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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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
STU 1121

First Semester Core Urban Planning Studio

The course focuses on four key challenges of contemporary urban planning: equity, climate, health, and accessibility.
Fall 2025 Graduate Not Available Design & Architecture 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
E-PSCI 208

Physics of Climate

Overview of the basic features of the climate system (global energy balance, atmospheric general circulation, ocean circulation, and climate variability) and the underlying physical processes.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences 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
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 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine 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
DPI 127

Who Governs? Power in America

Through case studies, this course will explore the distribution of power in America. Among other issues, the course will examine immigration, climate change, war powers, race, healthcare, monetary policy, trade, tax policy, voter suppression, and campaign spending.
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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
PWY 220

Essentials of the Profession II

The course is structured to integrate across disciplines; incorporate PCE and post-PCE clinical experiences; and evaluate and design solutions.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Sep 30, 2024
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
APPHY 380

Electrochemical Engineering for Sustainable Systems

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Fall 2025 Graduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025