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Instructor
Thandazile Moyo
Email: Please contact me through the Canvas course email system in Canvas or tvm5825@psu.edu
Office Hours: By appointment only
Other Contact: There is no office to visit at University Park; however, you can arrange a meeting (online) with me. Contact me via the course email system in Canvas.
Announcements: in Canvas, Includes other information that will help you with the course.
Grading: Usually have grades back to you within a week of when it was due.
Note: I will read and respond to email and discussion forums at least once per day during the workweek (Monday through Friday). You may see me online occasionally on the weekends, but please don't count on it! If you would like to “meet” online, please give me options for scheduling.
Overview
EGEE 120 is a required course for the Bachelor of Arts in Energy Sustainability and Policy online degree program, geared towards students who can study only part-time and at a distance. This General Education course will provide a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding how oil affects international relations and commerce. The relationships between oil technology, social and political institutions, and the unique cultures in oil-producing regions will be investigated. The course can be applied toward Penn State’s General Education Social and Behavioral Sciences (GS), and US Cultures (US) or International Cultures (IL) requirements.
Learning Environment
Canvas, Penn State's course management system, is used to support the delivery of this course, as it provides the lesson material, primary communications, calendaring, and submission tools for the course.
Topics of Study
The content of this course is divided into 12 modules that follow the Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin and The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World by Daniel Yergin. (required reading for the course). Each lesson will be completed in approximately 1 week (A few lessons may take longer).
- The Rise of American Oil and the Competitive International Oil Industry
- Standard Oil Trust and the Oil Wars
- Asian Oil Development and World War 1
- Middle East Oil Development and the Rise of Automobiles and Gasoline
- Boom and Bust Cycles
- Oil, Strategy, and World War II
- World War II and Post-war Order
- Post-war Petroleum Order and Crises
- The Hydrocarbon Age
- OPEC
- Supply Disruptions, Price Shocks, and Oil Market Trading
- Crisis in the Gulf, Mergers, New Provinces and Oil since the Prize
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