A minimum of 15 Credits total is required from Group A + Group B courses. At least 2 courses in Group B must not be used to 'double count' by also fulfilling the student’s major requirements. Courses with SEA prefix are offered off-campus or on board a sailing vessel at sea, those that end in SM are at Shoals Marine Station during summer.
Only courses for which a grade of C or better is received will count toward the minor in Marine Biology (Courses with an “S/U” option will not count.)
Several Shoals courses are equivalent to and serve to fulfill on-campus Biology requirements (1500, 1610, 1780) or CALS Life Science requirements (1650). In other words, double-counting courses for this minor and your major is allowed, but at least two courses in Group B must be outside your major requirements.
Special Cornell marine field programs that will fulfill many of the requirement(s) of the minor:
- Shoals Marine Lab semester program
- contact etw36 [at] cornell.edu (Eugene Won)
Courses that fulfill the field requirement have an asterisk (*)
S = Spring, F = Fall, Su = Summer, cr = credits
Group A - Organismal Biology and Foundations
Group B - Advanced Topics
- BIOAP/ANSC 3300 – Fish Physiology (3 cr, S)
- BIOEE 2740 - The Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function and Evolution (4 cr, S)
- BIOEE 3750 - The Vertebrates: Advanced Topics in Morphology, Development and Evolution (2 cr, S) prereq = BIOEE 2740
- BIOEE 4760 - Biology of Fishes, Lectures (3 cr, F)
- BIOEE 4761 – Biology of Fishes, Laboratory (1 cr, F)
- BIOEE/EAS 4790 - Paleobiology (4 cr, S)
- BIOMI 3500/EAS 3555 - Biological Oceanography and Ocean Biogeochemistry (3 cr, S)
- BIOSM 2500 - Coastal Habitat Field Research Methods (3 cr, Su)*
- BIOSM 2800 - Sustainable Fisheries (3 cr, Su)
- BIOSM 3210 - Anatomy and Function of Marine Vertebrates (3 cr, Su)*
- BIOSM 3290 - Field Animal Behavior (3 cr, Su)*
- BIOSM 3330 - Marine Parasitology and Disease (3 cr, Su)
- BIOSM 3450 – Marine Mammal Biology (3 cr)*
- BIOSM 3650 – Underwater Research (3 cr, Su)*
- BIOSM 3750 - Integrated Ecosystem Research and Management (3 cr, Su)
- BIOSM 3830 – Field Marine Invertebrate Biology (3 cr, Su) *
- BIOSM 4650 - Shark Biology and Conservation (3 cr, Su)
- BIOSM 4720 – Marine Ecological Genomics (3 cr, Su)
- EAS/BIOEE 3500 - Dynamics of Marine Ecosystems in a Changing Ocean (3 cr, F)
- EAS 3540 – Ocean Satellite Remote Sensing (3 cr, S, 9 week intensive)
- NTRES 3110 - Fish Ecology, Conservation, and Management (3 cr, S)
- NTRES 3111 - Fish Ecology Laboratory (1 cr, S)
- NTRES 4110 - Quantitative Ecology and Management of Fisheries Resources (4 cr, S)
- SEA 3665 - The Ocean and Global Change (4 cr, SEA semester) *
- SEA 3690 - Oceanographic Field Methods (4 cr, SEA semester)*
- SEA 3700 - Practical Oceanographic Research (4 cr, SEA semester)*
- SEA 3710 - Marine Environmental History (4 cr, SEA semester)*
- SEA 3730 - Toward a Sustainable Ocean: Conservation and Management (3 cr, SEA semester) *
- SEA 3780 - Oceans in the Global Carbon Cycle (4 cr, SEA semester)*
- SEA 3800 - Advanced Oceanographic Field Methods (4 cr, SEA semester)*
- SEA 4640 - Advanced Topics in Biological Oceanography (4 cr, SEA semester)*
* indicates course fulfills the field experience requirement
S = Spring, F = Fall, Su = Summer