Tue, Sep 2, 2025
CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY
COURSES
Climate change is an urgent and multifaceted challenge facing all of society.
Harvard faculty teach an expanding array of courses examining the many dimensions of this shared challenge. Explore courses in climate and sustainability ranging from economics and English to public health and climate science.
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Tue, Sep 2, 2025
HIST-LIT 90HB
Indigenous Economies and Environments
The course surveys histories of economies built by Indigenous Americans on their own lands. It also examines economies—local and global—that settler colonists built from stolen lands and natural resources of Indigenous Americans. Spanning centuries, and extending to the present, this course is organized conceptually into three principal sections on Land, Energy, and Gaming.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
SCI 6244
Climate by Design
Through a series of lectures and case studies, this course will explore the range of paradigmatic design responses to the climate crisis.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
HISTSCI 2985, IGA 513.
Science, Power, and Politics
This seminar introduces students to the major contributions of the field of science and technology studies (STS) to the analysis of politics and policymaking in democratic societies.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
PWY 220
Essentials of the Profession II
The course is structured to integrate across disciplines; incorporate PCE and post-PCE clinical experiences; and evaluate and design solutions.
Mon, Sep 30, 2024
OEB 157
Global Change Biology
This course examines how natural and anthropogenic changes in the earth system are affecting the composition and the functioning of the world's land and ocean ecosystems.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HDS 2073, RELIGION 2073
Apocalyptic Grief
Human caused climate change has already irreparably altered the earth’s natural environment, and in the coming years these changes are certain to accelerate into routine and unrelenting catastrophe. In noting that religion often attends to the dying through practices of mourning and grief, this course will seek to consider how categories of apocalypse, pastoral care, lament, loss, and the creative arts might be crucial to our common future. Readings and film screenings will focus upon depictions of apocalypse from the ancient to the contemporary, as well ethical and theoretical considerations of the end of the world in critical and theological writings.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
IGA 105
International Law and Global Justice
Can international law be a tool for promoting global justice? This course will explore diverse issues, including: Can environmental law help reduce climate change and provide justice for climate refugees?
Thu, Sep 4, 2025
HLS 2359
Food Law and Policy
This seminar will present an overview of topics in food law and examine how these laws shape what we eat.
Wed, Sep 17, 2025
SES 5437
Transportation Economics and Finance
We can define transportation infrastructure to comprise all the physical objects that provide mobility: including everything from trains, highways, and ports to sneakers, trails, and scooters. The amount and type of available infrastructure that is available to urban travelers depends very much on who is willing to pay for it and how.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
ESPP 90G
The Law and Policy of Climate Change: Influencing Decision Makers
This course will explore (i) the legal framework in which climate change action occurs in the United States, (ii) policy tools available to regulators, (iii) impacts on regulated entities and individuals and (iv) opportunities for private stakeholders to participate in and influence climate change decisions.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024