Attend Classes at Hatfield

 

Gain experience directly related to your career interests in coastal and ocean issues. Hatfield's academic programs engage students through research, teaching and experiential learning. Courses range from traditional marine and ocean sciences to public outreach, marine policy and the arts.

Hatfield Highlights

• Live on the coast while taking courses
• Discover diverse coastal habitats through small, hands-on experiential courses
• Fulfill program requirements in a study abroad style within Oregon

Hatfield courses explore coastal and ocean environments, fieldwork techniques, natural resource conservation and management issues. Take a deep dive with courses on fisheries, marine mammals and birds, sharks, public policy, education, outreach and much more.

A research crew, wearing life vests and hard hats, hoists equipment onto a ship while out on stormy seas.

FALL

Students attending an outdoor marine science class gather near a rocky tide pool and listen to the instructor.

WINTER & SPRING

Marine science students wearing plastic yellow aprons, measure a seal on an exam table.

SUMMER

Underwater view of a jellyfish. Its thick, white tentacles are floating out from its body.

MAJORS @ A GLANCE