{"id":13199,"date":"2026-05-15T11:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/?p=13199"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T15:57:31","slug":"maf-602-federal-ocean-policy-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/2026\/05\/15\/maf-602-federal-ocean-policy-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"MAF 602, Federal Ocean Policy &amp; Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Required for :<\/strong> Elective<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Typical Semester :<\/strong> Fall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Typically Taught By :<\/strong> Whit Saumweber<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Examines U.S. federal institutions responsible for ocean policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;This course will introduce students to the history and practice of U.S. ocean policy and governance.&nbsp; It will use the ways in which science and politics come together to influence public policy decisions as a lens to understand the role of stakeholders, agencies, and individuals in crafting decisions about marine resource management. We will examine pressing ocean policy issues and investigate the complexity of ocean-related decision-making.&nbsp; In doing so, students will learn about how science and politics intersect within policy making and the subsequent tradeoffs made in meeting these challenges.&nbsp; Students will also learn how to engage with public decision-making processes through hands on exercises and group work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Required for : Elective Typical Semester : Fall Typically Taught By : Whit Saumweber &nbsp;Examines U.S. federal institutions responsible for ocean policy. &nbsp;This course will introduce students to the history and practice of U.S. ocean policy and governance.&nbsp; It will use the ways in which science and politics come together to influence public policy decisions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13200,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13199\/revisions\/13200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/maf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}