Environmental economics has to be the one higher elective that will help your GPA in the Econ major. The professor always explained rather well in lectures and her exams were always a step harder than her homework assignments. You will struggle a bit to get the hang of the class and many of the terms from Econ 11 and Econ 41 will pop-up here and there. There is nothing harsh about the class, but you need to make sure that your mathematics and economic theory are at least up-to-date. Take the class and ask questions if you ever need advice on the weekly assignments since you can always get together with a group of people and attack the questions. The group assignment is super easy--I think 1 page about a topic of your choice--and will not take up too much of your time.

The professor is hard to get a hold of because of her extremely tight schedule, but you should navigate around that fact, and I am sure you will get to speak to her at some point in the quarter.