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2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog

Biology (BA) Academic Degree Map

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


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The curriculum for this major assumes students enter college prepared to take Calculus.

     
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  
ENGL 100   -Expository Writing I   3   KSC 010  
Social & Behavioral Sciences Requirement  3 KSC 050  
Language Course #1 4 KSC 060  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 398  - Principles of Genetics   4      
COMM 106  - Public Speaking I    3   KSC 020  
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  
Language Course #2 4    
Total Credits: 14      
       
Second Year      
Semester 1      
Biology Elective 3    
CHM 210   - Chemistry I   4   KSC 070  
ENGL 200  - Expository Writing II   3   KSC 010  
Language Course #3 3    
Social and Behavioral Sciences Requirement: Global Perspectives Overlay 3 KSC 050  
Total Credits: 16      
       
Semester 2      
BIOL 221  - Organismic Biology   5   KSC 070  
CHM 230  - Chemistry II   4      
Arts and Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Language Course #4 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Third Year      
Semester 1      
BIOL 263  - Ecology of Environmental Problems  OR 3      
BIOL 529  - Ecology   3      
Biology Elective 3    
CHM 350  - General Organic Chemistry   3      
BS Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Requirement: Fine Arts 3    
Outside Concentration Class #1 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
Biology Elective 3    
CHM 351  - General Organic Chemistry Laboratory   2      
BS Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Requirement: Ethical Reasoning Overlay 3    
Outside Concentration Class #2 3    
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      
Total Credits: 14      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
BIOL 520   - Evolution   OR 3      
BIOL 521  - Evolution of Infectious Diseases   3      
PHYS 113  - General Physics I   4      
BS Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Requirement: US Multicultural Overlay 3    
Free Elective 3    
Outside Concentration Class #3 3    
Total Credits: 16      
       
Semester 2      
Biology Elective 3    
Biology Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Free Elective 3    
Total Credits: 15      
       
Total Program Hours: 120      

 

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