Fisheries Management Certificate (CERT)	Print Version
	College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences

Graduate Certificate in Fisheries Management

Oregon State University’s Graduate Certificate in Fisheries Management integrates diverse approaches and perspectives to find effective solutions for complex fisheries management problems at all levels, local to international.

Certificate Overview:

Current Graduate Students: You must notify the Marine Resource Management program of your intention to pursue this certificate. Upon consultation with MRM faculty, you will be given instructions regarding listing courses on your program of study and obtaining the required signature for that form.

For more information, please contact COAS Student Services: student_advisor@coas.oregonstate.edu or 541-737-5188.

Professionals and other students: You must notify the Marine Resources Management program of your intention to pursue this certificate.

Please contact COAS Student Programs at student_advisor@coas.oregonstate.edu or 541-737-5188.

The certificate requires:

• A capstone project (applying knowledge and skills to a fisheries management issue)
• Two courses from the human dimensions area
• Two courses from the marine fisheries science area
  or
• Two courses from the freshwater fisheries science area.
• For further information, please contact COAS Student Programs at student_advisor@coas.oregonstate.edu or 541-737-5188.

For the ONLINE/E-CAMPUS option, please see Ecampus and contact Lisa Pierson at lpierson@coas.oregonstate.edu or 541-737-8637.

For the ON-CAMPUS option, please refer to the following:

Capstone project

Human Dimensions Subject Area

Select 2 courses for at least 6 credits from below:
ANTH 581. Natural Resources and Community Values (4)
AREC 534. Environmental and Resource Economics (3)
COMM 540. Theories of Conflict and Conflict Management (3)
COMM 542. Bargaining and Negotiation Processes (3)
COMM 544. Third Parties in Dispute Resolution: Mediation/Arbitration (3)
COMM 546. Communication in International Conflict and Disputes (3)
FW 515. Fisheries and Wildlife Law and Policy (3)
FW 620. Ecological Policy (3)
MRM 521. Ocean Law (3)
MRM 530. Principles and Practice of Marine Resource Management (3)
MRM 535. Rights-based Fisheries Management (3)
PS 575. Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
PS 576. Science and Politics (4)
PS 577. International Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
SOC 580. Environmental Sociology (4)
SOC 581. Society and Natural Resources (4)

Select one of the two following concentrations:

Marine Fisheries Concentration

Select 2 courses for at least 6 credits from below:
FW 520. Ecology and Management of Marine Fishes (3)
FW 531. Dynamics of Marine Biological Resources (4)
FW 554. Fishery Biology (5)
FW 564. Marine Conservation Biology (3)
FW 565. Marine Fisheries (4)
FW 573. Fish Ecology (4)
FW 574/OC 574. Early Life History of Fishes (4)
FW 597. Aquaculture (3)
FW 599. Special Topics/Fisheries Stock Assessment (2 or 4)
OC 540. Biological Oceanography (3)

Freshwater Fisheries Concentration

Select 2 courses for at least 6 credits from below:
FE 530. Watershed Processes (4)
FW 521. Aquatic Biological Invasions (4)
FW 545. Ecological Restoration (4)
FW 554. Fishery Biology (5)
FW 556. Limnology (5)
FW 571. Environmental Physiology of Fishes (4)
FW 573. Fish Ecology (4)
FW 579. Wetlands and Riparian Ecology (3)
FW 580. Stream Ecology (3)
TOX 555. Ecotoxicology: Aquatic Ecosystems (3)

Total=18 credits

Other courses may be substituted upon approval of the Certificate Director.