FISH 548 – Directed Studies

Directed Studies in Oceans and Fisheries

FISH 548 Credits: 1-3

This directed studies course is offered by Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF) Faculty Members and Associates mainly to Graduate Students in the Oceans and Fisheries Masters and PhD programs. If a graduate student would like to have specialized instruction in a particular topic that is not offered in the UBC calendars, then the graduate student could make a request to their supervisor or some other IOF Faculty member for a FISH 548 directed studies course to be proposed and designed on the desired topic. The course could be library-based, lab-based or fieldwork-based. The instructor would need to provide a proposed course syllabus to one of the IOF graduate advisors for their approval at least one month prior to the term’s start date. Upon approval by the graduate advisor, the course could then be offered and the student or students wishing to take the course could then register in the course. Variable credit is proposed to allow for flexibility in the design of the directed studies in terms of, for example, the breadth of the chosen topic and the extent of the learning objectives to address. The minimum credit is 1 to allow for a topic that could be covered in about two hours of directed study time per week. The maximum is set at 3 to place a reasonable maximum limit on the expected directed study time per week and credit hours attainable from a directed studies.

Any Faculty Member in the IOF could propose and offer FISH 548.