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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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MOD-HEB 241R

Israeli Cinema and Culture

The key themes are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, gender dynamics, climate and environmental issues, religion and secularism, Holocaust remembrance, and Israeli collective memory and trauma, all through the prism of Israeli documentary filmmaking.
Fall 2024 Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HIST 186

Moral Economy

This course offers a historical exploration of the concept of moral economy and illuminates the enduring tensions around economic justice, mutual aid, and social responsibility. From regulation of commerce and credit to debates around slavery, colonialism, and environmental risks, this course will investigate the ethical frameworks that have shaped economic life for centuries.
Fall 2025 Undergraduate Not Available Art & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
ADV 9641

Proseminar in Landscape Architecture

How do we understand a landscape? This proseminar explores epistemologies that constitute the field of landscape architecture.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
VIS 2484

Interdisciplinary Art and Design Practices

Amid the climate emergency, escalating militarized conflicts, peak armament, and rapid technological advancements, we must reimagine visions, strategies, and pragmatic processes to foster new forms of collaboration that prioritize care for both others and the planet.This semester, in dialogue with the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) and the Vienna Art Academy PhD group led by Prof. Elke Krasny, the seminar will explore the themes of “Dark Matter” and “Design with Care”—both in theory and practice—by examining the diverse impacts and residues of atomic, nuclear, and quantum physics, ranging from bombs to AI, and considering their related material infrastructures, including mines, power plants, and waste facilities.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
HISTSCI 2985, IGA 513.

Science, Power, and Politics

This seminar introduces students to the major contributions of the field of science and technology studies (STS) to the analysis of politics and policymaking in democratic societies.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Engineering Law & Policy Life Sciences Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HIST-LIT 90GF

Marx at the Mall: Consumer Culture & Its Critics

In response to climate change, some experts suggest the key to our survival is curbing mass consumption and working toward a “no-growth” economic model. Yet consumption levels continue to rise globally. We can’t stop ourselves from buying more stuff. To help us better understand why, this course traces the rise of mass consumer culture in modern Europe from the 19th century industrial revolution to the late twentieth century.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 141

Finance

Climate finance, development finance, infrastructure finance, municipal finance, international finance, banking, housing finance, corporate finance, investments, and financial regulation are all functions and applications of finance. This course provides the financial concepts, techniques, and instruments that are essential to understand, utilize and contribute to any of these areas.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy Courses
Thu, Sep 4, 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 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HDS 2799

The Empire of Climate: Ideas, Religions and Histories

In his famous treatise, The Spirit of the Laws (1748) the French philosophe, Montesquieu, stated that ‘the empire of the climate is the first, the most powerful of all empires.’ The impact of climate on the human condition, past, present, and future, is one of the great issues of our time.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Art & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
API 205

Politics and Policies: What Is the Impact of Data and AI?

Data and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing our world.. Intended for leaders, this course introduces statistics and machine learning and what they can tell us about global challenges. Using case studies on justice and policing, elections and polling, behavioral economics, development, climate change, education, and health, we analyze research design, regression, and project evaluation, and compare the perspective of ethics.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Engineering Law & Policy Courses
Thu, Sep 4, 2025
PORTUG 20

Intermediate Portuguese I: Justice, Equity and Rights in the Lusophone world

In this intermediate-level language course, you will explore social justice issues related to education, labor, environment and sustainability, race, gender, migration, among other topics of relevance in Lusophone countries nowadays.
Fall 2025 Graduate Undergraduate Available Art & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 2, 2025
ANE 109

First Civilizations: History and Archaeology of the Ancient Near East

The course emphasizes various themes including urbanism, climate change and human responses, conflict, migrations and refugees, cultural exchange, the development of writing, literary traditions, and religious innovations.
Fall 2024 Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024