Soil and Water Sciences, BS

Degree Requirements

120 Credits Required

Departmental/Program Major Courses (29-30 credits)

Other Departmental/Program Course Requirements (79 credits)

• AGR 10100 - Introduction To The College Of Agriculture And Purdue University
• AGR 11300 - Introduction To Agronomy Academic Programs

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• BIOL 11000 - Fundamentals Of Biology I and
• BIOL 11100 - Fundamentals Of Biology II

• OR

• BIOL 11000 - Fundamentals Of Biology I  and

• BTNY 11000 - Introduction To Plant Science

• OR

• BTNY 12000 - Principles Of Plant Biology I and
• BTNY 12100 - Principles Of Plant Biology II

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• CHM 11100 - General Chemistry ♦ (satisfies Science #1 for core)
• CHM 11200 - General Chemistry ♦ (satisfies Science #2 for core)
• CHM 25700 - Organic Chemistry
• CHM 25701 - Organic Chemistry Laboratory
• EAPS 11100 - Physical Geology
• MA 16010 - Applied Calculus I (satisfies Quantitative Reasoning for core)
• MA 16020 - Applied Calculus II
• STAT 30100 - Elementary Statistical Methods (satisfies Information Literacy for core)
• PHYS 22000 - General Physics
• PHYS 22100 - General Physics

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• Genetics or Crop Physiology and Ecology, or Biochemistry Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00

• AGRY 32000 - Genetics or
• AGRY 52500 - Crop Physiology And Ecology or
• BCHM 30700 - Biochemistry

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• Agricultural Economics, Economics, Management or Techology Leadership & Innovation Selective (AGEC 10000:59999; ECON 10000:59999; MGMT 10000:59999; OLS 10000:59999) - Credit Hours: 3.00

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• Economics Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Human Cultures: Behavioral/Social Sciences for core)

• AGEC 20300 - Introductory Microeconomics For Food And Agribusiness or
• AGEC 20400 - Introduction To Resource Economics And Environmental Policy or
• AGEC 21700 - Economics or
• ECON 21000 - Principles Of Economics or
• ECON 25100 - Microeconomics or
• ECON 25200 - Macroeconomics

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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
• Human Cultures: Humanities Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Human Cultures: 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
• Oral Communication Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Oral Communication for core)
• Written Communication Selective - Credit Hours: 3.00 (satisfies Written Communication for core)
• Written or Oral Communications Selective (20000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

Electives (11-12 credits)

• Elective - Credit Hours: 11.00-12.00

College of Agriculture & University Level Requirements

• 2.00 GPA required for Bachelor of Science degree.
• 32 Upper division credits taken from Purdue
• College of Agriculture International Understanding Selective   - Credit Hours: 9.00
• College of Agriculture Multicultural Awareness Selective   - Credit Hours: 3.00
• College of Agriculture Humanities or Social Science Selectives    (30000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

• Humanities or Social Science Selectives   (Choose from outside the College of Agriculture) - Credit Hours: 9.00
• College of Agriculture Written or Oral Communication Selectives   (20000+ level) - Credit Hours: 3.00

University Core Requirements

For a complete listing of University Core Course Selectives, visit the University Senate Website.

• Human Cultures: Behavioral/Social Science (BSS)
• Human Cultures: Humanities (HUM)
• Information Literacy (IL)
• Oral Communication (OC)
• Quantitative Reasoning (QR)
• Science #1 (SCI)
• Science #2 (SCI)
• Science, Technology, and Society (STS)
• Written Communication (WC)

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.

World Language Courses

World Language proficiency requirements vary by program. The following list is inclusive of all world languages PWL offers for credit; for acceptable languages and proficiency levels, see your advisor.

ASL-American Sign Language	ARAB-Arabic	CHNS-Chinese	FR-French
GER-German	GREK-Greek (ancient)	HEBR-Hebrew (Biblical)	HEBR-Hebrew (modern)
ITAL-Italian	JPNS-Japanese	KOR-Korean	LATN-Latin
PTGS-Portuguese	RUSS-Russian	SPAN-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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