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

Fisheries, Wildlife, Conservation, and Environmental Biology - Wildlife 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      
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 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 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      
BIOL 544   - Mammalogy   3      
Outside concentration - A&S requirement 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 2 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 543   - Ornithology   3      
FWCEB elective 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 551   - Taxonomy of Flowering Plants   4      
BIOL 640   - Population Biology   3      
Outside concentration - A&S requirement 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 1 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 632   - Ecology Laboratory   1    
BIOL 684   - Wildlife Management and Techniques   4      
Free Elective 3    
Non-Quantitative Social Science and US Multicultural Overlay 3    
FWCEB Elective 3    
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 1 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Total Program Hours: 120