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MHS-ENGLISH/HISTORY 185 UCONN ECE-MAST 195 MARITIME STUDIES Why is our relationship with the sea important?

How and why has it changed throughout history? What do we need to do in the future to preserve this relationship?

Ms. Wendy Halsey –English Mr. Michael Marelli – History

Fall and Spring Semesters of 2009-2010 Classrooms 210 and 207 Office Hours: Every Tuesday from2:20to3:30 Every Thursday from2:20 to3:30

Through reading, discussion, seminars, filed trips and lectures, we will explore the literary and historical topics from a variety of perspectives. These will include ethnic, gender, historical, religious, political, intellectual and economic.
 * Course Description ** : ECE Maritime Studies is an interdisciplinary course designed for students who are ready for the demands and rigor of a college course in their senior year. The curriculum will be a thematic approach to exploration of the sea and the literature that has arisen from people’s relationship to it. Throughout history, the sea has served as a highway, a source of food, and an arena for warfare and a stage for discovery. This course will explore Maritime History with attention to international linkages afforded by the ocean. Students will consider the literature that resulted as humans interacted with the ocean along with art, music, photography and film. The course is designed as a general education credit for UCONN, but also an Introduction to Maritime Studies offered at Avery Point Campus of UCONN.

Class Participation Written assignments of various lengths and genres Presentations Formal Written Evaluative Exercises Exhibitions
 * Course Requirements **:

Many classes will involve discussion of readings, lectures, films and reflections. Participation is absolutely mandatory. Many of the issues will be controversial which will require open minds, civil manners, and a willingness to shift perspectives with new ideas. Often, homework will require a preparation for discussion, so it is essential that you complete assignments on time.. Participation will be a part of your grade.
 * Class Participation: **

These will include persuasive and argumentative essays, literary analysis, journal entries, letter writing, poetry, character analysis, speech writing and narratives. Field trips are considered a required part of this course. These will include visit to the Mystic Seaport, various battlefields and war sites in the local area,New London waterfront,StoningtonVillage,BostonHarbor, the Nautilus and others to be determined. A written assignment will accompany each visitation which will be a part of your grade.
 * Written Assignments **:
 * Field Trips: **

Presentations will occur twice during the year. This does not include your final Exhibition. These will usually be a collaborative effort between small groups of students. Everyone is invited to use whatever level of technology they are comfortable with, but students should also challenge themselves to try a new technique or software. The presentations will be multi-faceted incorporating a variety of mediums including music, poetry, speech, a visual component and/or culinary.
 * Presentations: **

At the end of each quarter, students will be required to take a written evaluative exercise on the ideas and the content which has been covered in class and in readings. These will be open ended questions, identify and analysis and a reflection of learning.
 * Formal Written Evaluative Exercises: **

The culminating activity of this course will be a project which expresses the students’ understanding of content and an ability to create their own definition of our relationship with the sea. Students are invited to develop projects which are based on their individual strengths and talents> Students are invited to UConn Avery Point to share their exhibits. People and Boundaries
 * Exhibition: **
 * Required Readings **:

//Life of Pi// by Yann Martell ( Summer Reading) //Longitude// by Dava Sobel //The Tempest// by William Shakespeare //Ishmael// by Daniel Quinn //In the Heart of the Sea// by Nathaniel Philbrick //Captain’s Courageous// by Rudyard Kipling //Old Man and the Sea// by Ernest Hemingway //The Hungry Oceans// by Linda Greenlaw //The Caine Mutiny// by Herman Wouk //The Shipping News// by Annie Proulx

Americaand the Sea by Labaree and Fowler (students are not required to buy this text, we will supply articles from it.)

Excerpts, short stories, and choice books include; //Mayflower// by Nathaniel Philbrick //Billy Budd// by Herman Melville //Moby Dick// by Herman Melville //Rime of the Ancient Mariner// by Samuel Taylor Coleridge //Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano// //Ahab’s Wife// by Jarling //Fishing Out of Stonington// //Cod// and //Salt// by Kurlansky //Two Years Before the Mast// by Richard Henry Dana //Cruise of the Snark// by Jack London //The Nigger and Narcissus// by Joseph Conrad //Tales of the South Seas// by Robert Michener