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Maritime History

Course Outline
Instructor
Dr. William Leavenworth

Course Overview:
This course offers a brief introduction to New England maritime history and its role in the coastal environment, both natural and human. More than that, it offers each of you a chance to add some new tools to your mental toolbox--tools that you may find useful in other endeavours unrelated to maritime history.

These are the things that I want you to take away from this course:

  • A basic knowledge of the maritime history of New England, from1630 to 1930, including some fundamental dates and trends.
  • An understanding of how the maritime industries and the coastal environment have affected each other during that time.
  • A reasonable prognosis of the options available to those who will work in New England's maritime environment in the foreseeable future.
  • A familiarity with some of the relevant literature, both fiction and non- fiction, that concerns this subject.
  • Sufficient awareness of the primary sources concerning this field that you know where to go for solid background information should you wish to do further research.
  • A familiarity with the concept of the prŽcis, and an ability to write one.
  • An ability to express yourself in concise, clear, English, and to develop an argument both verbally and in writing.
  • A working familiarity with some of the tools pertinent to this trade, which you may find useful in some other endeavor in the next fifty years.
    • The course covers over three centuries in just fifteen classes, so you will have great difficulty getting a respectable grade if you cut any lectures. You are permitted one cut without a doctor's excuse or a severed limb to show for it.

    Grading:


    Text and Readings:

    Reserve Readings: TBA

    Reading Assignments:
    The reading assigments are an essential part of this class. Come to class having read the assigned chapters from the text, and prepared to discuss them.

    Academic Honesty:
    Students must read the Marine Studies Consoirutm Academic Policy regarding student responsibilities.

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    Course Syllabus
    Lecture Topic Readings
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    Week 3
    Week 4
    Week 5
    Week 6
    		TBA
    Week 7
    Week 8
    Week 9
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    Week 11
    		TBA
    Week 12

    Week 13
    		TBA
    Week 14 TBA


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