SEA 3620 - Maritime History and Culture

(CA) (HA) (CU-ITL)

Fall, spring, summer. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Corequisites required. Refer to SEA Semester program descriptions at www.sea.edu. Offered in Woods Hole, MA and at sea.

SEA faculty.

Explore impacts of European maritime ventures on the societies they contacted in the Atlantic or Pacific, with focus on the resulting social, political, economic, and cultural changes. Investigate responses documented in the post-Colonial literature of indigenous people.

Outcome 1: Students will write an expository paper that takes them from a primary source through the research process, and make additional observations at port stops during the sea component.