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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
HLS 8038

Food Law and Policy Clinic

The Food Law and Policy Clinic of Harvard Law School (FLPC) provides students with the opportunity to practice using legal and policy tools in order to address the health, environmental, and economic impacts of our food system.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
HISTSCI 1410

Health and Climate Crises: A History

Physicians and epidemiologists have already begun to document the adverse health effects of global warming. The myriad impacts are only going to get worse. While these specific health threats are new, concerns about health and the environment have ancient origins. This course will explore the long history of theorizing about the impact of the environment on health, paying particular attention to changing climates: what happens when people travel to new climates, and what happens when a place’s climate changes. Topics range from health in the ancient world to modern theories of planetary health.
Fall 2024 Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 105

International Law and Global Justice

Can international law be a tool for promoting global justice? This course will explore diverse issues, including: Can environmental law help reduce climate change and provide justice for climate refugees?
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 355

Migration, Refugees, and Human Rights

This course will focus on distress migration, including refugee flight and other forms of forced displacement, evaluated through the lens of human rights. It will address the multifaceted drivers of the phenomenon, including the enduring legacies of colonization, armed conflict, environmental stress and climate change, global inequality, demographic pressures and increasing globalization.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
DES 3241

Theories of Landscape as Urbanism

This course introduces contemporary theories of landscape as a medium of urbanism and product of urbanization.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SCI 6374

Advanced Applications in Sustainable Architecture

This elective seminar will provide a deeper dive into issues of evidence-based, high-performance, ecological building design.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 205

Politics and Policies: The Impact of Data and AI

Supporting leaders to make data-based decisions, we first investigate the current role of data and AI. International and US case studies on elections, polling, climate change, economic development, education, public health, corruption, autonomous vehicles, justice and policing provide a powerful range of insights.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
DEV 309

Development Policy Strategy

This capstone course explores a wide array of theoretical and analytical tools to help policy makers diagnose, prioritize and address development challenges at a national or sub-national level.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Arts & Humanities Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024

Indigenous Philosophies for the Technological Age

Topics we explore through the lens of indigenous philosophies include attitudes towards nature; views on technology generally; the Anthropocene; traditional ecological knowledge; artificial intelligence; genome-editing; geo-engineering; human rights; and the meaning of life. Engaging with indigenous perspectives on these matters is likely to have a transformative effect on how one approaches the big questions of the 21st century.
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Education Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SES 5456

Climate Change, Real Estate, and Public Policy [Module 1]

In this interdisciplinary course, students will analyze urban development projects and policies in the United States and internationally. They will develop recommendations for how these organizations could better integrate climate change considerations into their work. Through lectures, discussions, interviews, mentorship chats, and guest speakers, students will explore topics such as building retrofits, strategic relocation, revised land use regulations, grey and green infrastructure, building-scale emissions limits, energy efficiency retrofits, renewable energy deployment, and building electrification.
Fall 2024 Graduate 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