From the earliest metaphors of the mysterious and unknowable ocean to contemporary indigenous movements for the rights of rivers, water has shaped the human imagination and experience. This course introduces students to the "blue humanities," a
transdisciplinary engagement with the oceans, rivers, and other bodies of water. Students will examine the ocean as frontier and archive, rivers as modes of movement and power, and other bodies of water as reaffirming or disappearing repositories of culture and landscape.
