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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SOC-STD 98LF
Globalization and the Nation State
This course examines why, focusing on the nature of nationalism, ethnic conflicts, the rise of populism and authoritarianism, and global issues such as inequality, migration, and climate change.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
SOC-STD 98LF
Globalization and the Nation State
This course tries to understand why this is so by examining the role that nationalism plays in peoples’ identities and the effects of globalization on nations and nation-states.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ENGLISH 287
Novel Anxieties
We will examine the specificity of modern anxiety by exploring literary responses to total war, technology, climate change, psychopharmacology, race, sexuality, upward mobility, and more.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
FYSEMR 72C
A Whale Ship Was My Yale College and My Harvard
How should we live in the world, both with each other and with everything in the natural world around us? It’s a big question and Herman Melville wrote a big book about it, Moby-Dick (1851), from which this seminar takes its title and its focus.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
STU 1402
Presence of Water: Garden Inherency and New Hydraulic Culture of Kyoto
This studio aims to reexamine and reevaluate the value of Kyoto’s environmental culture as shaped by its long history, seeking to update the city’s landscape culture for a sustainable and resilient future that moves beyond its tradition and style. Kyoto, renowned for the Kyoto Protocol and its legacy of environmental stewardship, serves as an ideal site for this inquiry. Its natural wealth derives from distinctive topography and abundant water resources, nurtured by a culture that has managed these resources responsibly and in such elaborate forms for centuries.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
STU 1121
First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio
The course focuses on four key challenges of contemporary urban planning: equity, climate, health, and accessibility.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
GENED 1094
Confronting Climate Change: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy
How can we address the issue of climate change, reducing the damages by preparing for impacts already underway and fixing the problem by transforming our energy system? This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
E-PSCI 208
Physics of Climate
Overview of the basic features of the climate system (global energy balance, atmospheric general circulation, ocean circulation, and climate variability) and the underlying physical processes.
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.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
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.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025