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Agronomy (B.S.) - Business and Industry Option

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Agronomy includes crop, soil, weed, range, and environmental sciences. Students in agronomy have diverse interests, including crop production and physiology; crop breeding; soil management, fertility, and conservation; soil and water quality; physical and chemical properties of soils; forages; and range management.

Bachelor’s degree requirements

Agronomy (32-33 credit hours)

AGRON 101 - Agronomy Orientation Credits: 1
AGRON 220 - Crop Science Credits: 4
AGRON 305 - Soils Credits: 4
AGRON 330 - Weed Science Credits: 3
AGRON 360 - Crop Growth and Development Credits: 3
AGRON 375 - Soil Fertility Credits: 3
AGRON 405 - Internship in Agronomy Credits: 0-3 (3 credit hours)
AGRON Electives Credits: 8-9

Select one course from:

AGRON 502 - International Experience in Agronomy Credits: 0-6
AGRON 602 - Agronomy Capstone Experience Credits: 3
AGRON 655 - Site Specific Agriculture Credits: 3
GENAG 582 - Natural Resources/Environmental Science Project (NRES) Credits: 3

Communications/Social Sciences/Humanities/Economics/Business (38 credit hours)

ACCTG 231 - Accounting for Business Operations Credits: 3
COMM 105 - Public Speaking IA Credits: 2
ECON 110 - Principles of Macroeconomics Credits: 3
ENGL 100 - Expository Writing I Credits: 3
ENGL 200 - Expository Writing II Credits: 3
Agricultural Economics & Agricultural Business/Business Administration Electives Credits: 12
Social Sciences/Humanities Elective Credits: 9
Communications Elective Credits: 3

Select from:

AGCOM 400 - Agricultural Business Communications Credits: 3
AGCOM 410 - Agricultural Student Magazine Credits: 1-5
COMM 311 - Business and Professional Speaking Credits: 3
COMM 321 - Public Speaking II Credits: 3
COMM 325 - Argumentation and Debate Credits: 3
COMM 526 - Persuasion Credits: 3
ENGL 300 - Expository Writing III Credits: 3
ENGL 417 - Written Communication for the Workplace Credits: 3
ENGL 516 - Written Communication for the Sciences Credits: 3
MKTG 542 - Fundamentals of Professional Selling Credits: 3
Any second level or above modern language

General Electives (12-17 credit hours)

Biological/Physical Science (28-32 credit hours)

BIOL 198 - Principles of Biology Credits: 4
BIOCH 265 - Introductory Organic and Biochemistry Credits: 5
or
CHM 350 - General Organic Chemistry Credits: 3
CHM 210 - Chemistry I Credits: 4
CHM 230 - Chemistry II Credits: 4
CIS 102 - Introduction to Spreadsheet Applications Credits: 1
MATH 100 - College Algebra Credits: 3
STAT 350 - Business and Economic Statistics I Credits: 3

Two of the following:

AGRON 645 - Soil Microbiology Credits: 3
ASI 500 - Genetics Credits: 3
BIOL 455 - General Microbiology Credits: 4
BIOL 500 - Plant Physiology Credits: 3
BIOL 529 - Ecology Credits: 3
GEOG 508 - Geographic Information Systems I Credits: 4
MATH 205 - General Calculus and Linear Algebra Credits: 3
PHYS 113 - General Physics I Credits: 4

Agriculture (12 credit hours)

AGEC 120 - Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Credits: 3
or
ECON 120 - Principles of Microeconomics Credits: 3
ENTOM 300 - Economic Entomology Credits: 3
PLPTH 500 - Principles of Plant Pathology Credits: 3
Agricultural Elective Credits: 3

Total credit hours required for graduation (127)

Must satisfy K-State 8 general education requirements.

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