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Students are required to complete a major as part of the bachelor's degree program, but minors are optional. A student may complete one or more minors, or instead may use any elective credit to take a variety of courses across the curriculum. A student may earn up to three minors as part of each degree completed. |
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Admission requirements | |
There are no departmental admission requirements for UW-Seattle minors. Declaring a minor, however, is not a backdoor route toward entering a major. If a department has admission requirements for the major, a student must apply and meet those requirements even if s/he has already declared a minor in that field.
UW-Bothell and UW-Tacoma minors may have admission requirements. |
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Declaring a minor | |
An approved minor may be declared any time after the student has earned 90 credits, regardless of whether or not the student has declared a major. A change-of-major form is used, but (at UW-Seattle) no adviser's signature is required. |
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Postbaccalaureate students | |
A postbaccalaureate student may not declare a minor and may not be awarded a minor. A postbaccalaureate student could, of course, complete the requirements of a minor, but the minor would not be posted on the student's transcript. |
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Multiple minors | |
A student may be awarded up to three minors at the time the first bachelor's degree is awarded. A student completing two or more simultaneous bachelor's degrees may be awarded up to three minors for each degree. No minors may be awarded after the student completes his/her first bachelor's degree. |
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Credits | |
A minor must require at least 25 credits; most minors require 25-35 credits. In some cases, background requirements will increase the number of credits the student must actually complete. For example, the oceanography minor requires 27 credits of oceanography courses, but prerequisites for the oceanography courses include math, chemistry, physics, biology, and earth and space sciences.
At least 15 credits of courses counted toward a minor must be completed
at the UW. A student who wishes to graduate with a minor including fewer than 15 UW credits must obtain the permission of the department offering the minor. |
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Grades | |
A minimum 2.00 GPA is required for courses taken to complete a minor. Departments may require a 2.0 (or lower) minimum grade in each course taken for the minor. In such cases, the 2.0 course-grade minimum is specified as part of the minor requirements (shown below). If a 2.0 (or lower) course-grade minimum is not specified, any passing letter or numerical grade is acceptable, so long as the GPA for all courses counted toward the minor is at least 2.00. Courses taken S/NS may not be counted toward a minor. |
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Majors and minors | |
A student may not complete a major and a minor in the same program. On the other hand, there are no limits on the number of credits in a minor that may apply to a different major, and vice versa. For example, some religion courses may count toward the comparative history of ideas minor. A student who minors in comparative history of ideas and majors in comparative religion may count these courses toward both the minor and the major. |
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Majoring and minoring in different colleges | |
A student may have a major in one college and a minor in another. (By contrast, a student with two majors in two different colleges is usually required to earn two bachelor's degrees.) The student is required to complete the general education requirements of only the college offering the major.
Evening Degree Program
A student may have a major in the Evening Degree Program and a minor in the Seattle day program, or vice versa.
Cross-campus minors
A student at one UW campus may complete a minor at another UW campus. It isn't possible to declare the minor, but the adviser should note the minor on the student's application for graduation, and the minor will be posted on the student's transcript at graduation. |
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Minors and general education requirements | |
Courses in the minor may also count, as appropriate, toward foreign language, Q/SR, writing, and Areas of Knowledge requirements, without restriction.
Also note that if the minor is in a school/college different from that of the major, the student must complete the general education requirements for the school/college of the major, but not the minor. |
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Minors for teacher certification | |
Minors recommended or required for teacher certification are completely different from the minors discussed here. Consult the College of Education for information about teaching minors. |
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Advising | |
The requirements of many minors are straightforward, and fulfilling them may not require that the student see the adviser in the department offering the minor. If there is any question about what course can be taken to complete a minor (for example, if the requirements for a minor refer to "approved" courses or say "see adviser for options") or if a student wishes to apply transfer X credits to a minor, the student should consult the adviser in the department offering the minor.
General questions about minors can be answered by any department adviser or by a premajor adviser at Undergraduate Advising. |
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Graduation | |
The degree application
A DARS for any minor is attached to the GDARS. Any remaining requirements are noted on the GDARS in the Remaining Required Minor Credits/Courses section.
If the requirements for the minor are straightforward, the major department adviser will fill out the degree application for both the major and the minor. If there is any question, however, the student will need to consult the minor department adviser as well.
Uncompleted minors
If a student declared a minor but it does not appear on the graduation application, the Graduation and Academic Records Office will drop it. On the other hand, if a student does list a minor on the degree application, the student must complete that minor or drop it officially, or s/he will not graduate. This protects the student from being graduated when the actual intent is to continue on in order to complete the minor.
Adding minors after applying to graduate
A student who wants to add a minor after the graduation application has been submitted must see his/her adviser, who will update the application and notify the Graduation and Academic Records Office. |
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Certifying completion of a minor | |
Minors are posted on the student's transcript. A minor must be awarded at the same time the student's first bachelor's degree is awarded. This means:
- A student who doesn't graduate cannot be awarded a minor.
- A student can't earn a minor after graduation.
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