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HIST 15W

Warzone Earth: Environmental Histories of War
War is an environmental event. This course draws on historical archives and rich troves of narrative, memoir, reportage, and even analysis of physical objects and landscapes to help you re-think the meanings of warfare.
Spring 2024 Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
HBSMBA 1487

Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks
This course prepares students to invest in, advise, or lead organizations in the context of increasing pressures of global urbanization, resource scarcity, and perils relating to climate change.
Spring 2024 Graduate Available Business Design & Architecture Courses
HBSMBA 1495

Sustainable Investing
This course will be differentiated from other excellent offerings at HBS by focusing on the intersection of investing/finance and key global challenges, guided for example by the Sustainable Development Goals, including climate, gender equality, and poverty reduction.
Spring 2024 Graduate Available Business Courses
Mon, Jan 23, 2023
ENG-SCI 190

Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering
Introduction to the structure, property, and application of materials.
Spring 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Engineering Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 22, 2024
CE 11

StudioLab on Creativity and Entrepreneurship
CE 10 pursues the creation of a “better normal.” Using an interdisciplinary exploration of the liberal Arts, you will develop and apply transformative ideas to tackle today’s societal challenges, such as racial injustice, climate change, and strained health and wellbeing.
Spring 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Business Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 22, 2024
EH 297

Atmospheric Environment
This course offers a comprehensive overview of gaseous and particulate air pollutants. It will emphasize pollutant sources, physical and chemical properties, sampling and analysis, chemical transformation, atmospheric transport, fate, and potential for adverse health and environmental impacts.
Spring 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 22, 2024
MLD 836M

Social Entrepreneurship/Social Enterprise Deep Dive: How to Operationalize & Scale for Social Impact
Building on the lessons learned from decades of investing in early stage social enterprises working on some of societies’ most complicated issues, this intensive course will help future leaders of programs, start-ups and mature organizations understand the operational challenges around executing at scale in an every changing, resource constrained and complicated world.
Spring 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 22, 2024
GENED 1063

World Health: Challenges and Opportunities
This course will challenge your assumptions about the world’s populations as you discover surprising similarities and unexpected differences between and within countries.
Spring 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Not Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 22, 2024
HLS 3114

Environmental Justice
This course will explore the history of the environmental justice movement in the United States, its connection to the long history of racism in America, key features of modern environmental justice advocacy, and the laws and policies that both helped to created (and perpetuate) environmental inequity and that seek to remedy environmental injustice.
Spring 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 22, 2024
GHP 543

Humanitarian Negotiation on the Frontlines
The purpose of this course is to build the capacity of graduate students to navigate complex political crises in uncertain times, to develop a strategic vision on how to respond to humanitarian emergencies, and to plan a negotiation process in adversarial conditions. The 2024 edition of the Frontline Negotiation Lab will explore the challenges and dilemmas of the response to a climate-induced crisis and the work of negotiators and facilitators confronted with the growing distrust and tensions among key stakeholders and the affected population.
Spring 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Jan 2, 2024
IGA 671M

Policy and Social Innovations for the Changing Arctic
Through the lens of the rapidly changing Arctic region, this module will give students an overarching understanding of these local and global challenges, as well as tools and experience in developing their own policy and social innovations to address complex issues in a sustainable way.
Winter 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Fri, Jan 5, 2024
OEB 60

Fundamentals of Marine Biology
We will explore the fundamentals of marine biology, and in doing so, learn about the complex lifestyles of organisms whose home spans three quarters of our planet.
Spring 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 22, 2024