2019 - 2020

As a major elective course, this course enables students to master the basic technologies on utilization of marine biological resources. The deep knowledge and outstanding specialized skills developed in this course is beneficial for students to undertake a guiding role in the academic field or in employment involved with aquaculture, seafood processing or bio-pharmacy.

Objectives: 1. Helps students to understand the nutritional content, physiological active substances, toxic substances of marine plants and animals; 2. Focus on mastering the basic technologies of marine food processing, marine medicine development, marine microbial utilization, etc.

Learning Outcomes: 1. Learn about marine biological resources; and 2. Master the basic technologies on utilization of marine biological resources.

As a major elective course, this course enables students to master the basic technologies of natural product isolation and structure elucidation of compounds. The deep knowledge and outstanding specialized skills developed in this course is beneficial for students to undertake a guiding role in the academic field or in employment involved with instrumental analysis in food, veterinary and human drugs, and environmental monitorings.

Objectives: 1. Provide students with expert knowledge of the critical features, chemical structures and utilization of compounds that derived from marine organisms; 2. Provide students with the methods of extraction and purification, and the structure elucidation of marine natural products.

Learning Outcomes: Enable the students to 1. Demonstrate broad knowledge and deep understanding of the critical features, chemical structures and utilization of compounds derived from marine organisms with skills of instrumental analysis; 2. Demonstrate knowledge to use marine natural products for bioactive or drug development.

As a major elective course, this course enables students to master the basic technologies on utilization of marine biological resources. The deep knowledge and outstanding specialized skills developed in this course is beneficial for students to undertake a guiding role in the academic field or in employment involved with aquaculture, seafood processing or bio-pharmacy.

Objectives: 1. Helps students to understand the nutritional content, physiological active substances, toxic substances of marine plants and animals; 2. Focus on mastering the basic technologies of marine food processing, marine medicine development, marine microbial utilization, etc.

Learning Outcomes: 1. Learn about marine biological resources; and 2. Master the basic technologies on utilization of marine biological resources.

The course introduces the taxonomy groups of marine invertebrates and vertebrates, describe the features, habitats, life cycle and reproduction of each different group, and explains the relationships between marine invertebrates&vertebrates and environment.

As a compulsory course to all students in marine science discipline, it introduces the marine environments and organisms covering the major ecological factors and their influences on marine organisms. This course covers several topics including: population ecology defining population, the population structures and dynamics; ecological strategies; community ecology covering community structure and inter-specific relationship within a community; ecosystem ecology covering the concepts of ecosystems and the structure, energy flow and material cycle of marine ecosystems. Lastly this course covers the major types of marine ecosystems covering coastline, shallow sea, deep sea and polar, the challenges the ocean faced covering the anthropogenic and natural threats, and the principles of marine biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management.

As a corequisite with Basic Biology, it trains students to utilize the acquired knowledge and skills in applied Basic Biology fields.

As a major elective course, this course introduces the most important and typical marine ecosystems: mangrove ecosystem, coral reef ecosystem and seagrasses ecosystem. The ecological and economic characteristics and related conservation knowledge of them will be covered in this course.

As a major core course, the course provides students majored in Marine Biology and Biotechnology a precious hand-on experience in Marine Sciences. Through lectures, discussions of the scientific primary literature and field trips, student will become familiar with tropical marine habitats and organisms unlike those available for study on campus and also be able to conduct marine field investigation.

It is normally a research project conceived and completed by a student during senior year under the direction of a faculty member. The project may be field, laboratory, computer, or library research. According to University policy, the experience must (1) be significant, require innovation, show creativity, reflection, and synthesis of prior learning; (2) results in a thesis, report, or presentation demonstrating mastery of the subject matter; (3) have faculty-student interaction as an integral part; and (4) may be split between two semesters. Students must file a Capstone Project Description form with the College office before they begin their research.

This course aims to offer students basic Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) knowledge and corresponding coastal zone management skills. Relevant coastal zone management policy will also be delivered. Students will obtain rationales, basic concepts and guiding principles of ICZM strategy which are essential base for students' further research and career.  

Setup 10-12 groups, elect 1 as coordinator each group

Prepare a special topic regarding marine natural products by each group, and before the final examination, members of the group collaborate each other in searching and collecting material from literatures, and then working together to write a report and present it.

This course introduces the field of environmental science and show how an understanding of the natural world around us and the application of the scientific method can help us to address the problems facing our planet. This course mainly includes Environmental Law, Economics, & Ethics, Ecosystems, Energy, and Living Organisms, Ecosystems and the Physical Environment, Water Resources and Pollution, Soil Resources and Pollution, Air Pollution and Atmospheric Change, Food Resources, Human Health and Environmental Toxicology.

This course introduces the general characteristics and activities of excitable cells; and the organs and systems such as circulation, respiration, digestion, extraction, energy metabolism, body temperature regulation, nervous system, sense organ and endocrinology, etc.

As a general course to all students in marine science discipline, it introduces the basic knowledge and techniques of mariculture. The course includes three parts (1) basic knowledge of valuable aquaculture species; (2) basic technologies of aquaculture, including artificial breeding, feed, etc. (3) the ecological impact of aquaculture.

As a practical course to students in marine science discipline, it includes the external morphology observation and internal structure dissection of various marine animal groups from protozoa, coelenterate, platyhelminthes, pseudocoelomata, mollusca, arthropoda, echinodermata and chordata. It also includes the specimen sampling and processing, the use of common equipments (e.g. microscope, stereoscope) and the practical report writing.

This course introduces the basic concepts of aquatic animal nutrition and nutritional immunity; describe the digestion, absorption, metabolism, transformation law and regulation of energy and nutrients in aquatic animals. This course explains the relationships between aquatic animals’ nutrition and their immunity. The course includes three parts: different types of nutrition needs of aquatic animals; nutritional values and evaluation methods of different types of feed for the aquatic animals; feed formula and processing technology.

This course covers fundamentals of algae classification and utilization, with introduction of the morphology of marine micro and macro algae, the mode of reproduction and the life cycles of different phyla of algae.

This course is an overview of basic concepts in oceanography, marine biology and ecology. It will introduce the basics of ocean science to the students with different background and inculcate interests in ocean science. Students who have already developed a special interest in biology, chemistry, geology or physics can choose this course, which offers a wide vision across the full range of disciplines.

The objectives of this course are:

1.       To provide students with a good understanding of the concepts and methods of single variable calculus.

As a corequisite with Cellular and Developmental Biology, it trains students to utilize the acquired knowledge and skills in applied Cellular and Developmental Biology fields.