OCEAN 480: Global Ocean-Human Culture: Past, Present, and Future
[MB advising note]: This course has now been approved to fulfill requirements of the Marine Bio major.
OCEAN 480 GLOBAL OCEAN-HUMAN CULTURE: Past, Present, and Future
Winter Quarter, 2021;
Monday, Wednesday – 12:30 to 1:50 pm,
Friday – 12:30 to 1:20 pm.
Instructor: John R. Delaney,
TA: Anna A. Sulc.
On-line Class
The well being of all life on earth depends on our planetary ocean. The ocean also plays a key role the health of our global economic framework. Yet, most citizens of the world do not appreciate the ocean’s interactive complexity, the diversity of its utility, and its underlying influence on past and present cultural change. The powerful roles the ocean plays in terms of human history, trade, commerce, resources, hazards, science, education, warfare, defense, the arts, entertainment and the modulation of our climate are largely unrecognized by most members of our global society. This course explores and expands on on these and related themes with the goal of developing a broad awareness of the central, myriad, interconnected functions that the global ocean basin plays in our planetary society of nations and individuals.