Apr 22, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Fisheries, Wildlife, Conservation, and Environmental Biology - Environmental 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 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 Science 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      
Choose 1 Environmental Biology Core Course (must include a Lab) - BIOL 435, BIOL 500, BIOL 510, BIOL 515, BIOL 520, BIOL 521, BIOL 640, BIOL 642, BIOL 687, BIOL 734 AND 3    
Lab Course - BIOL 501, BIOL 513, BIOL 612, BIOL 682      
Outside Concentration 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 2 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
FWCEB Elective 3    
Choose 1 Environmental Biology Core Course (must include a Lab) - BIOL 435, BIOL 500, BIOL 510, BIOL 515, BIOL 520, BIOL 521, BIOL 640, BIOL 642, BIOL 687, BIOL 734 AND 3    
Lab Course - BIOL 501, BIOL 513, BIOL 612, BIOL 682      
Fine Arts or Humanities 3    
Outside Concentration 3    
STAT 341 - Biometrics II 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
FWCEB Elective 400-level or above 3    
FWCEB elective 400-level or above - must be BIOL prefix course 3    
FWCEB elective 400-level or above 3    
Choose 1 Environmental Biology Core Course (must include a Lab) - BIOL 435, BIOL 500, BIOL 510, BIOL 515, BIOL 520, BIOL 521, BIOL 640, BIOL 642, BIOL 687, BIOL 734 AND 3    
Lab Course - BIOL 501, BIOL 513, BIOL 612, BIOL 682      
Outside Concentration 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 632   - Ecology Laboratory   1      
FWCEB Elective 400-level or above 3    
Choose 1 Environmental Biology Core Course (must include a Lab) - BIOL 435, BIOL 500, BIOL 510, BIOL 515, BIOL 520, BIOL 521, BIOL 640, BIOL 642, BIOL 687, BIOL 734 AND 3    
Lab Course - BIOL 501, BIOL 513, BIOL 612, BIOL 682      
Non-Quantitative Social Science and US Multicultural Overlay 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 2 KSC 070  
Free Elective 3    
Total Credits: 120      
       
Total Program Hours: 120