The maritime realm hosts some of humanity’s most dramatic stories, powerful technologies, and grandest aesthetic and literary achievements. Global oceans and rivers also witness some of humans’ worst acts of pollution, criminality, and destruction.
Maritime Studies explores the long and sometimes troubled relationships between people, water, and other forms of marine life. Through rigorous training in Anthropology, Economics, English, Geography, History, and Political Science and with an emphasis on interdisciplinary and experiential education, students engage global maritime and coastal issues, traditions, and problems.
Along with Avery Point’s Marine Sciences Department, Maritime Studies highlights the social and cultural side of the human/water relationship—the foundations needed to find inspiration, solve problems, and craft a future for Earth’s oceans and rivers.
