Graduate Courses
ECO 416/516 – Evolutionary Economics [old: flyer, syllabus, schedule]
Evolution is a general framework for understanding change, applicable to laws as much as to claws. This course gives students access to the rigorous analytical framework of evolution for understanding adaptive and non-adaptive change in economic and social evolution. Over the semester, students will learn to: Identify and describe evolutionary processes in economic and social systems, Apply standard analytical methods in the study of social evolution, Identify and avoid evolutionary story telling, Apply evolutionary tools to select and refine policy solutions.
ECO 581 – Agent Based Modeling [old: syllabus, schedule]
Undergraduate Courses
ECO 266 – Applied Economic Data Analysis with R
ECO 381 – SL: Sustainability: Science, Policy, and Action [old: syllabus, schedule]
Sustainability concerns not just environmental balance but also social, economic, cultural and ethical factors – that is, nearly everything. Sustainability science is the research field that attempts not only to study this unwieldy group of subjects, but also to motivate positive change toward more sustainable societies. This course explores the scientific foundation of the global environmental sustainability crisis, the economic, social and ethical ramifications of that crisis, and surveys the prospects and challenges in the quest to define, measure and achieve sustainable societies. We also step beyond the academic classroom to accomplish sustainability research and service in the larger community with a semester-long integrated service learning project. This course has been designated as a UMaine service-learning course. General Education Requirements: Population and the Environment and Ethics. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing.
ACE Lab: Applied Cultural Evolution Laboratory 