OEB 383
Terrestrial Global Change Ecology - Biotic and Abiotic Biosphere Processes in a Changing World
TBA
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY
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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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ENG-SCI 105HFR
Humanitarian Design Projects
Multi-year long team projects that provide an engineering experience working with partner communities on real-world problems.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HIST-LIT 90FI
Race and Empire in the Americas
This course explores the culture and politics of imperialism in the Americas from the early 19th century to the present, with particular attention to race and ethnicity.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EH 512
Interdisciplinary Training in Pulmonary Sciences Part I
The intersection of environment and health is by necessity an interdisciplinary focus. The most promising advances in lung biology and respiratory disease are resulting from teams of scientists with diverse disciplinary training, including biology, medicine, engineering, and physics. In addition to a strong foundation in a specific discipline, the ability to recognize and act upon opportunities presented by outside disciplines is a crucial skill. This course is designed to train scientists to approach lung biology and respiratory diseases with an interdisciplinary perspective, in particular by bridging the gap between life sciences and physical/engineering sciences.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ECON 1410, SUP-125
Public Economics: Designing Government Policy
This course analyzes what role the government plays and should play in a market economy. It covers topics such as tax policy, health care policy, retirement policy, environmental protection, and state and local policy. The course emphasizes recent empirical research on policy issues and teaches students how to conduct such studies. Much of the material we will cover relates directly to ongoing policy debates.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
GOV 1783
Central Asia in Global Politics
The course is designed as an in-depth study of the place of Central Asia in Eurasian and global politics, and the policies of key external actors, such as Russia, the United States, China, the European Union, Turkey, Iran, Japan, South Korea and India, toward the region.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
HLS 2931
Creating Electricity in the U.S.: Exploring the Tradeoffs
In this reading group, we will explore historic and ongoing legal and policy debates about the fuels that power the US electric system.
Wed, Sep 17, 2025
SPANSH 61N
The Ethics of Business in Latin America
An advanced language and culture class that examines literature and films portraying the political, sociological, financial and environmental impact of multinational companies doing business in Latin America
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ESPP 90T, GOV 94EN
Designing and Implementing International Environment, Climate, and Sustainability Solutions
This course will analyze the design, implementation, and enforcement of global environment, climate, and sustainability policies. We will examine both historical cases as well as newly proposed policies.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
DEV 309
Development Policy Strategy
This capstone course explores a wide array of theoretical and analytical tools to help policy makers diagnose, prioritize and address development challenges at a national or sub-national level.
Thu, Sep 4, 2025
DES 3348
The Idea of Environment
The environment is the milieu in which designers and planners operate. The class will explore how and what new approaches to representation, visualization, and measurement might lead to different relations in a changing world.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
MMH 733
Who Lives, Who Dies: Reimagining Global Health
How can health care systems be restructured to provide high quality care even to the poorest and most vulnerable people on our plant?Health care is never just about medicine. It is about people. It is about those pushed to the margins, whose lives are ground down by poverty, trapped by unjust systems, and devalued by forces that declare some lives worth less than others.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025