Soil and Water Sciences, BS

Degree Requirements

120 Credits Required

Departmental/Program Major Courses (29-30 credits)

Other Departmental /Program Course Requirements (79-80 credits)

• AGR 10100 - Introduction To The College Of Agriculture And Purdue University
• AGR 11300 - Introduction To Agronomy Academic Programs
• BIOL 11000 - Fundamentals Of Biology I
• CHM 11100 - General Chemistry (satisfies Science Selective for core)
• CHM 11200 - General Chemistry (satisfies Science Selective for core)
• CHM 25700 - Organic Chemistry
• CHM 25701 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory
• EAPS 11100 - Physical Geology
• MA 16010 - Applied Calculus I (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning Selective for core)
• MA 16020 - Applied Calculus II
• PHYS 22000 - General Physics
• PHYS 22100 - General Physics
• STAT 30100 - Elementary Statistical Methods (satisfies Information Literacy Selective for core)

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• BIOL 11100 - Fundamentals Of Biology II or
• BTNY 11000 - Introduction To Plant Science

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• ENGL 10600 - First-Year Composition (satisfies Written Communication for core) or
• ENGL 10800 - Accelerated First-Year Composition or
• HONR 19903 - Interdisciplinary Approaches In Writing or
• SCLA 10100 - Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication I: Antiquity To Modernity

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• COM 11400 - Fundamentals Of Speech Communication (satisfies Oral Communication for core) or
• COM 21700 - Science Writing And Presentation or
• EDPS 31500 - Collaborative Leadership: Interpersonal Skills or
• SCLA 10200 - Transformative Texts, Critical Thinking And Communication II: Modern World

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• Crop or Plant Science Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Ecology Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Engineering or Science Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Genetics or Crop Physiology and Ecology, or Biochemistry selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Agricultural Economics, Economics, Management or Techology Leadership & Innovation Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Economics Selective (satisfies Human Culture Behavioral/Social Science for core) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Human Cultures: Humanities – Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Humanities for core)
• Humanities or Social Science Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Humanities or Social Science Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Humanities or Social Science Selective (30000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Written or Oral Communications Selective (20000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

Electives (10-12 credits)

• Elective - Credit Hours: 10.00-12.00

College of Agriculture & University Level Requirements

• 2.00 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.
• 32 Upper division credits taken from Purdue
• International Understanding Selective   - Credit Hours: 9.00
• Multicultural Awareness Selective  - Credit Hours: 3.00
• 6 Credits:  Written/Oral Communication or Social Science and Humanities categories must come from 30000+ courses or above - Credit Hours: 3.00 AND Written/Oral Communication or Social Science and Humanities categories must come from 30000+ or above or from a course with a required pre-requisite in the same department - Credit Hours: 3.00
• Humanities and/or Social Sciences outside the College of Agriculture - Credit Hours: 9.00

University Core Requirements

• Human Cultures Humanities
• Human Cultures Behavioral/Social Science
• Information Literacy
• Science #1
• Science #2
• Science, Technology, and Society
• Written Communication
• Oral Communication
• Quantitative Reasoning

For a complete listing of course selectives, visit the Provost’s Website.

Program Requirements

Notes

• 2.0 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.
• Consultation with an advisor may result in an altered plan customized for an individual student.

Foreign Language Courses

Foreign Language proficiency requirements vary by program. 

For acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor: American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, (ancient) Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

Critical Course

The ♦ course is considered critical.

In alignment with the Degree Map Guidance for Indiana’s Public Colleges and Universities, published by the Commission for Higher Education (pursuant to HEA 1348-2013), a Critical Course is identified as “one that a student must be able to pass to persist and succeed in a particular major.  Students who want to be nurses, for example, should know that they are expected to be proficient in courses like biology in order to be successful.  These would be identified by the institutions for each degree program”. 

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