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Joint BS/MA in Marine Science

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Requirements

Requirements for participation and graduation

  1. Students must complete the bachelor’s degree. Students in the ABM may not elect to by-pass the bachelor degree. However, conferring of degrees will occur at the time that the student completes the MA requirements.

  2. Students must receive a grade of “B” or better in each of the graduate level courses that are being applied to both degrees. Any graduate course in which a student receives a passing grade of “B-“ or lower may be used to satisfy the BS degree, but not the MA degree. In this case, the student will have fewer than nine hours shared between degrees and will be required to take additional graduate courses as needed once he/she is pursuing the MA degree full-time.

  3. No more than nine hours of graduate work (500-600 level) may be counted towards the bachelor’s degree and these can only be taken during the senior year (minimum of 90 earned credits). Nine hours of graduate coursework may be shared between the BS and MA degrees. Of these, six hours will be mandatory with two courses chosen from the four core graduate classes: MSC 501, MSC 502, MSC 503 or MSC 504 depending on course rotation, and three hours will be chosen from MSC 500- or 600-level electives.

Notes:

a. Students must have completed MSC 310WR prior to taking MSC 501 and it may be necessary for students to enroll in summer sessions to complete both degrees within the five year period.

b. Students who take: 1.) MSC 502 would not need to take MSC 340, 2.) MSC 503 would not need to take MSC 306, or 3.) MSC 504 would not need to take MSC 308.

  1. A student may at any time withdraw from the approved ABM program by informing the undergraduate and graduate advisor(s) in writing. For a student who withdraws from the ABM program prior to completing their BS degree, a student can petition the Department of Biology and Marine Science to apply any completed graduate credits towards their undergraduate degree. If a student elects to be re-admitted to the graduate program after completing their bachelor degree, the student would need to re-apply to the graduate program. Graduate courses that had been applied to their undergraduate degree cannot be applied for graduate credit.