Degree Requirements

Courses numbered below 100 may not be applied toward a degree. In addition to the university's limit on credits for extracurricular work, no more than 4 credit hours in lifetime sports and exercise activity classes may be applied toward a degree.

Common degree requirements
(Three courses, 8 credit hours minimum) Purpose: to give students practice in writing and analyzing expository and argumentative prose and in oral presentation.

College
As required by the university, students must complete at least 18 credit hours of approved university general education courses, at least 6 credit hours of which must be at the 300 level or above. The college further requires that at least one university general education course must be taken from each of the three areas of humanities, social sciences, and computational or natural sciences. Transfer students requiring only 6 hours of university general education courses should take at least one course from each of two discipline areas.

Courses used for university's general education credit may not be in the student's major field without the approval of the college and the university.

Within the above guidelines, any approved general education courses offered by any college at Kansas State University may be used to satisfy these requirements. University general education courses approved as basic requirements in the College of Arts and Sciences (see ``Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Sciences'' following this section) may be used to satisfy simultaneously both university general education and College of Arts and Sciences basic requirements. Courses from other colleges may be approved as basic requirements in the College of Arts and Sciences. Students should consult their advisors for up-to-date lists of approved courses.

Departmental
Individual departments within the college may propose exceptions or additions to the college requirements noted above. Students are advised to check with their major departments to see whether such is the case.

In course descriptions, university general education courses are marked with a . For more information about university general education requirements, see the Degrees section of this catalog. For a current list of approved university general education courses:
www.ksu.edu/registrar/enroll/gened.html

Topics within Arts and Sciences:
	Majors and Degrees		Aerospace Studies		Mathematics
	Degree Requirements		Anthropology		Military Science
	Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Sciences		Art		Modern Languages
	Bachelor of Fine Arts		Biochemistry		Music
	Bachelor of Music		Biology		Philosophy
	Bachelor of Music Education		Chemistry		Physics
	Associate of Arts at Fort Riley		Economics		Political Science
	Associate of Science at Fort Riley		English		Psychology
	Program Options		Geography		Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
	Advising		Geology		Speech Communication, Theatre, and Dance
	University Undergraduate Studies		History		Statistics
	Pre-Law		Journalism and Mass Communications
	Pre-Health Professions Program		Kinesiology