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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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SPANSH 61N

The Ethics of Business in Latin America

An advanced language and culture class that examines literature and films portraying the political, sociological, financial and environmental impact of multinational companies doing business in Latin America
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
APPHY 388

Climate Dynamics and Physical Oceanography

TBA
Fall 2025 Graduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
GENED 1174

Life and Death in the Anthropocene

What does it mean for us --both as a society and as individuals -- to live in a world radically remade by the human hand?
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
DES 3241

History, Theory, Culture III: Theories of Landscape as Urbanism

This course introduces contemporary theories of landscape as a medium of urbanism and product of urbanization.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
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
DEV 309

Development Policy Strategy

This capstone course explores a wide array of theoretical and analytical tools to help policy makers diagnose, prioritize and address development challenges at a national or sub-national level.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Thu, Sep 4, 2025
HLS 8038

Food Law and Policy Clinic

The Food Law and Policy Clinic of Harvard Law School (FLPC) provides students with the opportunity to practice using legal and policy tools in order to address the health, environmental, and economic impacts of our food system.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Wed, Sep 17, 2025
EH 286

Environmental Health Literacy and Science Communication

This course will provide formal definition, as well as quantitative and qualitative measurement tools utilized in this emerging area of study that intersects environmental health with implementation, effectiveness, and dissemination science.  Some of the key concepts that will be discussed in this course are risk communication, health literacy, and numeracy. Furthermore, students will learn the principles for how to communicate environmental health science in a way that is equitable, rigorous, and accessible for the public based on principles of EHL.   
Fall 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
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.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
CE 10

StudioLab on Creativity and Entrepreneurship

Using an interdisciplinary exploration of the liberal arts, you will develop and apply transformative ideas to tackle today’s societal challenges such as racial injustice, climate change, and strained health and wellbeing.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Business Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
APPHY 380

Electrochemical Engineering for Sustainable Systems

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Fall 2025 Graduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
GENED 1120

The Political Economy of Globalization

How can a globalizing world of differing countries – rich and poor, democratic and authoritarian – best promote inclusive growth and human security by meeting the challenges of inequality, climate change, rising populism, and war?The world is profoundly interconnected through technology, commerce, capital markets, and the global challenges of climate change and public health. For decades, the international economic and geopolitical order favored and supported policies to meet the challenges of integration. But today, that order is under significant strain.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Business Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025