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

Fisheries, Wildlife, Conservation, and Environmental Biology - Fisheries Ecology and Management (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 and Humanities Requirement (Moral Reasoning Overlay) 3 KSC 060  
Social and 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   KSC 010  
MATH 100   - College Algebra   OR 3   KSC 030  
MATH 150   - Plane Trigonometry   3   KSC 030  
MATH 220   - Analytic Geometry and Calculus I   4   KSC 030  
Social and 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 and Humanities Requirement 3    
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      
FWCEB Elective 3    
Outside concentration - A&S requirement 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 2 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 542   - Ichthyology   3      
BIOL 682   - Fish Ecology   3    
STAT 341   - Biometrics II   3      
Fine Arts or Humanities - A&S requirement 3    
Outside concentration - A&S requirement 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
BIOL 513   - Physiological Adaptations of Animals   4      
BIOL 612   - Freshwater Ecology   4      
BIOL 640   - Population Biology   3      
BIOL 696   - Fisheries Management and Techniques   4      
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 632   -Ecology Laboratory   1      
FWCEB Elective 3    
Non-Quantitative Social Science (US Multicultural Overlay) 3    
Outside concentration - A&S requirement 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 2 KSC 070  
Free Elective  3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Total Program Hours: 120