Proposing Faculty Member: Henry Scott
Category: Common Core
Component: The Natural World
Description: Our world’s oceans have elicited fear, balanced against human curiosity, for all of recorded history; remarkably, this continues to today because they are so vast and much remains unknown. From our earliest attempts to fish from their shores, to modern efforts to harness tidal energy, we have recognized the extraordinary value contained within the oceans, yet only in relatively recent history has it become clear that, despite their vastness, our activities can, and are, having a deleterious effect on them. In this course we will take an interdisciplinary approach to explore not just the science of oceanography and how the oceans are changing in response to human activities, but the historical progression of how we have explored and exploited Earth’s oceans.