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PRO 7445

Urban Stack: Practice Methods for a Complex World

This course addresses the practice of design as it inevitably confronts and interacts with infrastructures of policy, technology, and finance.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 141

Finance

This course provides financial concepts, techniques, and instruments that are essential to a variety of applications that include raising debt and equity finance, asset management, climate finance, development finance, financing infrastructure, banking, financial regulation, and risk management.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HLS 3111

ESG: Corporate Ethics in the 21st Century

This course will investigate the rise of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) as a dominant investment strategy and its consequences for corporate governance and regulation of several sectors in the global economy.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6121

Environmental Systems 1 [Module 1]

This course is the first of a two-module sequence in building technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6502

Advanced Reverse Design and EMBODIED CARBON

At a time when urgent action is needed to avert the climate crisis, it is very difficult to take an idealistic approach when considering key materials in building construction. Designers can play an important role in the race to de-carbonize the built environment and this course will touch on how we got to where we are and how we can move forward in practice with the lessons that we have learned. Through a series of conversations and presentations, including from external experts, we will engage in inversing the design process by utilizing newly available tools. We will demystify regulations, terminology, and popular language, and examine how the predominant materials for construction, which are unlikely to go away soon, can be improved and implemented in design and construction to promote a low carbon economy.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EH 206

Foundations of Environmental Health

:This course is designed to lay a foundation in environmental health, integrating key disciplines such as risk assessment, exposure assessment, epidemiology, toxicology, data analytics, physical science, and science policy. We aim to enhance students' critical thinking and quantitative abilities through interactive workshops, case studies, assignments, and insightful readings. The curriculum is structured around a thread of quantitative and qualitative reasoning, addressing seven crucial topics in environmental health: air pollution, water pollution, global warming, environmental justice, occupational health, radiation, and persistent pollutants.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HDS 3166

Ecotheology

This course will survey constructive religious reflection that is informed by an ecological worldview and accountable to various forms of environmental activism.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6122

Environmental Systems 2 [Module 2]

Purpose: This course is the second of a two-module sequence in building technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SES 5206

Land Use and Environmental Law

Through lectures, discussions, readings, and a written exercise, this course provides students with a working knowledge of land use laws and environmental laws, the institutions that create, implement, and review them, and the issues that swirl around them.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HLS 2076

Ethics, Economics and the Law

Explores controversies about the use of markets and market reasoning in areas such as organ sales, procreation, environmental regulation, immigration policy, military service, voting, health care, education, and criminal justice.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
VIS 2470

Atmospheric Encounters: Visualizing the Invisible

The course will explore diverse atmospheric conditions with tools, techniques, and design methods for making the invisible visible. The measuring and mapping of atmospheric conditions seeks to redefine the notion of ‘site’ as a lived space of atmospheric encounters through analytical and conceptual approaches integrating drawing, modelling, simulation, and sensing to make visible the invisible thereby reconstituting it as a complex temporal and material manifold of differential space.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EH 213

Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice-Focusing on Solutions

Human health and the health of our planet are inextricably linked and they can be mutually beneficial. However, our planet’s health and our health are at risk
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024