Courses taken by both undergraduate and graduate students in Marine Science may be offered through the Biology Department, the Department of Earth and Environment, or the Marine Program. To see how these courses fit within the Marine Science Major and Minor, and for the most up to date course listings, please visit the CAS Bulletin. Please see below for detailed information on Introductory Marine Science courses, Marine Breadth courses, and Marine Semester courses.
Summer
CAS EE 144: Intro to Oceanography
CAS BI 260: Marine Biology
CAS MR 533: Scientific Diving
Fall – Standard Classes
CAS EE 144: Intro to Oceanography
CAS EE 310: Climate and the Environment
CAS EE 505: Geographic Information Systems
Fall – Marine Semester Classes
Block 1
(EE543) Estuaries and Nearshore Systems
(EE 544) Coastal Sedimentology
(BI546) Marine Megafaunal Ecology
(MR 533) Scientific Diving
Block 2
(BI/EE523) Marine Urban Ecology
(EE/BI591) Bio-optical Oceanography
(EE542) Coastal Ecosystems
(BI 531) Ichthyology
Block 3
(BI/EE578) Marine Geographic Information Systems
(ES/BI593) Marine Physiology and Climate Change
(BI 541) Coral Reef Restoration and Resilience
(BI/EE 562) Tropical Seagrass Ecology
Block 4
(BI548) Marine Microbe Microscopy
(BI 511) Ecology of Coral Reef Fishes
(BI569) Tropical Marine Invertebrates
(MR 521) Quantitative Fisheries Analysis
Spring
CAS BI 260: Marine Biology
CAS BI 303: Evolutionary Ecology
CAS BI 413: Microbial Ecology
CAS BI 509: Metapopulation Ecology **
CAS BI 519: Theoretical Evolution Ecology**
CAS BI 550: Marine Genomics
CAS BI 500: Biology of Sharks
CAS BI 586: Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics**
CAS EE 142: Beach & Shoreline Processes
CAS EE 351: Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography
CAS EE 360: Introduction to Physical Oceanography
CAS EE 371: Introduction to Geochemistry
CAS EE 422: Aquatic Optics and Remote Sensing
CAS EE 423: Marine Biogeochemistry
CAS EE 507: Dynamical Oceanography**
CAS EE 533: Quantitative Geomorphology
CAS AR 518: Zooarchaeology
**Offered in alternate years