Oct 25, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Fisheries, Wildlife, Conservation, and Environmental Biology - Conservation Biology (BS) Academic Degree Map

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


First Year Hours K-State Core  
Semester 1      
BIOL 100 - Biology First-Year Orientation OR 1 KSC 070  
DAS 101 - Discover, Create, and Thrive: Arts and Sciences Orientation 1 KSC 070  
BIOL 198 - Principles of Biology 4 KSC 040  
CHM 210 - Chemistry I 4 KSC 070  
Arts & Humanities Requirement - Moral Reasoning Overlay 3 KSC 060  
Social & Behavioral Sciences Requirement 3 KSC 050  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 401 - Organismic Biology 5    
CHM 230 - Chemistry II 4    
COMM 106 - Public Speaking I 3 KSC 020  
ENGL 100 - Expository Writing I 3 KSC 010  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Second Year      
Semester 1      
CHM 350 - General Organic Chemistry 3    
CHM 351 - General Organic Chemistry Laboratory 2    
ENGL 200 - Expository Writing II 3    
MATH 100 - College Algebra OR 3 KSC 030  
MATH 150 - Plane Trigonometry OR 3 KSC 030  
MATH 220 - Analytic Geometry and Calculus I 4 KSC 030  
Social & Behavioral Sciences Requirement - Global Perspectives Overlay 3 KSC 050  
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 1 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 433 - Introduction to Fisheries, Wildlife, Conservation and Environmental Biology 3    
PHYS 115 - Descriptive Physics 5    
STAT 240 - Biometrics I 3    
Arts & Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 1 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Third Year      
Semester 1      
BIOL 450 - Modern Genetics 4    
BIOL 529 - Ecology 3    
Outside Concentration 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 2 KSC 070  
BIOL 542 - Ichthyology OR 3    
BIOL 543 - Ornithology OR 3    
BIOL 544 - Mammalogy OR 3    
BIOL 551 - Taxonomy of Flowering Plants OR 4    
BIOL 604 - Biology of the Fungi OR 3    
ENTOM 312 - General Entomology 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
FWCEB Elective 3    
STAT 341 - Biometrics II 3    
Fine Arts or Humanities 3    
Outside Concentration 3    
BIOL 542 - Ichthyology OR 3    
BIOL 543 - Ornithology OR 3    
BIOL 544 - Mammalogy OR 3    
BIOL 551 - Taxonomy of Flowering Plants OR 4    
BIOL 604 - Biology of the Fungi OR 3    
ENTOM 312 - General Entomology3      
Total Credits: 15      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
BIOL 520 - Evolution OR 3    
BIOL 521 - Evolution of Infectious Diseases 3    
BIOL 513 - Physiological Adaptations of Animals OR 4    
BIOL 500 - Plant Physiology AND 3    
BIOL 501 - Plant Physiology Lab 1    
BIOL 542 - Ichthyology OR 3    
BIOL 543 - Ornithology OR 3    
BIOL 544 - Mammalogy OR 3    
BIOL 551 - Taxonomy of Flowering Plants OR 4    
BIOL 604 - Biology of the Fungi OR 3    
ENTOM 312 - General Entomology 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 2 KSC 070  
BIOL 640 - Population Biology 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 632 - Ecology Laboratory 1    
BIOL 642 - Principles of Conservation Biology 3    
FWCEB Elective 3    
Non-Quantitative Social Science and US Multicultural Overlay 3    
Outside Concentration 3    
Free Elective 2    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Total Program Hours: 120