Lectures for the entire Quarter and a Matrix-like guideline for student projects. developed in THEMES & APPROACHES.
Overview of the Lecture Topics by week during the Winter Quarter - 2018. Students can choose from a host of topics captured in the Arc of the Course (Figure 2) and consider it within the Framework of the Matrix to establish the best way to address the chosen topic.
Figure 1. This illustration shows a six-by-six matrix of topical-thematic material that allows a student to select the intersection of a theme and an approach based on the suite of Lecture Topics listed below. For example, in the case highlighted by the small buff colored box above, the student would focus on Technological Innovation in the world of Trade & Commerce. One excellent recent example of that approach might be the transition of containerized cargo units to handle all materials moved across the world on Container ships - this innovation dramatically changed the economics of shipping goods across the planet by sea and contributed to the growth of Globalization-for better or for worse.
OCEAN 480 GLOBAL OCEAN-HUMAN CULTURE: Past, Present, and Future
Winter Quarter, 2018; Monday, Wednesday - 11:30 to 1:00 pm
John R. Delaney, Room 155 - Ocean Teaching Building; Teaching Assistant: Erik Fredrickson
This course is designed to examine the oceans in a global cultural, scientific, and societal context by looking as far back as 50,000 years and forward several hundred years. It focuses mainly on human beings and their interactions with the ocean on Earth, but explores the potential of discovering life beyond earth. The goal is to enhance the awareness of course participants about the multiple, and at times conflicting, roles the ocean plays in sustaining life as we know it on earth and underpinning our global economy.
