Purpose & Objectives
Minors at 麻豆社 provide students with the opportunity to:
- Deepen knowledge and skills in a secondary discipline outside their major.
- Enhance interdisciplinary skills by exploring complementary fields.
- Increase career versatility by developing additional competencies.
- Pursue intellectual passions in a structured yet flexible way.
Structural Requirements
Each college may use its curricular governance process to determine appropriate standards for its own minors within the following University guidelines:
- Number of required credits for the minor: 15 to 24 credits
- Minimum five courses.
- At least one course at the upper division level
- Maximum 40% of the minor鈥檚 required credits may overlap with a student's major(s) or additional minor(s).
NOTE: The credit overlap percentage is a guide that each minor must translate into a specific number of courses for each individual minor. E.g., a minor consisting of 15 credits where the constituent courses are primarily 3-credit courses should restrict the number of overlapping courses to 2 or fewer.
Approval & Administration
- Proposal Process on Modern Campus:
- Departments/Programs submit a proposal through
- Proposals must include:
- Rationale & learning outcomes.
- Course list & credit structure.
- Approvals from other department heads and the dean鈥檚 office(s) for courses outside the department.
- Academic Business Plan: if the proposed minor will require additional resources (financial, space, or staff).
- Governance process initiated according to unit norms and existing governance:
- Academic department/program, then school/college faculty structure, then Dean鈥檚 office
- Non-college or cross-college programs use the existing governance structure
- Budget office approval (if Academic Business Plan required)
- Undergraduate Education and Provost approval
- PRC Approval
- Faculty Senate Executive Committee approval
- Academic Guide page creation and update to Banner and Degree Works