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Climate change is an urgent and multifaceted challenge facing all of society.

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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 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
DEV 233, HLS2390, Gov 1025

Political Economy and Its Future

The world’s economic and political order reels under mounting challenges that predate the Covid pandemic, and have deepened in its aftermath: climate change, authoritarian populism, global financial fragility, a slowdown in economic growth and productivity, the aggravation of inequality, the risks of AI, the rise of middle powers and geopolitical competition between the U.S. and China, and the stalling in global poverty reduction.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ECON 1661

Economics of Climate Change and Environmental Policy

Provides a survey, from the perspective of economics, of global climate change and public policies to address it, including international, regional, national, and sub-national policies.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ESPP 160

US Environmental Policy and Policymaking: The Role of Congress, EPA, Stakeholders, and Courts

An introduction to environmental policy in the US with a focus on the Environmental Protection Agency. We will explore how policy is made at the federal and state levels and consider the actors who design policies, including legislators, agencies, advocates, regulated companies, and the courts.
Spring 2025 Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HLS 2193

Natural Resources Law

This course is a survey of federal natural resources law with a particular emphasis on how courts resolve disputes in this area.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ECON 50, SUP 135

Using Big Data to Solve Economic and Social Problems

This course will show how "big data" can be used to understand and address some of the most important social and economic problems of our time.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
MLD 620M

The Data Smart City: Driving Innovation with Technology

The complexity of governing cities continues to escalate as more of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2050. The problems of delivering basic services, while addressing climate and equity compound the challenge. This course seeks to equip students who wish to use digital tools to innovate with the knowledge and skills necessary to imagine and implement innovative solutions to public problems
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
MLD 234M, GHP-243

Conducting Negotiation on the Frontlines: Advanced Techniques for Crisis Situations

With the deepening of political divisions on societal challenges, policymakers must navigate increasingly tense environments to engage in constructive dialogues across political fault lines. They must be equipped with relevant personal competences interpersonal abilities to maintain productive relationships with difficult counterparts as they search for realistic compromises on programmatic options.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Sat, Mar 29, 2025
ECON 1661

Economics of Climate Change and Environmental Policy

Spring 2026 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
ESPP 90B

The EV Revolution: Outlook, Environmental Impact, Policy, and Challenges

Spring 2026 Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
SOCIOL 1284

People and the Planet: How Societies Cause, Mitigate, and Adapt to Climate Change

Spring 2026 Graduate Undergraduate Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
HLS 2662

Environmental Law after the Biden Administration and During the Trump (2.0) Administration

Spring 2026 Graduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 26, 2026