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HIST 1936, HLS

The Rights of Nature

Can law save the planet? This course, offered jointly at HLS and FAS/GSAS, investigates a legal movement known as the Rights of Nature. Beginning from the premise that existing environmental law is inadequate to the problems of climate change, mass extinction, and habitat loss, this movement proposes strategies that include granting rights to nature through legal personhood and assigning property rights to wildlife.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Not Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
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
FRENCH 227

(Dark) Ecologies in French Literature, Thought, and Film

What is the place of the human within nature? How are cultural concepts of what is ‘natural’ or ‘artificial’ reflected in and shaped by texts from different periods? Where do our ideas about ecology and climate today have their roots? How can a text, or a film, be ‘ecological’?
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
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 A801

Education Policy Analysis and Research in Comparative Perspective

This course examines key contemporary educational global challenges and debates, focusing on options to effect systemic change in public education systems.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Education Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
FYSEMR 70P

The World of Tomorrow: Constructing and Inhabiting the 21st Century

The built environment has profound effects on both our daily lives as well as the human condition at large. It determines where and how we live, work, play, and dream. The built environment embodies concrete stances on a wide variety of material, spatial, cultural, and generational issues within a society. The quality and availability of affordable housing, for instance, is not merely an economic concern, but also a value judgment about the obligations of a society to its citizens.
Fall 2024 Undergraduate Not Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
GENED 1167

Climate Crossroads

This course reveals fundamental alterations that climate disruption is bringing to multiple human activities and natural phenomena.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
OEB 157

Global Change Biology

This course examines how natural and anthropogenic changes in the earth system are affecting the composition and the functioning of the world's land and ocean ecosystems.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Engineering Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ESPP 90G

The Law and Policy of Climate Change: Influencing Decision Makers

This course will explore (i) the legal framework in which climate change action occurs in the United States, (ii) policy tools available to regulators, (iii) impacts on regulated entities and individuals and (iv) opportunities for private stakeholders to participate in and influence climate change decisions.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy 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
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 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine 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