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Oceanic Education

Through its Center for Continuing
Education the University is offering this
semester a unique course-"The Humanities of
the Seas."

It is reputed to be the first such course to be
offered in the United States. The course is
being co-sponsored by the University and the
Oceanic Educational Foundation, and it is
intended to be a pilot effort to introduce the
new discipline of oceanic education into the
American school system.

Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. University president,
is a member of the Oceanic Educational
Foundation.

Classes are being held initially at George
Mason College, the University's affiliate in
northern Virginia.