Graduate Ocean Policy Certificate Program
Ocean Policy Seminar
Each semester, the Graduate Ocean Policy Certificate Program offers an interdisciplinary, integrative seminar on ocean policy. It is usually team-taught with content focused on a new topic each semester. Two credits.
Topics of the seminar in recent years include:
- Consequences of Global Climate Change
- Ocean Policy Planning in the State of Hawai’i
- Ocean Transportation/Commerce and Ocean Policy
- The Environment and Sustainable Development in the Ocean
- National Marine Policy
- Integrated Ocean Management
- Change and the Oceans: Physical, Economic, Political
- Managing the Marine Environment: Legal and Policy Aspects
- The Scientific Basis of Global Change
- Ocean Politics: International, National, Domestic
- Marine Transportation: Int’l Navigation, the Shipping Business, and Hawaiian Shipping
- State Institutional Development in Ocean Policy
- Climate Change and Atmospheric Policy
- Interactive Climate and Society Models and Their Utilization in Policy Making
- Marine Mammal Law and Policy