AQUA 21
Approved: 2/27/97
Scanned:
4.19.05
Inactivated 2/8/08
College of the Redwoods
CREDIT COURSE OUTLINE
DEPARTMENT AND COURSE NUMBER: AQUA 88/21
DEGREE APPLICABLE
NON-DEGREE APPLICABLE
FORMER NUMBER (If previously offered) AQUA 88I (Fall ’90)
COURSE TITLE APPLIED SALMONID PROPAGATION
LECTURE HOURS: 2.0
LAB HOURS: 3.0
UNITS: 3.0
PREREQUISITE: AQUA 20 OR EQUIV
Eligibility for: Engl 150
Math 105
Request for Exception Attached
CO-REQUISITE: NONE
GRADING STANDARD:
Letter Grade Only
TRANSFERABILITY:
CSUS
UC
Articulation with UC requested
Repeatable
Yes
NONE
No Max No. Units
CR/NC Only
Grade/CR/NC Option
Maximum Class Size 30
Max No. Enrollments
CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to demonstrate and involve students in experimental spawning, fertilization,
incubation and culture techniques of salmonid fishes. Topics will include: selective, breeding programs,
gamete storage techniques triploiding, and sex specific production. The class would be divided into small
groups that would be given opportunities to initiate and follow through on propagation and genetic
experiments on specific populations of salmonid fishes. Accurate research and development laboratory
practices to include recordkeeping and data analysis will be emphasized.
NOTE:
COURSE OUTCOMES/OBJECTIVES: List the primary instructional objectives of the class. Formulate
some of them in terms of specific measurable, student accomplishments, e.g., specific knowledge and/or
skills to be attained as a result of completing this course. For degree-applicable courses, include
objectives in the area of “critical thinking.”
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Understand experimental spawning, fertilization, incubation and culture techniques of salmonid
fishes.
Be familiar with: selective breeding programs, gamete storage techniques, triploiding, and sex
specific production.
Initiate and follow through on, propagation and genetic experiments on specific populations of
salmonid fishes.
Research and develop laboratory practices to include recordkeeping and data analysis.
AQUA 21
Approved: 2/27/97
Scanned:
4.19.05
Inactivated 2/8/08
COURSE OUTLINE:
% of Classroom Hours Spent on Each Topic
1.
Spawning, fertilization incubation and initial culture techniques of salmonid fishes;
17.5 %
2.
Selective breeding concepts and practices (to include latest technology);
17.5 %
3. Triploiding and sex specific production concepts and practices;
17.5 %
4.
Experiments implementing the concepts 1-3;
30.0 %
5.
Industry specification data compilation and analysis
17.5 %
100.0 %
APPROPRIATE TEXTS AND MATERIALS:
(Indicate textbooks that may be required or recommended, including alternate texts that may be used.)
Text(s)
Title: Fish Hatchery Management
Required
Edition: 2nd
Alternate
Author: Piper, et al.
Recommended
Publisher: U.S. FWS
Date Published: 1983
(Additional required, alternate, or recommended texts should be listed on a separate sheet and attached.)
For degree applicable courses the adopted texts have been certified to be college-level:
Yes. Basis for determination:
is used by two or more four-year colleges or universities (certified by the Division Chair or
Branch Coordinator, or Center Dean)
OR
has been certified by the LAC as being of college level using the Coleman and Dale-Chall
Readability Index Scale.
No. Request for Exception Attached
If no text or a below college level text is used in a degree applicable course, a Request for Exception
form must be completed and a rationale provided. This request for exception will be approved or denied
by the Curriculum Committee.
METHODS TO MEASURE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT:
Please check where appropriate; however, a degree applicable course must have a minimum of one
response in category 1, 2, or 3. If category 1 is not checked, the department must explain why
substantial writing assignments are an inappropriate basis for at least part of the grade.
1. Substantial writing assignments, including:
essay exam(s)
term or other paper(s)
laboratory report(s)
written homework
reading report(s)
other (specify) _____
If the course is degree applicable, substantial writing assignments in this course are inappropriate
because:
The course is primarily computational in nature.
The course primarily involves skill demonstrations or problem solving.
Other rationale (explain) __________________________________________
2. Computational or Non-computational problem-solving demonstrations, including:
exam(s)
quizzes
homework problems
laboratory report(s)
field work
other (specify)_______
3. Skill demonstrations, including:
class performance(s)
other (specify)____
4. Objective examinations, including:
multiple choice
completion
field work
performance exam(s)
true/false
matching items
other (specify) Aqua computations
AQUA 21
Approved: 2/27/97
Scanned:
4.19.05
Inactivated 2/8/08
NOTE: A course grade may not be based solely on attendance.
REQUIRED READING, WRITING, AND OTHER OUTSIDE OF CLASS ASSIGNMENTS:
Over an 18-week presentation of the course, 3 hours per week are required for each unit of credit. ALL
Degree Applicable Credit classes must treat subject matter with a scope and intensity which require the
student to study outside of class. Two hours of independent work done out of class are required for each
hour of lecture. Lab and activity classes must also require some outside of class work. Outside of the
regular class time the students in this class will be doing the following:
Study
Answer questions
Skill practice
Required reading
Problem solving
Written work (essays/compositions/report/analysis/research)
Journal (reaction and evaluation of class, done on a continuing basis throughout the
semester)
Observation of or participation in an activity related to course content (e.g., play, museum,
concert, debate, meeting, etc.)
Field trips
Other (specify) ____________________________
COLLEGE LEVEL CRITICAL THINKING TASKS/ASSIGNMENTS:
Degree applicable courses must include critical thinking tasks/assignments. This section need not be
completed for non-degree applicable courses. Describe how the course requires students to
independently analyze synthesize, explain, assess, anticipate and/or define problems, formulate and
assess solutions, apply principles to new situations, etc.
Students will be required to independently analyze and synthesize the concepts and practice of applied
propagation and genetics of salmonid fishes. They will also be required to explain (through careful
assessment) those concepts and practices and how they apply to private and governmental fish culture
practices. The student will also be required to anticipate and define problems associated with actual
experiments and applications of genetics and propagation and will further be required to assess and
formulate solutions, as well as apply the concepts, principles, techniques (learned through hands-on
training] to new situations, etc.
METHOD OF EVALUATION:
1.
Project(s) and Report
2.
Quizzes and Assignments
3.
Exams
GRADE SCALE: 91-l00 = A, 8l-90 = B, 7l-80 = C, 61-70 = D, 0-60 = F
% OF GRADE
50%
20%
30%