Energy Matters: Environment, Culture, Power, and the Oil State

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course examines energy practices and its relationship to natural resource extraction in vulnerable communities around the world. In this era of both climate change and high mass consumption, our world faces enormous challenges to our systems of producing, consuming, distributing, and transitioning energy. While we often think of these challenges as technological, they are bound up in questions of culture, racial inequality, economic order, political power, social organization, and ethics.