Coastal Resources & Watershed Management Specialty

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General Information

As Earth's populaltion increases, demand will escalate for clean food, water and space. These activities, in combination with heightened energy requirements, will increase stress on our natural resources, such as soils, surface water, and ground water. Global climate change is an additional stressor heightening the need for improved management capacity and adaptation strategies. Increasingly there is a need for integrated approaches for coastal areas which are the interface between land and sea. The Coastal Resources and Watershed Management curriculum is designed for students interested in sustaining coastal and watershed ecosystems through efficient management of land, biota and water, as well as improved planning, policy and regulation.

Why Study Coastal Resources & Watershed Management?

Students who complete this Coastal Resources & Watershed Management curriculum will be prepared to meet challenges and can anticipate career opportunities in environmental regulatory agencies, conservation, research institutions, urban and regional planning, productive sectors, such as agriculture and consulting.

Student Learning Outcomes

Describe and draw connections among natural, agricultural, and urban processes influencing the coastal zone.
Assess, comprehend, and synthesize a broad range of scientific and social-economic information to professionally present policy recommendations and research directives for various coastal management issues.

Requirements for Graduation

To earn a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture with a specialization in Coastal Resources & Watershed Management, a student must complete a minimum of 123 semester hours with a cumulative GPA of 2.0. The course work must be in the following areas:

General Education Requirements (46 to 52 hrs)
(see http://hilo.hawaii.edu/academics/gened/ for a listing of qualified courses)

In the Agriscience and Supplemental Requirements, some of the required courses also qualify as General Education Requirements.

Title/Courses	Credits
Basic General Education Requirements	(18 hrs Total)
English Composition Eng 100 or Eng 100T or Eng 100H or ESL 100 or ESL 100T	3 hrs
Language Arts	3 hrs
Quantitative Reasoning Two courses	6 hrs
World Cultures Two courses	6 hrs
Area General Education Requirements	(19 hrs Total)
Humanities Two courses in different disciplines.	6 hrs
Social Sciences Two courses in different disciplines.	6 hrs
Natural Sciences Two courses in different disciplines, including 1 credit hour of laboratory.	7 hrs
Integrative General Education Requirements	(9-15 hrs Total)
Writing Intensive Requirement Three courses designated "WI", one of which must be numbered 300 or above. Transfer students, after an official transfer credit evaluation, may be required to take less than 3 courses.	3-9 hrs
Hawai`i Pan-Pacific Requirement	3 hrs
Global and Community Citizenship	3 hrs

Requirements for Major (including GE courses, 123 hrs)

Course	Title	Credits
Agriscience Requirements		(52 hrs Total)
Ag 200	Agro-Environmental Science Communications	3 hrs
AnSc 223	Introduction to Wildlife Science	3 hrs
AnSc 453	Animal Disease & Parasites	3 hrs
Aqua 425	Water Quality & Aquatic Productivity	3 hrs
Aqua 425L	Water Quality & Aquatic Productivity Lab	1 hr
Aqua 466	Fisheries Science	3 hrs
Ento 304	General Entomology	3 hrs
For 202 or NRes 196	Forestry and Natural Resources or Introduction to Natural Resource Management	3 hrs
For 440	Forest Ecosystem Restoration	3 hrs
Hort 262+	Principles of Horticulture	3 hrs
NRes 410	Invasive Species & Ecosystems	3 hrs
NRes 420	Hydrology & Watershed Management	3 hrs
NRes 425	Marine Biogeochemistry	3 hrs
NRes 430	GIS in Natural Resource Management	3 hrs
NRes 455	Climate Change: Impacts on the Pacific	3 hrs
PPhy 310	Plant Growth & Development	3 hrs
PPth 301	Tropical Plant Pathology	3 hrs
Soil 304	Tropical Soils	3 hrs
Supplemental Requirements		(25 hrs Total)
AgEc 380 or Econ 380	Environmental Policy & Management of Hawaiian Natural Resources or Natural Resource Environmental Ecology	3 hrs
Anth 389+	Cultural Resource Management	3 hrs
Biol 175-175L	Introductory Biology I and Lab	4 hrs
Biol 275+ -275L*	Fundamentals of Microbiology and Lab	4 hrs
Biol 280	Biostatistics	3 hrs
Chem 124-124L	General Chemistry I and Lab	4 hrs
Chem 125-125L	General Chemistry II and Lab	4 hrs
Electives		(13-17 hrs Total)

*Can be used for Basic General Education OR Area General Education OR Integrative Requirements.

+Can be used for Basic General Education OR Area General Education AND Integrative Requirements.

Effective Fall 2011