What You'll Learn
This certificate is designed to give students a focused understanding of the fundamentals of finfish and shellfish biology in applied animal husbandry, as relevant to fisheries and hatchery operations of the Pacific Northwest region. Curriculum covers the animals’ biology as well as environmental quality impacts on their health and ours. Students will also learn about the significance of marine resources to indigenous stewards of the lands and waters.
Students will gain hands-on experience through labs, fieldwork, and an internship. Internships may include commercial, non-profit, and government (tribal and at multiple institutional levels) opportunities.
Certificate Prerequisites
Students need at least 8 credits of college-level biology, with lab, before taking the science courses of this certificate. Evergreen typically offers General Biology courses in the Fall and Summer quarters.
Email certificates@evergreen.edu if you have questions about this prerequisite.
Certificate Coursework
This certificate consists of 36 undergraduate level credits.
Core courses can be taken in any order:
Marine Animal Life Cycles and Development - Fall quarter, 4 credits*
Marine Animal Nutrition - Winter quarter, 4 credits*
Indigenous Stewardship of Marine Resources in the Pacific Northwest - Winter quarter, 4 credits
Marine Fisheries and Human Health - Spring quarter, 8 credits*
Registration of the final course can be done after the completion of the first 12 credits:
Marine Bioresources Certificate Internship - Springor Summerquarter, 16 credits
Learn more about courses in the Academic Catalog
*To earn this certificate, students are required to earn upper division science credit in Marine Animal Life Cycles and Development, Marine Animal Nutrition, and Marine Fisheries and Human Health. Upper-division science credit is considered junior-senior college level work. Other colleges/universities often use course numbers 300-499 to signify that a course is upper-division. While you may be eligible to receive upper division credit in Marine Bioresources Certificate Internship, it is not required to earn the certificate.