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GENED 1112

Prediction: The Past and Present of the Future

Human beings are the only creatures in the animal kingdom properly defined as worriers. We are the only ones who expend tremendous amounts of time, energy, and resources trying (sometimes obsessively) to understand our futures before they happen. While the innate ability of individual people to predict has not changed much in the past few millennia, developments in mathematical and conceptual models have inordinately improved predictive systems. These systems have integrated comparisons to past results and quantified how “certain” we can be about various aspects of the future -- processes that were, in many cases, inconceivable at one point in the past.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HDS 3221

American Religious Ecofascism

:The blending of climate action and resource preservation with antisemitism, antiblackness, Islamophobia, sexism, transphobia, and xenophobia—tactics typically linked to the far-right—or advocating for the destruction of the earth to "level the playing field" for all creatures, a strategy often associated with the far left, exemplifies the characteristics of ecofascism. These dangerous ideologies often masquerade as environmental consciousness.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
BGP 204

Food Policy

This class will examine the global food system and how it can meet the caloric needs of a growing population with higher caloric demands.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
STU 1311

Conditions: Context and Climate

We are racing towards multiple global tipping points, one being temperature rising far beyond expected due to carbon emissions. Forty percent of global carbon emissions derive from the construction industry and, as architects, we have the opportunity to make a difference. We must radically reassess how to build with the goal of proactively minimizing carbon emissions. To do so, we are forced to develop new tools, a new library of references, without losing our aesthetic ambition.
Spring 2025 Graduate Not Available Design & Architecture Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
GENED 1137

The Challenge of Human Induced Climate Change: Transitioning to a Post Fossil Fuel Future

The course will be designed to provide students with an understanding of relevant physical, technical and social factors including an historical perspective.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HLS 2958

International Law of the Sea

This course explores the international law of the sea, a body of public international law that governs the rights and duties of states in their use of the oceans and seas.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
SES 5409

Climate Justice

The class will argue for the necessity of studying theories of justice, inequality, and structural violence along with climate science, policy, and international diplomacy. In our search for climate justice, the class will trace various forms of climate activism within the history of environmental movements, explore non-Western forms of knowledge as key critiques and logics of action, and evaluate concrete suggestions for radical reform. We will discuss how climate justice as a framework of concern is both universal and specific, and we will critically engage ideas of justice at different scales, from the local to the global, with careful attention to context. We will ultimately ask what new kinds of practices, knowledges, and collaborations are necessary to build more just and responsible relationships between people and the nonhuman world, and with each other.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
GENED 1001

Stories from the End of the World

This course will start from these observations to ask why imagining the end is so pervasive in contemporary cultures, what ethical choices are put in front of us “at the end of the world as we know it”, and how we can analyze critically where apocalyptic images are coming from and how they are used in contemporary conversations.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
SOC-STD 98FR

Fascism and Far-Right Movements

What was twentieth-century fascism, and what might it mean to call something “fascist” today? This seminar explores historical, theoretical, and sociological approaches to the study of fascism and far-right movements. It begins with an introduction to longstanding debates over the meaning of the term.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HLS 2294

Environmental Disasters and Displacement in the US

This reading group will explore how environmental disasters drive migration and displacement in the United States, and how federal disaster law and policy can mitigate or exacerbate the effects of those disasters on communities. We will discuss both sudden and slow-onset disasters that are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change, including hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, permafrost thaw, and coastal erosion. Readings will introduce students to federal disaster law, frameworks for just response and recovery, and draw on survivor narratives to illustrate the disparate impacts of both disasters and disaster preparedness and response programs. We will also discuss possible solutions to make federal disaster law and policy more equitable and effective.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
IGA 455

Climate Leadership: Persuasion, Advocacy and Negotiation

In this perilous moment in human history, the world desperately needs leaders with the courage, drive and hardball political skills to fight climate change and help restore the natural world. Environmental leaders must also recognize how marginalized communities suffer disproportionately from pollution and climate change. Leadership is difficult in any enterprise, but it is especially difficult for environmental leaders who face opponents with vastly more power and money.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
DEV 233, HLS2390, Gov 1025

Political Economy and Its Future

The world’s economic and political order reels under mounting challenges that predate the Covid pandemic, and have deepened in its aftermath: climate change, authoritarian populism, global financial fragility, a slowdown in economic growth and productivity, the aggravation of inequality, the risks of AI, the rise of middle powers and geopolitical competition between the U.S. and China, and the stalling in global poverty reduction.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025