RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT for Baccalaureate Degree. To earn a Baccalaureate Degree from Texas A&M University, students must complete a minimum of 36 semester hours of 300- and/or 400-level coursework including a minimum of 12 hours in their major at Texas A&M.
In regular maritime jargon, a ship that has a regular ocean-going route from point A to point B is an ocean liner, even if it doesnât carry passengers. The prominent passenger carrying ocean liners of recent decades have been the Queen Elizabeth 2, and more recently the Queen Mary 2, completed in 2003. In fact, the Queen Mary 2 was the first dedicated passenger service ocean liner built in over 30 years, and is now the sole true ocean liner carrying passengers in the world. With the advent of fast air travel and the dawning of the cruise industry, retired ocean liners were converted into cruise ships.
As the term has been applied over time, there are no sharp distinctions between seas and oceans, although seas are smaller and are usually bounded by land masses (and ones smaller scale than continents), the singular standard exception being the Sargasso Sea, which is created by the four currents bounding what is termed the North Atlantic Gyre.