EGC 317 -- Winter 2012
The End of
Oil
Overview
Weekly Schedule
- Week 1 -- January
9 - 13 -- course introduction; sustainability; peak oil; the economic context
for oil based industrialism.
- Week 2
-- January 16 - 20 -- the economic context for
oil based industrialism, continued; energy in nature and society.
- Week 3 -- January 23
- 27 -- the economic context
for oil based industrialism, continued; energy in nature and society, continued; the geopolitics
of oil.
- Week 4 -- January
30- February 3 -- energy and empire; key energy concepts; the
geopolitics of oil, continued; oil production and consumption data.
- Week 5
-- February 6 - 10 -- oil depletion; strategies for softening the
impacts of
peak oil; course action projects; key energy concepts,
continued; non-petroleum sources of energy.
- Week 6 -- February
13 - 17 -- oil depletion and its potential impacts; collective violence;
automobile
dependence in the U.S.; strategies for softening the
impacts of peak oil, continued.
- Week 7 -- February 20
- 24 --
automobile dependence in the U.S., continued; demographics in a time
of oil depletion and economic insecurity; climate change.
- Week 8 -- February 27
- March 2 -- climate change, continued; systems theories relevant to a
rapidly changing
world; demographics in a time of oil depletion and economic insecurity,
continued; corporate personhood; corporate responsibility.
- Week 9 -- Spring Break!
- Week 10 -- March 12
- 16 -- climate change, continued; economic instability; social fragmentation; strategies for softening
the impacts of peak oil, continued.
- Week 11
-- March 19 - 23
-- systems theories relevant to a rapidly changing world, continued; cultural hegemony;
oil and socio-ecology; strategies for softening the impacts
of peak oil, continued.
- Week 12 -- March 26
- March 30 -- world population and consumption in a context of peak oil; oil and
socio-ecology, continued; the potential of solar energy; strategies for softening the impacts of
peak oil, continued.
- Week 13
-- April 2 - 6 -- national and global
economic instability; distributed, renewable energy generation; strategies for softening the impacts
of peak oil, continued.
- Week 14
-- April 9 - 13 -- strategies for softening the impacts
of peak oil, continued.
- Week 15 -- April 15
-
21 -- social catagenesis; action project presentations.
- Week 16 -- April
23 - 27 -- Finals Week! -- course wrap up and final reflections.
Page Author: Tina Evans
Associate Professor, General and Exploratory
Studies
Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado,
USA
Page created December 23, 2004; last
updated January 9, 2012