Graduate-Student Led Seminar Courses
Take one of our dynamic, one-credit MSCI 398 courses, taught by VIMS PhD students!
Each semester we offer up to three MSCI 398 seminar courses taught by senior PhD students in the Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences. These small (15 student) courses generally meet once per week on the W&M Williamsburg Campus, and have no prerequisites: they are open to any W&M student at any level, in any major, minor, or intended discipline of study.
MSCI 398s are some of the most popular courses in Coastal & Marine Sciences, and generally follow topics of interest to the graduate students, sometimes (but not always!) related to their research. Past topics have included:
- Building Coastal Carbon Budgets
- How species tell time: shifting phenology in marine fisheries
- Deep-Sea Science & Stewardship
- Navigating the Modern Arctic – the ecological and socioeconomic status of the Arctic ecosystem
- Tackling Plastic Pollution
- Understanding Ocean & Coastal Acidification Through Action
- Marine Aquaponic Systems
- Fisheries & Fishing Communities of Chesapeake Bay
- The role of microbiomes in marine ecosystems
- Ocean and Coastal Acidification
- Marvelous Molluscs: Introduction to Malacology
- Epidemics Under Water
- Salads of the Sea: Marine Botany Big Enough to Eat!
- Hurricane Disturbance Ecology
- Navigating the Muddled Waters of Aquatic Fieldwork
- Physiology of Marine Invertebrates
- Sea-Level Change Through Time and Space
- Aquaculture & Sustainability
- Wetland Biogeochemistry: Methods to Management
- Marine Science Through Film
- Professional Development for Marine Scientists
- Marine Biomimicry and Bioinspiration