Courses Taught at CSU
AREC 305: Agricultural and Resource Enterprise Analysis
AREC 405: Agricultural Production Management
AREC 605: Agricultural Production and Cost Analysis
AREC 496: Group Study
Selected Course Descriptions
AREC 305: This is a 3-credit methods course for the DARE undergraduate Agribusiness major. It is a high-contact course, meeting for 200 minutes/week of face-to-face instruction (two 50-minute lectures and one 100-minute computer lab class). The high-contact aspect is enjoyable because it offers the opportunity to learn students’ names, interests, and aspirations. The course content covers record-keeping, financial analysis, and budgeting methods. The lab component requires students to learn Excel, develop spreadsheet models, and solve and communicate case problems. It also serves students in other majors pursuing or considering a DARE minor. As a result, it attracts students from various disciplines. Many students pursuing DARE’s Environmental and Resource Economics major, Food System Economics major, and related campus interdisciplinary minor programs (sustainable agriculture, resource conservation, climate challenges, etc.) also enroll in this class and I incorporate relevant examples.
AREC 605: This is a team-taught 3-credit graduate course that is required for M.S. and Ph.D. students in DARE’s agricultural and food economics field. The prerequisites are M.S. micro-theory and M.S. econometrics. The CSU course catalog describes the objective as “Empirical application and analysis of production and cost issues in the agricultural and natural resource sectors.” To accomplish the objective, I blend lectures and readings on the theoretical foundations of this field with hands-on, data-driven examples and assignments. I also have students complete, interpret, and visualize the results of empirical activities and present applied empirical papers to the class to reinforce critical concepts and build their skillsets as holistic researchers.
Courses Taught at Other Institutions
Econ 501 Quantitative Methods in Economics, Beloit College
Econ 540 Environment and Energy Economics, Beloit College
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