Minors and Requirements for Minors

Minors

Minors are secondary areas of study and fall into two categories at Midwestern State University: discipline-specific minors and Signature Minors.  Discipline-specific minors are focused on a specific subject area or discipline and intended to provide expertise in that focal area.  Requirements of discipline-specific minors are listed by college in which the minor is offered.

Signature Minors are unique undergraduate areas of study offered at Midwestern State University and are intended to enhance students’ educational experience by being flexible and marketable for a broad range of majors.  Signature Minors are transcript-recognized undergraduate minors that require at least 15 and 18 hours of coursework.

Requirements for Minors

At least half of the required coursework in the minor must be completed in residence at Midwestern State University.

A student may not earn a minor in the same field of study as the major.  All minors must include a minimum of six hours of upper-level coursework.  At least nine of the hours required for the minor must include coursework not used to satisfy upper-level mastery requirements of the student’s major. Classes usually cannot be double-counted toward more than one minor. The balance of the courses required for the minor may fulfill other major degree requirements, such as lower-level major requirements, or academic foundations and core curriculum.

Transcript recognition of the minor is awarded at the time of undergraduate degree completion.

Each of the following minor programs is described in the catalog section for the college in which the minor is offered.

Discipline Specific Minors:

• Accounting Minor  
• Art History Minor  
• Art Minor  
• Biology Minor  
• Business Administration Minor  
• Chemistry Minor  
• Coaching Minor  
• Computer Science Minor  
• Criminal Justice Minor  
• Criminology Minor  
• Cycling Performance Minor  
• Digital Media Minor  
• Economics Minor  
• English Minor  
• English Minor: Literature Emphasis  
• English Minor: Writing Emphasis  
• Entrepreneurship Minor  
• French Minor  
• Geosciences Minor  
• Global Studies Minor  
• Great Books Minor  
• History Minor  
• Humanities Minor  
• Instrumental Performance Minor  
• Journalism Minor  
• Keyboard Performance Minor  
• Kinesiology Minor  
• Management Information Systems Minor  
• Mass Communication Minor  
• Mathematics Minor  
• Music Minor  
• Organizational Psychology Minor  
• Petroleum Engineering Minor  
• Philosophy Minor  
• Physics Minor  
• Political Science Minor  
• Political Communication Minor  
• Psychology Minor  
• Public Relations and Advertising Minor  
• Sociology Minor  
• Spanish for the Professions Minor  
• Spanish Minor  
• Special Education Minor  
• Sport and Leisure Studies Management Minor  
• Sport and Leisure Studies Practitioner Minor  
• Theatre Minor  
• Vocal Performance Minor  
• Women’s and Gender Studies Minor  

Signature Minors:

• Agribusiness Minor  
• Computational Science Minor  
• Cybersecurity Minor  
• Early Childhood Development and Intervention (EIS credential) Minor  
• Early Childhood Studies Minor  
• Educational Design and Learning Management Minor  
• High Performance Computing Minor  
• Instructional Design, Technology, and Assessment Minor  
• Marketing Communication Minor  
• Medical Sociology Minor  
• Multimedia Production Minor  
• Musical Theatre Minor  
• Nonprofit Management Minor  
• Spanish/Mass Media Studies Minor (18 hours)  
• Substance Abuse Counseling Minor  
• Teaching and Learning Minor  
• Visual Communication Minor