MNST

o Core Courses (2 courses for 6 credits) Course # Course Completed

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

3 class hours, 3 credits. This course examines the history and growth of American commercial shipping and its influence on foreign policy and economic development. The course also will examine how the American merchant marine industry helped shape the nation’s emergence as a world power. Commercial shipping’s role in the development of the American colonies, the effects of commercial shipping (including privateering) on the American Revolution and subsequent wars, relevant admiralty and salvage law, marine insurance, continued challenges faced by American shipbuilders and the critical role of organized labor in the American shipping industry will be examined. [Spring]

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001.

3 class hours, 3 credits. A course exploring the major sea battles that have affected American history and culture, from 1500 to the present. The evolution and innovation of naval weapons, new types of warships and novel tactics of the opposing ships’ commanders will be examined, as well as the military, commercial and diplomatic context that brought about each battle, and its effect on America’s rise as a world power. [Fall]

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001.

3 class hours, 3 credits. This course examines American maritime culture and fiction from the invention of the American sea narrative to modernist experimentation. We will be reading some of the greatest writers in American literature including James Fenimore Cooper, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, and Ernest Hemingway. 2025-26 Graduate Course Descriptions 3

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001

Elective Courses (7 courses for 21 credits *) Course # Course Completed * Students may take up to 3 approved TMGT courses o Capstone Course (1 course for 3 credits) Course # Course Completed

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

3 class hours, 3 credits. Maritime music traditions exist in most of the world’s cultures, and their meanings vary widely. In Music of the Sea we will investigate maritime music from North America, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia. We will examine shantying traditions, maritime work songs, water legends, boatmen’s, fishermen’s, whalers’ and sailors’ songs, making connections across cultures in musical and lyric content.

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001.

3 class hours, 3 credits. The course will investigate political, legal, economic, environmental and other issues related to the oceans. It will identify how the need for resources has motivated the formation of national and international organization policy. The course will also include the study of the law of the sea as well as case studies of particular flashpoints, such as disputes concerning straits, the continental shelf and fisheries management.

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001.

3 class hours, 3 credits. The rise of Greece and the dominance of Rome as major powers, the virtual control of world commerce by the British Navy in the 19th century, and the outcomes of the major wars of the 20th century have all pivoted on decisive military and naval battles. This course will explore military and political context as well as the ships, sailors, weapons, and tactics involved in the major sea battles that dramatically altered world history, from ancient times to the present.

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001.

3 class hours, 3 credits. This course studies 6 plays of Shakespeare, emphasizing their reflection of and contributions to European and global cultural perceptions of the sea. Each play will be read alongside maritime cultural and literary theoretical models. Topics may include: 2025-26 Graduate Course Descriptions 4

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

3 class hours, 3 credits. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, eleven million Africans were enslaved and forced to cross the Atlantic Ocean. This course is an investigation of the cultural, commercial and literary history of that journey, which came to be known as the Middle Passage. Reading a wide range of works, we will think about the role of the archive in the study of history, and the limitations of evidence-based methods of historiography in the special case of the Middle Passage. In turning to literature as a legitimate source of historical knowledge, we will also ask how we know and what we cannot know.

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001.

3 Class Hours, 3 Credits This course is an intensive study of the early modern pirates, privateers and wreckers of Western Europe; however, attention is also given to additional eras and similar struggles in the Middle East and Asia, allowing students to gain an understanding of a timeless, global phenomenon. An investigation into these archetypal outlaws and their practices (both in fact and in fiction) reveals central tensions in the economic, naval, political and ethical debates of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and their influence on our own contemporary systems.

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001.

3 class hours, 3 credits Engineers, admirals, traders, statesmen, and propagandists all make use of visual representations of ships, but for different reasons and in different ways. This course will consider how these motives intersect with the pictorial and graphic conventions of different major maritime cultures, surveying the history of marine and nautical art from ancient times up through the 20th century, concentrating chiefly on the modern period of global trade and conquest and the heyday of maritime art in the 17th-19th centuries.

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

3 class hours, 3 credits. This course studies the intersection of Environmental Humanities, Archival Theory and Practice, and Digital Humanities. It foregrounds the challenges – pragmatic, aesthetic, and ethical – of deciding how and what can be saved in the face of climate change, ecological pressure, and sea level rise. Students will work with documents in both physical archives and digital collections.

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001.

3 class hours, 3 credits While monsters in general have long held an important place in the human psyche, maritime monsters -- those creatures lurking in the deep -- pose a special threat and offer a distinct thrill. Submersed beneath the waters, these monsters are brought to the surface on maps, in literature, through artistic endeavor, and via scientific research. Sea monsters, figurative and literal can be read as, amongst other possibilities: etiological and enigmatic explanations; natural and anthropogenic dangers; internal and external fears. Thus, this course explores depictions of maritime monsters across a range of disciplines: cartography, history, art, literature, and science. It takes a broad approach to the study of maritime monsters, utilizing a wide array of theoretical frameworks to examine, analyze, and interpret their meaning(s).

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001.

MNST 8250 Government Transportation/Environmental Policy (Cross-listed as TMGT 8250)*

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Alias

TMGT 8250

3 class hours, 3 credits. Special topics and issues for qualified students interested in acquiring a broader knowledge of Maritime and Naval Studies.

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001.

3 class hours, 3 credits. An introduction to the overall structure and design of environmental law in the United States and in the international community. Closer examination of specific cases, statutes and treaties affecting marine transportation, marine natural resources, pollution and development. Consideration of environmental policy impact in a cross-cultural context is also examined. Cross-Listed as TMGT 8250

Subject

MNST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

Corequisite

MNST 6001or TMGT 6001.

Alias

TMGT 8250

* Corequisite: TMGT 6001 or MNST 6001; no prerequisites 2025-26 Graduate Degree Curricula

Subject

MNST

Credits (min)

5

Credits (max)

5

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu

TOTAL CREDITS: 31 2025-26 Graduate Degree Curricula

Subject

MNST

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.sunymaritime.edu