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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FRENCH 62

Exploring Sustainable Practices in French Industry: Fashion, Cuisine, and Music

In this advanced French language and culture course we will explore iconic French industries through the lens of sustainability. Beginning in the Industrial Revolution, we will interrogate themes such as class, space, labor, and cultural appropriation in France and subsequently focus on the evolution of the sustainable practices of each industry today.
Spring 2026 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
EH 252

High Performance Buildings for Health, Comfort and Sustainability

This class will cover basic principles of high performance building design, construction and operation, and impacts on indoor environmental quality, including chemical exposures, light, noise and thermal comfort. One class each week will be dedicated to lectures on these topics, with case studies and experiences from building practitioners that have successfully incorporated sustainability features in historic and contemporary structures. 
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine 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.
Spring 2026 Graduate Not Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
HLS 2583

Policy Advocacy Workshop

The Policy Advocacy Workshop is a hands-on seminar that will explore the methods, tools, and skills used to conduct legislative and regulatory advocacy
Spring 2026 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
GHP 543

Humanitarian Negotiation on the Frontlines

The purpose of this course is to build the capacity of graduate students to navigate complex political crises in uncertain times, to develop a strategic vision on how to respond to humanitarian emergencies, and to plan a negotiation process in adversarial conditions. The 2024 edition of the Frontline Negotiation Lab will explore the challenges and dilemmas of the response to a climate-induced crisis and the work of negotiators and facilitators confronted with the growing distrust and tensions among key stakeholders and the affected population.
Winter 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 6, 2025
ESPP 173

Water Resources in Developing Countries

This course will examine major issues of water resources (i.e. water sources, supply, quality, treatment, use, distribution and storage, policy) in the developing world at various geographic locations and scales.
Spring 2026 Graduate Undergraduate Not Available Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
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 2026 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
EH 297

Atmospheric Environment

This course offers a comprehensive overview of gaseous and particulate air pollutants. It will emphasize pollutant sources, physical and chemical properties, sampling and analysis, chemical transformation, atmospheric transport, fate, and potential for adverse health and environmental impacts.
Spring 2026 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 26, 2026
OEB 56

The History and Evolution of Life on Earth

In this course we will investigate the ways that Earth and life interact with each other, focusing on the biogeochemical cycles of major elements, and the interplay between complex organisms and their ever-changing environment.
Spring 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
EH 297

Atmospheric Environment

This course offers a comprehensive overview of gaseous and particulate air pollutants. It will emphasize pollutant sources, physical and chemical properties, sampling and analysis, chemical transformation, atmospheric transport, fate, and potential for adverse health and environmental impacts.
Spring 2025 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
Mon, Jan 27, 2025
EDU T801

Teaching Climate Change

How we teach about climate change is critical to our response as a global population. Educators adopt a longitudinal view on the outcomes of their daily efforts—guiding each generation with hope and possibility. How do we communicate the loss of what might be called a pact between the generations to the next generation? This course offers an intensive opportunity to explore issues related to teaching climate change in K-12.
Winter 2026 Graduate Undergraduate Available Education Courses
Mon, Jan 5, 2026
HDS 2669

Place, World, Planet

Debates about the significance of the Earth are increasingly central to the humanities, as scholars wrestle with the impact of climate change in our work. Informed by these debates, this course explores imaginaries of Place, World, Planet at the intersections of Christian thought, colonialism, and geopolitics. It addresses questions such as: How has Christian theology and colonialism shaped these ideas? How should we approach their symbolic and religious dimensions? What points of view and modes of knowledge do they reflect? What desired or imagined world orders do they or should they convey? The class explores these questions by examining a wide range of materials, including geopolitical, theological, and geographical treatises, visual art, maps and globes, as well as relevant theoretical texts. It provides resources for students interested in current debates in environmentalism as well as for those seeking to understand religious dimensions of colonial imaginaries in the Americas.
Spring 2026 Graduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Mon, Jan 26, 2026