Food and Resource Economics
This program has topic areas rather than majors. In third and fourth year you will take: (1) FRE Topic Courses; (2) Supporting Topic Courses; and (3) Restricted Electives.
The FRE Topic Courses are the full suite of FRE courses, excluding those which are required in your program. The Supporting Topic Courses are ECON and COMM courses which are related to your program of study in food and resource economics. The Restricted Electives consist of any 300 or 400 level FRE, ECON or COMM course. You will typically choose your Restricted Electives from the list of FRE Topic Courses and Supporting Topic Courses but you are not required to do so.
You are free to choose any course from the list of FRE Topic Courses below to fulfill this program requirement in your third and fourth year (see note 7 of the Degree Requirements in the UBC Calendar. Recommended courses for the three topic areas are listed below.
Similarly, you are free to choose any course from the list of Supporting Topic Courses below to fulfill this program requirment in your third and fourth year (see note 8 of the Degree Requirements in the UBC Calendar. Recommended courses for the three topic areas are listed below.
Restricted electives are described in note 9 of of the Degree Requirements in the UBC Calendar.
Choose any eligible 300 or 400 level course in COMR, ECON and FRE. Students with a strong interest in research should take FRST 399 and consider having a FRE faculty member supervise a directed studies course (FRE 497) and/or a 6 credit thesis (FRE 499).
FRE Topic Courses
Choose from this list:
FRE 302, FRE 340, FRE 374, FRE 420, FRE 460, FRE 490
Recommended:
Food Markets and Development
FRE 340, FRE 460, FRE 490
Land, Resources & Environment
FRE 374, FRE 420
Food and Resource Management
FRE 302 and either FRE 460 or FRE 420
Supporting Topic Courses
Choose from this list:
Economics
ECON 302, ECON 339, ECON 352, ECON 355, ECON 356, ECON 365, ECON 370, ECON 371, ECON 407, ECON 441, ECON 442, ECON 451, ECON 465, ECON 471, ECON 472
Commerce
COMM 329, COMM 398, COMM 457, COMM 458, COMM 465, COMM473, COMM493
Recommended:
Food Markets and Development
ECON 302, ECON 339, ECON 355, ECON 356, ECON 407, ECON 441, ECON 442, ECON 465
Land, Resources & Environment
ECON 352, ECON 365, ECON 370, ECON 371, ECON 451, ECON 471, ECON 472
Food and Resource Management
COMM 329, COMM 398, COMM 457, COMM 458, COMM 465, COMM 473, COMM 493
Course Names
FRE 302 Small Business Management in Agri-food Industries
FRE 340 International Agricultural Development
FRE 374 Land and Resource Economics
FRE 420 The Economics of International Trade and the Environment
FRE 460 Economics of Food Consumption
FRE 490 Current Issues in Food and Resource Economics
ECON 302 Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis I
ECON 339 Economics of Technological Change
ECON 352 Public Sector Economics
ECON 355 Introduction to International Trade
ECON 356 Introduction to International Finance
ECON 365 Topics in Canadian Industrial Organization and Regulation Policy
ECON 370 Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Economics of Project Evaluation
ECON 371 Economics of the Environment
ECON 407 Topics in Macroeconomics
ECON 441 The Process of Economic Development
ECON 442 Issues in Economic Development
ECON 451 Economics of Public Expenditures
ECON 465 Market Structure
ECON 471 Economics of Nonrenewable Resources
ECON 472 Economics of Renewable Resources
COMM 329 Principles of Organizational Behaviour
COMM 398 Introduction to Business Processes and Operations
COMM 457 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
COMM 458 Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting
COMM 465 Marketing Management
COMM 473 Business Finance
COMM 493 Strategic Management in Business