SAFS prepares students to meet the highest professional standards in the area of Science and specifically, the Aquatic Sciences. Our rigorous program places a high value on individual-based learning and critical thinking, and integrates innovation, collaboration and flexibility.
Our degree program is structured to develop key skills, explained here, relevant to our student’s advancement.
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We foster the basis for lifelong enquiry through the mastery of subjects in the Aquatic Sciences |
Aquatic & Fishery Sciences provides diverse training in basic and applied aquatic sciences with emphasis on biology, ecology, conservation, and management. |
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We promote literacy and critical evaluation in Science and the Scientific Method |
We use lab classes, proposal writing, field experience and quarter long research projects to encourage evidence-based and rigorous investigation. |
We advance student proficiency in scientific methodology and analytical approaches |
We provide many opportunities for early application of knowledge in small, instructor guided learning environments. |
We encourage an understanding of the social and ethical issues in our field so that graduates can contribute to society in a positive and productive manner |
Key issues in our field are taught within their social context, and healthy debate is encouraged in all of our classes. |
We facilitate the development of effective and persuasive communication skills |
Our favorable student to faculty ratio means that students have substantial opportunity to practice their oral and writing skills in all of our classes. |
We encourage an understanding and appreciation of the importance of the liberal arts and social sciences |
Our degree requirements incorporate a range of complimentary subjects across campus that encourage breadth as well as depth. |
We foster the development of academic and social skills that allow graduates to practice across different modes of enquiry, disciplines, cultures and communities |
Our students are exposed to a wide range of learning environments that promote these skills. Examples include internships, interactions with external agencies and field-based courses. |