SUNY Cobleskill
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  • Fisheries and Aquaculture, B.T.

Bachelor of Technology Degree
(Application Curriculum Code - 1857)

Major Field Requirements
Upper-division AGBU, ANSC, BIOL or FWLD

Code Name Credits
FWLD 430 Fish Hatchery Management 3
FWLD 330 Fundamentals of Aquaculture 3
BIOL 318 Fish Biology 3
BIOL 307 Invertebrate Zoology 3
FWLD 400 Pond Management 1
FWLD 440 Fisheries Science 3
FWLD 380 Internship Orientation 1
ANSC 450 Internship in Fisheries and Wildlife 15

Other Major Field Requirements
12-13 credits. Upper- or lower-division AGBU, ANSC, BIOL, FWLD.

Recommended courses:

Code Name Credits
FWLD 325 Aquaculture Engineering 3
BIOL 215 Aquatic and Marine Ecology 4
CHEM 216 Water Chemistry 3
FWLD 221 Fisheries Management 3

Technical Electives/Requirements
26 credits. Upper/lower-division courses with the following prefixes: ACCT, AGBU, AGEN, AGRN, ANSC, BADM, BIOL, CITA, ENHT, FWLD, ORHT.

Code Name Credits
CITA 110 Microcomputer Applications 3
MATH 125 Statistics 3

Recommended courses:

Code Name Credits
AGBU 107 Agriculture Business Operations 3
  OR  
BADM 315 Entrepreneurship 3
AGRN 424 Water Resources 3
BIOL 131 Natural History of the Vertebrates 3
FWLD 115 Fisheries Techniques 3
FWLD 211 Wildlife Law Enforcement and Public Relations 2
FWLD 350 Wetlands Assessment and Delineation 3
FWLD 352 Wetland Ecosystems 1

Liberal Arts and Sciences Requirements
36 credits. May not include MATH 101X or MATH 101. Include 6 credits of upper-division courses with 2 different prefixes from: COMM 301 or ENGL 320, BIOL 300, BIOL 317, BIOL 400.

General Electives
16-17 credits.

Students should check with their advisors to make sure courses are taken in proper sequence and any prerequisites have been met. Some flexibility is available as to when courses must be taken. Students should consult with their advisors during the scheduling process.

Suggested B.T. Course Sequence
(Refer to Fisheries and Wildlife Technology associate degree program for suggested course sequence for the first two years, in addition to these recommended courses)

Code Name
FWLD 112 Aquaculture Techniques
FWLD 217 Hatchery Techniques
FWLD 209  Fish Nutrition
GIST 130 Geographic Information Systems
BIOL 105 Principles of Genetics

Junior Year - Fall Term

Code Name Credits
FWLD 325 Aquaculture Engineering 3
BIOL 307 Invertebrate Zoology 3
BIOL 318 Fish Biology 3
COMM 301 Technical Communications 3
  OR  
ENGL 320 Writing Nature: Human Expression and the Natural World 3
  General Electives 3

Junior Year - Spring Term

Code Name Credits
AGBU 107 Agricultural Business Operations 3
  OR  
BADM 133 Entrepreneurship 3
FWLD 330 Fundamentals of Aquaculture 3
FWLD 440 Fisheries Science 3
CHEM 216 Water Chemistry 3
  General Electives 3

Senior Year - Fall Term

Code Name Credits
FWLD 400 Pond Management 1
FWLD 380 Internship Orientation 1
FWLD 430 Fish Hatchery Management 3
CITA 110 Microcomputer Applications I 3
MATH 125 Statistics 3
  General Electives 4

Senior Year - Spring Term

Code Name Credits
FWLD 450 Internship in Fisheries and Wildlife 15