On October 10, the College of Fisheries and Life Science of SHOU and the College of Renewable Biological Resources of Ghana University for Development Studies reached an agreement on jointly launching “2+2” co-teaching program for undergraduates of aqua-culture. This marks an important step taken by the undergraduate specialty of aqua-culture of SHOU in the direction of internationalization, having laid a foundation for expanding the influence of our aqua-culture education in Africa.

In recent years, guided by national comprehensive pilot speciality reform, outstanding agronomy and forestry education and training program for students to be talents, applied  training for students to be talents and other national, ministerial and provincial teaching reform programs and relying on discipline advantages and features, the undergraduate specialty of aqua-culture of SHOU has taken root in China, and made unremitting efforts to train students to become compound talents who have global vision and can adapt themselves to the sustainable utilization of aqua-culture and marine living resources. At present, the undergraduate specialty of aqua-culture has launched double degree joint training programs for “going global” based on credit transfer and accumulation jointly with related specialties of Universidade do Algarve (Portugal), Hogeschool Zeeland (Holland), James Cook University (Australia), the University of Auckland (New Zealand) and Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand); built the first overseas production practice base for aqua-culture in Malaysia; become an all-English pilot teaching specialty accredited by  Shanghai Municipal Education Committee; completed the all-English course teaching of two rounds of “OBOR” training class and advanced class, trained a professional faculty team capable of all-English teaching, and laid a solid foundation for enrolling more international students, endeavoring to build our aqua-culture specialty into a first-class undergraduate specialty with global influence.