Fall 2025 Course Schedule

Week	Date	Lecture	Guest Speaker	Assignment
1	9/1	Labor Day - No session
2	9/8	Introduction–Grand Challenges	Dr. Mallory Flowers
3	9/15	Make sense of energy and climate numbers
4	9/22	No classes scheduled
5	9/29	Climate impact and responses
6	10/6	Energy systems overview
7	10/14	Energy demand, energy and economy
8	10/24	Energy, environment, and health
9	10/27	Energy systems approach	Dr. Beia Spiller
10	11/3	Energy transition
11	11/10	Human behavior, culture, and sustainable energy consumption
12	11/17	Climate policy instruments
13	11/24	Big data and AI for climate change
14	12/1	Uncertainties in policy analysis
15	12/8	Presentation
16	12/15	Presentation
17	12/22	Policy memo

Note: PR–Policy Response, HW–Homework Assignment, PM–Policy Memo