Approved Courses for the MOP Certificate

The following courses will satisfy the Marine Option Program Certificate credit requirements at UH Mānoa. See the MOP Coordinators for eligible courses at other campuses.

Courses listed with an asterisk ( * ) are variable content courses (for example, a student may choose marine topics for assigned papers or term projects) and must be cleared with the MOP Coordinator or Director before they may be applied to the requirement. The Coordinator or Director’s approval must be entered in the student’s file.

Lecture courses are listed. Separately numbered lab courses, which complement some lectures, may also be applied towards the MOP certificate, but they are not all listed here. Other courses may be applied toward the course requirements by petition.

To find out which courses are offered this semester, check the Class Availability section of your MyUH, or contact your campus MOP Coordinator.

Course Title Credits
ACM 480 Oceanic Media and Culture * 3
ANSC 450 Aquaculture Production 3
ANSC 460 Biology and Culture of Shrimp and Prawns 2
ANSC 465L Aquaculture Production Laboratory 4
ANSC 490 Aquaculture Business Planning 2
ANTH 323 Pacific Island Archaeology * 3
ANTH 350 Pacific Island Cultures * 3
ANTH 430 Human Adaptation to the Sea 3
BIOL 301 Marine Ecology and Evolution 3
BIOL 301L Marine Ecology and Evolution Lab 2
BIOL 331 Marine Mammal Biology 3
BIOL 403 Field Problems in Marine Biology 4
BIOL 404 Advanced Topics in Marine Biology 3
BOT 450 Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands 3
BOT 480 Algal Diversity and Evolution 3
CEE 421 Fluid Mechanical Engineering 3
CEE 431 Water and Wastewater Engineering 3
CEE 432 Water/Waterwater Treatment Design 3
CEE 433 Water Quality Laboratory 3
GEOG 302 Global Environmental Issues 3
GEOG 365 Geography of the Pacific 3
GEOG 368 Geography of Hawaiʻi 3
GEOG 370 Aerial Photo and Image Interpretation 3
GEOG 401 Climage Change * 3
GEOG 405 Water in the Environment 3
GEOG 410 Human Role in Environmental Change 3
GEOG 411 Past Global Change and Human Era 3
GEOG 423 Human Dimensions of the Coastal Ocean 3
GEOG 435 Political Geography of Oceans 3
GEOG 455 Resource Management 3
GG 402 Hawaiian Geology 3
GG 420 Sea Level, Ice Ages, and Global Change 3
GG 423 Marine Geology 3
GG 444 Plate Tectonics 3
GG 455 Hydrogeology 3
HIST 481 Pacific Islands I 3
HIST 482 Pacific Islands II 3
HIST 489 World Maritime History 3
HWST 352 Mahiʻai Kalo 3
HWST 353 Mālama Loko Iʻa 4
HWST 365 Pana Paemoku o Kanaloa: The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands 3
HWST 457 ʻĀina Mauiliola: Hawaiian Ecosystems 3
HWST 487 Hawaiian Aquatic Medicine 4
IS 400 Ocean Internships and Research 3
MBBE 405 Marine Genomics and Biotech 3
MET 310 Global Environmental Change 3
MICR 401L Marine Microbiology Lab 1
MICR 401 Marine Microbiology 3
OCN 201 Science of the Sea 3
OCN 310 Global Environmental Change 3
OCN 310L Global Environmental Change Lab 2
OCN 320 Aquatic Pollution 3
OCN 330 Mineral and Energy Resources of the Sea 3
OCN 331 Living Resources of the Sea 3
OCN 363 Earth System Science Database 3
OCN 403 Marine Genomics and Biotech 3
OCN 423 Marine Geology 3
OCN 430 Intro to Deep Sea Biology 3
OCN 444 Plate Techtonics 3
OCN 450 Aquaculture Production 3
OCN 480 Biological-Physical Interaction 3
OEST 310 Global Environmental Change 3
OEST 310L Global Environmental Change Lab 2
ORE 411 Buoyancy and Stability 3
ZOOL 200 Marine Biology 2
ZOOL 200L Marine Biology Lab 1
ZOOL 410 Corals and Coral Reefs 3
ZOOL 450 Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands 3