A number of courses will satisfy the MOP classroom credit requirements for the MOP certificate at UH Mānoa. The following is a subset of courses. This list is provided to showcase the depth and breath of courses that “count,” it is not exhaustive.
As long as a course includes a substantial amount of marine content (i.e., greater than 50% of material on the syallbus), it cant count towards the certificate. As there are many options of courses to take, there a many pathways to successfully meet your course requirements for the MOP certificate! You get to choose your own pathway and explore ocean-related topics you are interested in.
Talk to the Mānoa MOP Coordinator (manoamop@hawaii.edu) about ideas for your course trajectory and to get approval for your course selections.
Note: Unfortunately, at UH Mānoa you cannot use MOP courses to fulfill core or major requirements; there is no “double-dipping.”
| Course | Title | Credits |
| ACM 480 | Oceanic Media and Culture* | 3 |
| ANSC 450 | Aquaculture Production | 3 |
| ANSC 460 | Biology & Culture of Shrimp & Prawns | 2 |
| ANSC 465L | Aquaculture Production Lab | 4 |
| ANSC 490 | Aquaculture Business Planning | 2 |
| ANTH 175 | Polynesian Surf Culture | 3 |
| ANTH 175L | Polynesian Surf Culture Field Lab | 1 |
| ANTH 323 | Pacific Island Archaeology* | 3 |
| ANTH 332 | Anthropology of Surfing | 3 |
| ANTH 350 | Pacific Island Cultures* | 3 |
| ANTH 430 | Human Adaptation to the Sea | 3 |
| BIOL 301 | Marine Ecology & Evolution | 3 |
| BIOL 301L | Marine Ecology & 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 |
| BIOL 411 | Corals & Coral Reefs | 3 |
| BIOL 454 | Natural History of Hawaiian Islands | 3 |
| BIOL 465 | Fish Diversity | 3 |
| BIOL 465L | Fish Diversity Lab | 1 |
| BOT 450 | Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands | 3 |
| BOT 480 | Algal Diversity & Evolution | 3 |
| CEE 421 | Fluid Mechanical Engineering | 3 |
| CEE 431 | Water & Wastewater Engineering | 3 |
| CEE 432 | Water/Wastewater Treatment Design | 3 |
| CEE 433 | Water Quality Lab | 3 |
| GEO 302 | Global Environmental Issues | 3 |
| GEO 365 | Geography of the Pacific | 3 |
| GEO 368 | Geography of Hawai’i | 3 |
| GEO 370 | Aerial Photo & Image Interpretations | 3 |
| GEO 401 | Climate Change | 3 |
| GEO 405 | Water in the Environment | 3 |
| GEO 410 | Human Role in Environmental Change | 3 |
| GEO 411 | Past Global Change & Human Era | 3 |
| GEO 423 | Human Dimensions of the Coastal Ocean | 3 |
| GEO 435 | Political Geography of Oceans | 3 |
| HIST 481 | Histories of Oceania I | 3 |
| HIST 482 | Histories of Oceania II | 3 |
| HIST 489 | World Maritime History | 3 |
| HWST 352 | Mahiʻai Kalo | 3 |
| HWST 353 | Mālama Loko Iʻa | 4 |
| HWST 356 | Aloha Kanaloa – Marine Resources & Abundances | 3 |
| HWST 357 | ʻĀina Mauiliola: Hawaiian Ecosystems | 3 |
| HWST 365 | Pana Paemoku o Kanaloa: The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands | 3 |
| HWST 487 | Hawaiian Aquatic Medicine | 3 |
| IS 400 | Ocean Internships & Research | 3 |
| MICRO 401 | Marine Microbiology | 3 |
| MCRO 401L | Marine Microbiology Lab | 1 |
| OCN 201 | Science of the Sea | 3 |
| OCN 310 | Global Environmental Change | 3 |
| OCN 320 | Aquatic Pollution | 3 |
| OCN 330 | Mineral & Energy Resources of the Sea | 3 |
| OCN 331 | Living Resources of the Sea | 3 |
| OCN 403 | Marine Functional Ecology & Biotechnology | 3 |
| OCN 423 | Marine Geology | 3 |
| OCN 430 | Intro to Deep Sea Biology | 3 |
| OCN 444 | Plate Tectonics | 3 |
| OCN 450 | Aquaculture Production | 3 |
| OCN 480 | Biological-Physical Interactions in the Oceans | 3 |
| ORE 411 | Buoyancy & Stability | 3 |