Department of Agricultural Economics and Business, Ontario Agricultural College.

The study of agricultural economics prepares students for careers as economic analysts in the agrifood sector and in public agencies. In addition, this major provides excellent background for those students planning to do graduate work in agricultural and resource economics and other fields of applied economics.

Agricultural Economics is offered as a major in the honours program. A detailed program planning guide is available in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business.

Honours Program Major

A minimum of [11.00] credits, consisting of the 18 courses specified below plus 4 restricted electives, is required, including:

01-125 [0.50] Agrifood System Trends and Issues

01-2401/2 [1.00] Economics of the Canadian Food System

02-222 [0.50] Financial Accounting

02-270 [0.50] Survey of Natural Resource Economics

02-324 [0.50] Agricultural Price Analysis

02-329 [0.50] Production Economics

02-400 [0.50] Agricultural and Food Policy

02-450 [0.50] Decision Science

36-110 [0.50] Introductory Macroeconomics

36-120 [0.50] Introductory Microeconomics

36-231 [0.50] Intermediate Microeconomics

36-241 [0.50] Intermediate Macroeconomics

36-277 [0.50] Introductory Mathematical Economics

36-360 [0.50] Macroeconomics in an Open Economy

36-371 [0.50] Advanced Microeconomics

36-374 [0.50] Introduction to Econometrics

58-150 [0.50] Introduction to Higher Learning

Four additional courses, at least 3 of which must be in agricultural economics and at least 1 of which must be at the 400 level, chosen from the following list:

02-223 [0.50] Management Accounting

02-421 [0.50] World Agriculture and Economic Development

02-422 [0.50] Advanced Farm Management

02-424 [0.50] Futures and Options Markets

02-429 [0.50] Land Economics

02-431 [0.50] Resource Economics

36-351 [0.50] Money, Credit and the Financial System

36-353 [0.50] Industrial Organization

36-358 [0.50] Economics of Regulation

36-361 [0.50] Public Finance

36-362 [0.50] International Trade

36-372 [0.50] History of the World Economy since 1850

Prerequisites for the above courses will require students to take 63-100, 63-108 or 63-121 during their first year of study. A student may obtain permission to substitute certain other courses for the ones listed if the substitute courses fit with the students program. Approval from a departmental advisor is required.

Unless taken to satisfy the requirements of another program, no student may receive credit in this program for more than 1 of the following statistics prerequisites 36-274, 89-100, 89-204, 89-206 or 89-208.

1998-99 Undergraduate Calendar