Tue, Sep 3, 2024
CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABILITY
COURSES
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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EH 213
Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice-Focusing on Policy and Solutions
In this class, we will focus on the ways in which climate change impacts human health and discuss approaches to quantify and mitigate these impacts at the local, state, national, and global levels. You will have the opportunity to monitor, measure, and analyze climate change associated data relevant to human health such as air pollution and temperature with devices we provide. You will also meet policy makers, community leaders, and community members who are addressing climate change impacts on human health. The overarching goal of the course is to critically discuss the health outcomes of energy production and climate change impacts on food, water, air, soil, food systems, and e-waste through the lens of social justice and health equity.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
DES 3348
The Idea of Environment
The environment is the milieu in which designers and planners operate. The class will explore how and what new approaches to representation, visualization, and measurement might lead to different relations 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
HIS 4487
Plants of Ritual: Creating a Spiritual Connection to the Designed Landscape
The seminar aims to investigate and catalog plants that have a spiritual/emotional value to the public and individuals in the designed landscape.
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.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 165
Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy
This course applies economic tools to understand the rationale, design, and evaluation of public policies focused on energy and environmental problems.
Tue, Sep 3, 2024