Bachelor of Coastal Studies
Coastal communities, environment, policy, culture and economic transition taught through classroom and place-based learning.
School of
Marine, Coastal & Newfoundland Studies
The Atlantic is not beside the classroom. It is the classroom.
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Marine, Coastal & Newfoundland Studies
Farshore’s flagship place-based school connects ocean, community, culture, economy and environment. Our work begins in Newfoundland and Labrador and reaches across the North Atlantic.
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BA in Newfoundland & Labrador Studies
History, culture, literature, politics, folklore, language and contemporary life across Newfoundland and Labrador.
BSc in Fisheries & Marine Resources
Fisheries science, marine ecology, resource management and community-based approaches to sustainable oceans.
Bachelor of Tourism & Place
Tourism, heritage, destination development, community planning and the economics of people wanting to see the weather you complain about.
720undergraduate students
280graduate students
49faculty members
14community research sites
People
Meet some of our faculty.
Dr. Siobhán M. O’Rourke
Dean; Professor of Coastal Communities
“Rooted here. Relevant everywhere.”
Dr. Elias Porter
Professor; Chair, Fisheries & Marine Resources
“The ocean is data, livelihood and memory at the same time.”
Dr. Renée Walsh
Professor; Chair, Newfoundland & Labrador Studies
“Place is not background. It shapes the question.”
Dr. Ibrahim Hassan
Associate Professor; Chair, Marine Policy & Governance
“Governance begins where the maps overlap.”
Student perspective
People make the program.
“I wanted a degree that treated where I’m from as something worth studying, not something to leave behind.” — Claire Noseworthy, Bachelor of Coastal Studies (Class of 2027)
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