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OEB 10

Foundations of Biological Diversity

An integrated approach to the diversity of life, emphasizing how chemical, physical, genetic, ecological and geologic processes contribute to the origin and maintenance of biological diversity.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Life Sciences Physical Sciences Courses
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
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.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Life Sciences Physical Sciences Courses
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences 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
CHEM 100R

Environmental Chemistry and Chemical Biology

A project-based course, where groups of 2–4 students engage in synthetic organic or bioanalytical chemistry research. Students are introduced to experimental problems encountered in the synthesis, isolation, purification, characterization, and identification of potentially therapeutic organic compounds.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Physical Sciences 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
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Not Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Engineering Law & Policy Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024