Gateway to Energy, Climate and Environment
ENCE 10
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Description
This is a gateway class to the new Energy, Climate and Environment program. It is jointly taught by three faculty members from SEAS and FAS: physicist Lene Hau, historian Joyce Chaplin, and sociologist Jason Beckfield. The class is case based, with selected large-scale problems that illustrate the complexity and the multi-disciplinary approach needed for solutions to problems of climate change, changing energy demands, and environmental degradation. It will give students the bigger picture, and they will gain a sense of agency - that they can contribute to finding and implementing solutions. And importantly, the class will help students identify the specific aspects of the problems on which they would like to focus in their further studies at Harvard. The class will have lectures and discussion sections, with homework and smaller projects. Students will learn foundational skills and methods as needed to support their understanding and analysis of the cases. They will interact with select guest speakers and learn from peers with different backgrounds but shared interests. The class will end with a capstone project where students will work in small, multi-perspective teams to analyze, discuss, and propose solutions to a real problem.
Course Notes
Primarily for first and second year students.
Not Available for Cross Registration
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