Tue, Sep 2, 2025
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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Physical Sciences
ESPP 171
Solid Waste In Developing Countries
This course will examine major issues of solid waste (i.e. production, management, storage, treatment, disposal, infrastructure costs and financing, policy) in the developing world at various geographic locations and scales across municipal, industrial, electronic, biological/medical, and radioactive waste.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
E-PSCI 208
Physics of Climate
Overview of the basic features of the climate system (global energy balance, atmospheric general circulation, ocean circulation, and climate variability) and the underlying physical processes.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
STU 1211
Landscape Architecture III: Third Semester Core Studio
This studio will explore the complex environmental and social interests of multiple forms of landscape labor—people at work in working landscapes—through the design of regional frameworks and localized sites in coastal Massachusetts.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 402, E-PSCI 239
The Climate Energy Challenge: A Foundation in Science, Technology and Policy
This course will consider the challenge of climate change and what to do about it. Students will be introduced to the basic science of climate change, including the radiation budget of the Earth, the carbon cycle, and the physics and chemistry of the oceans and atmosphere.
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.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6381
Power||Energy: Mapping the Thickened Ground of Labor
The seminar reckons with the immediate need to upgrade and expand the US electrical power grid system to meet the demands of growing urban communities and recognizes the obligation to engage with the climate crisis.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6121
Environmental Systems 1 [Module 1]
This course is the first of a two-module sequence in building technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6122
Environmental Systems 2 [Module 2]
Purpose: This course is the second of a two-module sequence in building technology (6121, 6122) and constitutes part of the core curriculum in architecture.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
DES 3510
FORESTS: Histories and Future Narratives
The seminar will provide the foundation for a Department of Landscape Architecture exhibition, “Forest Futures,” scheduled for the spring of 2024, which will explore the topic of shade and environmental justice.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
OEB 65
Conservation Biology
Our planet and its biodiversity are in peril. We will begin by exploring the state of the planet and how we got here before focusing on what can still be done to conserve Earth’s remaining biodiversity, considering the biological, societal and ethical considerations of conservation in a changing world.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6372
Circuits, Circles, and Loops: Towards a Regenerative Architecture
This course asks how we design new architectures that fit within the circuits, circles, and loops of a healthy, regenerative material ecology.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024