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21A.525 | Fall 2025 | Undergraduate

# Oceans and Us

### Requirements

Students will write three 1500–1800 word papers. Each paper represents 25% of the subject grade.

#### Paper One (due Session 4)

Write a paper about a memory you have of an ocean experience and employ class readings to reflect upon it.

#### Paper Two (due Session 8)

Write a paper about a movie we have not watched in class about some aspect of oceanic life that interests you and examine it using whichever class texts seem most germane.

#### Paper Three (due Session 12)

Write a paper about an ocean organism and, using readings from the class, explore its human meanings and consider how it may be affected by climate change.

## Course Info

### Instructor

- Prof. Stefan Helmreich

### Departments

- Anthropology

### As Taught In

Fall 2025

### Level

Undergraduate

### Topics

- Science
  - Earth Science
    - Climate Studies
    - Environmental Science
    - Oceanography
- Social Science
  - Anthropology
    - Cultural Anthropology
    - Social Anthropology

### Learning Resource Types

auto_stories Readings
assignment Written Assignments

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