Course Schedule
The twelve teaching weeks, grouped into the four phases of the course argument. Each row pairs a lecture with its lab, and names the assessment due that week, if any.
Phase I: The Chemical Baseline (Weeks 1–3)
| Week | Date | Lecture | Lab | Assessment due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 February 2027 | Alcohol Fermentation & Baseline Costs | Getting started | — |
| 2 | 1 March 2027 | The 10g Metric: Standard Drinks as Economic Currency | First review | — |
| 3 | 8 March 2027 | Cardboard Efficiencies: The Microeconomics of Bag-in-Box Wine | Decomposing a cask | — |
Phase II: Regulatory Exploitation (Weeks 4–6)
| Week | Date | Lecture | Lab | Assessment due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 15 March 2027 | Wholesale Value Manipulation: The WET Tax Loophole | Working the WET | — |
| 5 | 22 March 2027 | Price Elasticity in the Ready-to-Drink (RTD) Sector | Reading a promotional cycle | — |
| 6 | 29 March 2027 | Distillation Disparities and Federal Excise Penalties | Tax per standard drink | WET Policy Brief · 5 April 2027 |
Phase III: Spatial & Algorithmic Optimization (Weeks 7–10)
| Week | Date | Lecture | Lab | Assessment due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 5 April 2027 | Spatial Ergonomics of Suburban Liquor Retail | Mapping an outlet | — |
| 8 | 12 April 2027 | Visual Merchandising and Endcap Psychology | Auditing an endcap | — |
| 9 | 19 April 2027 | Automated Extraction of Retail Inventories (Web Scraping) | First hundred rows | Retail Data Extraction Exercise · 26 April 2027 |
| 10 | 26 April 2027 | Algorithmic Maximization of the ABV-to-Dollar Index | Greedy against the constraint | — |
Phase IV: Synthesis & Ethics (Weeks 11–12)
| Week | Date | Lecture | Lab | Assessment due |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 3 May 2027 | Public Health Externalities and Bioethics | The externality statement | — |
| 12 | 10 May 2027 | Macro-Event Logistics and Capstone Synthesis | Portfolio dry run | The 50-Person Event Portfolio · 17 May 2027 |