Cross-Border Curricular
Programs in
International Environmental and Agribusiness Management
REP Undergraduate
Curriculum: RAM International Concentration
The Department of Resource Economics and Policy has created a new International Concentration within the Resource and Agribusiness Management B.S. degree.
The new concentration requirements include:
- A new first-year (freshman level) course REP 190 is entitled "World Food Supply, Population and Environment." The course is being taught for the first time in the fall of 2004.
- A senior-level course will be an integrating capstone experience for the students receiving the International Concentration. The title will be "International Trade and Environmental Policy," and the course topics include historical trade-policy, free trade arguments, arguments for protection, trade policy tools, trade negotiations and agreements, foundations of environmental policy, historical context for U.S. environmental policy, environmental policy tools, U.S. environmental policy issues, cross-border environmental policy issues and agreements, agriculture, trade and the environment, tests to weigh competing trade and environmental claims, and additional trade and environmental policy issues.
- Students will complete a language requirement, meeting a minimum competency at an intermediate level (4 semester equivalent) in a modern language.
- Students will complete an area/region/culture study, in addition to taking other international courses. This will include at least 6 credit hours.
- International Concentration students will be encouraged to complete an internship (abroad or with a U.S. company or agency involved with trade or other international matters) or the proposed summer institute.
Curriculum checklist for the International Concentration (pdf file)
A list and brief description of all REP courses.
More undergraduate courses at UMaine with an international focus.
Contact information: 206 Winslow Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5782, (207) 581-3171, peggy.mckee@umit.maine.edu
