SEA 3740 - Cultural Landscapes and Seascapes: A Sense of Place

(CA-AG, HA-AG, OPGLS-AG) (CU-ITL)

Fall, spring, summer (not offered every year). 3 credits. Letter grades only.

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

SEA faculty.

Field-intensive analysis and documentation of dynamic relationships between nature and culture in specific coastal, island, and ocean places. Apply cultural landscape and related interdisciplinary bio-cultural approaches to place-based environmental studies.

Outcome 1: Students will be able to identify, document, interpret, and prioritize environmental features and characteristics that shape individual maritime cultural landscapes.

Outcome 2: Students will be able to identify place-based human uses of coastal and marine environments and their major ecological and cultural impacts.

Outcome 3: Students will be able to place cultural products such as art, oral and written stories, architecture, and knowledge systems in larger coastal and marine cultural landscape contexts.