Programs

Energy

(18 credit hours) The energy concentration provides students an educational experience in topics associated with energy production, distribution, and use, using an interdisciplinary approach in science, technology, and public policy. This concentration allows flexibility in the choice of courses used to meet the concentration requirements and to meet each student's professional goals.

Required Courses (6 credit hours)

SPEA-E 574 Energy Analysis and Markets (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 674 Energy Economics and Policy (3 cr.)

Electives (12 credit hours)

Students select a mixture of science and policy courses related to energy in accordance to professional goals. No double counting with program core course is permitted. At least two courses must be taken from each group.

Natural Science Elective Group:

SPEA-E 515 Fundamentals of Air Pollution (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 518 Vector-based Geographic Information Systems (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 529 Application of Geographic Information Systems (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 536 Environmental Chemistry (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Coal Utilization and Carbon Sequestration (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Natural Gas: Technical and Policy Challenges (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555/ V 550 Topics in Environmental Science or Public Affairs (only topics approved by concentration advisors) (3 cr.)
GEOG-G 532 Physical Climatology (3 cr.)
GEOG-G 542 Sustainable Energy Systems (3 cr.)
GEOG-G 575 Climate Change (3 cr.)
GEOL-G 571 Principles of Petroleum Geology (3 cr.)
GEOL-G 587 Organic Geochemistry (3 cr.)
PHYS-P 510 Environmental Physics (3 cr.)

Economics, Public Policy and Law-Related Elective Group:

SPEA- E 501 Human Behavior and Energy Consumption (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 535 International Environmental Policy (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555/V 550 Topics in Environmental Science or Public Affairs (only topics approved by concentration advisors) (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 590 International Energy Issues: A Nation-State Perspective (3 cr.)
SPEA-P 541 Benefit-Cost Analysis of Public and Environmental Policies (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 533/LAW-B 675 Public Natural Resources Law (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 625 Environmental Economics and Policy (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 643 Natural Resource Management and Policy (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 645 Environmental Law (3 cr.)
SPEA-S 596 Sustainable Development (3 cr.)
SPEA-V 550/LAW-L 644 Energy Law and Policy (3 cr.)
SPEA-V 550/LAW-L 660 Seminar in Climate Law and Policy (3 cr.)

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