Graduate School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences
The College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences was authorized by the Ministry of Education to open 9 academic units (Department of Culture Biotechnology, Graduate School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Ocean Environmental Oceanography, Department of Ocean Engineering, Department of Marine Production Management, Power System Engineering, Marine Food Science and Technology, Graduate School of Education, and Department of Aqualife Medicine) with an entrance quota of 30 applicants in October 2005. The Graduate School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences offer night classes, and its master's program requires two-and-a-half years to complete. Applicants who apply for any program in the School are required to hold a bachelor's degree from domestic or international universities. This college aims to educate students on basic and practical theories and to provide research development that is applied to harbors, marine transport, marine resources, fishing industries, fish-raising industries, marine biomanipulation, and food industries.
Aqualife Medicine
The Department of Aqualife Medicine focuses on the study of fish disease treatment and prevention. The Department is composed of seven main laboratories: pathogenic microbiology, histopathology, fish disease diagnosis, environmental physiology, preventology of fish, fish pharmacology, and clinical fish pathology.
Course list
- Research Methodology
- Advanced Ontogeny
- Master's Thesis Research
- Advanced Invertebrate Anatomy
- Microbial Genetics
- Molecular Study in Fish Pathology
- Advanced Aquatic Toxicology
- Applied Fish Pharmacology
- Advanced Fish Immunology
- Advanced Fish Histopathology
- Advanced Fish Anatomy
- Applied Aqualife Microbiology
- Advanced Diagnostic Fish Pathology
- Advanced Fish Pathology
- Advanced Fish Disease and Nutrition
- Prevention of Epizootics
- Advanced Environmental Analysis
- Advanced Environmental Physiology
Bioresource Utilization
The aim of the Department of Fisheries and Ocean Science in the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences is to contribute to the development of the nation and society as a whole by developing academic theories and applications, and producing human resources characterized by leadership and creative talent. The Graduate School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences fosters excellent talents able to advance the fisheries industry through professional knowledge. Students develop and test theories on fisheries, harbors, shipping, farming, and marine products.
Course list
- Thesis Research
- Advanced Marine Environmental Ecology
- Advanced Molecular Physiology
- Benthic Macroinvertebrates
- Population Ecology
- Advanced Fish Physiology
- Advanced Genetics
- Ecology of Fisheries Resources
- Reproductive Biology of Aquatic Animals
- Aquatic Toxicology
- Biological Production in Marine Lower Trophic Levels
- Animal Endocrinology
- Organism Culture Training
- Advanced Marine Benthic Fauna
- Advanced Marine Biotechnology
- Ecoinformatics
- Community Ecology
- Advanced Molecular Cell Biology
- Protein Engineering
- Advanced Marine Zooplankton
- Cell Signaling Transduction
- Molecular Biology
- Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology
- Bioinformatics
- Freshwater Ecology
Culture Biotechnology
The Department of Aquaculture focuses on studies in various areas of aquaculture through advanced research, lectures, and practical training courses. The Department is composed of eight main laboratories: aquaculture environment ecology, resource organisms, fish culture and nutrition, reproduction organisms, invertebrate culture, algae culture, fisheries business management, and molecular physiology.
Course list
- Thesis Research
- Crustacea Culture
- Endocrinology
- Invertebrate Zoology Culture of Freshwater
- Advanced Fish of Freshwater Culture
- Advanced Feed Biology
- Taxonomy of Invertebrate
- Advanced Developmental Biology
- Reproductive Ecology
- Advanced Biochemistry
- Advanced Cell Biology
- Fishery Invertebrate Zoology
- Advanced Marine Fish Culture
- Advanced Marine Ecology
- Fish Population Dynamics Management
- Advanced Fishery Animal Nutrition
- Management and Pathology of Aquatic Organism
- Aquafarm Environmental Ecology
- Advanced Fish Feeds
- Fish Ecology
- Advanced Ichthyology
- Advanced Genetics
- Advanced Limnology
- Advanced Breeding Science
- Algal Physio Ecology
- Advanced Phycocultivation
- Invertebrate Zoology Culture of Seawater
Environmental Oceanography
The Environmental Oceanography Graduate School aims to carry out scientific and technological studies on the marine environment, the origin of life on earth. For students aspiring to be marine researchers, Environmental Oceanography is designed to provide advanced training in a specialized field.
Course list
Major Required
Major Electives
- Advanced Aquatic Environmental Processes
- Advanced Biology of Water Pollution
- Advanced Chemical Oceanography
- Advanced Coastal Oceanography
- Advanced Community Ecology
- Advanced Ecology of Fisheries Resources
- Advanced Fisheries Oceanography
- Advanced Geological Oceanography 1
- Advanced Geological Oceanography 2
- Advanced Intertidal Ecology
- Advanced Marine Biology of Benthos
- Advanced Marine Planktology
- Advanced Marine Pollution
- Advanced Marine Pollution Control
- Advanced Marine Sedimentology
Major Electives
- Advanced Ocean Environmental Condition
- Advanced Physical Oceanography 1
- Advanced Physical Oceanography 2
- Advanced Red Tides
- Environment Analysis of Fishing Area
- Environment of Fisheries Oceanography
- Fisheries Physical Oceanography
- Fluid Dynamics for Oceanography
- Instrumental Analytical Chemistry
- Marine Environmental Ecology
- Paleo Oceanography 1
- Paleo Oceanography 2
- Regional Oceanography
- Water Quality Control of Aquatic Culture Systems
- Advanced Marine Pollution
Food Science & Nutrition
The mission of the Department of Nutrition is to improve human health through enhanced nutrition. The Department strives to accomplish this goal through research aimed at improved understanding of how diet influences health, the dissemination of new knowledge about nutrition to health professionals and the public, and the development of nutritional strategies. Also, innovative research is encouraged in food chemistry, processing and safety, human nutrition, diet and health, and molecular nutrition and the regulation of food intake.
Course list
Core Courses
- Advanced Nutrition Education and Consultation
- Advances Food Sanitation
- Advanced Food Science
- Treatise Research
Electives
- Advanced Life Cycle Nutrition
- Nutritional Assessment
- Advanced Cooking Science
- Advanced Diet Therapy
- Advanced Quantitative Food Service
- Nutrition Education
- Advanced Community Nutrition
- Advanced Nutrition
- Case Study of Food Service Management
- Dietary Life and Culture
- Research and Teaching Nutrition Education
- Advanced Functional
- Advanced Food Processing and Reservation
- Nutrition Education Seminar
Marine Food Science and Technology
Marine Food Science and Technology is the study of food material, quality, process, storage, distribution, food sanitation, food safety, and food processing technology. The research and education in the Department of Marine Food Science and Technology are in line with trends in the business environment.
Most students in the Department receive scholarships. They receive practical training and experience, making them invaluable to the companies they later work for. Graduates work to enhance the biotech industry in the region.
Course list
- Thesis Research
- Advanced Engineering Mathematics
- Advanced Thermodynamics
- Advanced Internal Combustion Engine
- Advanced Fluid Mechanics
- Advanced Air Conditioning
- Advanced Solid Mechanics
- Advanced Mechanical Vibration Dynamics
- Advanced Hydraulic Engineering
- Advanced Measurement System
- Advanced Robotics
- System Engineering
- Advanced Automatic Control
- Advanced Electric Machinery
- Advanced Accurate Machining
- Advanced Machine Design
- Advanced Numerical Analysis
- Advanced Combustion Engineering
- Advanced Gas Turbine
- Advanced Thermal Power Engineering
- Advanced Heat Transfer
- Advanced Engine Design
- Advanced Dynamics
- Advanced Fluid Machinery
- Advanced Hydraulic-Pneumatic Control
- Analysis of Dynamic System
- Advanced Mechatronics
- Advanced Sequence Control
- Advanced Optimal Design
- Advanced Machine Tools
Marine Production Management
Efficient fishery production through the systematic management of marine resources, safety transportation through quality shipping control, and advanced organization are required in the future marine age. In order to fulfill these requirements, Marine Production Management fosters professional and high-quality human resources who will play key roles in the marine age in areas such as marine resources management, fishery production, marine transportation business, ship construction and heavy industry, and safety supervision. In addition, it encourages research and education in a wide range of marine industry sectors.
Course list
- Master's thesis research
- Writing thesis
- Advanced seamanship
- Theory of ship's position error
- Theory of vessel motion
- Fisheries oceanography
- Fishing gear engineering
- Advanced fishing gear design
- Mechanic fishing gear materials
- Fishing behavior
- Advanced fishing technology
- Fishing physics
- Fishing vessel ability
- Fishing machinery
- Advanced fisher biology
- Fisheries data processing
- Fishing ground mechanism
- Artificial reef engineering
- Fishing mechanism
- Advanced pelagic fishery technology
- Acoustics fishing methodology
- Measuring instrument in navigation
- Advanced theory of navigation
- Advanced navigation
- Advanced fisheries law
- International marine law
- Advanced marine mateorology
- Ocean graph environmentalism
Ocean Engineering
Ocean Engineering focuses on research and education in a variety of areas from basic theory to advanced technology on ship and offshore structure. The final goal of Ocean Engineering lies in the design and production of reliable and cost-effective transport systems and offshore structures which can carry out missions given in harsh ocean environments successfully. Ocean Engineering covers various scopes of technical problems that arise during the design, construction, load-out, transportation, and operation of various forms of structures developed to meet the needs of offshore petroleum and construction industries. Research on the ocean environment itself is also one of the major research fields of Ocean Engineering. To meet increasingly complex technical demands, Ocean Engineering extends into research fields to cover the rigorous analysis of detailed subjects using powerful computers. In particular, it offers an on-board training course on university-owned research and training ships.
Course list
- Thesis Research
- Advanced Coastal Oceanography
- Advanced Dynamical Oceanography
- Advanced Marine Environmental Engineering
- Turbulent Diffusion Theory in the Ocean
- Ecosystem Engineering
- Advanced Fisheries Oceanography
- Advanced Hydrodynamics
- Sediment Transport and Littoral Processes
- Advanced Coastal and Harbor Engineering
- Advanced Numerical Methods
- Coastal Numerical Modeling 1
- Coastal Numerical Modeling 2
- Advanced Structural Design
- Advanced Structural Analysis
- Finite Element Method
- Advanced Structural Dynamics
- Advanced Computational Structural Analysis
- Reliability and Probabilistic Engineering Design
- Advanced Soil Mechanics
- Advanced Foundation Engineering
- Soft Soil Improvement
- Theoretical Soil Mechanics
- Soil Dynamics
- Back Analysis of Soil Behavior
- Advanced Ocean Remote Sensing
- Advanced Ocean Geoinformatics
- Advanced Ocean Information Analysis
- Advanced Marine Measurement
- Advanced Operational Oceanography
- Introduction to Ocean Thought
Power System Engineering
The Department of Power System Engineering is committed to educating future leaders in the field of engineering. The graduate program focuses on training experts in the power system industry, a field which requires familiarity with state-of-the-art technology. It also nurtures skills in power generation, as well as in both the mechanical and electrical engineering fields.
Course list
- Thesis Research
- Advanced Engineering Mathematics
- Advanced Thermodynamics
- Advanced Internal Combustion Engine
- Advanced Fluid Mechanics
- Advanced Air Conditioning
- Advanced Solid Mechanics
- Advanced Mechanical Vibration Dynamics
- Advanced Hydraulic Engineering
- Advanced Measurement System
- Advanced Robotics
- System Engineering
- Advanced Automatic Control
- Advanced Electric Machinery
- Advanced Accurate Machining
- Advanced Machine Design
- Advanced Numerical Analysis
- Advanced Combustion Engineering
- Advanced Gas Turbine
- Advanced Thermal Power Engineering
- Advanced Heat Transfer
- Advanced Engine Design
- Advanced Dynamics
- Advanced Fluid Machinery
- Advanced Hydraulic-Pneumatic Control
- Analysis of Dynamic System
- Advanced Mechatronics
- Advanced Sequence Control
- Advanced Optimal Design
- Advanced Machine Tools