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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HISTSCI 1410

Health and Climate Crises: A History

This course will explore the long history of theorizing about the impact of the environment on health, paying particular attention to changing climates: what happens when people travel to new climates, and what happens when a place’s climate changes.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Public Health & Medicine 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
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 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Engineering Physical Sciences 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
ADV 9641

Proseminar in Landscape Architecture

How do we understand a landscape? This proseminar explores epistemologies that constitute the field of landscape architecture.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
EH 286

Environmental Health Literacy and Science Communication

This course will provide formal definition, as well as quantitative and qualitative measurement tools utilized in this emerging area of study that intersects environmental health with implementation, effectiveness, and dissemination science.  Some of the key concepts that will be discussed in this course are risk communication, health literacy, and numeracy. Furthermore, students will learn the principles for how to communicate environmental health science in a way that is equitable, rigorous, and accessible for the public based on principles of EHL.   
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine 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
ECON 2688

Environmental and Climate Economics

This class covers the economics of the environment and climate change, with a focus on market-based solutions to externalities, open-access problems, and blended policy responses.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
GENED 1102

Making Change When Change is Hard: the Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change

In an effort to draw general lessons for those interested in making change, we will assess a range of political and legal approaches; examine mass movements and the leadership by organizations, governments, and individuals; and attempt to gauge outcomes.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
HLS 8038

Food Law and Policy Clinic

The Food Law and Policy Clinic of Harvard Law School (FLPC) provides students with the opportunity to practice using legal and policy tools in order to address the health, environmental, and economic impacts of our food system.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Wed, Sep 17, 2025
SES 5206

Land Use and Environmental Law A

Through lectures, discussions, readings, and a written exercise, this course provides students with a working knowledge of land use laws and environmental laws, the institutions that create, implement, and review them, and the issues that swirl around them.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
GENED 1167

Climate Crossroads

This course reveals fundamental alterations that climate disruption is bringing to multiple human activities and natural phenomena.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024