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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GENED 1001

Stories from the End of the World

This course will start from these observations to ask why imagining the end is so pervasive in contemporary cultures, what ethical choices are put in front of us “at the end of the world as we know it”, and how we can analyze critically where apocalyptic images are coming from and how they are used in contemporary conversations.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HLS 2014

Climate Change and Human Rights: Legal Innovations and Social Entrepreneurship in Action

This seminar will operate as a lab and explore entrepreneurial efforts to bridge climate change and human rights by examining live issues and pressing problems in the field. In recent years, both entrepreneurial human rights advocates and environmentalists have pushed the boundaries of traditional legal and policy doctrines to address the climate crisis and its impact on human society.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HDS 3221

American Religious Ecofascism

:The blending of climate action and resource preservation with antisemitism, antiblackness, Islamophobia, sexism, transphobia, and xenophobia—tactics typically linked to the far-right—or advocating for the destruction of the earth to "level the playing field" for all creatures, a strategy often associated with the far left, exemplifies the characteristics of ecofascism. These dangerous ideologies often masquerade as environmental consciousness.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
STU 1311

Conditions: Context and Climate

We are racing towards multiple global tipping points, one being temperature rising far beyond expected due to carbon emissions. Forty percent of global carbon emissions derive from the construction industry and, as architects, we have the opportunity to make a difference. We must radically reassess how to build with the goal of proactively minimizing carbon emissions. To do so, we are forced to develop new tools, a new library of references, without losing our aesthetic ambition.
Spring 2025 Graduate Not Available Design & Architecture Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
STAT 288

Deep Statistics: AI and Earth Observations for Sustainable Development

The course provides a deep dive into statistical foundations and insights for multi-source, multi-phase, and multi-resolution learning, interwoven with case studies on using AI and Earth Observations (EO) for sustainable developments (e.g., global poverty).
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
SES 5409

Climate Justice

The class will argue for the necessity of studying theories of justice, inequality, and structural violence along with climate science, policy, and international diplomacy. In our search for climate justice, the class will trace various forms of climate activism within the history of environmental movements, explore non-Western forms of knowledge as key critiques and logics of action, and evaluate concrete suggestions for radical reform. We will discuss how climate justice as a framework of concern is both universal and specific, and we will critically engage ideas of justice at different scales, from the local to the global, with careful attention to context. We will ultimately ask what new kinds of practices, knowledges, and collaborations are necessary to build more just and responsible relationships between people and the nonhuman world, and with each other.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
PWY 120

Essentials of the Profession

Essentials of the Profession brings together the social and population science relevant to the practice of medicine and dentistry.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
HLS 2294

Environmental Disasters and Displacement in the US

This reading group will explore how environmental disasters drive migration and displacement in the United States, and how federal disaster law and policy can mitigate or exacerbate the effects of those disasters on communities. We will discuss both sudden and slow-onset disasters that are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change, including hurricanes, flooding, wildfires, permafrost thaw, and coastal erosion. Readings will introduce students to federal disaster law, frameworks for just response and recovery, and draw on survivor narratives to illustrate the disparate impacts of both disasters and disaster preparedness and response programs. We will also discuss possible solutions to make federal disaster law and policy more equitable and effective.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
SBS 237

Grief, Loss, and Death: Population Mental Health Perspectives

Public health students have few academic opportunities to engage with the profound themes of grief, loss, and death, even in an era of pandemics, climate change, and widening health disparities.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Mar 24, 2025
EH 207

Climate Change and Global Health Equity

This course will focus on the impacts of climate change, air pollution, and ecological degradation on global health equity.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Mar 24, 2025
HO 703

Human Health and Global Environmental Change

This course was developed because the practice of medicine and public health in this century will require an understanding of the relationship between human health and the global environment.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Mar 24, 2025
MLD 234M, GHP-243

Conducting Negotiation on the Frontlines: Advanced Techniques for Crisis Situations

With the deepening of political divisions on societal challenges, policymakers must navigate increasingly tense environments to engage in constructive dialogues across political fault lines. They must be equipped with relevant personal competences interpersonal abilities to maintain productive relationships with difficult counterparts as they search for realistic compromises on programmatic options.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Sat, Mar 29, 2025