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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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E-PSCI 109

Earth Resources and the Environment

The course provides an overview of Earth’s energy resources, with emphasize on the factors that control their global distributions and uses in our society. Lectures and labs will emphasize methods used to identify and exploit resources, as well as the environmental impact of these operations.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ESE 101, E-PSCI 101

Global Warming Science 101

The course is meant for any student with basic math preparation, not assuming prior science courses. Topics include the greenhouse effect and the consequences of the rise of greenhouse gasses, including sea level rise, ocean acidification, heat waves, droughts, glacier melting, hurricanes, forest fires, and more.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
GHP 210B

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

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.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
EH 212

Food and the Global Environment

In this course, we will explore the development of our modern food production and distribution system and its effects on our environment and planet. To explore the opportunities for and challenges to achieving a sustainable food system, we will critically review published studies and other assessments that evaluate the environmental and social impact of food-related products and processes.
Spring 2025 Graduate Not Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
GHHP 70

Global Response to Disasters and Refugee Crises

This course examines the past, present, and future of the international humanitarian response system.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Not Available Law & Policy Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ESE 50, E-PSCI 50

The Fluid Earth: Oceans, Atmosphere, Climate, and Environment

This course introduces students to the fluid Earth, emphasizing Earth's weather and climate, the carbon cycle, and global environmental change.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
ID 290

Emergency Response, Disasters, and Public Health

The purpose of this course is to provide cognitive and heuristic tools to public health practitioners to be well prepared to plan for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the impact of health disasters precipitated by a variety of threats. The course will provide learners with an awareness of the wide-ranging collaborative processes necessary among public health and medical service providers, as well as cross sectoral dependencies on others such as energy, transportation, public safety, etc.
Spring 2025 Graduate Not Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
GHP 243

Conducting Negotiation on the Frontlines

For over a century, public health has provided a solid scientific framework to assess the causes and consequences of harmful policies and behaviors endangering the health of populations. Yet, in an increasingly divided world, public health professionals have been confronted with the growing politicization of health policy debates, including ongoing attempts to question or limit the influence of science in government policy making. These challenges have been particularly visible in crisis situations such as the response to the COVID-19 pandemic or the latest hurricanes affecting large numbers of people and communities.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Mar 24, 2025
EH 550

Special Topics in Environmental Health: Sustainable Innovation Driven by Climate Change Preparedness and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

This course will examine the relationship between Climate Change Preparedness, UN SDGs, community problems, and current sustainable and social solutions to serve as a starting point for developing new solutions that might serve as the business or social cases to conceive and fund startups in health, sustainability or social ventures.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Mar 24, 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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Engineering Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
E-PSCI 53

Marine Geochemistry

The ocean is central to how our planet will respond to anthropogenic climate change, and understanding its chemistry unlocks a deeper look into that response.  This course is an introduction to that conversation, drawing from real world examples (marine CO2 uptake, coastal eutrophication, marine deoxygenation, the effects of mining, warming of the arctic, etc) and employs a variety of avenues for engagement. The class will include lectures, asynchronous video content, student-led modules, group work and discussions, all supported by a weekly section to dig deeper into key concepts.  Along the way, the class will cover basic chemical principles (thermodynamics, solubility, saturation, redox, etc.) and the cycling of key biogeochemical elements (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus) in and around the ocean.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ESPP 90N

Addressing the Global Climate Crisis: Challenges for Both Developed and Developing Economies

The seminar will discuss the nature of the climate challenge and the implications it poses for different communities and different pArts of the world.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024