AQUA 400
Work Exper/Integrated Learning
Students will spend the equivalent of one term, during the summer between the junior and senior year, gaining hands-on experience in an aquatics-related work and/or volunteer setting. Students’ complete placements within all levels of government, private or public industry/businesses, not-for-profit/community-based organizations, universities and research institutes; locally to internationally. Opportunities may include scientific fieldwork and/or laboratory research, policy analysis and governance, ecosystem restoration, environmental assessment, water quality monitoring, species-at-risk education, conservation, etc. To focus the applied learning experience, students may develop a topic for special study, in collaboration with an academic advisor or their work experience provider. Restricted to AQUA major students.