Arts and Sciences Curriculum

As a K-State Online student pursuing a degree from the College of Arts and Sciences, the below curriculum represents your required coursework in addition to your degree-specific classes. Please note that for most degrees, you may choses to pursue either a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science, and the requirements differ.

Courses Required for Both Degree Types

Communications (8-9 credits)

ENGL 100 - Expository Writing I (3 credits)
ENGL 200 - Expository Writing II (3 credits)
COMM 105 - Public Speaking IA (2 credits) OR
COMM 106 - Public Speaking I (3 credits)

Humanities (11-12 credits)

One course in fine arts
One course in philosophy (except logic)
One course in Western heritage*
One course in literary or rhetorical arts*

* Students in B.S. programs who take two courses in one foreign language may use these to satisfy the requirements for Western heritage and for literary/rhetorical arts.

Social Sciences (12 credits)

Four courses from at least three disciplines
One of the four courses must be 500-level or above or carry a prerequisite in the same department

Natural Sciences (11 credits minimum)

One life science course with lab
One physical science course with lab
One life or physical science course

Overlay requirements (Work with your advisor to make one of your social science courses also fulfill these requirements.)

U.S. multicultural overlay
International overlay

Bachelor of Arts Curriculum

Bachelor of Science Curriculum

Natural Sciences (3 credits minimum)

One course with a prerequisite in the same natural sciences department

Quantitative (3 credits minimum)
There are three options for fulfilling the quantitative requirement:

Three courses, 9 credits minimum, selected from:
- Computer science: CIS 111, 200-level or above
- Mathematics: MATH 100-level or above
- Philosophy: PHILO 110, 112, 320 or 510
- Statistics: Any course
One course and its 200-level prerequisite, selected from:
- Geography: GEOG 700 (with a statistics course)
- Physics: PHYS 113 (with MATH 150)
- PHYS 223 (with MATH 221)
- PHYS 224 (with MATH 221)
- PHYS 325 (with MATH 222)
- PHYS 452 (with MATH 150)
- Sociology: SOCIO 520 (with STAT 325)
- Social work: SOCWK 330 and 530 (with MATH 100)
Competency may be demonstrated by taking two 200-level courses or one 300-level course:
- 200-level courses (two courses):
  - Computer science: CIS 200
  - Mathematics: MATH 150, 205, 210 or 312
  - Philosophy: PHILO 510
  - Statistics: STAT 325 or 340 or 350, 703
- 300-level courses (one course):
  - Computer science: CIS 300
  - Mathematics: MATH 220
  - Philosophy: PHILO 701
  - Statistics: STAT 341, 351, 704 or 705

The College of Arts and Sciences is home to a wide variety of academic disciplines that, together, offer a liberal education to its students. These disciplines include the arts and humanities, the social sciences, and the natural and quantitative sciences. These areas embody the core studies of a university education.