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Winter 2012 FISH Courses - updated May 9, 2012

Fisheries Centre graduate students should discuss course requirements with their admitting department and their Fisheries Centre research supervisor. The Fisheries Centre offers a series of fisheries courses, all of which FC students are encouraged to take for official credit or on official or unofficial audit basis at some point during their time at UBC.  Both official and unofficial auditors must have permission of the instructor.

All FISH courses listed below are confirmed for Winter Session 2012.  Some course descriptions are under revision and updates will be posted when available.  Courses with low registration are subject to possible cancellation on or before the date of the first class.

 

2012W FISH COURSE LIST

Offered in 2012W

FISH 500 (3 credits) Issues in Fisheries Research: Seminars - Fisheries Management | Pauly with Sumaila

Terms 1 & 2

FISH 505 (3 credits) Quantitative Analysis of Fisheries II | Martell - Term 2

FISH 508 (3 credits) Fisheries Economics and Management | Sumaila - Term 2  

(Presently listed as FISH 506C on the UBC SSC)

FISH 520 (6 credits) Fisheries Conservation, Governance, and Evaluation - Term 1

 

Not offered in 2012

FISH 501   (3 credits) Ecosystem Modelling | Christensen - Term 1
FISH 502   (3 credits) Issues in Fisheries Research: Marine and Freshwater
FISH 503   (3 credits) Science and Society in Aquatic Policy | Vincent - Term 2 
FISH 504   (3 credits) Quantitative Analysis of Fisheries I | Martell - Term 1 
FISH 506E (3 credits) Issues in Fisheries Research: A History of Fisheries | Pitcher - Term 2
FISH 509   (3 credits) Bayesian Methods for Fisheries Stock Assessment | McAllister - Term 2
FISH 510   (3 credits) Bayesian Decision Analysis for Fisheries Management | McAllister - Term 1 

 

UBC graduate students may register to take FISH courses:  

  • for official audit using the Change Registration form at http://www.grad.ubc.ca/forms/?=SD (instructor and admitting department signatures required; please provide a photocopy of completed form to the Fisheries Centre office)

In addition, students and non-students may take some FISH courses for unofficial audit by contacting the instructor to obtain permission and then sending an e-mail to office@fisheries.ubc.ca, phone 604 822-2731

 

Evaluation of Fish Courses and Instructors

Other courses to consider:

Fisheries students may wish to consider taking some of the following courses in other UBC departments. Not all courses are offered every year - consult UBC course list and the departmental websites to confirm details.

AGEC 421B
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Economics of Biodiversity and Nature Conservation
AGRO 418
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Intensive Fish Production
AGSC 480
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Intensive Fish Production
AGSC 490
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Aquaculture and the Environment
ANSC 580
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Advanced Topics in Fish Culture
ANTH 460/515
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Cultural Ecology
BIOL 402
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Aquatic Ecology
BIOL 405
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Marine Ecology
BIOL 408
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Principles of Applied Ecology
BIOL 465
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Diversity and Evolution of Fishes
BIOL 509
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Population and Quantitative Genetics
CONS 486
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Fisheries Conservation and Management
CPSC 304
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Introduction to Relational Databases
ECON 308
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Introduction to Microeconomics
ECON 309
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Principles of Economics
ECON 371
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Environmental Economics
ECON 472
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Economics of Renewable Resources
ECON 571
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Economics Analysis and Natural Resources
EOSC 314
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The Ocean Environment
EOSC 315
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The Ocean Ecosystem
EOSC 478
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Introduction to Fisheries Science
EOSC 510
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Data Analysis in Atmospheric, Earth and Ocean
FRST 387
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Fish/Forestry Interactions
FRST 443
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Remote Sensing in Forestry and Agriculture
FRST 485
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Forest Water Management
FRST 504
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Landscape Ecology
GEOG 270
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Introduction to Geographic Systems
GEOG 310
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Environment and Resources
GEOG 376
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Advanced Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 471
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Applied Concepts in Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 539/
RMES 500C
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Climate Change in the 21st Century
POLI 351
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Environmental Policy and Politics

RMES 500Q/
ANTH 461

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Anthropological Study of Local Ecological Knowledge
RMES 500K
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Ecosystem Services
RMES 501
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Perspectives on Resources and Environments
SOCI 509
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Sociology of the Environment
ZOOL 523
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Fish Behaviour and Ecology
ZOOL 527
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Theoretical Population Dynamics

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