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PORTUG 20

Intermediate Portuguese I: Justice, Equity and Rights in the Lusophone world

In this intermediate-level language course, you will explore social justice issues related to education, labor, environment and sustainability, race, gender, migration, among other topics of relevance in Lusophone countries nowadays.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Art & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
ENG-SCI 152

Circuits, Devices, and Transduction

This course introduces the fundamentals of circuit theory for the analysis of electrical circuits and the fundamentals of semiconductor devices for the understanding of transistors circuits and other useful actuators and sensors (i.e., transducers).
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Engineering Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
RELIGION 1593

Place, World, Planet

Climate change puts pressure on conceptualizations of place, world, and planet. As humans confront the force of the non-human world and the planetary scale of the crisis, we must also contend with the ambivalent legacies of both place and planet.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
E-PSCI 132

Introduction to Meteorology and Climate

Concepts developed for understanding today's atmosphere are applied to understanding the record of past climate change and the prospects for climate change in the future.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Engineering Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
VIS 2484

Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices

Amid the climate emergency, escalating militarized conflicts, peak armament, and rapid technological advancements, we must reimagine visions, strategies, and pragmatic processes to foster new forms of collaboration that prioritize care for both others and the planet.This semester, in dialogue with the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Vienna Art Academy PhD group led by Prof. Elke Krasny, the seminar will explore the themes of “Dark Matter” and “Design with Care”—both in theory and practice—by examining the diverse impacts and residues of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics, ranging from bombs to AI, and considering their related material infrastructures, including mines, power plants, and waste facilities.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
GENED 1018

How to Build a Habitable Planet

The aim of this course is to place human beings in a universal and planetary context. You will learn where we come from beginning with the Big Bang and ending with modern human civilization and our relationship to the planet from which we have evolved and on which we depend.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
GHP 204

Foundations of Global Mental Health

The course is an introduction to the field of global mental health. The curriculum is primarily informed by the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health & Sustainable Development (2018) (https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/global-mental-health) which proposed a re-framing of mental health in three key ways: adopting a dimensional approach to mental health; recognizing the convergence of social and biological determinants in the emergence of mental health problems; and realizing a rights based approach to mental health.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Wed, Sep 3, 2025
FRENCH 227

(Dark) Ecologies in French Literature, Thought, and Film

What is the place of the human within nature? How are cultural concepts of what is ‘natural’ or ‘artificial’ reflected in and shaped by texts from different periods? Where do our ideas about ecology and climate today have their roots? How can a text, or a film, be ‘ecological’?
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ECON 2688

Environmental and Climate Economics

This class covers the economics of the environment and climate change, with a focus on market-based solutions to externalities, open-access problems, and blended policy responses.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
ESPP 90W

Global Wetlands: Boundary-spanning ecosystems for science, social justice, and public policy

Students in this seminar will develop skills in cross-disciplinary analysis of environmental outcomes through cases of ecosystem carbon sequestration and storage, wetland “reclamation” and restoration, and coastal planning for climate resilience.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
GHP 210A

Concepts and Methods for Global Health and Population Studies (Part A)

This course is intended as a survey of the ideas, theories, data, methods and debates in the study of global health and population. It is organized around two major themes. The first theme – family and population health – will cover the major present and future drivers of population health globally (such as aging, urbanization, changing lifestyles, pandemics, and climate change), as well as the major burdens of diseases and their global distributions. It will further cover the important relationships between global health, human development and equitable societies. The second theme – health systems – will cover underlying theories and empirical evidence for analyzing different components of a health care system and how they interact with each other to determine a health system’s performance.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6141

Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I

The goal of the course is to introduce the global potential of plants as a means of design for shaping the character of a place for individual and collective human experience.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025