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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Agronomy (B.S.) - Consulting and Production 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 (35 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 385 - Soil Fertility Laboratory Credits: 2
AGRON 405 - Internship in Agronomy Credits: 0-3 (3 credit hours)
AGRON 650 - Integrated Weed Management Credits: 3

Select one course from:

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

Agronomy Electives (6 credit hours)

Social Sciences & Humanities (23 credit hours)

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

Communication Elective (3 credit hours)

Social Sciences & Humanities Electives (9 credit hours)

General Electives (7-9 credit hours)

Natural & Applied Sciences (25-27 credit hours)

BIOL 198 - Principles of Biology Credits: 4
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 340 - Biometrics I Credits: 3

One of the following courses:

BIOCH 265 - Introductory Organic and Biochemistry Credits: 5
CHM 350 - General Organic Chemistry Credits: 3
CHM 531 - Organic Chemistry I Credits: 3
PHYS 113 - General Physics I Credits: 4

Natural & Applied Sciences Elective (3 credit hours)

Agriculture (28 credit hours)

AGEC 120 - Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Credits: 3
or
ECON 120 - Principles of Microeconomics Credits: 3
ACCTG 231 - Accounting for Business Operations Credits: 3
or
AGEC 308 - Farm and Ranch Management Credits: 3
ENTOM 300 - Economic Entomology Credits: 3
or
ENTOM 312 - General Entomology Credits: 3
ENTOM 612 - Insect Pest Diagnosis Credits: 2
PLPTH 500 - Principles of Plant Pathology Credits: 3
PLPTH 585 - Crop Diseases Credits: 2

Agriculture Electives (12 credit hours)

Total credit hours required for graduation: (120)

Must satisfy K-State 8 general education requirements.

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