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.
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SCI 6122
Environmental Systems 2 [Module 2]
Purpose: This course is the second of a two-module sequence in building technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture.
MLD 620M
The Data Smart City: Driving Innovation with Technology
The complexity of governing cities continues to escalate as more of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2050. The problems of delivering basic services, while addressing climate and equity compound the challenge. This course seeks to equip students who wish to use digital tools to innovate with the knowledge and skills necessary to imagine and implement innovative solutions to public problems
SCI 6372
Circuits, Circles, and Loops: Towards a Regenerative Architecture
This course asks how we design new architectures that fit within the circuits, circles, and loops of a healthy, regenerative material ecology.
IGA 453, HDS 3307, HBS 1553
Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change
What does it mean to be alive and to be human right now? To what should we devote our lives?
The world is on fire. War, faltering growth, huge investments in artificial intelligence, increasing political polarization, accelerating inequality and a global move towards populist authoritarianism are undermining economies and political systems across the planet. Meanwhile ecosystems are collapsing and global temperatures continue to increase, driving floods, droughts and fires, and threatening to make a significant fraction of the earth’s surface uninhabitable.
How did we get here? How can we bear the feelings of grief, rage and powerlessness that opening ourselves up to what is happening often entail? Are we looking at collapse, or could this moment be laying the foundation for opening towards something new?
SES 5463
Planning for Pedestrians and Cyclists
Meeting the ambitious greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets that will be required to reduce, prevent, or delay catastrophic changes to the global climate will require a dramatic shift from motorized to active modes of transportation for urban travel. The purpose of this course is to prepare students to plan transportation infrastructure for a sustainable future by creating streets that are safe and comfortable for pedestrians and cyclists.
IGA 108
China and the World: Challenges, Competition and Cooperation
This course takes a range of themes to interpret contemporary China’s actions in the world, and understand how China’s history can explain important aspects of contemporary policy and decision-making. The course takes key themes and examines them in both contemporary and historical context.
API 148
Advanced Risk Management and Infrastructure Finance
The course presents an advanced treatment of the theory of financial risk management and its application to infrastructure finance.
SCI 6379
Plants and Placemaking - New Ecologies for a Rapidly Changing World
In the face of crises spanning pandemics, political turmoil, and the rapid degradation of the planet’s natural systems—all within a backdrop of myriad inequalities—the power of plants in shaping human experience has been proven. Erosive pressures associated with changes to climate have placed global ecologies and plant communities under assault, yet abundant and resilient life still adapts and flourishes in most places. This course will encourage students to observe these patterns and to learn from context so that we can place the healing and restorative qualities of plants, essential to sustaining life on this planet, in the foreground of our work as landscape architects.
IGA 632M
Africa in Global Politics
Africa is the world’s most youthful continent and by the end of this century its 54 countries will be home to one in three people on Earth. This course examines contemporary African policy trends – challenges and opportunities – through the prism of national, sub-regional and international politics.
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.
SES 5250
Real Estate, Society, Environment
This course explores the intersection of real estate and the critical environmental and social challenges shaping cities and markets today. As the world rapidly urbanizes and climate pressures mount, real estate has become a frontline sector in the pursuit of sustainability. This course enables students to understand and evaluate the role of the built environment in promoting (or hindering) sustainable outcomes.