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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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HLS 2931

Creating Electricity in the U.S.: Exploring the Tradeoffs

In this reading group, we will explore historic and ongoing legal and policy debates about the fuels that power the US electric system.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 141

Finance

This course provides financial concepts, techniques, and instruments that are essential to a variety of applications that include raising debt and equity finance, asset management, climate finance, development finance, financing infrastructure, banking, financial regulation, and risk management.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6502

Advanced Reverse Design and EMBODIED CARBON

At a time when urgent action is needed to avert the climate crisis, it is very difficult to take an idealistic approach when considering key materials in building construction. Designers can play an important role in the race to de-carbonize the built environment and this course will touch on how we got to where we are and how we can move forward in practice with the lessons that we have learned. Through a series of conversations and presentations, including from external experts, we will engage in inversing the design process by utilizing newly available tools. We will demystify regulations, terminology, and popular language, and examine how the predominant materials for construction, which are unlikely to go away soon, can be improved and implemented in design and construction to promote a low carbon economy.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
ADV 9641

Proseminar in Landscape Architecture

How do we understand a landscape? This proseminar explores epistemologies that constitute the field of landscape architecture.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6380

Working Landscapes: Natural Resiliency And Redesign

Topics will include understanding human impacts on natural systems through engineering and design, their consequences, and the use of ecological principles and methods of landscape design and planning to achieve natural restoration, resilience, balance, and sustainability.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6333

Water, Land-Water Linkages, and Aquatic Ecology

This course will provide students with an understanding of water that will inform their professional approaches to landscape architecture, architecture, and planning, and contribute to protecting, improving, restoring, and sustaining water resources.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
VIS 2470

Atmospheric Encounters: Visualizing the Invisible

The course will explore diverse atmospheric conditions with tools, techniques, and design methods for making the invisible visible. The measuring and mapping of atmospheric conditions seeks to redefine the notion of ‘site’ as a lived space of atmospheric encounters through analytical and conceptual approaches integrating drawing, modelling, simulation, and sensing to make visible the invisible thereby reconstituting it as a complex temporal and material manifold of differential space.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6141

Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies I

The goal of the course is to introduce the global potential of plants as a means of design for shaping the character of a place for individual and collective human experience.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HLS 2076

Ethics, Economics and the Law

Explores controversies about the use of markets and market reasoning in areas such as organ sales, procreation, environmental regulation, immigration policy, military service, voting, health care, education, and criminal justice.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SES 5250

Real Estate, Society, Environment

This course examines the emerging context for real estate practice worldwide that measures success not solely by the financial bottom line but also by achievement of beneficial spatial, social, and environmental outcomes.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SES 5347

Urbanization and Development

This course examines the relationship between urbanization and development through a historical and contemporary lens, paying close attention to the ways that the growth and structure of cities have influenced the economic, social, and political prospects of residents and their host nations, as well as vice-versa.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6241

Ecologies, Techniques, Technologies III: Ecology and the Design World

Through lectures, discussions, readings, case studies, and design projects, the goal of this course is to understand the complexity of living systems to integrate it in landscape design.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024