Schedule and teaching

Contacts and office hours

Course requirements

(1)   Active participation is the key. Check the literature and other required sources before each session and be ready for in-class polls and discussions.

(2)  Three questions or discussion topics needs to be submitted by each student by November 30. The questions shall be related to energy politics. They can, but do not have to, follow-up on issues covered in sessions or course sources.  Formulating the questions is a good opportunity to recap the course and think about what would you like to know more about or what are you interested in and we have not covered that in the course. The questions also serve as a feedback to us. They show what you find interesting or easy to access.

Answering the questions in the submission is not expected, we will do that collectively at the last session.

There is no prescribed structure for the assignment. It is, however, recommended not to ask questions that we already answered in class or that are trivial and are easy to answer using internet search. It is also recommended to read additional literature on the topic of inquiry and refer to that literature when building the question rationale.

The questions shall be submitted in a doc(x) or odt format into a dedicated IS vault. Late submission will be penalized by a loss of 3 points per each day of delay.

(3)   Students need to pass final exam based on sessions and course sources. The lectures’ slides will be provided in the Study Materials folder of the IS.

Grading

The final grade will be determined at an exam. The exam consists of questions related to the substance of the sessions and the compulsory literature.

A                     40-37
B                     36-34
C                     33-31
D                     30-28
E                      27-25
F                      24 and less