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Internship (Non-Thesis) Option
| Master of Science in Fisheries & Mariculture |
Students choose the internship option if they prefer exposure to a wide range of areas in mariculture. This option develops a student's managerial skills and mariculture techniques through a broad internship experience. Courses are listed below; a semester-by-semester schedule is also available.
Important Note: Laboratory Safety Seminar (SMTE 0091) is a co-requisite course for all courses in the Department of Life Sciences that have a laboratory component.
Mariculture Courses, Internship Option (5000-sequence):
| Course # | Course Title | SCH |
| MARI 5102 | Graduate Research Seminar | 1 |
| MARI 5312 | Mariculture Techniques | 3 |
| MARI 5314 | Aquatic Animal Nutrition | 3 |
| MARI 5315 | Diseases and Parasites of Aquatic Organisms | 3 |
| MARI 5322 | Aquaculture Economics | 3 |
| MARI 5370 | Mariculture | 3 |
| MARI 5398 | Internship (offered in 3-hr blocks; taken 3 times) | 9 |
| MARI 5421 | Chemistry of Natural Waters | 4 |
| MARI 5436 | Marine Ecological Processes | 4 |
| Approved Support Course | 3 |
Elective courses chosen from the following suggestions will give the student a strong knowledge base that can be broad or focused on one area. Courses in related fields may be selected with consent of the major advisor(s). Elective courses are subject to change and some may not be offered every semester.
Mariculture Electives (5000-sequence):
| Course # | Course Title | SCH |
| MARI 5432 | Aquatic System Design | 4 |
| MARI 5590 | Selected Topics | 1-5 |
| MARI 5596 | Directed Independent Study | 1-5 |
Graduate Biology Electives (5000-sequence):
| Course # | Course Title | SCH |
| BIOL 5202 | Coral Reef Field Studies | 2 |
| BIOL 5301 | Coral Reef Systems | 3 |
| BIOL 5335 | Aquatic Microbiology | 3 |
| BIOL 5409 | Field and Laboratory Methods | 4 |
| BIOL 5412 | Ecology of Fresh Waters | 4 |
| BIOL 5415 | Biology of Estuarine Organisms | 4 |
| BIOL 5417 | Microbial Ecology | 4 |
| BIOL 5431 | Phycology | 4 |
| BIOL 5432 | Biology of Fishes | 4 |
| BIOL 5437 | Ecology of Marine Plants | 4 |
| BIOL 5590 | Special Topics | 1-5 |
