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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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
GENED 1174

Life and Death in the Anthropocene

What does it mean for us --both as a society and as individuals -- to live in a world radically remade by the human hand?
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
SCI 6381

Power||Energy: Mapping the Thickened Ground of Labor

The seminar reckons with the immediate need to upgrade and expand the US electrical power grid system to meet the demands of growing urban communities and recognizes the obligation to engage with the climate crisis.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
E-PSCI 200

Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Tropospheric and stratospheric gas and aerosol chemistry. Carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and mercury cycles. Implications for climate change, air quality, ecosystems.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EDU T418

Education in Uncertainty

This course is an action-oriented introduction to theory and practice toward socially just education that enables all young people to thrive in settings of uncertainty.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Education Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
GHP 210A

Concepts and Methods for Global Health and Population Studies (Part A)

This course is intended as a survey of the ideas, theories, data, methods and debates in the study of global health and population. It is organized around two major themes. The first theme – family and population health – will cover the major present and future drivers of population health globally (such as aging, urbanization, changing lifestyles, pandemics, and climate change), as well as the major burdens of diseases and their global distributions. It will further cover the important relationships between global health, human development and equitable societies. The second theme – health systems – will cover underlying theories and empirical evidence for analyzing different components of a health care system and how they interact with each other to determine a health system’s performance.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ADV 9674

Proseminar in ECOLOGIES: Interrelated, In-between, Dynamic

The Domain of ECOLOGIES engages the relationships between the living and mineral world, between science and technology, between infrastructural and ecological networks, and between human society and the non-human world that sustains us.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.
Graduate No Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
API 205

Politics and Policies: What Is the Impact of Data and AI?

Data and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing our world.. Intended for leaders, this course introduces statistics and machine learning and what they can tell us about global challenges. Using case studies on justice and policing, elections and polling, behavioral economics, development, climate change, education, and health, we analyze research design, regression, and project evaluation, and compare the perspective of ethics.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Engineering Law & Policy Courses
Thu, Sep 4, 2025
OEB 55

Ecology: Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems

This course examines the relationships of organisms to their environment at the individual, population, and community level.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
RELIGION 1593

Place, World, Planet

Climate change puts pressure on conceptualizations of place, world, and planet. As humans confront the force of the non-human world and the planetary scale of the crisis, we must also contend with the ambivalent legacies of both place and planet.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
PRO 7453

Designers of Mountain and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate

This seminar explores contemporary landscape architecture in Northeast and Southeast Asia to envision the future of sustainable design in the face of climate change. Students will meet world-leading practitioners and scholars, learn about their practices and research, and participate in a workshop and symposium, “Designers of Mountain and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate,” on February 5-6, 2026. At this event, students will share their coursework with the designers they have studied, and selected class work will be exhibited at Druker Gallery.
Fall 2025 Graduate 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