• Students will enroll in a total of 17 semester hours.
• Students must earn a B- or better in each course to earn a total of 4 units of Hamilton credit.
• QSR – Quantitative & Symbolic Reasoning. None of the courses offered on this program fulfill the QSR requirements. Students should register for a course that does during their first two semesters at Hamilton. This is a requirement for graduation.
• WI – The writing-intensive requirement consists of 3 writing-intensive courses, each taken in a different semester. One needs to be outside of the student’s major(s). None of these courses fulfill this requirement so students should register for a writing-intensive course during the first two semesters at Hamilton.

All of the students on this program will be taking the following pre-approved courses:

Maritime Studies (200-level, 3 credits)
This course will count as a general or Environmental Studies elective.

Nautical Science (200-level, 3 credits)
This course will count as a general elective.

Oceanographic Field Methods (200-level, 4 credits)
This course will count as a Geoscience elective.

Oceanography (200-level, 3 credits)
his course will count as a Geoscience elective. Students will not be allowed to take Geosc 112 (The Marine Environment) at Hamilton.

Practical Oceanographic Research (200-level, 4 credits)
This course will count as a Geoscience elective.