OEB 383
Terrestrial Global Change Ecology - Biotic and Abiotic Biosphere Processes in a Changing World
TBA
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
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 171
Solid Waste In Developing Countries
This course will examine major issues of solid waste (i.e. production, management, storage, treatment, disposal, infrastructure costs and financing, policy) in the developing world at various geographic locations and scales across municipal, industrial, electronic, biological/medical, and radioactive waste.
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.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
FYSEMR 52L
Life and Death Lessons from the Fossil Record
The fossil record offers a unique perspective on the history of Life on Earth. Although palaeontology might remind us of grotesque bones, dusty museum cabinets, and quirky scientists who relish both of those things—or God forbid, Ross Geller from Friends¬—the knowledge derived from the fossil record affects our daily lives in ways that are not immediately apparent. From its natural history origins during the 19th century, paleontology has become a cornerstone of neo-Darwinian evolutionary thought, produced a detailed log of climate change, and sits at the center of a multi-billion-dollar business consumed by millions of people around the world, most likely yourself included.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
HLS 2931
Creating Electricity in the U.S.: Exploring the Tradeoffs
In this reading group, we will explore historic and ongoing legal and policy debates about the fuels that power the US electric system.
Wed, Sep 17, 2025
ENG-SCI 105HFR
Humanitarian Design Projects
Multi-year long team projects that provide an engineering experience working with partner communities on real-world problems.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HIST-LIT 90FI
Race and Empire in the Americas
This course explores the culture and politics of imperialism in the Americas from the early 19th century to the present, with particular attention to race and ethnicity.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
EH 512
Interdisciplinary Training in Pulmonary Sciences Part I
The intersection of environment and health is by necessity an interdisciplinary focus. The most promising advances in lung biology and respiratory disease are resulting from teams of scientists with diverse disciplinary training, including biology, medicine, engineering, and physics. In addition to a strong foundation in a specific discipline, the ability to recognize and act upon opportunities presented by outside disciplines is a crucial skill. This course is designed to train scientists to approach lung biology and respiratory diseases with an interdisciplinary perspective, in particular by bridging the gap between life sciences and physical/engineering sciences.
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.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
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.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
DES 3348
The Idea of Environment
The environment is the milieu in which designers and planners operate. The class will explore how and what new approaches to representation, visualization, and measurement might lead to different relations in a changing world.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
MMH 733
Who Lives, Who Dies: Reimagining Global Health
How can health care systems be restructured to provide high quality care even to the poorest and most vulnerable people on our plant?Health care is never just about medicine. It is about people. It is about those pushed to the margins, whose lives are ground down by poverty, trapped by unjust systems, and devalued by forces that declare some lives worth less than others.
Tue, Sep 2, 2025