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ANE 109

First Civilizations: History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

The course emphasizes various themes including urbanism, climate change and human responses, conflict, migrations and refugees, cultural exchange, the development of writing, literary traditions, and religious innovations.
Fall 2024 Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ESE 164

Environmental and Industrial Chemistry for Energy, Climate, and Sustainability

Part 1: Intersection of environment/industry, including decarbonization of the materials industry. Chemistries for cement and steel production without carbon dioxide emission, the smelting industry for extraction of metals from ores, present-day and possible futures for chemistry of a hydrogen economy, and chemistry of emerging battery technologies.Part 2: Environmental processes of chemistry, such as alkalinity of ocean acidification, pH and pE as master variables for the chemistry of an ecosystem, drinking and wastewater treatment, and soil chemistry for agriculture.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
OEB 55

Ecology: Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems

This course examines the relationships of organisms to their environment at the individual, population, and community level.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EDU A801

Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective

This course examines key contemporary educational global challenges and debates, focusing on options to effect systemic change in public education systems.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Education Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
GENED 1174

Life and Death in the Anthropocene

What does it mean for us --both as a society and as individuals -- to live in a world radically remade by the human hand?
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EH 263

Analytical Methods and Exposure Assessment

This course will examine methodological issues associated with the design and execution of studies designed to measure environmental exposure to chemical and biological contaminants.
Fall 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
API 141

Finance

Climate finance, development finance, infrastructure finance, municipal finance, international finance, banking, housing finance, corporate finance, investments, and financial regulation are all functions and applications of finance. This course provides the financial concepts, techniques, and instruments that are essential to understand, utilize and contribute to any of these areas.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Thu, Sep 4, 2025
HLS 2123

International Environmental Law

This course examines the challenges, successes, and opportunities in harnessing state and non-state efforts to promote international environmental protection
Fall 2025 Graduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
E-PSCI 200

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Tropospheric and stratospheric gas and aerosol chemistry. Carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and mercury cycles. Implications for climate change, air quality, ecosystems.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HDS 2081

Negotiating Across Worldviews

Leaders and change agents of all kinds often must engage effectively with people whose worldviews are very different than their own. Conflicts involving deeply held values and other fundamental differences in perspective present special challenges and may require adjustments to approaches to negotiation we use in other situations. Through interdisciplinary readings, presentations, negotiation simulations, dialogue experiences, exercises, discussion, and reflective practices, this practice-focused, workshop style course aims to help participants become more aware of how their own and others’ worldviews influence conflicts involving identity-defining value differences and to help them become more effective negotiators.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
GENED 1178

Mexico's Culinary Roots: 10,000 Years of Food History

GenEd 1178 focuses on the archaeology and history of the first 10,000 years of Mexican cuisine as our case study to explore these questions. We will examine Mexico’s diversity of food, drink, and cultures across time and space with evidence from archaeology, anthropology, climatology, botany, genetics, history, and more, to investigate how and why various changes in Mexican cuisine took place.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Art & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025