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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Fisheries, Wildlife, Conservation, and Environmental Biology - Conservation Biology (BS) 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   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 221   - 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 333   - 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 398   - Principles of 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 Entomology   3      
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      

 

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