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AREC 504—Production Economics (3 units) Description: Theory of the firm and industry; single and multiple products; risk and uncertainty. Grading Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s) ECON 300 or ECON 361; MATH 113. May be repeated for a total of 6 units of credit. Identical to: ECON 504. Usually offered: Fall.
AREC 512—Economic Policy in Developing Countries (3 units) Description [Taught alternate years 2002-2003]. The role of policies in economic growth and development. The impact of commodity, factor market and macroeconomic policies on economic incentives. Grading Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361, MATH 113. Identical t ECON 512, ARL 512. Usually offered: Spring.
AREC 513—Consumption Economics and Price Analysis (3 units) Description: Theory of the consumer, demand, and market equilibrium, and welfare analysis. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s) ECON 361, MATH 113. May be repeated: for a total of 6 units of credit. Identical to: ECON 513. Usually offered Spring.
AREC 514—Cost-Benefit Analysis (3 units) Description: Theoretical bases and empirical techniques. Consumer-producer surplus; social and private costs; macroeconomic distortions; non-market goods; uses in policy analysis. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361, MATH 113. Identical to: RNR 514, ECON 514. Usually offered: Spring.
AREC 517—Introductory Mathematical Statistics for Economists (3 units) Description: This course covers the basic mathematical statistics topics necessary for a deep understanding of applied econometrics. Topics include random variables probability theory, probability and density functions, sampling hypothesis testing, and point and interval estimation. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: ECON 517. Usually offered: Fall.
AREC 575—Economic Evaluation of Water and Environmental Policy (3 units) Description: Theory and application of economic concepts needed to evaluate water and environmental laws and policies; including benefit cost analysis, externalities, public goods and valuation methodologies. Case studies include federal, state, tribal and international water and environmental policies. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): ECON 300 or ECON 361. Identical to: ARL 575, ECON 575, HWR 575, RNR 575. Usually offered: Fall.
AREC 576—Natural Resource Law and Economics (3 units) Description: Advanced economic and legal analysis of environmental and natural resource policies. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): ECON 361, MATH 113. Identical to: HWR 576, ECON 576, RNR 576. Usually offered: Spring.
AREC 577—Advanced Topics In the Economics of Environmental Regulation (3 units ) Description: Advanced economic theory of environmental policy. Topics include regulation of air and water pollution under imperfect competition, imperfect information, costly enforcement, uncertainty, and the use of alternative regulatory instruments. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): MATH 113, ECON 361. Identical to: HWR 577, ECON 577, WS M 577. Usually offered: Fall.
AREC 580—Mathematics for Economists (2 units) Description: Intensive course in essential mathematics for entering graduate students in the M.S. and Ph.D. programs in Economics and Agricultural and Resource Economics. Topics covered include matrix algebra, functions, limits, differentiation, comparative statistics, and constrained and unconstrained optimization. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: ECON 580. Usually offered: Summer.
AREC 660—Natural Resources Law (3 units) Description: This course provides an overview of the legal (and non-legal) regimes that govern the acquisition and control of natural resources, using economic analysis as the principle analytical framework. The course examines the history of the federal public domain, including statehood grants, homestead acts, and the creation of national forests, national parks, national wildlife refuges, and the Bureau of Land Management system. The course provides an introduction to the common law and federal statutory control of specific resources including water, wildlife including endangered species, hardrock minerals, oil and gas, marine fisheries, and public lands dominated by recreational and/or preservation uses. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: LAW 660; LAW is home department. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 596B—Arizona Water Policy (3 units) Description: This course focuses on current Arizona water policy from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Through readings, research, lectures, discussions and presentations, the student is exposed to major, current water resource issues facing Arizona and other parts of the West and policies to address them. The faculty draw upon their and guest-lecturers’ experiences to demonstrate the development, analysis and implementation of real-world water policy. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor is required. Identical to: SWES 596B; SWES is home department. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 600—Contracts (5 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Fall.
LAW 601A—Introduction to Legal Process and Civil Procedure (3 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Fall.
LAW 601B—Introduction to Legal Process and Civil Procedure (2 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 602—Criminal Procedure (3-4 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Identical to: PA 602. Usually offered: Fall, Spring.
LAW 603C—Civil Procedure Practice (1 unit) Description: First-year practice in civil procedure. Students will apply analytical skills primarily through written assignments in civil procedure. Grading: This course is offered for pass/fail only. Usually offered: Fall.
LAW 603D—Contracts Practice (1 unit) Description: First-year practice in contracts. Students will apply analytical skills primarily through written assignments in contracts. Grading: This course is offered for pass/fail only. Usually offered: Fall.
LAW 603E—Torts Practice (1 unit) Description: First-year practice in torts. Students will apply analytical skills primarily through written assignments in torts. Grading: This course is offered for pass/fail only. Usually offered: Fall.
LAW 603H—Legal Analysis, Writing and Research (3 units) Description: The course will introduce first year students to a variety of kinds of legal writing and help them develop analytic, research, and writing skills necessary to communicate about law to a variety of audiences. The course will (1) help students further hone analytic skills introduced in first semester courses; (2) reinforce those skills by placing them in the context of legal research; (3) emphasize the need to identify purpose, audience, and context of each document; and (4) address fundamental writing principles of organization on a large and a small scale basis. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 603J—Sustainability and Environmental Policy (2–3 units) Description: Over the past twenty years “sustainability” (or “sustainable development”) has emerged as a central goal of environmental policy making. Contemporary tools of environmental policy including ecosystem management, adaptive management, and restoration have been displaced by what seems like a clearer goal that captures ends as well as means. Sustainability has moved from the work of scholars and activists to laws and administrative regulations. The language of sustainability has extended to the world of business and commerce. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Identical to: ANTH 603J, ECOL 603J, PA 603J, SWES 603J. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 604C—Torts (2–3 units) Description: Injuries to persons, property, and relationships. Intentional wrongs, negligence, contributory negligence, strict liability, products liability, deceit, defamation, and malicious prosecution. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Fall.
LAW 604D—Torts (2–3 units) Description: This is a continuation of 604C. Students will continue to study negligence, contributory negligence, comparative negligence, strict liability, products liability, etc. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 605—Property (5 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 606—Constitutional Law I (3 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Fall.
LAW 608—Evidence (4 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Fall, Spring.
LAW 609—The Legal Profession (2–3 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Fall, Spring.
LAW 621—Administrative Law (3 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 627—Oil & Gas Law (1 unit) Description: This one unit course will provide interested students with an overview of oil and gas statutes, regulations, and case law, as well as an overview of typical transactions involving oil and gas, such as oil and gas leases, royalty agreements, etc. The course will focus on the legal rules that govern the development of privately owned mineral rights, which often also apply to governmentally owned resourses. Grading: This course is offered for pass/fail only. Usually offered: Fall, Spring.
LAW 640—Mining and Public Land Law (2 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Fall.
LAW 641—Water Law (3 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Fall.
LAW 643C—Property, Social Justice and the Environment (2–3 units) Description: Private property is sometimes cast as the villain in social and environmental problems, but sometimes as the solution to the same problems. This course will explore the relationship of property to social and environmental concerns in the context of several past and present controversies over property rights. Topics will include racially restrictive covenants; private and especially “gated” communities; land titling programs in less developed areas; the expansion of property rights in intellectual endeavors; and several types of environmental property rights, e.g., conservation easements, private wildlife rights, tradeable emission permits and habitat trading programs, and community ownership of forests and other natural resource bases. These topics will offer an opportunity to explore recent topics in property theory as well as the social and ecological implications of property institutions. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 651—Environmental Justice (2–3 units) Description: Explores issues of justice in the context of environmental law and policy. It considers whether environmental burdens are evenly distributed; whether governmental decision makers adequately take into account the circumstances of communities of color and low income communities in setting environmental standards; and whether the institutions of environmental law and policy provide equal access to all. It examines the role of the law in remedying the inequalities of deficiencies identified. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Fall, Spring.
LAW 660—Land-Use Planning (3 units) Description: Review of the principal legal devices available to implement planning decisions on community design (official map, subdivision control), the use of land (nuisance, covenants and zoning) and housing needs (including urban renewal). Special attention will be paid to the significance and legal effect of a comprehensive plan and to the social and economic effects of planning decisions. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Identical to: PLN 660; PLN is home department. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 669—Environmental Law (3–4 units) Description: contact department. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 696N—Substantial Paper Seminar (1–3 units) Description: The development and exchange of scholarly information, usually in a small group setting. The scope of work shall consist of research by course registrants, with the exchange of the results of such research through discussion, reports, and/or papers. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Spring.
LAW 697H—Law and Economics (3 units) Description: Policymakers and lawyers regularly use economic tools to analyze various legal issues and disputes. The employed methodologies include cost-benefit analyses, game-theoretic analyses, behavioral economic analyses, econometric estimations, and others. This course introduces the fundamentals of economic analysis of law. The goal of the course is to familiarize the students with some of the major economic issues faced by decision makers,lawyers and economists while addressing basic legal topics and the prime economic tools employed in these contexts. More specifically, the course will explore several economic methods and concepts and apply them to illuminate and critique familiar areas of law, including property, contracts, torts, criminal law, and the legal process. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Available to qualified students for Pass/Fail Option. Usually offered: Spring.
RNR 503—Applications of Geographic Information Systems (3 units) Description: General survey of principles of geographic information systems (GIS); applications of GIS to issues such as land assessment and evaluation of wildlife habitat; problem-solving with GIS. Graduate-level requirements include completion of a project on the use of GIS in their discipline or an original GIS analysis (100 points) in coordination with the instructor. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: RNR 503; RNR is home department. May be convened with: GEOG 403. Usually offered: Fall.
RNR 517—Geographic Information Systems for Natural and Social Sciences (3 units) Description: Introduction to the application of GIS and related technologies for both the natural and social sciences. Conceptual issues in GIS database design and development, analysis, and display. Graduate-level requirements include a thorough bibliographic review and a scholarly paper on a current application of geographic information systems in the student's major field. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Typical structure: 2 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory. Identical to: RNR 517; RNR is home department. May be convened with: GEOG 417. Usually offered: Fall.
GEOS 578—Global Change (3 units) Description: Analysis of the Earth system through an examination of its component parts (particularly climate and biogeochemistry) and their interactions with human activities, emphasizing information needed to understand modern and future environmental changes. Graduate level requirements include an in-depth written exercise and additional activities as described in the syllabus. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: GEOS 578; GEOS is home department. ay be convened with: GEOG 478. Usually offered: Fall.
PA 581—Environmental Policy (3 units) Description: Role of government in management of energy, natural resources and environment; process and policy alternatives; special attention to the Southwest. Graduate-level requirements include additional readings and a substantial research paper of at least 25 pages in length. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: PA 581; PA is home department. May be convened with: RNR 481. Usually offered: Spring.
RNR 520—Advanced Geographic Information Systems (3 units) Description: Examines various areas of advanced GIS applications such as dynamic segmentation, surface modeling, spatial statistics, and network modeling. The use of high performance workstations will be emphasized. Graduate-level requirements include a more extensive project and report. Grading: Regular grades are awarded for this course: A B C D E. Identical to: GEOG 520. May be convened with: RNR 420. Usually offered: Spring.
