From 2016, Kochi University will reorganize its Faculty of Agriculture into the Faculty of Agriculture and Marine Science. Within this Faculty, the Department of Marine Resource Science will take a comprehensive and varied approach to the resources of marine life, seawater, and seafloor minerals and develop students with the basic knowledge necessary to manage them sustainably. The curriculum will include successful completion of the mandatory Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management (ICOM) Education Program, carried out cooperatively by the five national universities in Shikoku. The department will be the only one in the country where undergraduates can study ocean management from an integrated humanities/science perspective.