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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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SES 5509

Spatial Design Strategies for Climate Migration

We will examine climate migration through selected case studies in climate hotspots in the Sahel and the Pacific Islands, focusing on emerging migration trends: 1) cross-border migration, 2) internal migration, and 3) urban-to-rural migration. Additionally, we will explore holistic views of displacement and risk overlaps, including areas where conflict and climate change intersect.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
E-PSCI 231

Climate Dynamics

The course covers climate dynamics and climate variability phenomena and mechanisms, and provides hands-on experience running and analyzing climate models, as well as using dynamical system theory tools.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Engineering Physical Sciences 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
HO 705

Climate Change, Justice, and Beneficence

In this seminar we discuss justice and beneficence near and far, as formulated in views of how benefits and burdens should be distributed within the borders of a just society, and as further brought to bear concerning sharing and stewardship to benefit and prevent harm to peoples and generations distant from us in space and time.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Arts & Humanities Public Health & Medicine 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
SUP 680

Urban Economic Policy

This course examines the economics of place. We study cities in their role as engines of modern economies. In part two of the course, we consider policies to address affordable housing, urban sprawl, traffic congestion, regional economic divides, persistent joblessness, climate change, and informal settlements.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
AFRAMER 143Y

African Landscape Architecture: Alternative Futures for the Field

A central aim of this seminar is to reveal the plurality of ways landscapes are shaped across the African continent and how they help mitigate the impacts of changing climates and social injustice now and in the future.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture 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
GOV 1318

The Great Food Transformation: Food Systems and Politics

This course will explore the costs, politics, and solutions in our global food system, with a focus on the United States.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
E-PSCI 112, ENG-SCI 112

Thermodynamics

Fundamental concepts and formalisms of conservation of energy and increase of entropy as applied to natural and engineered environmental and biological systems.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HLS 3114

Environmental Justice

This course will explore the history of the environmental justice movement in the United States, its connection to the long history of racism in America, key features of modern environmental justice advocacy, and the laws and policies that both helped to created (and perpetuate) environmental inequity and that seek to remedy environmental injustice.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HIST 2492B

Warren Center Seminar: Alternative Ecologies

This seminar will convene scholars, public-facing intellectuals, writers, and practitioners whose work falls under the broad umbrella of ecological study and care rooted in Black, and/or Indigenous, and/or feminist, and/or community-minded thought, culture, and history.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025