Program: Wildlife and Outdoor Enterprise Management (B.S.) - Kansas State University

Apr 03, 2025

2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

The Wildlife and Outdoor Enterprise Management (WOEM) degree program offers students the ability to earn a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree and train them to be professional operational managers for hunting/shooting preserves and resorts, gamebird production companies, fishing resorts and other outdoor experience companies. To create professional managers, this program takes an interdisciplinary approach and incorporates a series of business, hospitality management, natural resources, wildlife and fisheries management courses with training in selected outdoor skills, such as firearms maintenance, bowhunting skills, and wildlife habitat maintenance.

General requirements (64 credit hours)

Wildlife and Outdoor Enterprise Management Core (51 credit hours)

Natural Resources Management (46 credit hours)

AGRON 305 - Soils Credits: 3
AGRON 306 - Soils Laboratory Credits: 1
AGRON 501 - Range Management Credits: 3
ASI 635 - Gamebird Production and Management Credits: 3
BIOL 433 - Introduction to Fisheries, Wildlife, Conservation and Environmental Biology Credits: 3
PMC 275 - Introduction to Natural Resource Management Credits: 3
WOEM 250 - Introduction to Wildlife and Outdoor Enterprise Management Credits: 1
WOEM 350 - Fauna and Flora of the Great Plains Credits: 3
WOEM 400 - Pond and Sportfish Management Credits: 3
WOEM 555 - Big Game Management Credits: 3
WOEM 560 - Upland Game Bird Management Credits: 3
WOEM 561 - Waterfowl and Wetlands Management Credits: 3
WOEM 562 - Advanced Wildlife Habitat Management Credits: 4
WOEM 570 - Internship for Wildlife and Outdoor Enterprise Management Credits: 6-10
WOEM 595 - Wildlife and Outdoor Enterprise Management Senior Seminar Credits: 1
WOEM 620 - Human-Wildlife Conflicts Credits: 3

Shooting Sports (5 credit hours)

WOEM 201 - Firearms, Cartridges and Ballistics Credits: 1
WOEM 202 - Rifle and Handgun Range Design, Construction and Operations Credits: 1
WOEM 203 - Bowhunting Equipment and Skills Credits: 1
WOEM 205 - Sporting Clays Range Development and Operations Credits: 1
WOEM 206 - Trap and Skeet Range Development and Operations Credits: 1

Unrestricted Electives (8 credit hours)

Business or Entrepreneurship Track

Choose and complete all courses within either the 15-credit hour Business Track or 15-credit hour Entrepreneuship Track.

The courses below reflect the requirements for the Business Minor and the Entrepreneurship Minor. Students should sign-up for the minor of their choice with the College of Business Administration to fulfill one of these tracks.

Business Track (15 credit hours)

ACCTG 231 - Accounting for Business Operations Credits: 3
ACCTG 241 - Accounting for Investing and Financing Credits: 3
FINAN 450 - Principles of Finance Credits: 3
MANGT 220 - Principles of Management Credits: 3
MKTG 400 - Introduction to Marketing Credits: 3

Entrepreneurship Track (15 credit hours)

Note: ENTRP 340 and ENTRP 575 required; and choose 9 remaining credit hours.

ENGL 455 - Exploring Creativity Credits: 3
ENTRP 340 - Business Innovation and the Entrepreneurial Mindset Credits: 3
ENTRP 350 - Technology and Innovation Management Credits: 3
ENTRP 411 - Intrapreneurship Credits: 3
ENTRP 435 - Entrepreneurial Experience Credits: 3
ENTRP 466 - Digital Business Credits: 3
ENTRP 520 - Social Entrepreneurship Credits: 3
ENTRP 540 - Entrepreneurial Consulting Credits: 3
FINAN 561 - Finance for Entrepreneurs Credits: 3

Total hours required for graduation (120 credit hours)

Must satisfy K-State 8 general education requirements.

Wildlife and Outdoor Enterprise Management (B.S.)

Location(s): Manhattan CampusClose

General requirements (64 credit hours)

Communications (9 credit hours)

Natural Sciences (13 credit hours)

Social Systems (9 credit hours)

Mathematics and Statistics (6 credit hours)

Hospitality (Choose 9 credit hours from the following list*)