Energy Policy Studies

Energy policy studies offers a challenging, innovative, timely program that introduces students to the critical issues facing the production, economics, and politics of energy.

Course List

Energy Courses

Students must take POST 401 Energy Policy and at lease three other courses from the following list:

• CEVE 307 Energy and the Environment
• ECON 437 Energy Economics
• ESCI 415 Economic Geology- Petroleum
• POST 410 Middle East Politics and Energy

Elective Courses

Choose up to two courses:

• BIO/CEVE 409 Sustainable Development
• CEVE 306 Global Environmental Law and Sustainable Development
• CEVE 406 Introduction to Environmental Law
• CHBE 281 Engineering Sustainable Communities
• ECON 418/POLI 348 Organizational Design
• ECON 447 Advanced Topics in Energy Economics
• ECON 448 Corporate Fiance
• ECON 451 Political Economy of Latin America
• ECON 480 Environmental Economics
• ENST 331/ POLI 331 Environmental Politics and Policy
• ESCI 416 Economic Geology- Mineral Deposits
• ESCI 417 Petroleum Industry Economics and Management
• HIST 367 The Arab World in the 20th Century, 1918-Present
• POLI 211 Introduction to International Relations
• POLI 336 Politics of Regulation
• POLI 355 Government and Politics of the Middle East
• POLI 373 International Conflict
• POLI 441 Common Property Resources
• POST 455 Contemporary Middle East: Politics, Policy and Culture
• RELI 356 Major Issues in Contemporary Islam

Capstone Course

• POST 499 Energy Internship