Jan 18, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Biology (BA) Academic Degree Map

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


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First Year Hours K-State Core  
Semester 1      
BIOL 100 - Biology First-Year Orientation OR 1    
DAS 101 - Discover, Create, and Thrive: Arts and Sciences Orientation 1    
BIOL 198 -  Principles of Biology 4 KSC 040  
ENGL 100 - Expository Writing I 3 KSC 010  
Social & Behavioral Sciences Requirement (US Multicultural Overlay) 3 KSC 030  
Language Course 4 KSC 060  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 401 - Organismic Biology 5    
COMM 106 - Public Speaking I 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    
Language Course 4    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Second Year      
Semester 1      
Biology Elective 3    
CHM 210 - Chemistry I 4    
ENGL 200 - Expository Writing II 3 KSC 010  
Language Course 3    
Social and Behavioral Science and Global Perspectives Overlay 3 KSC 050  
Total Credits: 16      
       
Semester 2      
Biology Elective 3    
CHM 230 - Chemistry II 4    
STAT 225 - Introduction to Statistics OR 3    
STAT 240 - Biometrics I OR 3    
STAT 701 - Fundamental Methods of Biostatistics OR 3    
STAT 703 - Introduction to Statistical Methods for the Sciences 3    
Language Course 3    
Moral Reasoning Overlay 3    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Third Year      
Semester 1      
BIOL 303 - Ecology of Environmental Problems OR 3    
BIOL 529 - Ecology 3    
CHM 350 - General Organic Chemistry 3    
CHM 351 - General Organic Chemistry Laboratory 2    
Arts and Sciences 300-level or above Social Science 3    
Outside Concentration - A&S requirement 3    
Total Credits: 14      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 450 - Modern Genetics 4    
PHYS 113 - General Physics I 4    
Outside Concentration - A&S requirement 3    
Free Electives {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 14      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
Biology Elective 3    
Biology Elective 3    
BIOL 520 - Evolution OR 3    
BIOL 521 - Evolution of Infectious Diseases 3    
Arts and Sciences 300-level or above Humanities course 3    
Outside Concentration - A&S requirement 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
Biology Elective 3    
Arts and Sciences fine arts course 3    
Free Electives {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
Free Electives 6    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Total Program Hours: 120      

 

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