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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
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
SES 5326

Housing and Urbanization in the United States

This course examines housing as both an individual concern and an object of policy and planning. It is intended to provide those with an interest in urban policy and planning with a broad background on why housing matters and how its unique attributes a) give rise to certain policy and planning challenges and b) should shape how practitioners respond to these challenges.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
IGA 413M

The Energy-Climate Transition

This module will look at the challenges and opportunities associated with options to transition economies toward relying on low and zero-carbon energy sources to mitigate global climate change.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy 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
EH 213

Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice-Focusing on Solutions

Human health and the health of our planet are inextricably linked and they can be mutually beneficial. However, our planet’s health and our health are at risk
Fall 2024 Graduate Available Public Health & Medicine Courses
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Physical Sciences Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
API 170

Managing Climate Change Risks: Information, Incentives, and Institutions

Decision-makers – including individuals, businesses, civil society, and policymakers – are undertaking an array of strategies to manage the risks posed by a changing climate. This course explores how information, incentives, and institutions influence the actions taken by decision-makers.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024
PRO 7445

Urban Stack: Practice Methods for a Complex World

This course addresses the practice of design as it inevitably confronts and interacts with infrastructures of policy, technology, and finance.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Courses
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.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Business Law & Policy 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
SES 5206

Land Use and Environmental Law

Through lectures, discussions, readings, and a written exercise, this course provides students with a working knowledge of land use laws and environmental laws, the institutions that create, implement, and review them, and the issues that swirl around them.
Fall 2024 Graduate Undergraduate Available Design & Architecture Law & Policy Courses
Tue, Sep 3, 2024