{"id":7171,"date":"2019-10-17T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf-draft\/?page_id=7171"},"modified":"2024-05-21T09:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T13:10:21","slug":"careers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/academics\/bachelor-of-science\/careers\/","title":{"rendered":"Careers BS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Bachelor of Science in Marine Affairs<\/h1>\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"bs\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-bs\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-7078\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-7078\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/academics\/bachelor-of-science\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-7126\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-7126\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/academics\/bachelor-of-science\/curriculum\/\">Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-7177\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-7177\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/academics\/bachelor-of-science\/careers\/\">Careers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n<h2>Careers<\/h2>\n<div><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-boxout-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-boxout right  \"><h1>Further Studies<\/h1><p>The MAF B.S. major serves as an excellent educational background for continued study in law\u2014especially environmental, fishery, coastal zone, admiralty, and ocean law.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Students are also well prepared to pursue graduate and professional programs in environmental management, public administration, community planning, marine affairs, and related fields.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>This major establishes a strong background for careers in the public or private sectors in a wide variety of marine-related fields.<\/p>\n<p>Typical areas of employment include positions in government agencies (federal, state, and local) concerned with coastal zone, environmental protection, or fisheries management, and in marine transportation.<\/p>\n<p>In the private sector, graduates find positions in environmental consulting firms, marine insurance, public-interest non-governmental organizations, marinas, ports, and companies involved in shipping.<\/p>\n<a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/careers-by-major\/marine-affairs-b-s\/\" title=\"\">More Career Information<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bachelor of Science in Marine Affairs Careers This major establishes a strong background for careers in the public or private sectors in a wide variety of marine-related fields. Typical areas of employment include positions in government agencies (federal, state, and local) concerned with coastal zone, environmental protection, or fisheries management, and in marine transportation. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"parent":7069,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-7171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12446,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7171\/revisions\/12446"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}