CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY

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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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IGA 105

International Law and Global Justice

Can international law be a tool for promoting global justice? This course will explore diverse issues, including: Can environmental law help reduce climate change and provide justice for climate refugees?
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Thu, Sep 4, 2025
SCI 6241

Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World

Through lectures, discussions, readings, case studies, and design projects, the goal of this course is to understand the complexity of living systems to integrate it in landscape design.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
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
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Design & Architecture Law & Policy Physical Sciences 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 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
APPHY 388

Climate Dynamics and Physical Oceanography

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Fall 2025 Graduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
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 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Engineering Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ESPP 90H

Climate, Crops, and Food Security

In this course we will inquire, specifically, into linkages among climate change, extreme weather events, agricultural production, and food insecurity, and also consider the broader context of how conflict, socioeconomic, and health conditions may be susceptible to extreme weather and influence the ability to mitigate and adapt to changes in extreme weather.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Public Health & Medicine, Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
STU 1404

After Data: Future Forests for Geneva

This studio will explore the histories and future possibilities for the forests of Geneva, Switzerland. Building on the findings of last spring’s research seminar “Cultivating Shade: Policy, Planning, Design, and Activism for Geneva’s Urban Forest,” the studio will explore Geneva's forests at the urban, cantonal, and regional scales.
Fall 2025 Graduate Not Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
API 165

Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy

This course applies economic tools to understand the rationale, design, and evaluation of public policies focused on energy and environmental problems.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Thu, Sep 4, 2025
STU 1211

Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio

This studio will explore the complex environmental and social interests of multiple forms of landscape labor—people at work in working landscapes—through the design of regional frameworks and localized sites in coastal Massachusetts.
Fall 2025 Graduate Not Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
ITAL 30

Upper-Level Italian: Italiano in Verde: Sustainability Issues in the Italian Classroom

This course revisits structures, refines speaking and writing skills, and advances critical linguistic exchanges through the discussion of environmental, cultural, economic, and social issues of sustainability.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025