GPH 354 - Salem’s Trading Partners

3 Credit(s)

Students enrolled in Salem’s Trading Partners will explore the world through the eyes of Salem’s merchants as they sought exotic goods in the richest ports of the Orient. Primary source materials including ship logs, account books, letters, diaries, and maps from a corpus of material that each student will use to design an individualized research project. The course will include research of local institutions as well as trips to major museums. In all, students will have the chance to see Salem and, by extension, America in relation to the world at the time current American views began to take shape. Offered as a Summer Institute only. Three lecture hours per week. Not open to students who have received credit for GGR353.