Gateway to Energy, Climate and Environment

Harvard FAS

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,…