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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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FYSEMR 73W

Shared Prosperity in a Fractured Global Economy

Can we build a global economic order that promotes equity, poverty reduction, and climate sustainability, all at once? How do we alleviate the tensions between domestic equality and global equality? Can we restore the middle class in advanced countries while maintaining an open global economy? Can we achieve the climate transition without adverse effects on economic growth and poverty reduction in poor nations? We will explore these questions in the seminar and build towards practical policy solutions.
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Not Available Arts & Humanities Business Law & Policy Courses
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.
Fall 2025 Graduate Not Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
ADV 9674

Proseminar in ECOLOGIES: Regenerative, Interrelated, Evolving

The role of the proseminar is to introduce students to the range of individual and group research presently being pursued by GSD faculty, across Harvard schools, the Loeb Fellows, and researchers and practitioners from many disciplines. Concurrent with the research presentations will be readings, workshops, and presentations in four domain focus areas that will build capacity for individual students to create an abstract for their own design-research topic. 
Fall 2025 Graduate Not Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
GOV 1783

Central Asia in Global Politics

The course is designed as an in-depth study of the place of Central Asia in Eurasian and global politics, and the policies of key external actors, such as Russia, the United States, China, the European Union, Turkey, Iran, Japan, South Korea and India, toward the region.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 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
EDU A801

Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective

This course examines key contemporary educational global challenges and debates, focusing on options to effect systemic change in public education systems.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Education 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
OEB 383

Terrestrial Global Change Ecology - Biotic and Abiotic Biosphere Processes in a Changing World

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Fall 2025 Graduate Available Life Sciences Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
FYSEMR 63W

Vegetal Humanities: Paying Attention to Plants in Contemporary Art and Culture

This class invites you to practice a new kind of plant-consciousness. Our guides will be contemporary artists and thinkers who are encouraging new relationships between human and vegetal life, or recalling very old ones.
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Not Available Arts & Humanities Physical Sciences 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
VIS 2484

Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices

Amid the climate emergency, escalating militarized conflicts, peak armament, and rapid technological advancements, we must reimagine visions, strategies, and pragmatic processes to foster new forms of collaboration that prioritize care for both others and the planet.This semester, in dialogue with the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Vienna Art Academy PhD group led by Prof. Elke Krasny, the seminar will explore the themes of “Dark Matter” and “Design with Care”—both in theory and practice—by examining the diverse impacts and residues of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics, ranging from bombs to AI, and considering their related material infrastructures, including mines, power plants, and waste facilities.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
HLS 3111

Sustainable Capitalism

This course will explore whether it is possible to make the capitalist system sustainable through a comprehensive examination of the primary legal and policy instruments created since the concept of sustainable development began gaining momentum in the 1970s.
Fall 2025 Graduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025