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Energy, Environmental, and Mineral Economics (ENNEC)

ENNEC 100 (GS) Introduction to Energy and Earth Sciences Economics (3) Resource use decisions and their effect on local, national, and global development.
Effective: Fall 2006 Ending: Summer 2010
 

ENNEC 297 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Fall 2001
 

ENNEC 401 Case Studies of Industrial Ecology (1-3) The objective of this course is to introduce life cycle analysis and design for the environment.
Effective: Fall 2001
Prerequisite: junior or senior standing with background in earth and environmental studies  

ENNEC 420 Economics of Natural Hazards (3) Covers economic aspects of natural hazards: impacts, loss estimation, mitigation, recovery, modeling, policy analysis, risk, insurance, resiliency, and sustainability.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite: ECON 002  

ENNEC 425 Simulation Methods in Earth and Social Sciences (3) This course will provide students with computer programming skills/ knowledge in statistics, stochastic process, and simulation applicable to earth/managerial sciences.
Effective: Fall 2001
Prerequisite: CMPSC 101, MATH 140  

ENNEC 472 Quantitative Analysis in Earth Sciences (3) Quantitative analysis of decision making in atmospheric/geophysical sciences: exploratory data analysis, quantification of uncertainty, parametric/non- parametric testing, forecasting, time series analysis.
Effective: Fall 2004 Ending: Summer 2010
Prerequisite: MATH 110 orMATH 140  

ENNEC 473 Risk Management in Energy Industries (3) Analysis of strategies for mitigating business risk from market, atmospheric, geophysical uncertainties including the use of energy/mineral commodity futures/options, weather derivatives, and insurance.
Effective: Fall 2004 Ending: Summer 2010
Prerequisite: MSIS 200 orSTAT 200 orENNEC 472  

ENNEC 482 Economic Analysis of Minerals in the Environment (3) Economics of exploration and mining methods, future mineral availability, mineral and environmental law, mineral industries and the environment, current issues.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite: ECON 002, ENNEC 100  

ENNEC 483 Materials Policy and Markets (3) Integrated economic and institutional analysis of policy issues facing material markets, including recycling, pollution control, advanced materials, and industrial policy.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite: ECON 002, ENNEC 100  

ENNEC 484 Energy Economics (3) Economics of energy demand, production, storage, and pricing; advanced energy policy issues including regulation, climate change, new energy technology.
Effective: Spring 2010 Future: Spring 2010
Prerequisite: ECON 002 orENNEC 100;MATH 110 orMATH 140  

ENNEC 484W Energy Economics (3) Economics of energy demand, production, storage, and pricing; advanced energy policy issues including regulation, climate change, new energy technology.
Effective: Spring 2002 Ending: Fall 2009
Prerequisite: ECON 002  

ENNEC 490 Applied Financial and Investment Analysis (3) Valuation/investment analysis of mineral properties; commodity market analysis; introduction to principles of financial/investment analysis applied to natural resources/environment.
Effective: Fall 2001
 

ENNEC 491 Business and Public Policy Analysis (3) Capstone course integrating theory and empirical methods in the analysis of business and public policy.
Effective: Fall 2001
Prerequisite: 12 credits in ENNEC ECON AG EC or BUS  

ENNEC 492 Econometric Applications to Mineral Markets (3) Statistical tools as used by mineral economists, econometric models of mineral, material, and energy markets.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite: ECON 002, MATH 220, ECON 490 orSTAT 451 ; 3 additional credits in economics or mineral economics  

ENNEC 495 Internship (1-18) Supervised off-campus, nongroup instruction including field experiences, practicums, or internships. Written and oral critique of activity required.
Effective: Spring 2002
Prerequisite: prior approval of proposed assignment by instructor  

ENNEC 496 Independent Studies (1-18) Creative projects, including research and design, which are supervised on an individual basis and which fall outside the scope of formal courses.
Effective: Spring 2002
 

ENNEC 497 Special Topics (1-9) Formal courses given infrequently to explore, in depth, a comparatively narrow subject which may be topical or of special interest.
Effective: Fall 2001
 

ENNEC 499 (IL) Foreign Study--Mineral Industries (1-12) Courses offered in foreign countries by individual or group instruction.
Effective: Summer 2005
 

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