Agronomy (B.S.) - Range Management 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 (36 credit hours)

AGRON 101 - Agronomy Orientation Credits: 1
AGRON 220 - Crop Science Credits: 4
AGRON 305 - Soils Credits: 4
AGRON 501 - Range Management Credits: 3
AGRON 515 - Soil Genesis and Classification Credits: 3
AGRON 560 - Field Identification of Range and Pasture Plants Credits: 1
AGRON 660 - Grassland Monitoring and Assessment Credits: 2
AGRON 661 - Grassland Monitoring and Assessment Lab Credits: 1
AGRON 670 - Range Management Problems Credits: 1-18 (3 credit hours)
AGRON 681 - Range Ecology Credits: 3
AGRON 762 - Range Grasses Credits: 2
AGRON 790 - Range Management Planning 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 Elective (3 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 (9-11 credit hours)

Natural & Applied Sciences (38-40 credit hours)

BIOCH 265 - Introductory Organic and Biochemistry Credits: 5
or
CHM 350 - General Organic Chemistry Credits: 3
BIOL 198 - Principles of Biology Credits: 4
BIOL 500 - Plant Physiology Credits: 3
BIOL 529 - Ecology Credits: 3
or
BIOL 504 - Plant Ecology Credits: 3
BIOL 551 - Taxonomy of Flowering Plants Credits: 4
CHM 210 - Chemistry I Credits: 4
CHM 230 - Chemistry II Credits: 4
CIS 102 - Introduction to Spreadsheet Applications Credits: 1
GEOL 100 - Earth in Action Credits: 3
MATH 100 - College Algebra Credits: 3
MATH 150 - Plane Trigonometry Credits: 3

Natural and Applied Sciences Elective (3 credit hours)

Agriculture (12 credit hours)

AGEC 120 - Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Credits: 3
or
ECON 120 - Principles of Microeconomics Credits: 3
ASI 102 - Principles of Animal Science Credits: 3
ASI 515 - Beef Science Credits: 3
ENTOM 300 - Economic Entomology Credits: 3
or
ENTOM 305 - Animal Health Entomology Credits: 2
and
ENTOM 306 - Animal Health Entomology Laboratory Credits: 1

Total credit hours required for graduation: (120)

Must satisfy K-State 8 general education requirements.

Kansas State University

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