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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog

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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Agronomy (B.S.) - Precision Agriculture 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.

Agronomy (38 credit hours)

AGRON 101 - Agronomy Orientation Credits: 1
AGRON 202 - Introduction to Precision Ag Software Credits: 3
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
AGRON 515 - Soil Genesis and Classification Credits: 3
AGRON 655 - Site Specific Agriculture Credits: 3

Two courses from:

AGRON 335 - Environmental Quality Credits: 3
AGRON 625 - Applications of Nutrient Management Credits: 3
AGRON 640 - Cropping Systems Credits: 3
AGRON 645 - Soil Microbiology Credits: 3
AGRON 650 - Integrated Weed Management Credits: 3
AGRON 746 - Environmental Soil Physics Credits: 3

Social Sciences & Humanities (24 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
GEOG 302 - Cartography and Thematic Mapping Credits: 3
GEOG 508 - Geographic Information Systems I Credits: 4

Communications Elective (3 credit hours)

Social Sciences/Humanities Elective (3 credit hours)

General Electives (6 credit hours)

Natural & Applied Sciences (34 credit hours)

BIOL 198 - Principles of Biology Credits: 4
CHM 210 - Chemistry I Credits: 4
CHM 230 - Chemistry II Credits: 4
MATH 100 - College Algebra Credits: 3
MATH 150 - Plane Trigonometry Credits: 3
PHYS 113 - General Physics I Credits: 4
STAT 340 - Biometrics I Credits: 3

Two courses from:

GEOG 605 - Remote Sensing of the Environment Credits: 3
GEOG 608 - Geographic Information Systems II Credits: 3
UAS 270 - Introduction to Unmanned Aircraft Systems Credits: 3
UAS 373 - Small Unmanned Aircraft Design and Construction for Non-Aviators Credits: 3
UAS 463 - Introduction to Autopilots and Mission Planning for Non-Aviators Credits: 3

Natural & Applied Sciences Elective (3 credit hours)

Agriculture (18 credit hours)

AGEC 120 - Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Credits: 3
or
AGEC 121 - Honors Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Credits: 3
or
ECON 120 - Principles of Microeconomics Credits: 3
ATM 550 - Precision Agriculture Technologies Credits: 3
ENTOM 300 - Economic Entomology Credits: 3
or
ENTOM 312 - General Entomology Credits: 3
PLPTH 500 - Principles of Plant Pathology Credits: 3
Agriculture Electives Credits: 6

Total credit hours required for graduation (120)

Must satisfy K-State 8 general education requirements.

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