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Additional courses are available through an existing agreement with Old Dominion University’s College of Sciences or the Frank Batten College of Engineering and Technology. Students may petition the School of Marine Science Associate Dean for Academic Affairs to request that these and/or other graduate courses taken outside of Marine Science at William & Mary be used to fulfill elective degree program requirements. Please contact the SMS Registrar for information.

School of Marine Science

Courses

• MSCI 501A - Fundamentals of Marine Science, Physical Oceanography
• MSCI 501B - Fundamentals of Marine Science, Chemical Oceanography
• MSCI 501C - Fundamentals of Marine Geology
• MSCI 501D - Fundamentals of Marine Science, Biological Oceanography
• MSCI 501E - Fundamentals of Aquatic Health
• MSCI 501F - Fundamentals of Marine Fisheries Science
• MSCI 503 - Interdisciplinary Research in Estuarine and Coastal Systems
• MSCI 504 - Fundamentals of Statistical Methods and Data Analysis
• MSCI 506 - Scientific Communication Skills
• MSCI 507 - Responsible Conduct of Research
• MSCI 508 - College Science Teaching
• MSCI 509 - Communicating Science to Diverse Audiences
• MSCI 515 - Marine Science Seminar
• MSCI 521 - Marine Geology
• MSCI 523 - Human Dimensions of Marine Science
• MSCI 529 - Fish Physiology
• MSCI 531 - Introduction to Earth’s Water System: Processes and Modeling
• MSCI 532 - Introduction to Hydrodynamic Model Programming
• MSCI 534 - Disease in Marine Systems
• MSCI 548 - Special Topics in Marine Science
• MSCI 550 - Rivers: Processes and Problems
• MSCI 551 - Directed Readings in Shellfish Aquaculture
• MSCI 552A - Shellfish Aquaculture in Practice: Chesapeake Bay
• MSCI 552B - Shellfish Aquaculture in Practice: New Perspectives
• MSCI 553 - Introduction to Benthic Boundary Layers and Sediment Transport
• MSCI 554 - Principles of Numerical Computing
• MSCI 555 - Marine Resource Economics
• MSCI 556 - Statistics & Data Science
• MSCI 559 - Parasitology
• MSCI 560A - Bivalve Shellfish Aquaculture: Biology & Production
• MSCI 560B - Bivalve Shellfish Aquaculture: Environmental Interactions
• MSCI 560C - Bivalve Shellfish Aquaculture: Economics & Policy
• MSCI 561 - Intro to R and Coding with AI
• MSCI 562 - Environmental Pollution
• MSCI 567 - Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) and Toxins
• MSCI 568 - Crustacean Health Issues
• MSCI 571 - Marine Ecology
• MSCI 574 - Phytoplankton Ecology
• MSCI 575 - Aquatic Microbial Ecology
• MSCI 583 - Molecular Genetic Data Analysis, Bioinformatics
• MSCI 597 - Internship in Marine Science
• MSCI 598 - Capstone Research in Marine Science
• MSCI 599 - Thesis
• MSCI 602 - Unstructured-grid Modeling for Ocean and Estuaries
• MSCI 611 - Estuarine Hydrodynamics
• MSCI 615 - Hydrodynamic Modeling of Estuarine and Coastal Waters
• MSCI 617 - Estuarine Water Quality Models
• MSCI 620A - Coastal Environments I
• MSCI 620B - Coastal Environments II
• MSCI 620C - Coastal Environments of Belize
• MSCI 622 - Holocene Coastal Geomorphology and Evolution
• MSCI 623 - Marshes, Muds and More
• MSCI 626 - Global Ocean Change Biology
• MSCI 631 - Wetland Geomorphology and Ecology
• MSCI 644 - Aquatic Epidemiology
• MSCI 649 - Ecosystem Modeling
• MSCI 650 - Estuarine Ecology
• MSCI 655 - Marine Physiology Ecology
• MSCI 658 - Larval Ecology
• MSCI 663 - Deep-Sea Biology
• MSCI 664 - Marine Conservation Biology
• MSCI 666 - Ichthyology
• MSCI 667 - Got Data, Now What? Inference, Experimental Design, and Data Analysis
• MSCI 668 - Malacology
• MSCI 669 - Linear and Generalized Linear Models in Ecology
• MSCI 671 - Fisheries Population Dynamics
• MSCI 672 - Ecology of Fishes
• MSCI 673A - Principles of Molecular Biology
• MSCI 673B - Metagenomics & Bioinformatics (Prokaryotes)
• MSCI 673C - Principles of Molecular & Phylo-genetics (Eukaryotes)
• MSCI 675 - Molecular Microbial Techniques
• MSCI 676 - Bayesian Modeling
• MSCI 679 - Modeling Time Series and Other Dependent Data Structures
• MSCI 687 - Environmental Policy
• MSCI 688 - Marine Policy & Management Seminar
• MSCI 689 - Public Policy for Science & Professions
• MSCI 690 - Bayesian Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling
• MSCI 693 - Environmental Law
• MSCI 694 - Land Use Control
• MSCI 695 - Administrative Law
• MSCI 696 - Distributed Courses in Marine Science
• MSCI 697 - Problems in Marine Science
• MSCI 698 - Special Topics in Marine Science
• MSCI 699 - Dissertation