Elective Courses
A minimum of 18 hours of committee-approved elective courses (listed below) are required for a M.S. in Marine and Environmental Biology. A maximum of 6 hours of committee-approved 400-level* graduate courses may count toward your degree. Also, a maximum of 6 hours of committee-approved 500-level GEOM courses may count toward your degree. Your thesis committee may require you to enroll in other courses. Course descriptions are listed in the University Catalog.
Elective courses include:
| BIOL 425* | (4 hrs) | Applied and Environmental Microbiology (Fall only) |
| BIOL 472* | (2 hrs) | Our Changing Coastal Ocean (LUMCON compressed video course) |
| BIOL 473-4* | (3-4 hrs) | Other graduate LUMCON summer courses |
| BIOL 480* | (4 hrs) | Environmental Biotechnology (Spring only) |
| BIOL 483* | (4 hrs) | Marine and Estuarine Biology |
| BIOL 490* | (4 hrs) | Environmental Toxicology (Fall only) |
| BIOL 504 | (3 hrs) | Ecological Restoration (Spring odd-years only) |
| BIOL 535 | (3 hrs) | Marine and Estuarine Invertebrate Immunity (Fall only) |
| BIOL 537 | (3hrs) | Applied Ecology (Summer only; meets LUMCON requirement ) |
| BIOL 541 | (4 hrs) | Molecular Biotechnology (Spring only) |
| BIOL 545 | (3 hrs) | Environmental Public Health Microbiology (Spring only) |
| BIOL 555 | (3 hrs) | Advanced Oceanography (Fall odd-years only) |
| BIOL 556 | (3 hrs) | Biology of Polluted Waters (Fall even-years only) |
| BIOL 561 | (3 hrs) | Wetlands Plant Biology (Summer Intersession; meets LUMCON requirement) |
| BIOL 565 | (3 hrs) | Marine Conservation and Management (Spring even-years only) |
| BIOL 568 | (3 hrs) | Professional Scientific Writing Laboratory (Fall only) |
| BIOL 575 | (3 hrs) | Environmental Diagnostics and Biomarkers (Fall even-years only) |
| BIOL 580 | (4 hrs) | Bioremediation of Toxic Environments (Spring only) |
| BIOL 581 | (2 hrs) | Analytical Techniques for Environmental Applications (Spring only) |
| BIOL 585 | (3 hrs) | Aquatic Toxicology (Fall only) |
| CHEM 490* | (3 hrs) | Special Topics in Chemistry |
| GEOM 501 | (3 hrs) | GIS Applications (Summer odd-years only) |
| GEOM 511 | (3 hrs) | GPS for Mappers (Summer odd-years only) |
| GEOM 521 | (3 hrs) | Remote Sensing (Summer even-years only) |
| GEOM 531 | (3 hrs) | GEOM 531 Spatial Databases (Summer even-years only) |
| MATH 507 | (3 hrs) | Biostatistics (Spring only) |