BS General Education Requirements

Students may count courses either for General Education Requirements OR major requirements, not both, except for “W” credits.

Writing Proficiency

Composition

• 5 credits from Approved Composition Courses List

Additional Writing Credits

• 7 Writing (W) credits.
  AFS students will meet the requirement because Fish 210 and all 3 Flagship courses are W courses.

Individuals & Societies (I&S)

10 credits

Law, Policy, or Ethics (3 credits minimum)

• ENVIR/COM 418 (5) Communications and the Environment
• ENVIR/ANTH 459 (5) Culture, Ecology and Politics
• SMA/ENVIR 476 (3) Intro to Environmental Law and Processes
• FISH/SMA 480 (3) Marine Resource Conservation and Management
• FISH/BIOL/ENVIR 478 (3) Topics in Sustainable Fisheries
• AIS 335 (5) American Indians and the Law
• PHIL 112 (5) Philosophical Issues in Environmental Studies
• PHIL 240 (5) Intro to Ethics
• MGMT 200 (5) Intro to Law
• FM 377 (3) Environmental Impact Assessment and Regulation in Forest Resource Management
• ESRM 400 (3) Natural Resource Conflict Management
• Many SMA courses. Check with Adviser

Economics (3 credits minimum)

• ENVIR/ECON 235 (5) Environmental Economics
• FISH/ENVIR 439 (3) Attaining a Sustainable Society
• ECON 200 (5) Intro to Microeconomics
• GEOG 207 (5) Economic Geography
• GEOG 270 (5) Consumption, Nature and Globalization
• Many SMA courses. Check with Adviser.

Visual, Literary, & Performing Arts (VLPA) (10 credits minimum)

Recommended:

• CLAS 205 (3) Bioscientific Vocabulary Building
• COM 220 (5) Introduction to Public Speaking
• SPHSC 100 (5) Voice and Articulation Improvement

Foreign Language

There is no foreign language requirement in the College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, but students who complete a language through the 3rd quarter may count those credits toward the VLPA requirement. Also, students considering exchange programs may want to consider taking a language.

Mathematics and Statistics (15 credits)

2 Quarters Calculus, 1 Quarter Probability and Statistics

Calculus

• Q SCI 291,292 (5,5)
  OR
• MATH 144,145 (5,5)
  OR
• MATH 124,125 (5,5)

Statistics

• Q SCI 381 (5)

Natural World

Biological Sciences

• BIOL 180, 200, 220 (5, 5, 5,)
  To start this series, students must have completed CHEM 152. This series is best undertaken by students who declare their major early (e.g., as a freshman)
  OR
  
• BIOL 161, 162,
  and
  FISH/BIOL 340
  This series is best taken by students who declare late, as there is no chemistry prerequisite. Biol 161,162 is only offered once/year, starting in Autumn Quarters. Fish/Biol 340 is typically offered in Spring Quarter and is usually taken in the junior or senior year.

Ecology (3 credits minimum)

• BIOL 473/474 (3/2) Limnology and Limnology Lab
• BIOL 356 (3) Foundations in Ecology
• FISH 447 (3) Watershed Ecology and Management
• ENVIR 201 (5) Environmental Case Studies: Ecology and Conservation
• FISH 420 (4) Ecology of Marine Fishes

Physical Sciences (11 credits minimum)

Two quarters physics plus one “Physical World” course as follows:

Physics

• PHYS 114,115 (4,4) No lab required.

Physical World (3 credits minimum)

• OCEAN 210 (3) Ocean Circulation
• GEOG 205 (5) Intro to Physical Sciences and the Environment
• ATM S 211 (5) Global Climate Change

Chemistry (15 credits minimum)

• CHEM 142,152,162 (5,5,6) AND CHEM 220 or 223
  OR
• CHEM 120,220,221 (5,5,5)
  This series only offered once/year, starting in Autumn)

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