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Agricultural Economics

Host Department

Agricultural and Resource Economics

Statement of Program Aim

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The Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, in collaboration with UC Davis Extension, offers a one-year certificate program to further the development of the candidate's applied economics skills and reasoning, building on courses and specialties learned elsewhere, and to improve the candidate's ability to disseminate the results of applied economics research.

Maximum Enrollment

Five students.

Student Prerequisites

A TOEFL score of 550 or better is required of all nonnative English speakers. Students are expected to have a minimum of a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural economics, economics or the equivalent; Math 16A and 16B--Short Calculus--or the equivalent; and an undergraduate course in regression analysis or econometrics.

Contact Person

Stephen Boucher
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8512 USA
(530) 752-1527
boucher@primal.ucdavis.edu

Departmental fee: $2500 per year

Suggested Courses

The ARE Web site has a variety of information regarding classes. The following upper division courses may not be counted in the required 18-credit units.

  • ARE 100A: Intermediate Microeconomics: Theory of Production and Consumption
  • ARE 100B: Intermediate Microeconomics: Imperfect Competition, Markets and Welfare Economics
  • ARE 106: Quantitative Methods in Agricultural Economics
  • ARE 155: Quantitative Analysis for Business Decisions

 

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