynamics with a focus on renewable resources. Development, organization, and enhancement of eco-business, eco-industry, eco-government and eco-communities.
AECN
893
Law and Economics LINKCrosslisted as LAW 693G| Credit Hours: | 1-4 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Economic principles to problems of legal interpretation and policy. Gives economic background for substantive courses in such areas as antitrust, regulated industries, and environmental law and also demonstrates the power of economic analysis when applied to problems in such diverse areas as contracts, property, torts, criminal law, family law, corporations, taxation, securities, procedure, and constitutional law.
AECN
896
Special Topics in Agricultural Economics LINK| Credit Hours: | 1-6 |
| Max credits per degree: | 6 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
12 hrs agricultural economics or closely related areas and permission
Focused agricultural economics topics through research, narrowly targeted literature review, or extension of course work.
AECN
899
Masters Thesis LINK| Credit Hours: | 6-10 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Admission to masters degree program and permission of major adviser
AECN
901
Directed Study of Advanced Topics in Agricultural Economics LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 15 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Significant literature in selected fields of agricultural and resource economics to provide a broad background for conducting research in these fields.
A. Production Economics (3 cr) Prereq: ECON 973 and 974, or permission.
B. Agricultural Industrial Organization (3 cr) Prereq: AECN *812.
D. International Agricultural Trade (3 cr) Prereq: ECON 821 or permission.
E. Agricultural Development (3 cr) Prereq: ECON 973 and 974, or permission.
J. Natural Resource Economics (3 cr) Prereq: AECN *868.
A. Production Economics (3 cr) Prereq: ECON 973 and 974, or permission.
B. Agricultural Industrial Organization (3 cr) Prereq: AECN *812.
D. International Agricultural Trade (3 cr) Prereq: ECON 821 or permission.
E. Agricultural Development (3 cr) Prereq: ECON 973 and 974, or permission.
J. Natural Resource Economics (3 cr) Prereq: AECN *868.
AECN
901A
Production Economics LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
AECN
901B
Agricultural Industrial Organization LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
AECN *812
AECN
901D
International Agricultural Trade LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
ECON 821 or permission
AECN
901E
Agricultural Development LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
AECN
901J
Natural Resource Economics LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
AECN *868
AECN
902
Research in Agricultural Economics LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 15 |
| Course Format: | Lecture |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Appropriate section of AECN 901
Investigation of a research issue in a field of agricultural economics. Identification of an issue, discovery and interpretation of relevant research, rigorous development of an additional contribution to the resolution of the issue.
AECN
902A
Production Economics LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 15 |
| Course Format: | Lecture |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Investigation of a research issue in a field of agricultural economics. Identification of an issue, discovery and interpretation of relevant research, rigorous development of an additional contribution to the resolution of the issue.
AECN
902B
Agricultural Industrial Organization LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 15 |
| Course Format: | Lecture |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Investigation of a research issue in a field of agricultural economics. Identification of an issue, discovery and interpretation of relevant research, rigorous development of an additional contribution to the resolution of the issue.
AECN
902D
International Agricultural Trade LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 15 |
| Course Format: | Lecture |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Investigation of a research issue in a field of agricultural economics. Identification of an issue, discovery and interpretation of relevant research, rigorous development of an additional contribution to the resolution of the issue.
AECN
902E
Agricultural Development LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 15 |
| Course Format: | Lecture |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Investigation of a research issue in a field of agricultural economics. Identification of an issue, discovery and interpretation of relevant research, rigorous development of an additional contribution to the resolution of the issue.
AECN
902J
Natural Resource Economics LINK| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 15 |
| Course Format: | Lecture |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Investigation of a research issue in a field of agricultural economics. Identification of an issue, discovery and interpretation of relevant research, rigorous development of an additional contribution to the resolution of the issue.
AECN
921
Seminar in International Trade and Finance LINKCrosslisted as ECON 921| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Course Format: | Lecture 3 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
AECN
999
Doctoral Dissertation LINK| Credit Hours: | 1-24 |
| Max credits per degree: | 55 |
| Campus: | |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
Prereqs:
Admission to doctoral degree program and permission of supervisory committee chair
POLS
466/866
Pro-seminar in International Relations I LINKCrosslisted as HIST 479/879, SOCI 466/866, ANTH 479/879, GEOG 448/848, ECON 466/866, AECN 467| Credit Hours: | 3 |
| Max credits per degree: | 3 |
| Course Delivery: | Classroom |
| Groups: | International Relations |
Prereqs:
Senior standing and permission.
Open to students with an interest in international relations.
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Description
For a brief description of the program, application requirements and department contact information, view the graduate program summary.
Department Head: Larry Van Tassell, Ph.D.
Graduate Chair: Richard K. Perrin, Ph.D.
The department offers programs leading to the master of science and doctoral degrees in agricultural economics.
Admission decisions for the M.S. and Ph.D. programs are based on the applicant’s likelihood of success in graduate work as evidenced by previous academic performance, letters of recommendation and GRE scores (optional). No one consideration is determining, although applicants generally must have earned an overall GPA of 3.25 with a 3.5 the last two years of academic work. Performance in agricultural economics, economics, mathematics, statistics and related courses is given special consideration.
The GRE (General) is strongly suggested for financial assistance and for admission in most circumstances. There is no predetermined minimum score. International students are required to submit TOEFL scores unless they have received a degree in which English was the medium of instruction. The minimum acceptable score is 550 (paper-based exam) or 213 (computer-based exam), or a minimum score of 6 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).
Applicants for the master of science in agricultural economics should have completed intermediate macro- and microeconomics, introductory statistics, and one semester of analytical geometry/calculus or calculus for managerial and social sciences.
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The master of science degree core course requirements include orientation to research, micro-economics and econometrics.
Applicants for the doctor of philosophy normally will have a master of science degree in agricultural economics or a related field, but outstanding students may be admitted to the Ph.D. program without first completing a masters degree. All PhD applicants must have completed math equivalent to the three-semester analytical geometry/calculus sequence taught at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Doctor of philosophy candidates must include in their program of study one year of advanced econometrics, one year of advanced microeconomic theory, and one semester of advanced macroeconomic theory. In addition, they must complete two AECN 901 courses and two AECN 902 courses.
Master of Science Degree Minor.
Successful completion of at least 9 credit hours of courses selected in consultation with a representative of the department of agricultural economics and the student’s adviser. No more than a total of 3 credit hours may be in AECN 896. No comprehensive exam will be required if all courses are completed with a grade of B or better.
Doctor of Philosophy Degree Minor.
Successful completion of at least 16 credit hours of courses selected in consultation with a representative of the department of agricultural economics and the student’s supervisory committee. No more than a total of 4 credit hours in AECN 896.