Marine Sciences Major

Roberto Brenes	Associate Professor of Biology
Susan E. Lewis	Professor of Biology

Carroll University offers access to majors in marine biology and oceanography via a cooperative arrangement with Hawaii Pacific University (HPU). The objective of the Marine Science Program at HPU is to help students gain a scientific understanding of the world’s oceans and the life they contain, and a sense of appreciation for their beauty and fragility. Students are given a theoretical framework in the basic and applied sciences as well as ample opportunities to get hands-on experience conducting laboratory and field observations and experiments. Lecture and laboratory facilities are located on the Hawaii Loa Campus of Hawaii Pacific University. The campus is only a twenty-minute drive from Kaneohe Bay, a large natural embayment protected from the open ocean by the only true barrier reef in the Hawaiian Islands. This bay serves as one of the finest natural laboratories in the world for studying the marine sciences, and its protected nature allows HPU students to do field work in almost any type of weather.

Students desiring to major in marine biology or oceanography will spend two years at Carroll University taking basic science and liberal arts courses. After the two years, students transfer to Hawaii Pacific University and complete the requirements for a Marine Biology/Oceanography degree from Hawaii Pacific University.

Marine Biology or Oceanography Major

Science and Mathematics

Science and mathematics courses taken at Carroll University

BIO 120 - General Biology I 4 Hour(s)
BIO 120L - General Biology I Laboratory 0 Hour(s)
BIO 125 - General Biology II 4 Hour(s)
BIO 125L - General Biology II Laboratory 0 Hour(s)
CHE 109 - Principles of Chemistry I 4 Hour(s)
CHE 109L - Principles of Chemistry I Laboratory 0 Hour(s)
CHE 110 - Principles of Chemistry II 4 Hour(s)
CHE 110L - Principles of Chemistry II - Laboratory 0 Hour(s)
ENV 105 - Earth Science 4 Hour(s)
ENV 105L - Earth Science Laboratory 0 Hour(s)
CMP 112 - Computational Thinking I 4 Hour(s)
CMP 114 - Computational Thinking II - Statistical Analysis Emphasis 4 Hour(s)
MAT 160 - Calculus I 4 Hour(s)
MAT 161 - Calculus II 4 Hour(s)
PHY 101 - Introductory Physics I 4 Hour(s)
PHY 101L - Introductory Physics Laboratory 0 Hour(s)
or
PHY 203 - General Physics I 4 Hour(s)
PHY 203L - General Physics I Laboratory 0 Hour(s)
PHY 102 - Introductory Physics II 4 Hour(s)
PHY 102L - Introductory Physics Laboratory 0 Hour(s)
or
PHY 204 - General Physics II 4 Hour(s)
PHY 204L - General Physics II Laboratory 0 Hour(s)

Additional Courses

Additional Courses to fulfill HPUs General Education Curriculum (contact a Marine Biology advisor for a listing of all approved general education courses)