The Paranimph holds the graduation ceremony for the first class of the bachelor degree on Marine Sciences
The Paranimph of the Historical Building of the UB held, on Friday, October 11, the graduation ceremony for the first class of the degree on Marine Sciences, a degree taught at the University of Barcelona since the academic year 2015/2016.
These studies, affiliated at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, is unfolded in collaboration with the faculties of Biology, Pharmacy and Food Sciences, Physics, Law and Economics and Business of the UB, with the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Forty students have graduated in this first year graduation, 57 % of them being women.
The Paranimph of the Historical Building of the UB held, on Friday, October 11, the graduation ceremony for the first class of the degree on Marine Sciences, a degree taught at the University of Barcelona since the academic year 2015/2016.
These studies, affiliated at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, is unfolded in collaboration with the faculties of Biology, Pharmacy and Food Sciences, Physics, Law and Economics and Business of the UB, with the participation of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Forty students have graduated in this first year graduation, 57 % of them being women.
Participants in the graduation ceremony, presided by the Rector of the UB, Joan Elias, were Maria Teresa Calvet, acting dean of the Faculty of Earth Sciences; Rosina Gironès, dean of the Faculty of Biology; Miquel Canals, director of the Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics of the UB, first coordinator of the degree and patron of the ceremony; Galderic Lastras, lecturer of the Faculty of Earth Sciences, and the lecturers Creu Palacín and Javier Romero, of the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona. Other participants were Maria Neus Carbó, lecturer at the Faculty of Biology and secretary of the Faculty, Doctoral Studies and Equality, and students (noms participants?) representing the graduates.
Bachelorʼs degree in Marine Sciences: a global view on the oceans worldwide
The degree on Marine Sciences consolidate university studies in this field in Catalonia, an academic journey which started years ago with the doctoral program on Marine Sciences and the masterʼs degree in Oceanography and Marine Environmental Management.
The new studies, which got an excellent acceptation among students, wants to promote the training of highly skilled professionals with a cross-sectional view of all disciplines in marine sciences, within the distinguished teaching and research tradition of the UB on biology, oceanography, marine geology, law, economics, marine management and other fields.
Coordinated by the lecturer Galderic Lastras, from the Department of Earth and Ocean Dynamics, the degree is structured under 240 credits, organized in four courses (30 credits per semester). The studies want to train the students to use, in the public and private sectors, their professional skills related to a working sector which is highly demanding and which is constantly growing, connected with the field of management and exploitation of natural resources, preservation and protection of the marine environment, management of coasts and seafloors, operational oceanography, scientific research and teaching, among others. This academic year 2019/2020, the degree of Marine Sciences has a total of 245 enrolled students.