MAST 263
The Global Ocean: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
Last Offered Spring 2021
Division II
Cross-listed ENVI 263
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

Though it covers most of the planet, the ocean’s importance to everyday life is easy to overlook. Its roles as a cultural symbol, resource, highway, and climate regulator make it essential to life around the world. This interdisciplinary course, team-taught by the faculty of the Williams-Mystic Program, will examine key issues in each of the world’s oceans while introducing students to the ways these issues connect multiple disciplines and transcend physical, political, and imaginary ocean boundaries. By drawing on the expertise of the five professors — from humanities, social sciences, and sciences — this course facilitates the critical study of the ocean from an interdisciplinary perspective and helps them consider their own role in the shifting relationship between humanity and the ocean. This seminar-style course will meet twice a week online, with students assessed by their participation, response papers, and final project, while helping them apply interdisciplinary skills to pressing sustainability issues connecting the environment and society.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 15
Class#: 5020
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: Five 2-page papers, participation, and a 6-8 page final paper
Prerequisites: none, open to all students
Enrollment Preferences: 1. first years, 2. sophomores, 3. MAST concentrators
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENVI 263 Division II MAST 263 Division II
Attributes: ENVI Humanities, Arts + Social Science Electives

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